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Starting New Family Group

Are you still looking for a Family Group? Are you wondering who else in the PRA may have the same ancestors?

Well, guess what? You are not alone! Almost 25% of our members have yet to identify which PRA Family Group they belong with!

All of us can list our oldest know Pennington ancestor but some of us just have not been able to go back far enough to connect to a known Family Group. In the John French Master File (JFMF) there are many such "unconnected family groups" because we have yet to connect them to a known PRA Family Group.

Here is the exciting news! If you have not yet identified which Family Group you belong to, we want you to become a Group Leader AND to start a new Family Group based on your oldest known Pennington ancestor. That's right! Start your own Family Group!

A great example of how this works is to look at how the latest Family Groups, John Penington, b. abt. 1585, #33 and Nicholas Pennington, b. abt. 1678, #34 were started in 2001. The Group Leaders, Nick Penington and Lana Pennington, could not connect their oldest know ancestors with a specific group and asked to start a new group. They provided some great genealogical research with supporting justification. The request was approved in July, 2001! Now all of the members who belonged to these previously "unconnected groups" have their own group.

How about it? Do you want to start your own Family Group and start connecting to other members who share your ancestors? The process is fairly easy and we can help! If you are interested, please contact Gene Pennington, Research Director.

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