Don DNA Report For January 2009
Editors Note: “Commoners” refer to direct descendents of Samuel Peacock... the great, great... grand daddy of most of us Peacocks.

As of January 12, 2009, the PFAS DNA Project has 79 members and all but two test kits have been processed by FTDNA. Family Tree DNA had made an announcement of a special promotion reducing test prices until Dec. 31, 2008, but unfortunately, I was unable to find only one person to test.

If you have been thinking of doing a Y-DNA or mtDNA test, male or female, please let me know and the next time FTDNA has a special offer I will contact you. We need more testers for all of our Peacocks as we get better results and a better understanding of how our Peacock families tie together. In addition to the benefit the Peacock Group gets from more testers, the overall DNA database develops into a better tool for showing migration patterns and how we all can learn how our ancestors and others have moved around the world.

Our only tester this time was Clarence Lamar Peacock, brother to our long time member, Thetis Peacock Baskette. Clarence’s results showed him to be one of the “commoners” and verified all of the research Thetis has done on their family history. Their ancestral line goes up through, Clarence Webster, Ephraim Daniel, Benejah, William, John and Samuel Peacock One.

As I have mentioned in past reports we have had some of our Peacocks match only with someone with a different surname like Rogers, Tucker, and others. In my case I have found two matches from “Tucker Cousins” and I have really learned more about my own line and how they may have tied in with their Tuckers. I have been very impressed with the Tucker research and their friendliness and willingness to help in trying to unravel the mysteries of how we happen to have the same yDna. Frank Tucker and I match 67/67 and John Tucker, a cousin to Frank, is a 65/67 match to Frank and I. The interesting part of this was the Tucker research showed their line started in the same area of Barnwell Co., SC, as my g g grandfather, Arnold Peacock.

John and his wife, Erin, stopped in Azle and visited with us and we did a lot of photo and research comparing. In this Tucker group John’s sister Mary was involved and their cousin Patti Winingham, of MS, stepped forward and added tremendous help and materials she had gathered in her research from several years ago. She had records of the land patents and the Peacocks (Abraham and others) were living nearby. Using Patti’s information the Peacock’s land can be platted right on the maps and show they were neighbors. John Tucker found where their Joseph Tucker was a member of the same church as Nicholas Zorn, who may be one Levi Peacock’s daughters (name is uncertain). This is from the Levi Sr who sued Levi Jr, who also had md the widow of a Stephen Lee.

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