Ann Brooks Kendall and my Quinn research
Ann Brooks Kendall was not someone selecting random Quinn names to investigate. Her surviving work shows sustained research into the Quinn families of eastern North Carolina. I came to value her work not simply because she published genealogy, but because she preserved the working material behind it.
Ann very thankfully sent me her personal notes on all of her Quinn research. Those notes matter to me because they let us see the questions she was pursuing, the people she repeatedly encountered, and the records behind conclusions that could otherwise appear only as finished genealogy.
The Abner Quinn material is especially important. I have the complete work she assembled on Abner, material she did not publish as a finished book. It preserves a difficult problem rather than pretending the problem had been resolved. That is precisely why I want the whole body of her work retained together and examined against the original records.
Ann Brooks Kendall's Quinn research
The Abner Quinn Family
The complete Abner Quinn research is presented as Kendall's work: the records she assembled and the genealogical reconstruction she was testing. Abner Quinn is the subject of this work; he is not presented as a researcher alongside Kendall.
Personal Quinn Research Notes
Kendall's personal notes and typed research cards belong to her wider Quinn research corpus. They are not classified as Abner-only material.
Published work
Her published Quinn genealogy remains distinct from her unpublished material while remaining part of the history of her research.