FG#7 Brick wall down!

The best way to do genealogy is to start with yourself and work back in time and the second best and harder way is to work with your older ancestors and bring their descendants forward. I use both methods in my research of Parker FG#7. I have broke down another brick wall in the Parker FG#7 MYSTERY by using both methods this week.

I have information on 3 brothers (two born after 1860 and one born 1845) that lived in LA and TX in my file for a long time but never could find out who their parents were. To this day I have not found then on the 1870 census and by 1880 they were not living with their parents and I found the one born in 1845 only on the 1910 census,

I was reviewing the e-mail from one of the researchers and saw that he had listed their mother name as Mary, a clue that somehow I had missed. I then found the Mary and her husband listed on the 1860 census but the whole family was listed by initial only and that when I found that the son who was born in 1845 went by his middle name on the 1910 census and when I found the family in the 1850, the father was listed as James A. Parker born in GA and Mary also born in GA. I then went to my file to see if I could find a James A. Parker of FG#7 that was born in GA. YES there was a James A. Parker born February 26, 1823 in GA died in 1863 in TX and his wife Mary White were in my file and had been for years. After doing so more checking I was able to confirm that the info was correct and now the family is together again.

Wayne N. Parker

Direct Descendants of William Parker

1 William Parker 1604 - 1654 b: Abt. 1604 in England Y-DNA: Note: We have y-DNA matches from all three of William Parker grandsons (Richard, Thomas and Francis Parker) as part of FG#7 Parker DNA Project. d: 1654 in Nansemond Co., VA

.. +? m: Abt. 1625 in VA

........ 2 Richard Parker I 1625 - 1681 b: Abt. 1625 in Elizabeth City (or citiie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company Y-DNA: P239 FG#7 Parker DNA Project d: Bef. April 23, 1681 in Nansemond Co., VA

............ +?

................... 3 Francis Parker 1652 - 1725 b: Abt. 1652 in Nansemond Co., VA Y-DNA: P69, P106, P283, P355, P368 of FG#7 d: March 26, 1725 in Nansemond Co., VA

.............................. 4 John H. Parker 1692 - 1761 b: 1692 in Nansemond Co., VA Y-DNA: P69, P106, P283 FG#7 d: 1761 in Edgecombe Co., NC

.................................. +Mary Stone 1715 - 1761 b: 1715 in VA d: Aft. 1761 in Edgecombe Co., NC

......................................... 5 Aaron Parker, Sr. 1755 - 1830 b: Abt. 1755 in Edgecombe Co., NC Y-DNA: P69, P106, P283, of FG#7. d: 1830 in Henry County, Georgia

............................................. +Elizabeth Charity Sheffield 1759 - b: Abt. 1759 in NC

.................................................... 6 Aaron Parker, Jr 1788 - 1881 b: November 12, 1788 in NC d: January 05, 1881 in Rockdale Co., GA

........................................................ +Margaret Browning 1789 - 1871 b: June 30, 1789 in Caswell, NC m: June 26, 1806 in Clarke Co., GA d: August 06, 1871 in Rockdale, GA

.............................................................. 7 James A. Parker 1823 - 1863 b: February 26, 1823 in GA Y-DNA: FG#7 Kit # 942871, P 386 d: 1863 in TX

................................................................... +Mary White 1825 - 1880 b: 1825 in GA m: April 06, 1842 in Henry Co., GA d: Bet. 1880 - 1900 in Claiborne Parish, LA ?

......................................................................... 8 James Thomas Parker 1860 - 1918 b: October 1860 in Claiborne Parish, LA Y-DNA: P386 of FG#7 d: 1918 in Shelby Co., TX