Joseph Parks Family of Fishersville, Virginia

Participation in DNA tests thru The Parke Society has knocked a brick out of my brick wall.  It took about a year, but a Pennsylvania descendant of Parks contacted me because our DNA match was extremely close.  We believe we have the father of my James Parks in her tree, thru his first wife.  Unfortunately, we have yet to find the first wife and names of the children - will take a couple trips to other counties in Pennsylvania and Virginia to check county records, and health issues don't permit that for a few months.  But we move closer.  The immigrant seems to have been Joseph Parks, born abt 1727 in Ireland, who settled in Virginia in 1760 but moved back and forth between Cumberland County, PA and Fishersville, VA.  I have Joseph and his wife's grave stones in Fishersville but we have yet to locate their oldest son James, who is possibly the father of my James.  DNA is a great tool!