This news from Maj. Glenn Lee: "Major General Wm. C. LEE, who descended from the JLX line, is known as the father of the WWII 101st Airborne Division."
November News:
Only 1/2-way thru the month and 4 new cousins already -- we're really growing! New cousin Betty Rayner adds the following corrections & additions:
8 xxb1342D Lee, Milton Harvey 1847.3.12.AR-1916.7.19.Fresno,CA
8 xxb1342D- Boyd, Margaret Jane ?-?.Fresno,CA [no proof]
9 xxb1342D1 Lee, Grace Clara 1876.2.13-1951.8.11.Fresno,CA
9 xxb1342D1- Hutchison, James m1.
9 xxb1342D1- Markwood, Dave m2.
10 xxb1342D11 Hutchison, Nellie 1888.6.3.KingsRiver,Fresno'CA-
10 xxb1342D12 Hutchison, Edith E. 1895.3.25.Fresno,CA-1972.1.22.Fresno,CA
10 xxb1342D12- King, ? (French - real surname ROI = KING in English)
11 xxb1342D12a King, Bettie Louise c.1932.Fresno,CA-
11 xxb1342D12a- Rayner, ? ?-c.1995.Fresno,CA
10 xxb1342D13 Hutchison, Ethel 1895.6.11.Reedly,Fresno'CA-
9 xxb1342D2 Lee, Edith 1878.2.5.SanJose,CA- (d@2-1/2 scalded)
9 xxb1342D3 Lee, Rose "Rosie" 1880.1.25.Grant'OR-
9 xxb1342D3- Ziz, ?
9 xxb1342D4 Lee, M.H. 1881-1955.5.?.Seaside,Monterey'CA
And new cousin Shirley McDaniel adds:
7 xxb134D Lee, Eleanor Caroline "Ellen" 1821.3.21/23-1864.4.6
7 xb134D- Wilson, John McElroy (Judge)
8 xxb134Da Wilson, Josephine
8 xxb134Da- Blair, Robert Donell
9 xxb134Dab Blair, John Insley
9 xxb134Dab- Conley, Viola
10 xxb134Dabc Blair, Emma
10 xxb134Dabc- Pigler, John
11 xxb134Dabcd Pigler, Shirley
11 xxb134Dabcd McDaniel, ?
October News:
Welcome to 4 new cousins. I don't have their full lines yet, but hope to receive them soon. WELCOME to all of you!
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, cousin Marika Kolb has just informed me that the data that she sent me last June is "all wrong", and she will be sending a corrected version soon. [See June '98 news -- link deleted.]
September News:
Welcome to another new cousin, Grace Vance, a descendant of Delia (LEE) BRADLEY [8-xxb12352].
August News:
Another new cousin! This time it's Chris Reeder. His line is shown below, and he adds over 750 names to our GEDCOM file, making it over 9,000 names total. THANKS Chris -- nice work!
And, Chris has his own genie
website.
8 xxb1323a Lee, Rosanna
8 xxb1323a- Reeder, Benjamin Samuel
9 xxb1323ab Reeder, Joseph Samuel
10 xxb1323abc Reeder, Henry Samuel
11 xxb1323abcd Reeder, Henry Dewitt
12 xxb1323abcde Reeder, Ralph Lynn
13 xxb1323abcdef Reeder, Chris Lynn
July News:
A bit of bad news. My guess that Wayne Lee's data on a John LEE and my "ship list" John might show the 3 generations of ancestors prior to JLX has proved wrong. Wayne's John LEE, who would be the right generation to match my ship-list John (and be JLX's ggf), stayed in England, and only his sons Wm. & Richard came to VA. Too bad, but we'll keep looking. Here's Wayne's data -- good job, Wayne:
-2 f.0142.x Lee, John (Sir) [remained in England]
-2 f.0142.x- Romney, Joyce
-1 f.0142.x0 (8 sons -- 2 to VA)
-1 f.0142.x2 Lee, William 1597-1653.3.22 (2nd son)
-1 f.0142.x2- ???, Mary
0 f.0142.x21 Lee, William II 1637-1694.1.? (only son)
0 f.0142.x21- ???, Ann
1 f.0142.x210 (2 sons)
1 f.0142.x211 Lee, William III 1683.6.23-1761.5.26
1 f.0142.x211- ???, Rebecca m.1720
2 f.0142.x2110 (1 son & 4 daughters)
2 f.0142.x211a Lee, William IV 1723-1796.9.12 m.1745 (only son)
3 f.0142.x211a0 (5 sons & 5 daughters)
3 f.0142.x211ab Lee, Thomas 1747-1843
3 f.0142.x211ab- Murphy, Hannah m1.
3 f.0142.x211ab- Smith, Sara m2.
