Danny Phillips Success Story
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Category: Phillips DNA Success Stories
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Created: Monday, 04 May 2009 23:32
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Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:23
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Written by Danny W. Phillips (Family Group 9)
I am 53 years old with 3 grown children, two granddaughters and another due in June. I have lived in Macon County, Tennessee, my entire life. Macon County is about one hour west of Overton County, Tennessee, where many Phillips lived. I have worked as a meat department manager since high school.
I started genealogy about 25 years ago and zipped right through my mother's family but found that my Phillips line was not so easy. I spent hours in libraries, courthouses, even flying to Oklahoma where my great grandfather migrated in 1905. NO LUCK. After all those years and TOO much money, I heard about DNA.
I had my doubts but was willing to take a chance. I am so glad I did...shortly after testing, I received emails from two matches. Beverly Phillips' husband and I are almost exact matches and Doyle Phillips is very close. Beverly was a great help in sorting out my connections. Without her help, I would still be looking for that missing link. I also enjoy Doyle's emails and applaud his hard work. Nancy and Carolyn have also been very helpful.
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A DNA Testing Success Story
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Category: Phillips DNA Success Stories
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Created: Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:49
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Last Updated: Monday, 25 January 2021 13:13
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Written by Ron Phillips (Phillips Family Group 20)
I joined the Phillips DNA Project at the request of James Phillips, who believed that the lineage I had traced for myself might help him find out more about his. James, as it turned out, had correctly guessed we might share common ancestors. And we do. James and I and four others are represented in Group 20. This, alone, might be reason enough to participate in the project, collecting cousins who may not know their detailed lineage, but suspect they are in a group of relatives from a common geographical area, and then sharing genealogical information about their common ancestors.
However, I also wanted to solve an old genealogical puzzle. Based on my own genealogical research, I was convinced that I traced back to Rev. George Phillips of Watertown, Massachusetts. After all, genealogists and historians for over 150 years have claimed lineage links from the original colonists of Massachusetts, who came with the Winthrop fleet seeking a better life in the New World, to the Newtown, Long Island, and old Hunterdon County, now Mercer County, New Jersey, Phillips families. As these printed references claimed, Theophilus, Joseph, Daniel, and their sister who married Henry Mayle, who lived at and helped found the town of Newtown, Long Island, descended from Zerobabel Phillips of Southampton, Long Island, Rev. George Phillips and his second wife, Elizabeth's first son. After all, if it was printed in a book, let alone many books, how could this claim be wrong? Well, there were "hints" over the years that this might not be correct and always ended in too many "unknowns."
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