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We welcome your contributions to this project. If you are a male whose surname might be any variation of "Tompkins," please join today to add your DNA to our project. If you are not a candidate for Y-DNA Tompkins testing, but have an interest in the genealogy of this group of surnames, please contribute your data to our fund of knowledge. Contact the group administrator for details. Financial contributions of any size are eagerly sought to further the goal of this project. If you wish, your contribution may be earmarked for testing the line in which you have an interest. Click this link to make a contribution - you will be given the opportunity to specify your donation for the Tompkins Project only. http://www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html
One of the goals of the project is to breach the myth that several Tompkins brothers came to America with one settling in Canada, the other in New England, and several in VA. Particuarly in regard to the VA lines is to distinguish between the Francis and Christopher lines. There is evidently also a South Carolina line distinct from the VA line and a SC line that may descend from the VA line. There is also the line that supposedly descend from the capativity of Tacumsha.
Some of the myths have been perputated by the work of Robert Angus Tompkins. While some of his work and assumptions may be accurate, a lot is not. The Los Angeles Public Library has been able to digitize ten typescript volumes of "The Clan ofTomkyns" by Robert Angus Tompkins as well as four additional volumes by him which are called "The Clan of Tomkyns, Descendants of Girls", all published by him in 1957. All are in pdf format and are large files. The link is http://www.lapl.org/central/tomkyns.html. The Clan of Tomkyns is a good place to start looking for your lineage, but additional documentary sources for confirmation are needed as there are many provable errors in the series of books and the books do not cite any documentary evidence for the claims as does a book like "Adventurers of Purse and Person," published by First Families of Virginia, which books also unfortunately contain errors and judgments based on the documentary evidence, the difference being that the evidence is cited.
If you can help with the project in any way, by providing DNA or providing documentary evidence, please join the project. If you need any help, please email the project administrator DW Hicks at eufaulalawyer@yahoo.com.
Because the results from test kits ordered thru familytreedna.com will update automatically, the results are posted on this site. However, we also have a sister site at worldfamilies.com.
One of the goals of the project is to breach the myth that several Tompkins brothers came to America with one settling in Canada, the other in New England, and several in VA. Particuarly in regard to the VA lines is to distinguish between the Francis and Christopher lines. There is evidently also a South Carolina line distinct from the VA line and a SC line that may descend from the VA line. There is also the line that supposedly descend from the capativity of Tacumsha.
Some of the myths have been perputated by the work of Robert Angus Tompkins. While some of his work and assumptions may be accurate, a lot is not. The Los Angeles Public Library has been able to digitize ten typescript volumes of "The Clan ofTomkyns" by Robert Angus Tompkins as well as four additional volumes by him which are called "The Clan of Tomkyns, Descendants of Girls", all published by him in 1957. All are in pdf format and are large files. The link is http://www.lapl.org/central/tomkyns.html. The Clan of Tomkyns is a good place to start looking for your lineage, but additional documentary sources for confirmation are needed as there are many provable errors in the series of books and the books do not cite any documentary evidence for the claims as does a book like "Adventurers of Purse and Person," published by First Families of Virginia, which books also unfortunately contain errors and judgments based on the documentary evidence, the difference being that the evidence is cited.
If you can help with the project in any way, by providing DNA or providing documentary evidence, please join the project. If you need any help, please email the project administrator DW Hicks at eufaulalawyer@yahoo.com.
Because the results from test kits ordered thru familytreedna.com will update automatically, the results are posted on this site. However, we also have a sister site at worldfamilies.com.