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The online database was last updated on
1 October, 2008
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These pages are for the benefit of the Adkins family - if you're an Adkins, no matter where in the world, then these pages are for you! The simple objective is to bring together in one place all deceased Adkins', their genealogy, history, and achievements, and for the living to meet each other through the wonder of modern communications and to share in each others genealogical interests.
This page will provide the focal point for all people with the family name of Adkins, as well as those ladies who were brought up as Adkins but lost the name on marriage.
This page is provided by Tim Boddington - that's me on the right. My mother was a member of a large family of Adkins. As a result of extensive research undertaken by my aunt, Evelyn Goodman nee Adkins, I have become aware of a large number of Adkins and their descendants. Most that I know of are related to me. Evelyn has drawn the family tree back more than 300 years.
Adkins is a moderately frequent name. The possibility exists that many family groups are related - some of the recent discoveries in DNA analysis might even prove it one way or the other. It should be possible, if we all pool our family information, to build up a family tree that really shows who we are and are not related to.
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Adkins in the United States of America
My trees are almost entirely UK and New Zealand families.
Adkins is a very common name in some parts of the US, particularly West Virginia and Kentucky and PA is similar I think. It will be a very big job to record all these families and build the family trees. There are also many other web sites that have information on US Adkins families.
There is little doubt that the US Adkins families came from the UK. Adkins is a very old and well established name in the UK. As there are so many Adkins in the US I have for a long time believed that it is probable that the emigration from the UK was a very long time ago - 1600s or even earlier. This belief has been confirmed with the discovery by Jim Adkins in the USA of a book researched and written in the 1980s. It is called Adkins of Eastern Kentucky and Surrounding Areas by Joseph T. Daniels. It is listed at the Library of Congress. We doubt that it is available anywhere - it looks to be a private publication. For more on what this book tells us go to the page!
In the UK at least there are also associated names such as Adkin, Edkins, Edkin, Atkins, Atkin, Atkinson (son of Atkin) and so on. These variation were caused by census takers, clergy and other officials writing down the names of people who were illiterate and did not know how their own names were written, so the official used his best judgement after listening to the person speak his name. When you realise what variations and acute accents people had in different parts of the country in those days one can understand why so many variations arose. Trying to link these people together in a family tree is a pretty impossible task.
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If your name is Adkins, or, ladies, if your maiden name was Adkins, or your mother was an Adkins, then I would like to hear from you - please send me an email right now just to introduce yourself or use the Feedback button above.
My branch of the family has a registered [heraldic] Arms. They are described on a separate page.
Search the Adkins family web site: Find it quick!
I am happy to provide any Adkins with a page on this server linked to this family home page. If you have your own page already then I will provide a link to it. If you don't have the facility, skill or inclination to prepare a page for yourself then send me the basic details and I will turn it into a simple page for you.
Database: My genealogical database is built and maintained with Family Tree Maker but I use the now obsolete EasyTree to create web pages from a GEDCOM version of the database. I have included so far most of the information that Evelyn Goodman has collated except the historical information regarding several members of the family which will take a considerable time to prepare.
Security Policy: I have reviewed the present security situation (2006) and have concluded that it is no longer safe to publish any information on living persons. This is due to the upsurge in identity theft. I will continue to maintain information on living persons in my database but this will not be transferred to the web site. In the absense of specific information a person will be assumed to be deceased approximately 90-100 years after their known birth or approximately 120 years after the birth of their parents. Where the individual is deceased I will try to publish as much information as is available in order to complete the genealogical record.
Where I find a relationship between individuals who do not know of each other I will obtain agreement from each to disclose their identity and contact information to the other. The same will apply to those found to be researching in the same family line.
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