I have a Adkins yDNA participant who tested for me several years ago. Today I upgraded his kit to Big Y as I wanted to be able to look at the big Y block tree and also the time tree. The man who tested for me descends from Hezekiah Adkins who died in Wayne County in 1842. I do not descend from Hezekiah. We both descend from Hezekiah's grandfather, William Atkinson who married Elizabeth Parker in 1710. My participant descends from William and Elizabeth's son, Parker. I descend from William and Elizabeth's son, William. So we share 8-gr-grandfather.
The reason for my blog post tonight is to copy and paste a website that is written by a man named Thomas Adkins who is clearly a cousin to me and I thought his website of interest and wanted to note it to look at again.
https://adkins.ws/tree/Adkins.GED
The next site is written by a woman who believes that mitochondrial dna refutes the theory that Charity Adkins was the daughter of an Indian woman (Mary/Bluesky) with whom Parker Atkinson had relationship.
As part of her argument she lists many of the Shawnee atrocities including the See and Clendenin massacres.
https://parkeradkins.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/parker-adkins-blue-sky-was-their-story-possible/
