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Corrin Genealogy |
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Welcome to my Corrin Genealogy page. My name is Philip Corrin and this site is intended to be a clearing house for information and updates to my genealogical research. Here I hope to make records, information and images pertaining to many of my ancestors availible to my family and friends. This is of course a work in progress and I appreciate the help I am getting from all the relatives I have met during this quest. I believe that knowing one's family history leads to a better understanding of the past, and enhances one's perspecitve when contemplating the future. Enjoy the site and think of all those who came before us. |
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My surname traces back to the Isle of Man with the immigration of John Thomas Corrin (left) to the Red River Valley of Texas shortly before the Civil War. Other branches go bact across the United States to Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and eventually to 17th Century Germany. |
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on to paternal line |
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My maternal line goes back to Sweden with the immigration of Josephine Abrahamson (left) and her husband to San Francisco some time before 1881, and Italy in another wave of immigration at the turn of the century. They were all here in time for the Great Earthquake of 1906 and participated in rebuilding their city. |
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on to maternal line |
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| Background |
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I began researching my family history in the fall of 1995 during my final year at Shoreline Community College. At that time I knew little more about the paternal side of my family history than the names of my father's parents, and that they were from Texas. The story was that the surname originated in England or Ireland, but no one knew for sure. A text about the origins of surnames indicated that the name Corrin was actualy a Manx contraction, arising on the Isle of Man.
The next step was to send away for a copy of my father's birth certificate, and to obtain specific information which would help me obtain more information. Additionally, I began searching the internet (at that time I was a student at the University of Washington in Seattle and had a student email account as well as internet access provided by the school) which was very productive. A good place to begin was with the US Genweb Project. I quickly went from knowing very little, to obtaining the cemetary records from a little town in Texas listing all my surname ancestors going back to the immigrant from the Isle of Man.
I also began searching the National Archives branch office in Seattle for census records, which also proved very productive. |
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