A reprint of this book can be purchased from Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA.
Over fifty persons have already contributed directly to this project which is being coordinated and compiled by William L. Smith, Ph.D. The current sponsor of the Project is Vision to Action Publishing and Consulting. Others are welcome. Contact Information.
Our third
goal of The Kinnick Project is to
identify as many living Kinnick relatives as possible and include
them in the project. We start with the surname Kinnick.
Following is a tabulation of current best information:
There are about 230 Kinnicks listed in telephone books (per
Switchboard)
and 182 (as of 1 Sep 2001) listed in Social
Security records (deceased,
received benefits), for instance. We are aware of two major family
branches, both originating in Maryland about the time of the
Revolution, presumably from the same ancestors (yet to be definitely
established). One branch went to North Carolina, then to Indiana (as
well as Tennesse, Arkansas, etc). The other branch moved to Ohio,
then to Illinois, to Iowa and others places. Both had several
families in Montana, for example, around 1900.
There are probably Kinnicks not affiliated with either branch. I
would love to hear from you! Most descendants are not named Kinnick,
of course. My mother was a Kinnick, for instance. The Progress
Reports do each have a Surname List where every surname in the report
is included. There are at least a couple hundred, already. Check back
regularly. This Web site will grow...with your help.
There is now a KINNICK Mailing List, Kinnick-L, which will automatically send a message to all active Internet Kinnick researchers. Instruction for use and free subscription information is available at KINNICK Mailing List.
The KINNICK Surname Message Board at the combined Rootsweb and Ancestry.com can be posted automatically by any of us, which is then indexed and available to a global search capability to new researchers coming on line. It is in the free area of Ancestry.com but you may be asked to use a user id and password of privacy and security reasons. If you have an existing Ancestry.com user id and password, you may use them. (Updated June 2001)
Find the KINNICK Surname Message Board here, with a click.
The KINNICK Project, c/o William L. Smith
P.O. Box 2003, Emporia, KS 66801
Phone (24 hour answering): 620-343-7989 (V to A), fax OK, also (same
number).
E-mail: [email protected]
(Bill at work)
Or, [email protected]
(for genealogy work)
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Questions are welcomed. We strongly believe in sharing information.
Copies of the Progress Reports are provided to local Public Libraries
for free access and copying at normal costs at the library. Please
send corrections, updates, comments and additional information on the
family at any time.
Progress Reports are no longer for sale. They have all being loaded
onto web servers, where they will be freely accessible by anyone
around the world. Bill
Go to WorldConnect and Search Online, enter your favorite Kinnick family name to see it The Kinnick Project has it on record. If it does not come up under either smithwil, kinnickind or brightwellMD (for the very early years), please send an email to Bill Smith, to let me know!
Thank you!
We are building two major sets of descendancies for the
Kinnicks. They are based on what we now know of the early
Kinnick families in the United States.
One descendancy is for John
and Ann Kinnick, who moved to North Carolina
from Maryland in about 1795. Much of this branch of the family moved to Indiana
in the 1820 to 1850 period (David's family moved to Tenn, of course). One of
the largest families was that of George
and his wife, Hannah. Several large families
all had many children who lived to adulthood and also had large families. We
have many people working of various lines. Let us hear from you. What line are
you working on?
The other descendancy we work on is John
and Mary Kinnick. They moved from Maryland
to Belmont Co, OH, in about 1820. They had one son, Walter
W. Kinnick, b. 1803, who married Susan Schwyhart.
They moved to Bureau Co, IL, in 1844. There were five sisters that married Dallas,
Tracy, Lowery,
Triplett and Bufkins. The Dallas and Tracys stayed in OH. The Lowerys and Bufkins
moved to Henry Co, IN. Mary Kinnick married James Triplett and they moved to
Monmouth, IL.
In June 2001, I have added the brightwellMD
database to WorldConnect which represents the research to date on
connecting the early Kinnicks, William and Jasper. We now believe
them to have been sons of Jasper Kinnick and Elizabeth Brightwell.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Richard Brightwell, a member of the
landed gentry of early colonial Maryland, and a county officer at the
founding of Prince George's county in 1696. For 20+ years he served
as Captain of the Horse Rangers who patrolled (ranged) the land from
the Potomac to the Putuxent River for Indian activity. He patented
and developed several plantations in the 1690s.
In August 2001, we visited Maryland and spent most of our time learning in great detail the historical Colonial Maryland background of our Kinnick ancestors. This is posted as part of the The KINNICK 2003 Genealogy Book on line.
