| Announcements
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 Ross
Parmley, right,
has been named athletic director at Tulsa
University Find out what other family
members are up to, reunions, items for
sale, lost & found and more.
UPDATED: Feb
4, 2012 
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| The
Attic |
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Mementos,
tools, street signs and the
extraordinary. Above, Officer Parmelee poses with members of the Yuba
City, Calif., Fire Department for the
camera in 1901.
UPDATED:
Nov. 1, 2011
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| Cybercousins'
Links |
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 Meet Dianne
Parmelee, left,
the education coordinator at a Woodbury,
Conn. nature center. Say hello to scores
of other cybercousins from around the
globe. You can browse by first name, A through L and M through Z.
UPDATED:
Feb. 4, 2012
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| Family
FAQs |
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Spelling?
What does our name mean? The family in
Europe? Those questions and more!
UPDATED: May
25, 2004
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| Family
Photo Album |
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The Henry Lincoln Parmley family, above, gathers for the
camera in 1955. We've got hundreds of pictures and portraits of your ancestors and cousins.
UPDATED:
Aug. 1, 2011
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| Features |
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You'll never guess who sold their home to
Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry. ...You'll also find letters
from long ago, our connection to George W. Bush, a sheet music artist, authors and other feature stories about your cousins near and
distant. Older features, such as hiking the Parmelee Farm at Killingworth, Conn., are
kept in the Archives.
UPDATED:
May 1, 2011
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| Finding
Your Twig |
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Finding
or adding your branch of the family tree.
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| Home,
Sweet Home |
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Our
hometown of Guilford, Conn.
UPDATED:
Jan. 25, 2004
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| Memorial
Park |
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 Sarah Walton (Parmele) Cooke of Austin, Texas, has died at
the age of 106. An index of obituaries --
more than 300 of them, some with pictures
-- beginning in 1995.
UPDATED:
Feb. 4, 2012
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| The
Nursery |
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Birth
announcements.
UPDATED: March
8, 2011
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| The
Parmelee Family Magazine |
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Publication
has ceased.
UPDATED: Jan.15,
2001
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| Politics |
 One relative meets President John Quincy Adams and other nearly comes to blows
with Theodore Roosevelt. ... And we're compiling a list
of those who have served in federal,
state and local office.
Dec. 1, 2011
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| This
Old House |
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Family homes around Guilford, Conn.
Some in other Conn. towns.
In the East,
we've added a photo of the home of Robert Parmley of Parmleysville, Ky. And a
Tudor Revival has been uncovered out West
in Los Angeles, above.
UPDATED:
July 1, 2011
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| Queries
/ Lost & Found |
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Looking
for a lost friend or relative? A list of pre-1800 unplaced family members. ... Maybe you
can help solve other genealogy puzzles.
UPDATED:
April 1, 2010
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| Your
Host |
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Who is
Jim Walters (one busy boy!) and why on
earth is he doing this?
UPDATED: Feb.
1, 2010
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Email: ParmeleeFamily@gmail.com
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| News:
Navy Man Gets a Taste of Maine
U.S.
Navy Electrician's Mate Scott Parmalee
of Portland, Mich., who is serving on the USS
Virginia and stationed at the Kittery Naval
Shipyard in Maine, decided to do some deer
hunting. He started out bow hunting near York and
spied a big buck but couldn't get close enough
for a clean shot.
During the second week of the season he hunted
hard for that buck and finally saw him early one
morning, but it wasn't light enough to shoot. As
he waited for the sun to rise, he used his grunt
call, to no avail.
But then a big doe came across the field
looking right into the woods where the buck was.
And about that time he heard a grunt, looked
over and saw a buck -- an even bigger one than
he'd been hunting -- trot out of the woods. He
took a shot as the animal was about to enter a
briar patch and his season was over, scoring a
10-point, 200-pound buck.
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| Features:
Burr, Cheney ... and Parmalee?
When
it comes to a pol giving someone the
business end of a firearm, we're right up
there with Aaron Burr (the vice president
who killed rival Alexander Hamilton in
1804) and Dick Cheney (the vice president
who wounded fellow hunter Harry
Whittington in 2006).
 Daniel
Stevens Parmalee [1821-1891; William,
Dan, Lemuel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John,
John], a member of the Nebraska
Territorial Legislature that met in Omaha
in 1867, and a Douglas County member of
the House of Representatives for the
state's first two legislative sessions,
from 1867 to 1871, made headlines when
his feud with Tom Keeler erupted in
gunfire in 1874.
The story made the front pages of
newspapers nationwide.
It was made-to-order drama: a
long-time grudge over a piece of
property, two men blazing away at one
another, runaway mule teams ... and
Keeler was survived by two of his four
wives!
I found a story
that the Utica Daily Observer
picked up from the Omaha Bee.
Newspapers just don't write stories like
this any more.
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The
Big Church
Washington's
National Cathedral, damaged by the 5.8
August earthquake, remains open. Megan
(Parmele) Field [Thomas
Lee, Rufus "Earl" Earl, Edgar
Charles, George Spenser, Lucius Seth,
Seth, Giles, Jeremiah, Lemuel, Nathaniel,
Nathaniel, John, John] pauses
at one of the four piers of the central
crossing, the one bearing the names of
James C. [1855-1931; William Samuel,
Samuel, Samuel, Ezra, Nathaniel,
Nathaniel, John, John] and Alice
(Maury) Parmelee (1866-1940), one of
the original four $50,000 donors. The
childless couple, who had an extensive
art collection, lived at The
Causeway.
Megan and James are fourth cousins,
five times removed!
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Features:
Special Delivery
 Kathy Janke of
Winnemucca, Nev., sent me 15 unstamped wax-sealed
letters she'd found in
this box she'd bought at a garage sale.
