In reference to your second question, possibly you can get your hands on
"The NYG&B Newsletter" published by the New York Genealogical & Biographical
Society? Vol 5:2:11-13 contained an excellent article by NYG&B "Record"
editor Henry Bainbridge Hoff, FGBS, FASG, on New York-related articles
appearing in "The American Genealogist [TAG]" which may give you the
citation you are looking for. Another member of the CONKLIN list may be
better organized than I and perhaps can lay their hands on that issue--I
cannot locate it presently among my desk-stacks. I am cc-ing this to the
DUTCH-COLONIES list as someone over there may have that article in easy reach.
I do have, however, Vol 6:4 of The NYG&B Newsletter in hand, which contains
another like article by Mr. Hoff, mentioning the article just cited, and
also mentioning a Conklin article in "Connecticut Ancestry," citing CA 24:59
(Mr. Hoff notes that CA was "founded 1958 as "Bulletin of the Stamford
Genealogical Society)."
Richard
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At 04:26 PM 7/20/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I recently came across an excerpt of a letter sent from Conklin Mann
>(who wrote in The American Genealogist about the early Conklins in
>America) which may be of interest to some. The excerpt was retyped from
>the original letter, which was dated Oct 22, 1940 and was addressed to
>"Mrs. James Tomasi of Salem, NY."
>
> "Dear Mrs. Tomasi,
>
>I have never been able to get further back on the Conklins than
>Nottingham. The Irish claim them as an ancient Milesiatt family but the
>best Irish genealogist in New York was not able to pick up a trace of
>them in Ireland, although the potato famine of the 1840's brought half a
>dozen Irish Conklin families to New York. There are certain Parish
>records in England dealing with Churches in which Walloon families
>connected with English glass making appear, but there are no copies of
>these particular Parish records in America."
>
>Unfortunately, I do not have the original or the entire letter--the
>excerpt was included in a genealogy report of my gg-grandfather James
>Skiff Conklin (b.1823 in Washington County, NY, d.1898, Winnebago Co.,
>IL) who is descended from John Conklin of Rye, NY (c.1639-c.1698).
>
>I have two favors to ask:
>
> 1)Any clues on the identity of Mrs. Tomasi? (my guess is that she was
>the genealogist who prepared the report)
>
> 2)Does someone have the citations from the Conklin Mann article(s?) at
>hand?(The in-town libraries don't have TAG and I'd like to get them by
>Interlibrary Loan.)
>
>
>Thank you,
>Jim Conklin
>conklin@ithaca.edu
>
>
>