"Cobb and Cobbs"
Important Obituary
Welcome to the "Cobb and Cobbs" surname research website, a central meeting
place for anyone researching a Cobb genealogical connection. You will find here
more than just another long list of links to other websites...or just another
massive collection of disjointed and uncoordinated GED files. Our goal is to
place here a
single, organized, consolidated, and well-documented database
on each of the "Cobb and Cobbs" family lines that have immigrated to North America.
We believe that an organized and
centralized location for the collection of surname Cobb files will not only
improve everyone's accuracy, but also significantly enhance the ease and
convenience of internet research. You are encouraged to search these files for
your own use. All we ask is that you share your own research data with others
in return, by submitting it to the appropriate File Manager listed at the
bottom of this page.
The website
README file contains important and
useful information.
Please take a moment to look at it.
DNA Analysis
Please contact Betty Atkinson Harris Flesher (BAH)
at the email address below
before ordering a test.
This project has been in operation for more than a decade; and has
virtually revolutionized research of the surname Cobb and its variations. There are now more than
300 DNA samples on file. The results have been astounding but we must caution all interested
parties that the Cobb DNA project at Ancestry has been dropped because they stopped maintaining
it. Ancestry wanted to make more money and figure they couldn't make enough with the YDNA test
so they only offer the Autosomal DNA test which they call AncestryDNA. This test is
NOT compatable
with the YDNA (paternal) so anyone wanting to compare their DNA results with any in the project
must get their test from other organizations. We suggest starting at FTDNA and there is a
spreadsheet that can be used to convert the results to compare against those in the original project.
Please contact Betty Atkinson at the email address below before ordering a test.
It has now been clearly shown that unless one is fortunate enough to have an unbroken chain of PRIME
SOURCE DOCUMENTATION, it is not possible to be really sure of anything without a DNA analysis. A
number of people who have been working their ancestry for a long period of years have been shocked to
learn they were looking up the wrong tree.
DNA testing can be expensive therefore a word of caution would be appropriate here. There are several
companies offering DNA tests, and several websites recommending one or another of these tests.
Ancestry.com has done a number of YDNA tests (paternal) but is now ONLY doing the autosomal test
which cannot be compared to the YDNA. They have also decided not to maintain the Cobb DNA group page
as in the past. This leaves Cobb researchers with a problem. We have, therefore, determined to
maintain the results of previously tested Cobb males on this website.
Since Family Tree DNA is still selling the YDNA test we are recommending that Cobb males do the test
through them and if desired to compare their results against the information that is now posted on
this site. For privacy protection we have coded the participants results rather than posting the
full name unless given permission to do so.
The DNA results are available in this website. Each established Cobb line has its own separate DNA
Project Webpage. Those results that do not match any line that we have documented so far or for
which there is no separate family page are grouped on a page that is called UNASSIGNED.
Anyone who has participated in the previous project but who is listed as unassigned may want to
consider an autosomal DNA test. This MAY help connect with some family members from related lines
who MAY have the information needed to prove your specific lineage. But be aware that the autosomal
test is NOT comparable to either the maternal or paternal DNA tests.
On each separate family page this site contains there a link at the bottom so you can see that
DNA Project page. There is a separate DNA Project page for
unassigned Cobb families
Contact
BAH via email.
Website Table of Contents:
Last update: December 2017 and February 2019
Next scheduled update: December 2020
Please remember:
#1: There is no master index of surnames or individuals. Each family line has its own index.
#2: Contact the appropriate File Manager with your questions, corrections, and additions.
#3: If you have any difficulty linking between the various files, email
BAH immediately.
Since there are more than 20,000 separate files in this website, please be as specific as you
can as to which file could not be linked to/from, the individual's name, etc.
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Organized by state, a collection of census reports, cemetery transcriptions,
military indices, marriage records, and various legal documents.
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DNA Analysis proves
the following Cobb families are NOT RELATED
The
Cobbs of Kent
and the Descendants of
Ambrose Cobbs of Virginia
Click here for a
Hoax Alert
File Manager
BAH
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The Descendants of
Henry Cobb
Elder of Barnstable, Massachusetts
Click here for a
Hoax Alert
File Manager
Paul Cobb
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The Descendants of
Thomas Cobb of Boston, Massachusetts
File Manager
Paul Cobb
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The Descendants of
Stephen Cobb
File Manager
Paul Cobb
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Descendants of
Morgan Cobb of County Dorset, England; Taunton,
MA and New Jersey
File Manager
Lyn Brudnicki
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The three
Cobb Families of Isle of Wight County, Virginia
File Manager
BAH
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The orphan
Cobb Families of Georgia and the SouthEastern US
This is a grouping of nine families whose DNA analysis has been established as being related.
However, the common ancestor they shared has not yet been identified.
File Manager
BAH
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Jeremiah and Alexander Cobb of South Carolina
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The Descendants of
Samuel Cobb of Delaware
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The Descendants of
Thomas Cobb of Nova Scotia and New England
File Manager
Loren Cobb
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The Descendants of
Jasper Edward Cobb including the line of Ty Cobb, the famous baseball player
File Manager
BAH
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The
Kopp/Cobb family of Guilford Co, NC
Author J. Cobb, File Manager
BAH
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The
Dr. Wm John Cobb Family of Kanawha County, West Virginia
File Manager
BAH
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The
Mastin Cobb Family of South Carolina
File Manager
BAH
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SPECIAL REPORTS
(Multiple Cobb families in the same geographic area simultaneously)

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