Inside were letters by Dr. Francis
"Frank" Burdette Parmele [1815-1883; Henry, Joel, Nehemiah,
Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John, John] and
his family -- the loss of a baby, doubts about
becoming a physician, the sorrow of separation --
written between 1828 and 1840!
Mail
Call's latest discovery is a 1796 missive by Ens.
Samuel Parmele.
UPDATED: Aug. 1,
2011
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On
the Streets Where You Live
 Over the
years I've run across these streets that
have the family name in them. The most
curious is Parmalee Drive in Kent, Ohio,
from where my own kin hail -- but my
family spells it Parmelee -- go figure!
Costa Mesa, Calif.: Parmley
Lane
Los Angeles, Calif.: Parmelee
Avenue
Indian Hills, Colo.: Parmalee Gulch Road
Durham,
Conn.: Parmelee Hill Road
New Haven, Conn.: Parmalee Avenue
Haddam, Conn.: Parmalee Lane
Newtown, Conn.: Parmalee Hill Road
Newtown, Conn.: Parmalee Park Place
Port Charlotte, Fla. Parmely
Street
Punta Gorda, Fla.: Parmely Street
Conley, Ga.: Parmalee Path
Chicago, Ill.: Frank Parmelee Way
Rockford, Ill.: Parmele Street
Waukegan, Ill.: Parmalee Place
Monticello, Ky.: Parmley Street
Nicholasville, Ky.: Parmelee
Circle
Parmleysville, Ky. Parmleysville Road
Wayne
County, Ky. Parmely-Griggs Loop
Eliot,
Maine: Parmley Lane
Middleville, Mich.: Parmalee Road
Fair Lawn, N.J.: Parmelee
Avenue
Hawthorne, N.J.: Parmelee
Avenue
Summit City, N.J. Parmley Place
Leroy, N.Y.: Parmelee Road
Mohegan Lake, N.Y.: Parmly Court
Mohegan Lake, N.Y. Parmly Road
Castle Hayne, N.C.: Parmele Road
Wrightsville Beach, N.C.: Parmele
Boulevard
Wrightsville Beach, N.C.: Parmale
Drive
Cleveland, Ohio: Parmelee
Avenue
Elyria, Ohio: Parmely Avenue
Hudson, Ohio: Parmelee Drive
Kent, Ohio: Parmalee Drive
Perry, Ohio: Parmly Road
Tallmadge, Ohio: Parmelee Drive
Youngstown, Ohio: Parmelee Avenue
Seven Hills, Ore.: Parmalee
Drive
Murrells Inlet, S.C.: Parmelee
Drive
Cypress, Texas: Parmley
Creek Court
Buffalo, Wyo.: Parmelee Street
Did we miss your street?
Email
me; photos welcome!
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Veterans
Here
we honor those family
members in uniform, from Colonial
times to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
More details are being added to those on
the rosters for the Revolutionary and
Civil wars. Pictures of Revolutionary War
soldiers' headstones are also being
added.  And
we're thankful for your submissions, like
this one from Allan Ray Parmley
[Randolph Hay, Roland Duvall, Miles,
Emerson Bell, Garner, John, Giles, Hiel,
Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John, John],
who stands at the headstone of great-
great- great- great- grandfather John
Parmley (1762-1848), who fought in
the Revolution.
UPDATED: Feb
4, 2012
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| Did
your ancestor register for the World War
I draft? I have 688 cards filed under our name. The data provide a nice snapshot of the family in 1917-18. |
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Mysteries:
Can You Help?
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Who was Dr. John Parmele
(ca1801-1844) -- and why is his tombstone
sitting with another in the basement of a
Milwaukee church? |
 We're
pretty sure that one of the photos in this album
is that of Robert Parmley
(1789-1875), who was the father of 24 -- count
'em, 24! -- children. But just who the rest of
these folks are has us stumped. Can you help us
identify any of these people?
Maybe you can solve some of these other photo mysteries
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Genealogy:The
Early Generations
 The pieces are
slowly coming together on the first generations
to live in America and the last to live in England
and continental
Europe. The vast majority of the North
American Parmelee families of all spellings
trace their roots back to Johns Sr.
and Jr. who arrived in Connecticut
in the 1630s. These families helped found Guilford,
where the Congressional Church, left, now sits on
the site of our family's first home. The rest of
the families are related to those who came to Pennsylvania
in the 1840s.
UPDATED: Dec. 1,
2007
A list of the pre-1800 "unplaced"
Parmelees.
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Grace Parmelee, who in 1988
became the first Asian-American female
warrant officer in the U.S. Coast Guard? 
Oakland Raiders cheerleader
Michelle Parmley?
Bernie Parmalee (1967- ) who
played for the Miami Dolphins and New
York Jets and is now a coach for the
Kansas City Chiefs?
Football player Jalen Parmele,
who played for the Baltimore Ravens?
Descendants of Phoebe (Parmelee)
Castle (1779-1856), founders of
Castle-Cooke, which financed the Dole
pineapple industry, are buried at the
Royal Palace in Honolulu?
James C. Parmelee, a major
contributor to the Washington National
Cathedral in our nation's capital?
Dentist 
Award-winning marksman 
Diplomat 
Architect Julia Morgan
(1872-1957) who designed William Randolph
Hearst's castle at San Simeon, Calif.,
the Herald-Examiner building in
L.A. and many YWCAs? (Her mother was
Eliza W. Parmelee.)
Pilot 
Parmly Billings, whose
grief-stricken family funded a 
Three-time Academy Award nominee 
Composer Charles E. Ives
(1874-1954), whose mother was Mary
Elizabeth Parmelee?