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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
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Daniel David Twinn has a rare blood cancer and only a bone marrow transplant will save his life. The close family, from Victoria, B.C., Canada, apparantly have "uncommon typing" and so a match has not been found yet in the thousands registered on www.onematch.ca. Bone marrow donation is a simple process of registering your name and providing a cheek swab or blood sample. Once you are registered, you will only be contacted for further testing or possible donation if you are a potential match to save someone's life. The actual donation of bone marrow is a short day procedure with very little discomfort following.
That "someone" could be a newborn baby, a young child, a teenager, a mother, or a father - someone like Dan Twinn - you may even be the one to save this man's life.
If you are between the age of 17 and 50 years, please contact: Canadian Blood Services @ 1-888-2-Donate or go to www.onematch.ca to register your name as a potential donor. UK: 0845 7 711 711 http://www.blood.co.uk All ethnic backgrounds are needed. Younger donors are also urgently needed. The more people who register, the better the chance to find matches for everyone, especially those with uncommon typing, which is so very desperately needed.
Please inform others of the need to register and save lives.
Our Deepest Thanks,
The Twinn Family Dan Twinn & Family |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 16 May 2008 )
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Written by Stephen Twinn
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Wednesday, 22 March 2006 |
A very significant ‘main’ tree, connecting maybe 70% of the Twin(n)s,
has been compiled, together with many of their direct descendants and
ancestors, whose names are something other than Twinn.
The work has been substantially undertaken by Graham Twinn of Duxford,
Cambridgeshire, with additional information added by Nigel Twinn of
Tavistock, Devon.
This information is now available in two formats:
- An electronic database, in a file format known as a GEDCOM. This
is a compilation of just about all of the known genealogy of the
Twin(n)s. There is the ‘main’ tree referred to above, but also a
number of smaller trees, which - as yet - do not join onto the larger
tree. GEDCOM is a format developed by the Family History
‘industry’ to enable files to be exchanged by different
providers. The experience of Graham and Nigel is that this is
easier said than done - but we will cross the bridge of incompatibility
when we get to it. The GEDCOM has been created in Family Tree
Maker, which can be obtained from http://www.ancestry.com
either directly online - or from any of the Family History
organisations in the usual way. It costs about £25 – 30. Or use a free viewer such as
this GEDCOM Viewer.We
have no reason to promote FTM above other systems, so if you have
another package, the suggestion is that you get a download of the
GEDCOM and see if it works. We seem to be at the cutting edge
here! The GEDCOM, which will be dated - and updated periodically
- is available by email from
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- For those without computers or compatible software, a paper
version of the main tree is available. This shows just the
Twin(n) element of the line and runs to around 128 pages – in ‘book’
form. This means that instead of trying to stick together 128
pages into a nightmare jigsaw, it is produced in a sequence which links
each page to the next by indicator arrows. You may not be able to
see the tree at a glance, but for something the size of the average
house wall, ‘at a glance’ is not an option! For those not yet on the
main tree, a copy of one or more of the separate trees could be made
available. Printing can be arranged through
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The GEDCOM is free to all who attended the Cambridge Gathering in
October 2005. The quid pro quo is - given that you are benefiting
from many hundreds of hours and many thousands of pounds of the time
and effort, particularly in the case of Graham – that you look at the
data provided and respond with any corrections and additions to
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Please do not alter the GEDCOM and return it amended as: (a) we will
not know what has changed and (b) it will make the vital task of
version control even more difficult.
To cover the cost of a paper version, it is suggested that you forward
£10 - a notional sum which will include
postage.
Graham and Nigel wish to make it very clear that, while every effort
has been made to be accurate, there will undoubtedly be errors and
omissions. We do not claim that the file is 100% correct, and we
can take no responsibility for any mistakes. However, the more
you can feed back to us, the closer to perfection we can come.
I am sure there are further links to be found between some of the
separate trees. Perhaps just as important, in this age of
fragmenting families and the progressive loss of the traditional
name-lineage, is information relating to all those new descendants
throughout the world who cannot be easily picked up from the indexes of
the UK General Record Office.
If you have any questions, please feel free to mail either
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and we will do our best to help you.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 March 2006 )
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Written by Web Master
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Saturday, 12 June 2004 |
Welcome to this website devoted to all things Twinn, Twin, or even Twynne and Twyn.
This
website is one result of a weekend in October 2005 when 250 Twinn's
descended on the Moat House Hotel, Bar Hill, Cambridge, England.
The
weekend was organised by Stephen Twinn, Nigel Twinn and Jennifer Revell
as a Twinn family genealogy swap-meet cum drop-in cum family reunion
from 12:30 on Saturday 15 October until 14:00 Sunday 16 October, with a lovely meal in between at the John Barleycorn Inn, in
Duxford, that only just managed to squeeze the 65 of us in.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 March 2006 )
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