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Surnames: Zinn
Classification: Query
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You can get me directly at Rnzinn(a)aol.com (at least for the time being).
I thank the list administrator for posting my reply. As I have said, I am not an
employee; I'm just a volunteer coordinator who tries to put Zinn named people together
based on DNA results. Testing is a good way to put people together if we lose threads
along our own lines of research. It also tells us who is not related. What I have
learned is about my line, Georg Zinn who joined his older brother Heinrich who was also
from the village of Maar in what was the Grand Duchy of Hessen in the 1850's and who
went to the area of Waterloo County, Ontario. There's also a Zinn family to the west
of that area who came from Thuringia. There is a small Zinn grouping in Kitchener,
Ontario. Of course there is the large group of Zinns who come from another George Zinn
who settled in Pennsylvania. DNA testing suggests that the group in the West Virginia
area originated in Pennsylvania. Of course there is a group of Jewish Zinn named persons,
perhaps two groups. The folks in the Lo!
s Angeles area seem to have their roots in Austria. I know nothing about the Zinn named
persons from Poland.
Our surname group is relatively small; about 8000 in the US I am told. I think we have a
great opportunity through DNA testing to define the origins of these groupings and see if
there is any common connection.