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  Patricia Pillsbury May 4, 2017 at 4:59pm

  Yes we have met.  I am still working on Moses Parker from St.Albans, Maine. I am now investigating the other Parker families in St. Albans the same time he was there to see if I can break through this wall.  Your timing is great.  I just returned from the New England Genealogy Conference and have lots of new ideas on how to get this wall down.  Thanks for the invite to this site.

  Pat Pillsbury
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  Richard Parker April 10, 2015 at 3:06pm

  Too true.  The other aspect of it is the math.  From the members of "The Great Migration" what started out as 20,000 colonists had swollen to 2 million after a century.  Families were large - 10 kids, for multiple generations, I don't see a drop off that until the mid 19th century.  Granted many died young, but I figure that from one ancestor it is possible to have somewhere between 100,000 and 10,000,000 descendants.  Granted that goes both ways, so each member of my generation had 1024 ancestors of that generation.  It boggles the mind.

  j.
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  Patricia Ross Parker April 10, 2015 at 2:05pm

  Hello, Richard Parker in Danvers, MA

  I was browsing PH mail and found your comment, "...but again, it is such a common name, there could be multiple Parker lines there..."

  You are so right.

  The Y2000 Federal Census enumerated 325 million people.  On that Census, one person out of every 1000 counted had the Parker surname.  Of the tens of thousands of different last names on that same 2000 census, Parker was the 51st most frequently found surname.

  The Family Tree  Parker YDNA Project  today claims 509 separate and potentially unrelated tested males.  Each male represents a few or many individual family units.  Each family unit can boast a family history of hundreds of descendants over the last four centuries.  The multiplied total of this single assembly of Parkers is huge.

  Patricia Ross Parker, Parker FG#7 researcher
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  Michael Parker August 4, 2014 at 5:51am

  not you alone, PH is mired in upgrading to a new software platform and the process is slower than imagined. Mike
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  Richard Parker August 3, 2014 at 5:40pm

  Something has happened to the style sheets, I no longer see options to post anything.  Is it just me?
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  Rebecca Lynn Parker April 23, 2012 at 12:04pm

  Are you the son of 5  Lawrence Jay PARKER ?
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  Rebecca Lynn Parker March 4, 2012 at 1:27am

  hello Richard my Samuel was born Feb 1811 and Married Sarah Demarest in 1837 ~ Sarah died October 28th, 1868 and Samuel died January 21,1875