4 f.0142.x211ab0 (issue=20)
3 f.0142.x211ac Lee, Michael Byrd 1787.10.7-1837.12.3
3 f.0142.x211ac- Willard, Mary
4 f.0142.x211ac0 (3 brothers; contemporaries of Robt. E. LEE)
4 f.0142.x211ac1 Lee, Berry Willard 1814-1902
4 f.0142.x211ac2 Lee, Robert Byrd 1823-1891
4 f.0142.x211ac3 Lee, John Thomas 1825-1908
1 f.0142.x212 Lee, John [c.1695? -- probably not JLX]
-1 f.0142.x6 Lee, Richard 1602-1664 (6th son)
-1 f.0142.x6- ???, Ann m.1643
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Our new cousin, Katherine Taylor, has added some data and rearranged the child order for our Elizabeth Jane GRIFFIN branch [ 7-xxb14E8... ]. Thanks, Katherine!
June News:
Data I missed from the supplement
for the JLX book by Johnston, et al, plus a 7th child from new cousin Marika
Kolb, has added to our list of names. Since it's too large to fit
on this page, it's on a seperate page. [Marika notified me in Oct'98 that the data was wrong, so the page and link have been deleted. -- Jim]
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Our new cousin Wayne Lee has provided
us with some more names for our file. I've added them to a GED Update
file, which can be downloaded from the JLX homepage. If you don't
use GED files, here's the data:
Lee, Lovard "Lovet"
Grant, Winnfred
Lee, Robert Edward 1862.12.1-1937.11.28 [child#2/8]
(spouse unknown)
Lee, (issue=8)
Lee, Rufus Allen 1898.11.3-1958.11.16
Johnson, Cindy 1897.7.1-1962.8.8
(issue=6)
Lee, Joseph 1931.6.22-1972.11.10
Corbett, Minnie 1935.12.15-
(issue=2)
Lee, Wayne 1956.3.6-
I've asked him to fill-in more of the blanks (if he has the data), so we
may get more soon.
May News:
Can it be that we're
"hot on the trail" of jlx's ancestors? As you may know, several months
ago I found a ship list entry:
["Ship List Extracts", Vol. I - (Before 1661), p.122]
2 Jan 1635 'Merchant Bonaventur' London to VA
Hill, John (50)
Wood, John (26)
Bryan, John (25)
Sturdevant, Roger (21)
Lee, John (17)
Because these surnames are constant neighbor-surnames of jlx, I presume
they are related to our bunch. However, that leaves several generations
missing this John LEE and jlx -- who are they? This morning I got
email from cousin Laura Lee, who cc'd me an email from Wayne Lee.
According to him, it's possible that the line goes this way (my data &
his combined):
John LEE ca.1618.ENGL- (London to VA Jan 2,
1635 aboard the Merchant Bonaventur)
William LEE [ca.1645?.VA-]
William LEE II [ca.1660?.VA-]
William (George?) LEE III [ca.1685?.VA-]
John LEE 1685.VA-
{ are these the
John LEE Esq. ca.1690/1700.VA?- { same John LEE?
More research will tell the tale. Onward & upward -- good
hunting...
Apr. News:
Cousin Rod Pennington has
a new website at https://members.tripod.com/~rodpenn
.
He's just learning, and says it isn't much yet, but he'll work on it.
Right now, he has some interesting old pictures of his LEE line, and of
his 2 children & their dog. However, I don't believe the picture
of him and his wife is correct. <G>
Tripod has upped the maximum
free-site size from 2 to 5 Mb, so I now have room to expand. The
first things to be added are the master FGS lists (both alphabetical &
by family/sibling order), which are about 333 pp. ea. on 17" x 11" paper.
There are now over 25,500 names in each, and I have more names to add that
it will take the count over 26,000 very soon.
Another thing to be added
is a roster of "researching cousins". However, I haven't figured
out how to lay that out yet. I want to show the "tree" with JLX at
the top and the paths to each cousin. Yet I have to be carefull about
giving out "private" info on anybody while still making the list usefull.
I've also added a "Notify
me when it changes" link to this page, and some "speed-buttons" to zip
you from the top of the page to any section. Enjoy!
Mar. News:
After being otherwise being
kept busy by having to evict tenents that refused to leave, I'm back to
"genie" work. Today, I'll be uploading a new GEDCOM file, which has
about 800-1,000 new names. Please note that the FGS file
will not reflect these changes, as it was too much work to update both
files. The GEDCOM is now the "Master" file for our LEEs, and
after I finish writing a GED-to-FGS conversion program, the 2 files should
match. And, I'm still trying to figure out how to display how all
the "researching cousins" fit into the family -- not an easy task.
Stay tuned.
I found an incorrect "chunk" of data that was included in the
JLX line. Removing it caused our desc name count to drop from 8,080
to below 8,000 -- that's the bad news. The good news is that new
data was submitted which brought the count back up to 8,366 desc's.
Keep it up, gang!
Feb. News:
With the Xmas season over,
I'm beginning to get caught-up on all the new data and on revising this
site. Both the FGS & GEDCOM files have changed significantly,
with the addition of several hundred names -- and more to come. There
are also quite a few corrections that were made. And, true to form,
we're also still getting about 2 new cousins per month -- nice! But,
this means that even I am having a devil of a time trying to remember which
of the 70+ cousins are of what branch of the family, so very soon I'll
be adding a page that tells who's who. -- Jim --