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• Daniel F. Parker February 2, 2019 at 12:55pm

  In reply to Jim Kelly's 7/12/16 post- Yes, I would like to see the information that you obtained from NEGHS on the James Parker lineage. I only recently joined Parker Heritage but my father has been researching our Parker family line for years. He also has received his BigY500DNA results and regularly converses with Gar and with Michael Parker. Michael reports on the results and links in his posts on 7/6 and 7/15/16 below. We can trace our line back to Lemuel Parker (1794-1871). His parents may have been David Parker (1766-1820) and Hannah Gilson-Parker, or Lemuel Parker and Hannah Gilson-Parker. But we have not been able to confirm either. Any insights or connections would be appreciated. Thanks,
  Dan
• Jim Kelly July 12, 2016 at 9:12pm

  Let me start by thanking all of you who have made this site possible. It is great! I wish such a site existed for my surname. Having said that I a need that I do not seem to be able to fill. To that end I hope I do not offend anyone. How do we know we are really related to one of the Parker Brothers related to John Parker, born 1525. It seems pretty clear that we are all related to one another, or we wouldn't have the same DNA markers, but where is the proof that one of us (actually someone with the Parker surname) is actually related to our alleged ancestors? I have had the privilege of reading all of Karen's newsletters and have looked over every list of ancestors, but I cannot find the documentation that says Samuel was the son of James because of this document, or that Benjamin was the son of Benjamin, and I am a pretty good researcher.
  
  If you want to join the Sons of the American Revolution or the DAR or the Mayflower Society, you cannot just say, I am in Group 10 of the FTDNA project, therefore I am related to X person.
  
  WANTED WANTER WANTED I am looking for a DOCUMENTED lineage that takes us from the person that took the Y DNA test to James Parker.
  
  If someone has such a linage and the documentation, I would appreciate getting a copy of it. My email is j.kelly@frontiernet.net and my phone number is 916-230-6254. If you are close, but not completely there, I would be willing to pitch in. Frankly Group 10 needs such a document to validate our linage.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Jim Kelly
  
  PS, I just got five documents from NEGHS that take James Parker's line down five generations. If anyone is interested, let me know.
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    Patricia Pillsbury > Jim Kelly May 4, 2017 at 5:05pm

    I am interested Jim. I was also at the NEGHS and very excited to try to break down some walls on my husband's line. Earliest known ancestor is Moses Parker from St. Albans, Maine. (b 1814) . Would you share those James Parkers docs with me? pburton2323@gmail.com
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    Michael John Parker > Jim Kelly July 15, 2016 at 5:52pm

    Hi Jim,
    
    I mentioned this to you by email privately but thought I'd also post here for others to know that I know of at least 2 Parker's who took the Y test that have a descent paper trail back to Joseph Parker b. 1622: Myself and William Parker. Admittedly I think I can find more documentation to validate my line, and will try to work on that more over time, but it is fairly well sourced. It looks like we also have a well sourced tree linking William Marshall Parker back to Joseph Parker as well, and he matches my Y with 37 markers. What's more is that the manager of William's DNA & Tree, a cousin of his, also matches my Grand Uncle Clarence Parker through autosomal DNA, which is amazing since they are 8-9 generations away from me, and 6-7 generations away from my Grand Uncle.
    
    Joseph Parker @ My Tree:
    http://person.ancestry.com/tree/58608377/person/44036849674/facts
    
    Joseph Parker @ William Parker's Tree:
    http://person.ancestry.com/tree/88064366/person/42562865755/facts
    
    
    Michael Parker
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  Patricia Pillsbury July 8, 2016 at 6:34pm

  Hello Group 10!
  
  I am researching my husband's lineage. He just found out he is a Parker after all these years thinking he was a Pillsbury. The Y DNA sealed the deal. We match Group #10 with all 37 markers but haven't been able to make the connection. We just found out a few weeks ago that his great grandfather John Franklin Pillsbury changed his name from Parker. He was born in Dexter, Maine in 1860. When he was 2 years old, both his parents died and he was raised by Joseph M. Jordan and Sarah Goodwin who were JF's maternal grandparents. They must have had relatives in Saco, York Co., Maine and possibly in Cape Elizabeth, Maine because they took him there for a while. JF returned to Dexter when he was in his teens and must have learned his trade as a loom fixer. Dexter had 4 wool mills there. He may have married a Sarah Hart in 1881 and may have had a son named Harry in 1882. The birth certificate goes by Frank Parker which is what he liked to be called. Later in the 1880s, JF moved to Philly, changed his name, and married Rose Elma Cox.
  
  JF's parents were John Calvin Parker of St. Albans, Maine (1837-1862) and Cordelia Jordan (1841-1862). JC was the son of Moses S. Parker who was born in Maine, whereabouts unknown. He was in St. Albans, Maine by 1836 when he married Sarah Bates, a well established family in town. Moses' lineage is unknown from this time on. He died in 1874 in St. Albans. There were three other Parkers in the area when Moses was in St. Albans. I am hoping Moses is connected to them somehow.
  