More details will be added as time permits.
Bill
Smith, originated 23 Feb 1999,
updated 4 Sep 2001
Surname
Index for Progress Reports
Posted a Decade by Decade Timeline of Maryland, 1630s to 1790s, with events relative to the study of earliest Kinnick family members - see What's New in KINNICK 2003 GENEALOGY BOOK .
Updated Message Board information and early family research information, along with some minor layout adjustments. Several new reports nearing completion.
A lot has happened in the past year, even if it isn't recorded here. Can't believe the year has gone by so quickly. Many families have been entered into the KINNICK 2003 GENEALOGY BOOK which progresses, slowly. The WorldConnect databases have grown. Each will be reloaded in the next month or so. Will make notation here when that is done. The primary research efforts in the last six months have been to supply the missing links in the family in Maryland in the 17th and 18th centuries. This analysis and new research will be available by the end of this summer. Bill
16 Jun 2000:
Began creation of the Rootsweb Internet Site
for the KINNICK
2003 GENEALOGY BOOK data
collection.
Added Higginson Book Company notation to 1953 Kinnick Book
info.
15 Apr 2000:
Added link to WorldConnect where entire list of Kinnick family names on file with The Kinnick Project are available for review. These are the GEDCOM files from my PAF computer program. Please let me know if all your family is not listed!
5 Dec 1999:
Robert Hayden KINNICK Family Page added
August 1999:
New Pages posted at RootsWeb site: TheKINNICK Family Resource Page(s) include Descendancies of John and Mary and John and Ann - with links to current family detailed web pages of which I am aware. Please make suggestions for additional links, please!
In addition, I have included a page for research on some the families of Kennick, Kimmick and others that are close variations, to see if there is a connection to the two branches above, and/or if they can aid us in better discovering our earlier roots.
This site also has The
SCHWYHART Family Resource Page, for
those interestedin that line.
22 Aug 1999
New Page: John
and Catherine KINNICK EASTBURN Family
21 Aug 1999 - with link on Early
Kinnicks - John and Ann Kinnick
Added W. B. Kinnick Historical Sketch to Richard
and William Kinnick page
20 Aug 1999
New Page: John
Thomas Kinnick Family
19 Aug 1999 - with link on Richard
and William Kinnick page
Added considerable detail to this section
July 1999:
The William
Walter Kinnick Family Story
20 Jul 1999
June 1999:
The Alonzo Kinnick Family In Iowa
1870 to the present
29 June 1999
Walter Watson and Mary Estella (SIMMONS)
KINNICK Family
5 Jun 1999
George H. Kinnick Family
2 Jun 1999
Home page reformated
March 1999:
List of KINNICK researchers added.
Additions to Sketches
and GenConnect
Boards in the last
week.
Two sons and two daughters families in Iowa
(Children of John and Sarah Ellen (MOCK) KINNICK)
18 Mar 1999
John Wishard Kinnick Family
14 Mar 1999
Sarah KINNICK, m. John B. SHEEK family
13 Mar 1999
Richard and William Kinnick Families in
Lawrence Co, IN
12 Mar 1999
February 99:
1. There is now a KINNICK Mailing List,
Kinnick-L, which will automatically send a message to all active
Internet Kinnick researchers. Instruction for use and free
subscription information is available at KINNICK
Mailing List.
2. We now have KINNICK surname GenConnect Boards from Rootsweb where
family information can be posted automatically by any of us, which is
then indexed and available to a global search capability to new
researchers coming on line. (We have about one a week, it seems,
since the first of the year - have you noticed, the first thing we
each do with a search is type in our names!! ;-) - well, now we can
increase our availability of being found.)
Find the KINNICK
GenConnect Boards here, with a
click.
Send comments, questions and information to the contact
listed below.
Thanks to those of you who have sent comments or questions recently.
Keep them coming.
Sketches
of family tree "twigs and branches" are being added weekly as more
people get in touch with us and our own research proceeds. Family
members are coming on-line regularly. Welcome aboard!
See the new Tribute to
Nile C. Kinnick, Jr., our most famous KINNICK.
There are still a lot of Kinnicks, and near Kinnicks, like myself (my
mother is a Kinnick by birth), that we have not heard from yet. It
really is helpful if you mention the Kinnick names you are related
to: father or mother's name, grandparent' names, and
great-grandfather's name, for instance. Sharing is free to us all. We
are all part of the same big family.
Much of the research on this family is now available - free - on the
Internet. See
below.
Bill Smith, Project Coordinator - 23 Feb 1999