The Carlin Archives Online has developed a list of 37 Carlins whom we call "Lost
Carlins." The list is at
http://www.carlin.net/attorney/lostcarlins.htm.
The list covers Carlins and variant spellings of the Carlin name, so it includes
Carlan, Carlandsson, Carlin, Carlon, Carlund, Carman and Carolan. All names are
listed alphabetically by surname, so to find, say, Mary Carlin, you'd go first
to Carlin, and then alphabetically to Mary. (We do not have any Carlens or
Carlings on the list.)
In some cases, these are Carlins whose names are listed on passenger ship
manifests arriving in the US, but for whom nothing has later been recorded. In
other cases, there are records of marriages by a Carlin or to a Carlin, but
nothing has been heard that person since then. In a few cases, a Carlin name
was listed as a witness to a Carlin marriage, but the witness' name has gone
unrecorded later.
You might want to check out this list to see if any of the names fit a missing
link in your particular Carlin family line. If you have any information to add
about any of these Carlins, please let us know.
If you have time to volunteer to check these names with Census records, please
also let us know. That would obviously be of extraordinary help.
If you come across any other lost Carlins as you pursue your own genealogical
research, please send those names to us with whatever data you have. Someday
we'll place these Carlins with their correct sept.
Thank you.
CarlinArchives(a)belgium.antwerpen.com