Success Stories

Success Story for Parker Family 1!

Greg wanted me to give a little encouragement to those who may be at a standstill on their Parker lines, and also may still have no matches with their Parkers as yet. Those of us in Family group # 1 are having some more clues as to our Parker ancestors. Since I am a part of P37, which is the most distant ancestor here in the US, for our Parker line, I rather feel the spotlight is on us. This is a good thing, because It makes me want to search even more to make our overseas connection to our Parkers in the Old World. There have been many Parker researchers who have researched our Parker line. Even the best genealogists can arrive at false conclusions. It is easy to mix up various individuals with the same names, or who were living at or near the same place at or near the same time. One I have corresponded with, now, for six years just finished writing a book earlier this year on quite a number of families where our Parkers lived, the Parkers among them. She terms our Parkers, “The Unknown Parkers”. This is just a gut feeling I have, and maybe nothing more, but after comparing online ancestries, the data from George Parker, our genetic cousin in Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire, England, plus observing the professional online webpage on the ancient Browsholme Hall Parker family in Lancashire, England, I believe we will discover we are a part of that Parker family. I am currently trying to find a male Parker surname participant from that line. I want to encourage all Parker researchers not to dispair of finding that elusive connection to your most distant ancestors. That will happen if you continue to recruit as many Parker surname males as possible. It might only take one of them, to prove which Parker family is yours, here in the US, and elsewhere. So, keep the keyboards humming, and the telephone lines hot, because you will be rewarded if you persevere, and don’t give up!

The best to all Parker researchers,

Cousin to participant P37,

Kathy Jo Bryant

 

Success Story for Parker Family 5!

My Ancestors encountered a brick wall in their genealogy research sometime around 1913. We have been trying to break down that wall since. The DNA results did the trick by identifying our brick wall's ancestors, and two other cousins (now research partners) with a DNA match. The DNA test was the fastest, most efficient, exciting, and productive research I have ever done, genealogy oriented or otherwise.

Thank you,

P55