John David Parker jr.'s Page

"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…"

"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."

"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…"

"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."

"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."

"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"

"Welcome home cousin, I'm new at this as well. So far I've met several friendly Parkers. If my cousin Stacy would get on here, she could clear the air a bit more. Seems the Parker names have been hard to pin to one man or family. Even…"

"Start with your parents, grandparents, and ggrandparents. Let others know what you are looking for, the idea of just researching Parker History, has to start with a beginning, like your Name and where you live, and hail from."