Welcome

Greetings Cousins!
Kith and Kin has migrated to Blog status where I hope there will be more interaction and less trouble on your editor's part in posting material.  There won't be much here for some time but thought that we should start now rather than later.  Thank you for participating.  For those who are new to Kith and Kin: we are the descendants of Israel and Susannah (Hood) Kinney who married 9 Jun 1763 in Topsfield, Mass. and shortly thereafter moved to Maugerville and then almost immediately to Oromocto just across the Saint John River from each other in Sunbury County, Nova Scotia (after 1784 New Brunswick when that province was created).
Through DNA it has been almost certainly proved that Israel Kinney is of the fourth generation on this side of the Atlantic.  His father being Daniel, his father Daniel, his father Thomas and the immigrant ancestor, Thomas' father Henry, who settled in Salem, Mass. in the 1630's.  We are also interested in the descendants of these earlier American generations as well as the ongoing DNA studies.  More about that later.  The form that we use to show a line of descent is as follows (my own):
Duane Edmund Crabtree7; Edmund Henry Crabtree6; Talmage Dewitt Crabtree5; Sarah Ann Kinney4; John Shepherd Kinney3; Stephen Kinney2; Israel Kinney1.  This shows that I am of the seventh generation from Israel Kinney.  Another simple way to look at it is that Israel Kinney is my great-grandmother's great-grandfather.
Cousin Duane Crabtree