Hello Nancy, I am also descended from William Pennington born about 1813, who might be the father of Nancy's Absalom Pennington (though I have different dates: William's son Absalom was born around 1839 and married Sarah Ann Crane in 1860). William Pennington was a son of Absalom Pennington born around 1784. From what I can figure out, Absalom was descended in some way from Abraham progenitor of Group 8, though we're not sure how. I had my great-uncle Pennington's DNA tested and it perfectly matched the group 8 descendants in Tennessee (known as 8b). I think my great-uncle is the group 8 DNA participant Nick was talking about in his post, and when I last looked, there was no other Pennington match to us. Would you be willing to share your brother's DNA results somehow? Thank you and nice to meet you, cousin! Lori jorlcummings@earthlink.net > [Original Message] > From: Kat McHugh <kat_mchugh@yahoo.com> > To: <pra@rootsweb.com> > Date: 4/30/2007 5:39:48 AM > Subject: Re: [PRA] Descendants of Absalom Pennington 1784-1999 > > Hello > > My great great Grandfather was Absalom Pennington Born 1854 Married to Sarah Ann Crane. > My family is from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. > My brother had the Pennington DNA test done, and yet it linked us to no Pennington branch as yet. It did provide the Viking link of such that has no been reported before us. > > Nancy Lee > > LaRae Free Kerr <kerrworks@sfcn.org> wrote: > I noticed in your "Report of the Archivist: Pennington Research Association, > Inc. 1006" you mention you have acquired the document entitled "Descendants > of Absalom Pennington, 1784-1999. Jan 2001" > Who is the author of this? Is this Absalom Pennington the one who lived in > Louisiana? > We are still working hard to determine the parents of our Absalom Pennington > 1752-1838. We have accumulated every Absalom Pennington court record, deed, > etc extant, and with careful analysis have determined Benajah Pennington Sr > is the only candidate that fits what we know. We are now looking for some > kind of evidence to support this hypothesis. > Do you know of any? > Thanks, LaRae >