From: Carey P. <ca...@pa...> - 2013-10-09 03:03:48
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Thanks for the thought Jesse. Here is what is known - 1) James Parks was born in Ireland circa 1796 to William Parks, age unknown. He is my direct ancestor. 2) James came to America circa 1817. Naturalized in 1827. 3) Joseph Parks was born in Irelnd in 1627, in Co Antrim and he turns up in Virginia in the 1600's. The family establishes themselves in eastern PA, and moves between there and Virginia a time or two. 4) James applies for citizenship in the same town where Joseph's descendants are living at the time he arrives. 5) James is granted citizenship in Allegheny City (Now part of Pittsburgh) years later. 6) The DNA connection is between myself and one of Joseph's descendants. It indicates we have a common ancestor in the last 10 generations. Not much to go on, other than to surmise the common ancestor was in the time both lines were in Ireland - the 1600's I suppose, but maybe earlier. I can account for all descendants of James Parks after he came to America and wed in Allegheny City in 1821, so the connection must be in Ireland. The question is: I dig thru Ancestry and find a new Parks person. Where do I put them? I must establish some connection to somebody, or I can just enter them without a connection, or I can put the document in a "shoe box" folder for processing at a future time when I have more pieces of the puzzle. I tend to want to get what I do have into Gramps as soon as I can to make it searchable. Which makes me prefer one db with all the loose ends in it, as well as the families I know about. Thanks again, Carey On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:28 PM, dasunt <da...@gm...> wrote: > > On 10/8/2013 10:28 AM, Carey Parks wrote: > > > > Hi Grampers, > > > > I have two or more separate family trees for which I can not find a > > connection in any documents, but which have common DNA - 1 or 2 steps > > removed at the 67 marker level. Meaning the families share a common > > ancestor. > > > Is there enough information to guess at a relationship? You could enter > in some individuals + families, all unknown, to sketch out the > relationship then, until you get to the known people. > > Making careful notes for all unknown indivduals/families that they are a > guestimate based on DNA results. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > -- http://parkswhistles.com/ http://www.facebook.com/carey.parks http://twitter.com/LuthierCarey |