Walker Family DNA Project for The Gideon and Charles Wal;ker Families

Please Note

DNA tests have proven that there is NO connection between our Walker ancestors and those of the Woodbury, Connecticut Walkers. Rodney Walker, a direct descendant of the Woodbury Walkers took the DNA test on the Walker Surname DNA Project and did not match with a single person named on our entire website, even at 12 markers. Mr. Walker is still living in Ogdon, UT and is the author of a well researched book. For more information about this family, please visit The John Walker Family Organization .

The Walker Family Gathering DNA Projects that relate to our family can be viewed by clicking on these links.

New Update for Walker DNA

"The Jeff Ross Papers"

New Information Linked to Our DNA and Ruth Walker

Four descendants of four different sons of Joseph "Walker" have taken DNA tests at FTDNA and none of them match with any of the over 800 Walkers in their entire database, but match very strongly with the name Linn and Lynn.

It is believed, but not yet proven by documentation that Joseph's father was actually young John Linn, one of the eight children of Capt. Andrew Linn. Ruth Walker's father, Gideon Walker served in the Brownsville, Pennsylvania Militia under Capt. Andrew Linn and they were close neighbors.

Early on, when all these matches started pouring in, we met with a professional DNA expert at the Family History Center here and asked him point blank, "Based on the DNA results of me, Dick Walker, Jeffrey Walker and Thomas Walker, all of whom descend from four different sons of Joseph Walker, are actually Linn/Lynns?" His answer was a definite "Yes".

The only question was, how? We studied all 8 of Capt. Andrew Linn's children and verified the marriages and children of all of them except one, John Linn for whom "no marriage has been found". He was killed by Indians while on a scout/spy mission across the river in Ohio.

Since he was only 23 when he died and was a nearby neighbor of Gideon and Priscilla, it's safe to assume Ruth had Jane and Joseph by John Linn and after he was killed (the year Gideon put his house up for sale) and they went down river, we believe Ruth and Gideon just called them Walker.

Cora Behrend's research has no mention of the Linns/Lynns and one of Ruth's daughters told her husband just before she died that Gideon was Joseph's father! However, we know from DNA that there's no match with the four of us and any of the over 800 Walkers in the database at FTDNA, including Gideon or the Toaping Castle or Charles Walker and Rebecca Isaac lines which Gideon matches with.

Regarding Charles Walker, we found a Charles Walker in the Kentucky "Cornstalk Militia" in 1793, the year before the family went down the Ohio. This may be the Charles that Sheila Best says went there from the Toaping Castle Walkers, according to a new source she found but has not gotten yet. This would explain the letters that said Ruth married a Charles Walker, a "second cousin". Since Gideon connects with the Toaping Castle Walkers through DNA, one of them could have easily been a 2nd cousin. Ruth's son, young Gideon doesn't match with any Walkers, so who knows who his father was, but Charles could have fathered the girls who came after young Gideon..

For more information Contact: Jerome Walker

DNA Information to help you

Many people think a DNA test is hard to do, but its not. All it involves is a simple rubbing of the inside of the cheek. We will be happy to guide you through the entire process, by answering all of your questions and help you with any concerns that you may have about privacy and cost. We want to assist you in finding your ancestors and we want to meet you. Our hope is to introduce you to a new family that you never knew you had.

This is a ninety five percent definite way to find your ancestors. You may ask what about the other five percent? The answer to that is, there are persons who no longer have a male in their direct line to take the test.
This is where your DNA is so important. You may be related to the same lines as that five percent, who have followed their family names with documents and family lore, but have no real blood line proof. You will be helping to give them that proof.

If you would like to talk one on one about DNA and your family history
Contact Jerome Walker at this email address for further information.
jwkritters@yahoo.com

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