| Announcements & News |
Dianne Parmley,
left, has opened
Just Desserts in
Grand Island, Nebr.
... Find out what
other family
members are up to,
reunions, items for
sale, lost & found
and more.
UPDATED: June 15, 2010
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| The Attic |
Mementos, tools,
street signs and the
extraordinary. This
card announces that
Horatio "Harvey"
Plum Parmelee has
hats for sale.
UPDATED:
Oct. 1, 2009
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| Cybercousins' Links |
Meet Gary Parmely, a
dentist from Redding, Calif.,
and scores of other
cybercousins from around
the globe. You can browse
by first name, A through L
and M through Z.
UPDATED: July 4, 2010
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| Family FAQs |
Spelling, what does our name mean, the
family in Europe, etc.
UPDATED: May 25, 2004
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| Family Photo Album |
The Frank "Hence" Parmley family,
above, gathers for the camera about 1919.
We've got hundreds of pictures and
portraits of your ancestors and cousins.
UPDATED:Oct. 1, 2009
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| Features |
President John Quincy
Adams, left, was paid a visit
by a pair of Parmly brothers;
read his diary. ...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 are kept in the Archives.
UPDATED: June. 1, 2009
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| Finding Your Twig |
Finding or adding your branch
of the family tree.
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| Home, Sweet Home |
Our hometown
of Guilford, Conn.
UPDATED: Jan. 25, 2004
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| Memorial Park |
Sarah Walton
(Parmele) Cooke
of Austin, Texas,
has died at the
age of 106.
Obituaries --
indexed -- begin
in 1995.
UPDATED: June 15, 2010
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| The Nursery |
Births.
UPDATED: June 15, 2010
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The Parmelee
Family Magazine |
Publication has ceased.
UPDATED: Jan.15, 2001
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| This Old House |
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., above.
And a Victorian out West is undergoing
renovation.
UPDATED: Aug. 1, 2009
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| Queries / Lost & Found |
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 |
Who is Jim Walters (one busy boy!) and
why on earth is he doing this?
UPDATED: Feb. 1, 2010
Email: ParmeleeFamily@gmail.com
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Features: Cream of the Crop
The days of the milkman may be over,
but this restored 1956 Detroit Industrial
Vehicle Co. truck still makes the rounds
-- at car and truck shows. Owners
Barbara and George R. Parmelee
[Ralph Walds, James Thompson,
Cornelius C., Timothy Judson, Lyman,
Amos, Nehemiah, Nathaniel,
Nathaniel, John, John] are part of a
Bethlehem, Conn., institution that began in 1922. At one time the family dairy
had four routes and served more than 600 customers.
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| Special Delivery You really don't know what treasures
are still hiding out there until something
truly amazing like this happens: Kathy
Janke of Winnemucca, Nev., emailed
me a few months ago that she'd found
some old family letters in this box she'd
bought at a garage sale. Would I like to
have them on behalf of the family?
Sure! ... But I never expected this:
Fifteen unstamped, wax-sealed letters written 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 -- between 1828 and 1840! Look for additional family
letters in Mail Call.
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| Our Faux Family Didn't WWII fly boy Lt. Parmalee (on the right)
always remind you of actor Tom Skerritt from
"Picket Fences"? Did you hear that "cousin" Reginal
was bitten by a vampire? Or realize that two of our
"brothers" were once pursued by a one-eyed John
Wayne? Or know that President Truman's novelist
daughter Margaret had "cousin" Adam seated behind
that big desk in the Oval Office? From the big (and silent) screen to the flat
screen -- and the pages of novels -- "we" are there.
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Parmelee-Dohrmann You still can find their items at online auction sites.
But a century ago, the best in tabletop finery was
sold at this store in Los Angeles (part of the name is
on a building on the right). Brothers Zelotes Larkin
[1851-1926] and Charles A. Parmelee
[1865-1960; James, James (?), James, Moses,
Hezekiah, Joel, John, John] founded what became a
small chain of houseware stores that lasted for
decades in Southern California.
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| News: Church Anniversaries New York City's Park Avenue Christian Church
will be celebrating its 200th anniversary in October
2010, and would love the family's participation -- in
person. In 1837, Dr. Eleazer Parmley [1797-1874;
Eleazer, Jehiel, Stephen, Stephen, John, John] built
the Primitive Christian Church of Disciples
building. That congregation continues to meet today
on the property he owned on Greene Street in
Manhattan. For details on the celebration, contact
the church at 1010 Park Ave., New York, NY 10028
(at 85th Street, two blocks east of Grand Central
Park).
Celebrating its centennial this year is the Bethel Baptist Church near
Parmleysville, Ky. Among the first nine members were John Parmley
[1762-1848; Giles, Hiel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John, John] and his wife,
Rebecca (Cross). For more information, contact the church at 3734 Bethel
Ridge Road, Pine Knot, KY 42635.
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| WWI Dog Tags Returned Kenneth Parmelee [Kenneth Abner, Abner Augustus,
Rufus Electus, Rufus Clark, Ebenezer, Oliver, Jonathan,
Joshua, John, John] of Santa Fe, N.M., says he does not
know how his father's World War I dog tags ended up at a
woman's Texas home, but he is glad to have the items
back. The tags were found while Jim Woods was cleaning
out the Big Spring, Texas, estate of his maiden aunt. And
the connection was made through our Web site!
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| The Honor Roll: 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: April 1, 2010
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| World War I Draft Cards Almost 100 years ago, 24 million American men filled
cards in a nationwide conscription program. Those
cards -- all 688 under our families' name -- have been
made public and I'm willing to share our family's with
you. The data provide a nice snapshot of the family in
1917-18. You can check out great-grandpa's signature,
learn how "your" spelling of the family name stacks up
with the rest and find out just where your kids may have
inherited those gray eyes.
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