The
Rawlin(g)s Rollin(g)s Family History Association
Volume 2 No.1 March
1989
Dear Rawlin(g)s-Rollin(g)s
Cousins:
Well,
it's a new year, and the RAWLIN(G)S-ROLLIN(G)S Family History Association is
still' in operation. 1O5 members have renewed their subscriptions and we have 4
brand new members, most of whom have also joined for 1988 so as to receive the
past Newsletters. Our mailing list includes 41 states and Canada with only
Louisiana, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North & South Dakota, Rhode
Island, Vermont and Wyoming not represented. We have even had communication
from England. (More of that later) We have newsletters registered with the
National Genealogical Society, with the Winchester-Frederick County Virginia
Genealogical Society, the Brown County: Ohio Historical Society, The Historical
Society of Jo Daviess County Illinois, GPAI of Heritage Books Publishing
Company in Maryland, the Heritage Quest magazine, the Maryland Historical
Society Family Exchange, the Ontario (Canada) Genealogical Society, and the
national office of the United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada in
Toronto. Soon our newsletters will be found with the New England Historical/
Genealogical Society ... the LDS Family Registry ... the Missouri and Virginia
and Kentucky Genealogical Societies, and any others the subscribers would like
to suggest. We want to particularly concentrate on those states where
Rawlin(g)s and Rollin(g)s etc. settled in any great numbers. All in all,
because of the great contribution you all are making, the Association seems to
be a success.
In
addition there are persons inquiring of our organization for information about
their ancestry. Most of them end up by joining the Association, particularly
when we can connect them with a subscriber who is in their line. And that's
what we're here for, to get R's together.
And
speaking of such things, one of our early subscribers, Vivian Leighton, wrote
to tell us of a notice in a Bangor Maine Newspaper written by a lady in
Manchester, England. This lady is seeking either her father or her father's
relatives in Maine. She was the daughter of an American airman from Maine who
was stationed in England during World War II, and an English mother. When the
war was over, the young man returned to Maine promising to come back for the
mother and child, but that never happened. Although gifts were sent to the
child for awhile from her American grandparents, her mother, now deceased, must
have been disillusioned enough not to keen any record of where these RAWLINS or
RAWLINSONS lived, and she raised her daughter by herself. Now that the daughter
is in her 40's, married and with a family, she would like to make connection
with her father or his relatives. We contacted Mrs. Bryning and her letter in
return was sadly lacking in information even from the English end. She had no
birth certificate, no marriage certificate (if there was a marriage), and
didn't even know whether her father's surname was RAWLINS or RAWLINSON. Any
information she received had been from her mother's sister. We advised her on
how to proceed in obtaining those papers, having checked our sources and a map
and discovering that both the Airbase (still in use) and the records office
were within 20 to 30 miles of Manchester. We are awaiting her reply. We also
advised her that once she had proof of parentage with a birth certificate, how
to obtain her father's military record. We can also help her here in the US if
anyone knows of her father's family, or where we might search to assist her.
Contact
THE
EDITOR