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Lineages of James AKIN, Sr. |
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In the summer of 1998, Carol Ann "C.A.T." Tindell started the Our Southern AKINS web site for the benefit of all cousins researching the family of Lewis Akins d. 1791 in Laurens Co., SC. We have made great strides in our research of this family by working together and sharing our findings with our cousins. Documentation was unearthed naming our Lewis' father as John Akins of Henrico Co., VA which linked us even further back to James Akin, Sr. Still more documentation was found to explain our Lewis' involvement in the disputes over Francis Mann's estate in Charlotte Co., VA and explained why the assumption that Lewis' wife, Elizabeth, as nee Mann was incorrect. The year 2001 brought even more changes. We no longer were associated in any way with the now defunct Clan Akins Society started by Steven and Julie Akins of Jasper, AL. Any information supplied to us by either of them has been removed from our web site. The AKINS-L email list and new boards operated by RootsWeb have always required us to include all AKINS researchers around the world and not just our Lewis Akins cousins. CAT voluntarily administered these for years, but placed them up for adoption in summer of 2001 because they were requiring too much time away from the objectives of Our Southern AKINS. Our Southern AKINS cousins had starting in 2001 their own, private, password protected discussion forum at a new location that has more bells and whistles that we have been used to and suited our purposes much better. As of summer 2004, that message board is no more. All communications are now conducted by private email. Our Southern AKINS in 2001 became a part of C.A.T.'s Southern Genealogy and it's website now resides on C.A.T.'s own domain, Ancestral Designs, which is on a paid for web hosting server that makes no claims whatsoever to any content. We believed that these changes placed us in the best position in 2001 and well into the future to assure that all submissions of information to our web site retain their individual copyrights with the submitter as well as help eliminate the passing around of inaccurate information. It's now 2004 and moving Our Southern AKINS to its 'owned' server space was the best thing we ever did. |
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