October 18, 2010 will go down in Pemberton family history as the date the Pemberton Family World Wide association launched its web site. The internet domain pembertonfamily.com was secured 15 years ago with the intent of making it a gathering place for the author's immediate family and any other Pemberton family who had an interest. That site was designed by Joseph Pemberton of San Francisco, and it functioned well for many years. Today marks the launch of a new site designed to support the goals of the Pemberton Family World Wide. These objectives are stated in Article II of the association's Constitution, which reads as follows:
"The objectives of the Pemberton Family World Wide shall be to strengthen the ties of fellowship and kinship between living members of the family, to maintain family unity through frequent association of family members in a social way; and to perpetuate the memory and genealogy of the ancestors and descendants of the Pemberton family by combining the resources and efforts of the members of the family in performing genealogical research, and by unifying all genealogical, historical, and biographical research necessary for the compilation of complete and accurate family records."
It Has to be Fun
One of the most important goals of the PFWW is to create a well-rounded, balanced society where there is a healthy mixture of work and play. For example, doing family history research is fun all by itself, but for this organisation to be effective and to endure, it must obtain a life of its own and stand on its own feet. To this end, we are hoping that there will be lots of social and professional contact between members, that reunions and get-togethers will spring up spontaneously, that recipes, hunting stories and a hundred other pieces of the puzzle of life will become the ties that bind us all into a world wide family. It is thus a goal of this web site to facilitate all those things. We will treasure your suggestions.
The One-Name and DNA Projects
The Pemberton One-Name Study was started earlier this year as was the Pemberton DNA Project. Both of those initiatives were to help form the foundation for this present association which intends to eventually organise all the interested Pemberton's and Pemberton researchers. The One-Name study has assembled over a thousand Pemberton events from the earliest Parish registers of Cheshire and Lancashire. The Pemberton DNA Project has collected two DNA samples and collected DNA test results from several other Pemberton tests. As of today, there is a least one more sample promised for the project.
Genealogical Research Assisted by DNA
It is interesting to note that the first two samples have already proven the research value of DNA as a guide to the required, usual document searches. The two lines identified in the two samples are quite far distant, meaning that the most recent common ancestor is many generations back. However, it is known from documentary research that the two lines were geographically very close during the late 1700's and early 1800's. The DNA data helps researchers maintain this genealogical separation while examining Pemberton records from the same geographical area and time.
The PFWW Welcomes All Pembertons
The association welcomes all who bear the surname Pemberton in all its various spellings. It also welcomes researchers whose surnames are not Pemberton but who are seeking Pemberton historical and genealogical data. Come on in, it'll be great to get to know you.!
Jackson Pemberton
October 19, 2010
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