My knowledge of this REED connection is through studying the SWAIN and WILLIAMSON family of McNairy County, TN. I am thrilled to have recently learned that Rebecca Williamson's father was Elijah WILLIAMSON who married Sarah REED. Elijah was a Revolutionary War soldier from South Carolina and was pensioned.
Many thanks to Sonya Tilley and David L. Ray who both descend from the Swains of McNairy County, Tennessee, just as I do, for their assistance in finding out about the early Swains prior to William SWAIN and Rebecca WILLIAMSON, which I did not have, and now this connection to Sarah REED. Both Sonya and David have Swain information on the Rootsweb Worldconnect Pages at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com. I suspect they got a lot of their information from Jeffrey D. Kemp who also descends from the Swains of McNairy County, Tennessee, and has worked on tracing the Swains back to the Carolinas and back to New England and to England.
Here is my REED lineage:
If you have queries concerning the REED surname, you may post these at the Reed Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Reed surname and variant spellings.
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Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]
Archived postings to the Reed e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:
Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any REED name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.
An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the REED family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:
***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the REED lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.
Last updated June 1, 2003.
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