The
Henry Lee Society
THE
genealogical society for Lee, Lea, Leigh, and similar surname research
New
Stuff
We are
continuing to build this website and adding new stuff
periodically. Notable new adds include: a copy of the recently
adopted bylaws, a YDNA page, a link to all known YDNA data, a file
manager system and some data files under it.
Welcome
to The Henry Lee Society
The
Henry Lee Society (HLS) is a genealogical organization devoted to
the Lee and similar surnames. We have open
membership
and encourage you to join, becoming one of the largest and most
devoted communities of researchers in
the
world. Membership advantages include invitation to the Annual
Meeting, held at various points of interest in the
USA
each spring, as well as access to the Members Only section of this
website which includes databases of raw and
processed
research, contact information for members, special offers and
discounts for members, and other data of
interest
to Lee-homonymic surname researchers.
For
more information on the HLS, click on the About Us tab at the top of
the page. For Becoming a Member, hit that
tab.
If you're already a member, just click on the Members Only tab,
enter your name and password, and explore the
databases.
Non members can also use the Links and Contact tabs.
Latest
News
It's been a hard
couple years for all of us, but the HLS is getting operational
again. We lost our dear Secretary, Melinda Pabst, to the COVID
pandemic. We all mourn her and send our best wishes to Trudie,
JJ, and the rest of their clan. Melinda will be missed.
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Current officers of the HLS are Nancy Royce, President; Hardy
Pottinger, VP; HB Lee, Jr., Treasurer.
Dennis
Lee continues to act as the Web Administrator. David Lee
continues to act as the FTDNA Lee YDNA Group
Administrator with help from Dennis Lee, Cynthia Forde, and Carol
Vickery. Dennis is looking to vacate
his
role, so we are seeking a member to take over that job.
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The 2021 Annual Meeting is being planned currently, and given the
loss of Melinda, will not be in
Cartersville,
GA. The idea of going to Salt Lake City this year has been
proposed, and is being debated.
As per
previous years, most people will arrive in town sometime
Thursday, we'll have social and genealogical visits and gatherings on
Friday and breakout subgroup
sessions on Friday night, and the business meeting on Saturday,
followed by the Annual Dinner.
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The YDNA database continues to expand and remain open to the public,
but this will change shortly as
the
database is a significant value adder for the HLS. Dennis is
working with an outside consultant to
modify
the website to make some data on it restricted to HLS members
only. Stay tuned for details. You
should
begin to see massive changes to the website beginning now. In
fact, editing this news post was one
of
the first actions of the updating project.
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We have a Facebook page! Please join up and invite any other
members to do so, as well. If you need
an
invitation, contact Carol Lee Vickery. You can reach her via
Facebook messaging.
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Cynthia Forde has completed a vast and expensive (she funded many
YDNA tests) analysis of the Lea
families
arising from Leasburg, NC. Contact her for full info, or watch
for postings on this website.
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Carol Vickery, David Lee, Alex Lee, and others continue to hammer
away at the JLN family, both in terms
of
finding there antecedents in England and in separating out the
descendant lines. They are becoming
quite
adept at using YFull and the Big Y test.
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HB Lee, Becky Owens, and others are doing the same for the JLX line.
Nov 10
2021