  They are: Joshua Parker (8 Mar 1797 ME - 19 May 1879); Charles Parker (abt 1801 ME - 31 Oct 1877 ME) and Phineas Parker (abt 1804 ME - 28 Jun 1869)
  
  If anyone has info that would be helpful in solving Moses' lineage, please get in touch.
  
  Thank you,
  
  Pat
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  Michael John Parker July 7, 2016 at 9:06am

  Hello Parker family!
  
  My name is Michael John Parker and I live in Salem, Oregon. My Grandfather, Lawrence Parker, was born in Astoria, OR where my Parker family had been pioneers since the mid-1800s. In his retirement, my Grandfather spent much of his time researching his Parker genealogy and writing articles about his research which were published in the Clatsop County Historical Society quarterly magazine called "Cumtux". After he passed away in 2000, when I was still just a teenager, I was left with much of his research which I sat on for a decade before I really took an interest in studying genealogy myself. My Grandfather was able to document his lineage back to Joseph W. Parker Jr. b. 1653 from Chelmsford, MA. About 2 years ago I joined Ancestry.com and manually input all of my Grandfather's data to my family tree, then expanded on it and traced my Parker line (theoretically) back to John Parker b. 1525 from Great Burstead, England. About 1 year ago I took the AncestryDNA test, and was surprised to find that I had little-to-no solid matches on my paternal side, but many confirmed matches on my maternal side. Later I had my Grand Uncle Clarence Parker take the AncestryDNA test, along with his daughter (my 1C1R) Sheila Parker. Both Clarence & Sheila are strong atDNA matches to each other and myself, and thankfully they revealed quite a few Parker DNA matches that validates my lineage at least back to a Benjamin Parker b. 1691 in Groton, MA. Next I decided to take the FTDNA Y-DNA67 test, and I have finally received those results showing me as haplogroup R-M269 (R1b1a2), with many Y matches at the 37-67 marker level and 0 genetic distance who share ancestry through the 5 emigrant Parker brothers of Great Burstead, England who settled in Chelmsford & Groton, MA. This places me in FG10 where I had expected to be based on my paper trail! I am so excited to have this confirmation, and interested to know if my Y-DNA results might be helpful for anybody elses Parker research? In Karen Parker-Galvin's original post here she mentions interest in more Y-DNA evidence to support the fact that our 5 Parker brothers from England were indeed brothers, and how majority of the FG10 members here descended from Capt. James Parker b. 1617. Well, I am descended from the brother of Capt. James Parker, Joseph b. 1622, and so the fact that I have high confidence Y-DNA matches with other descendants of Capt. James Parker is evidence enough for me to conclude that James & Joseph did indeed share the same father, believed to be John Parker b. 1580 of Great Burstead, England. This John Parker who is supported by my Y-DNA evidence, was the Grandson of another John Parker b. 1525 of Great Burstead who I believe is the most distant ancestor associated with FG10. I would love to see if there's any DNA evidence supporting the connection to John Parker b. 1525, or to trace that lineage further back with any confidence. Also, I see several other surnames in my Y-DNA matches that I would love to learn how they are connected to our Parker FG10 ancestry.... particularly "Wright" and a Jeptha Wright b. 1787 who is the most distant ancestor to several of my strong Y matches.
  
  Anyhow, I am very happy to be a part of this family group, and look forward to the new discoveries we may make together!
  
  Michael John Parker
  Salem, Oregon
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  Sally Willis June 18, 2014 at 9:58am

  I descend from Capt. James Parker and his wife, Elizabeth Long.

  Their son, James Parker Jr who married his 1st cousin, Mary Parker ( daughter of Capt. James Parker's brother, Abraham Parker and his wife, Rose Whitlock).

  Their son, Deacon Samuel Parker who married Mary Carder.

  Their son, John Parker and his wife Mary Maraugh.

  Their son Nathan Parker Sr. and his wife Eunice Doubleday.

  Their son, Nathan Parker Jr and his wife, Mary "Polly" Doubleday.

  Their son, John Nelson Parker and his wife Mary Norton.

  Their son Charles Henry Parker and his wife, Mary Ann Robinson.

  Their son, Fred Parker and his wife Mary Williams

  Their son R. Parker and his wife E. Reiter

  Their Daughter, my mom.
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  Karen Parker-Galvin October 14, 2013 at 4:34pm

  Welcome Sal!  We use this site sometimes to check queries and as a forum because at this time, Jack's new web doesn't allow for that.
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  Richard Parker December 2, 2012 at 4:16pm

  Had to take the website down for a bit.  One of the disk drives decided to take a vacation.
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  Richard Parker December 2, 2012 at 1:15pm

  Samuel Parker:

  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Parker&am...;