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2025 RFA Queries

Please take a few minutes to look at these queries that have been posted by our cousins. If you can be of any help in answering these queries then please contact the person posting the query. As a member of the Reynolds Family Association you can also Post a query to this board.

DATE: Wed 11/19/2025 8:02 PM
NAME: Vicki
E-MAIL: vickidiscovers@gmail.com
SURNAMES: Reynolds, Clement, Cole, Waddle

I am just wondering why the Reynolds family from South Carolina - Wilkes Co GA is not listed on your database. It IS a tough line, but it has been proven through DAR and Hamilton Reynolds is my patriot. My father was a Reynolds and I was told by the DAR registrar that it was very impressive that I could trace my line all the way back through Reynolds. I'd love to help flesh it out if it isn't listed because there was no one to help. I am currently looking for their family Bible and papers that say they are on file with you "in New York." Just very curious about your organization! Thanks for answering.

DATE: Monday, October 13, 2025 6:06 PM
NAME: Erica Reynolds
E-MAIL: xoxericaxox29@yahoo.com
ADDRESS: 21 Cushman Rd, Ashford, CT 06278
SURNAMES: REYNOLDS

More information about William Reynolds, b 1794 married to Harriet Redfield (Mayflower descendant of Alden/Mullins), born VT, d March 1854 in Williston, VT.

DATE: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 4:43 PM
NAME: Andrew Stevenson
E-MAIL: andost80@gmail.com

Hello, I'm currently researching my Reynolds family line descending from James Reynolds of North Kingstown, Rhode Island (b. ca. 1625, d. 1700).
My particular focus is on confirming the marriage of Phineas Reynolds (b. 23 Feb 1768, Exeter, RI; d. after 1830, near Factoryville, PA) and Dorcas (Northup/Northrop) Reynolds (b. 20 Aug 1771, North Kingstown, RI) and reportedly married about 25 October 1790 in Exeter or North Kingstown.
I'm hoping to verify this marriage and strengthen the documented connection from Phineas > James Budd Reynolds (b. 1806, Factoryville, PA) and the later Pennsylvania branch of the family.
I understand that the multi-volume set - Roth, Steve. A Genealogy of James and Deborah Reynolds of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and Descendants. (Higginson Book Co., 1999) reportedly includes material on this line. If anyone has access to these volumes - especially references confirming the Phineas > James Budd connection or the marriage of Phineas and Dorcas Northup - I would be deeply grateful for a citation, excerpt, or scan.
I would also welcome any insights or primary-source references for the earlier generations of this family (James > Joseph Sr. > Joseph Jr. > George > Robert > Phineas) that might appear in the Roth volumes or other RFA materials (I do have the Centennial Collection).
I'm happy to share back any verified documents, compiled sources, or lineage notes from my own research, which includes Rhode Island vital records, probate files, and Pennsylvania settlement materials.
Thank you kindly for any guidance, copies, or confirmations you can provide - your assistance would help me ensure the accuracy of this Rhode Island-to-Pennsylvania branch of the Reynolds family.

DATE: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 10:15 AM
NAME: Howard Reynolds
E-MAIL: hdr32010@comcast.net

Looking to improve RFA line 52, Daniel Reynolds b. circa 1770 married to Susanna Butler. He is closely related to Benjamin Reynolds b. circa 1776 married to Grisella Beardsley (not Barclay). All were in early Chittenden, Vermont. I have numerous autosomal matches to both lines and also ydna matches to both lines. How are they related and who are their parents??
thank you for any clues

DATE: Saturday, March 22, 2025 5:31 PM
NAME: Jessica Reynolds
E-MAIL: jessica100506@gmail.com

Looking for information on William (1805-?) and Caroline Distin Reynolds(1810-?) of Augusta, Oneida County, New York. They had a daughter Mary Elizabeth Reynolds (1828-1913) and a grandson, Curtis Wellington Reynolds (1844-1919). Thanks!

DATE: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 6:15 PM
NAME: Joseph Lorek
E-MAIL: jalorek@gmail.com
ADDRESS: 2254 SW Wall St, Blue Springs, MO 64015

I would like to trace this line back to when it came to America. Thus far, I have only been able to take the line as follows:
Effie REYNOLDS (b. ~1874 Cambiidge, VT)
Dana Silas REYNOLDS (. 1848 Caambridge, VT) David REYOLDS (b. 3/5/1811 Cammbridge, VT) to possibly John REYNOLDS (b. 1780 Waldo, ME)

I would like to take this line to its American roots. Thank you!

DATE: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 6:17 AM
NAME: Larry Joe Reynolds
E-MAIL: Joe.Reynolds@larryjoereynolds.com
ADDRESS: 5518 Jeff Davis Drive, Alexandria, LA 71302-2336

I continue to search for the parents of William Reynolds (RFA Line 037) who married Jane Milliken on August 23, 1790 in what is now Greene County, Tennessee. We have located a brother, Henry Reynolds, c1778-1849. He appeared in KY shortly after it became a state, and the first official record we were sure belonged to him was his marriage to Nancy Sallee in 1808. William died in Bedford County, Tennessee. Most of his children moved to Jackson County, Alabama from there and then spread out.

I'm hoping that one of my many cousins who share yDNA with me, and knows more about it than I do, to help me extend my search and locate the parents of William.