Preservation and Celebration of the Parker Family History & Genealogy

Parker history?

I'm new to this. I'm I'm looking to learn more about my family history I don't know where to start any ideas?

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Permalink Reply by Michael R. Parker on January 7, 2012 at 10:09am

talk to older relatives, go to cemeteries, look for others looking for same names and geographies, google names, join Ancestry.com, join local geneology group- up to you now

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Permalink Reply by Richard Parker on January 15, 2012 at 2:32pm

I use ancestry.com at the local library (so my tax dollars pay the membership). Take it all with a grain of salt - especially Rootsweb data, form a hypothesis, then find the records to back it. Your librarian will become a good friend.

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Lynn Parker on March 8, 2012 at 12:10am

well who is a parker in your family? you might want to start there. type there name and b day death date into google search and see what it brings up and if you reconize it ...or go try ancestory.com

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Permalink Reply by David Parker on March 9, 2012 at 9:54am

Depending on what part of the country you are from but I use the Screven-Jenkins County Library website

http://www.sjrls.org/. The genealogy section is great using the dixon hollingsworth card collection.

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Permalink Reply by Marcia Ceisel on January 13, 2013 at 6:21pm

Write to the state archives of the state your Parker relative lived in. My Grandmother is a Parker, and when I sent a note to the Alabama archives, some wonderful person there sent me copies of census for her and her parents. Start with what you know, and get DOCUMENTATION for everything. Beware: MANY family trees on Ancestry.com are NOT accurate, yet folks keep using erroneous information on their trees.

Good luck

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Permalink Reply by Michael R. Parker on January 14, 2013 at 8:21pm

Blog what u know here. Join ancestry.com for quick access to census, trees, land records, wills. Tell what u known and what u want to know.

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Permalink Reply by Ronald Parker on January 31, 2013 at 10:42pm

Get a Y-DNA test. Mine revealed some very interesting information about my Parkers.

I got both my parents to get an autosomal DNA test ("Family Finder" in the parlance of Family Tree DNA). These tests have introduced us to a couple of dozen cousins, some with genealogical information we didn't know.