http://wrenkin.com Official Website of the Wren Family Association Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:13:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is a little "push" for those of you who are sitting on the fence about taking a Y-chromosome DNA test. Exclusive offer for Ancestry.com Members: Save 50% on Ancestry.com DNA Testing FOR A LIMITED TIME This is an incredible deal. Normally prices are $199 for the 46 marker ... http://wrenkin.com/2008/07/25/y-chromosome-dna-test-50-off/ We've had an interesting DNA match in our DNA surname project, with some exciting implications. Here are the details of the match: Participant #1: A Wrenn from Tennessee, who says he can trace his line to Albert Walker Wrenn (1813-1889, Spotsylvania, Virginia). Albert Walker Wrenn may be found on pages ... http://wrenkin.com/2008/07/08/a-dna-match/ Very interesting article on this topic, here. Database updates: I recently started inputting into our database the research of noted Wren researcher, John Howard Wren, author of "The Wren's of Virginia." Mr. Wren traced his line back to Nicholas Wren (1631-1701) and Margaret Bell (1650-1701), English immigrants to Virginia. Mr. Wren ... http://wrenkin.com/2008/04/08/what-can-dna-testing-do-for-your-wren-research/ I've been feverishly going through the backlog of data submitted to me since early January. I've added quite a bit to our database in the last two weeks, but if you don't see what you've sent, please drop me a line and ask me about it. http://wrenkin.com/2008/03/22/wren-kin-updates/ Mr. Alvin Lee Wren was the son of James Milam Wren (born 1862 in Smith County, Texas), the grandson of James C. Wren (born 1832 in Tennessee), and the great grandson of William Wren (born about 1802 in Kentucky). Alvin's great-grandfather William Wren was brother to Nicholas Wren, the ... http://wrenkin.com/2008/03/03/alvin-lee-wren-1929-2007/ Based on a lack of any vigorous protest against Ancestry.com maintaining our DNA project, I've decided to remain with Ancestry.com. But we're in a transition time, which means that if you want to take the DNA test this month, then there's a special little procedure we have to follow ... http://wrenkin.com/2008/03/02/15-off-dna-coupon-for-wrenn-family-project-participants/ I was so cocky! When the hot water fountained out of our concrete slab in the first week of January, I immediately started some heavy lifting (moving our office furniture, our workout equipment, ripping up the flooring, etc.) "All I need is a plumber!" I cried as I flung it ... http://wrenkin.com/2008/03/01/the-fountain-of-chaos/ I had a fine time following Mr. Alexander Wren (and his wife, Amarilla S. Wood) from state to state. Born in Virginia in May 1831 according to the 1900 U.S. Census, I tracked him from Warren County, Illinois in 1850 and 1860, to Appanoose County, Iowa in 1870, to Mitchell ... http://wrenkin.com/2008/01/03/alexander-wren-va-oh-il-ia-ks-or-id/ I've been in contact with a descendant of the Bamburg/Wren line from Coushatta, Louisiana and am in the process of adding more data on that family to our database. How exciting! And in my online cemetery hopping I found William E. Wren and his wife Pearl N. and their family, all ... http://wrenkin.com/2007/12/18/wrens-from-louisiana-iowa-and-ireland/ I'm slowly making my way through the member-submitted data in Ruth Wren's collection of family group sheets and lineage charts and adding them to our database. Tonight I added a lineage chart that includes Butler County, Alabama Wrens who migrated to Louisiana. If you have Wrens from the Red River ... http://wrenkin.com/2007/11/28/wrens-of-louisiana/