Genealogy

Early families in Europe, the first generations in Connecticut in the 1630s and Pennsylvania in the 1840s. Census records. Browse queries. Find your twig.

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Olde England

Visits the ancestral family homes in Lewes south of London and in Middelton-in-Teesdale in County Durham.

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New England

Guilford, Conn., is the Long Island Sound town that the Parmelees helped settle in 1639.

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Author! Author!

Browse The Family Bookstore. At least a score of relatives have penned books.

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Home, Sweet Home

A collection of family homes from throughout the United States.

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Coats of Arms

So far we've uncovered
six different ones!

Relatives attended a Chicago street re-naming in 2004 to honor transit mogul Franklin Parmelee [1816-1904; Edward, Ebenezer, Oliver, Jonathan, Joshua, John, John] as Continental Airport Express, successor to Parmelee Transfer, celebrated its 150th anniversary.

Meet Jeff Parmele, who teaches a herpetology class at Simpson College. He is on a mission to save the timber rattlesnakes in Iowa.

While study of the recently recovered Confederate submarine continues, I have learned that an ancestor assisted such an attempt years ago! Philip Elting Parmalee (1837-aft1876; Ezra Sherman, David, Noah, Noah, Stephen, John, John) worked as a bookkeeper for Prof. Benjamin Maillefert of Charleston, S.C., who salvaged many of the ships that were sunk in the harbor during the Civil War -- he even a contract to salvage the CSS Hunley. The South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston has Maillefert's business ledgers from 1874-76 which were kept by Philip! For more on the Hunley salvage and restoration operation, click here.

Annette was known as the "Suffragette Hornet" as she sweet-talked and bullied the Vermont Legislature to support women's right to vote.