SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGICAL FUN

Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun exercise this week was inspired by his
seach for Y-DNA test matches:

"The challenge is this:

Provide a list of your paternal grandmother's patrilineal line. Answer these questions:

* What was your father's mother's maiden name?

* What was your father's mother's father's name?

* What is your father's mother's father's patrilineal line? That is, his father's father's father's
...back to the most distant male ancestor in that line?

* Can you identify male sibling(s) of your father's mother, and any living male descendants
from those male sibling(s)? If so, you have a candidate to do a Y-DNA test on that
patrilineal line. If not, you may have to find male siblings, and their descendants, of the
next generation back, or even further."

So here I go...

* My father's mother was Cora Berthella Barker (1899-1987) born in Bethel, Oxford,
Me.

* My father's mother's father's name was Frank W. Barker (1865-1905) born in
Albany, Oxford, Me.

* His father was Nathaniel S. Barker (1830-1884) born in Newry, Oxford, Me.

* His father was Nathaniel Barker (1794-?) born in Newry, Oxford, Me.(?)

*His father was Jonathan Barker (1754-1824)born in Methuen, Essex, Ma.

*His father was Jonathan Barker (1728-1794) born in Andover, Essex, Ma.

*His father was Jonathan Barker (1706-1737)born in Andover, Essex, Ma.

*His father was Benjamin Barker (1663-1750)born in Andover, Essex, Ma.

*His father was Richard Barker (1621-1693) born in Stoke-on-Nayland, Suffolk, England

Now my grandmother had two brothers...one died in infancy and I don't know much
about the other. And her father Frank likewise had two brothers that I have no records of
as yet.

That leaves his father Nathaniel S. Barker. He had one brother, Amos Hastings Barker.
And there is where I'm not sure there would be complications for Y-DNA testing, because
his daughter Charlot Lovenia Barker was Frank W. Barker's wife. In other words, Frank
and Charlot had the same grandfather and were first cousins.

I'm not sure how that might effect the Y-DNA test. Meanwhile, I'll try to see if there are
any living male sibling descendants I can find.