My husband is also a descendant of James Notwell Zimmerman through his
son Benjamin Porter Zimmerman and second wife Phebe Davis (names as
written in Family Bible). He participated in the Carpenter/Zimmerman
DNA project through familytreeDNA. His DNA does not match up with the
line that goes back to the Germanna Colony Zimmerman. His only matches
were Robert Zimmerman and another B.P. Zimmerman descendant from first
wife Tennessee Davis. We have not been able to link James N. Zimmerman
with a father and mother yet. W also have not been able to find the
common ancestor between the DNA match Robert and my husband. Research
there leads to Pennsylvania. While the lack of matching DNA does not
rule out a non-paternal event, it leads us to believe that we do not
descend through the William Zimmerman of Culpepper. I'm afraid someone
made a leap of faith linking James N. to William without sufficient
evidence and it has been copied and proliferated online. Guess we will
have to keep digging.
Vera and Dean Zimmerman
What information do you have on Robert? When did he live?
Lisa Wilson
----- Original Message -----
From: Vera Zimmerman<mailto:verabzim@bellsouth.net>
To: zimmerman@rootsweb.com<mailto:zimmerman@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [ZIMMERMAN] James Notley Zimmerman
My husband is also a descendant of James Notwell Zimmerman through his
son Benjamin Porter Zimmerman and second wife Phebe Davis (names as
written in Family Bible). He participated in the Carpenter/Zimmerman
DNA project through familytreeDNA. His DNA does not match up with the
line that goes back to the Germanna Colony Zimmerman. His only matches
were Robert Zimmerman and another B.P. Zimmerman descendant from first
wife Tennessee Davis. We have not been able to link James N. Zimmerman
with a father and mother yet. W also have not been able to find the
common ancestor between the DNA match Robert and my husband. Research
there leads to Pennsylvania. While the lack of matching DNA does not
rule out a non-paternal event, it leads us to believe that we do not
descend through the William Zimmerman of Culpepper. I'm afraid someone
made a leap of faith linking James N. to William without sufficient
evidence and it has been copied and proliferated online. Guess we will
have to keep digging.
Vera and Dean Zimmerman
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