Re: FG#1,FG#5, FG#7
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Re: FG#1,FG#5, FG#7
Wayne Parker 10/26/12
DNAcan be trusted-it is the papertrail that has been contaminated in many families. I had a male member of my birth family test just to see who the dna family was for my grandfather.(Not my maternal Parkers)He was always almost silent about his father and nothing was ever said about his grandfather. Grandfather's father was documented by family tradition in Hannibal Mo. for grandfather's birth in 1884. I had found my great grandparent's marriage records in Howell co. MO. Then we began to put the papertrails and family traditions together with the DNA results of my paternal test person.
The DNA results show a family who do not show that great grandfather was ever a part of that family- extended etc.
We know the family history, and the DNA backed it up with the other family genealogies in the same places our great grandfather and his children were living before 1900. So, where is the breakdown?
My Dad's line cannot afford to disbelieve the DNA. They do believe that great grandfather was a child of a man who for whatever reason chose not to leave obvious papertrails of his birth. That man's DNA is alive in me and I intend to find it- so we look for his papertrail even if we have to go into the other DNA groups who were in Marion county MO at the same time period.
This is the reason we all have gone into the other Parker lines who are not our DNA lines. It just is essential for process of elimination and a good deed never goes unrewarded. So, in my opinion, DNA is the only hope for most of us in Groups where the courthouses burned, children were adopted when the mother died, the father died and others with different surnames adopted them but the DNA is alive in us. It is our job to find it if you want to bad enough.
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Re: FG#1,FG#5, FG#7
Nancy Misenheimer 10/30/12
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Re: FG#1,FG#5, FG#7
Patti Parker 10/27/12
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Re: FG#1,FG#5, FG#7
Nancy Misenheimer 10/27/12
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Re: FG#1,FG#5, FG#7