Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Phipps families in America. Includes abstracts and transcripts from local, county, state and federal sources (census, military, pension, etc.).

Alexander McGinnis (d.1829) was born before 1775 in Ireland. Abraham McGinnis (1786-1842) is believed to be one of his sons. Abraham married Deborah Clark (b.1786) in Pulaski County, Kentucky in 1807. The family was located earlier in Virginia. Family members were located later in Illinois, Texas, Arkansas and elsewhere.