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The Parke Society Newsletter Issue 2006 - Vol. 41 No. 3 |
Each year we gather together to talk with others who are on a similar quest to learn about those who came before us. Perhaps long before us, and had left scant knowledge about their lives. We can hear what has been added this past year to our Society's collection of information. Who knows, perhaps something that solves an ancestral mystery? We may, perhaps, hear about some of the new technology for doing our research and building a family knowledge base that we can share with all of our family members for years to come. At the same time we can experience visiting a place in our country that we may not have visited before. Wethersfield and Glastonbury in Connecticut are two towns that are keeping alive their Colonial heritage. Their main streets and their collections of 17th and 18th century memorabilia are outstanding.
The plans are being made for our Convocation September 21-24, 2006 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. If you plan to fly, the Hartford airport is close by. We have a block of rooms booked with the Best Western Camelot Hotel with a breakfast each morning. This hotel is newly renovated and is now a lovely place for us to stay.* We have a catered banquet planned for Saturday evening in the Hotel's nicely appointed large meeting room on the top floor. We will also have the use of this room for our research and other meetings during our Convocation. We have preliminary plans in place for several guided tours of historical societies and historic areas in both Wethersfield and in Glastonbury on the other side of the river.
This is a very historic and lovely part of our country. And we will be there at just the right time of the year to see it. This is also where Robert Parke (MA 1630) lived for some years and helped establish Wethersfield "in the colonial wilderness."
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If our Convocation seems possible in your plans this year, please call the Best Western (888) 563-3930 and request your room in The Parke Society's block of rooms. (NOTE: You don't need to be a member to come!) Our guaranteed rate is $79.95 per room per night; the manager has asked that we book as early as possible. In the next Parke Newsletter issue (and on our Web site) we will include a reservation sheet supplying additional information with a form to make your reservation for the Society events. Also check the Society Web site where a photographic tour Wethersfield and Glastonbury is now in planning.
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As we move towards bringing the Parke Society Newsletter up to date (our target is this coming November), we want to take a moment to encourage the membership please to submit articles for publication. We're sure that many of you have explored various bypaths in the genealogical forest; tell us what you've found!
There's always a question about what format articles should be in when submitting them for publication. Here I'd like to take a moment and clarify my preferences.
First, please submit articles electronically if at all possible: send them by email...Second, if you submit electronically, please, please run a spell-checking utility. ...
Third, please don't feel that you have to limit your article in size: big is good. ...
Fourth, if you have any visual material, please send it along! We love photos, maps, charts, scans of documents. ...(page 34)
[Society members lineages are assigned a "key" to facilitate indexing and retrieval of family records and, as one of the goals of the Society, to identify the immigrant ancestor. The keys also help to recognize where members share common ancestors. Often where the immigrant ancestor is not yet known the key is considered a "fragment" lineage key and are updated until the immigrant has been identified. Entry updates were cited for keys AP, FP, XQ, and EV.] ...(page 35)
[Two of our new members are introduced.] ...(page 36)
This is of special note to members and nonmembers who wishing to correspond with The Society.
Since this is purely all a volunteer organization, we need your help if we are to provide the best service possible to you all. Your help in directing correspondence to the proper person and place.
Please understand that there is no central office for The Society, that various officers, and therefore functions, are spread out all over the Country. ...
Address and Other Membership Listing Changes: This one is vitally important. Any changes in your mailing address, name, phone number, email address, or any reports of death or other important family events, must go to the Executive Director. He is the only one who maintains that database, ...
Newsletter: Comments about the Newsletter including article submissions should be directed to the Editor, Dr. Paul Jordan-Smith, ...
Dues: Questions concerning dues payments can generally be forwarded to our Secretary, Mrs. Arliene Parks Callahan, ...
Genealogy Stuff; Genealogy materials should be sent only to the Historian and/or the Lineage Leader, if you have one. [Ed Note: if you know your Lineage Key, please note it in your communications.]...
Convocations: Questions concerning Convocations should generally go to the Vice President of the Society ...
DNA Testing: Any DNA Questions can go directly to our DNA Group Administrator, ...
The Library, Loans, and missing Links: Questions related to the Library, as well as Missing Link [Note: cite your Lineage Key] articles should be directed to [our Librarian] ...
General Comments, Suggestions, and criticisms about the Society should be directed to our President, ...
Membership, Application, and Submission of Papers for Membership: Questions concerning membership in The Parke Society, as well as requests for the membership packets should be directed to the registrar of The Society, ...
Email addresses for all these people are listed on the inside front page of this Newsletter [the Masthead] ...(page 37)
Our library is available only to active Parke Society members. Its purpose is to provide genealogical and historical information to our membership. For a nominal fee, the library has numerous books to help you with your research. If you have a problem finding the book(s) you want by scanning the the booklist available on our Web site, contact me and I will check for you. I am willing to check the book for you to see if it will be helpful to your research, or if I can suggest another. [Loan fees are generally $3 per book or as noted in our library booklist.] The loan period is 4 - 5 weeks after the member receives the books. ...
The bound edition of The Parke Society Newsletters Vol 33-37, 1996-2000, with index, is now available for loan (Loan fee $5.)
Ridens, Arahwana Hendren. Dyer County and Newbern, TN being a History of 39 of the Earliest Families of this county [A description of the Parks families enumerated both in the book and in the parke Society records follows. [Comparison findings within four other Library books follows.] ...(page 38)Piedmont Passages: I-VII (Historical sketches of people & places in central North Carolina) by George Raynor, copyright by The Salisbury Post, 1990.
George Raynor grew up in the Long Island suburbs of New york City, then graduated from [A synopses of the book follows.]... (page 40)
Before I begin focusing on specific lineage results in the coming issues, I would like to take this opportunity at the beginning of the year to recap where we stand and what I hope we can accomplish in the year ahead.
I am pleased that we have seen the number of participants grow during the last year, both within the membership of the PS, and among other Park/e/s researchers as well. With just over fifty test results currently in the database, we are beginning to see results lead us in useful directions in our traditional research, and this can only increase as the database grows. I would like to thank all those who have participated to date—without their cooperation and interest none of this would have been possible.
In the coming year I will be contacting many PS members directly, inviting them to participate in the DNA surname project. ...
... Depending on your particular circumstances, please consider any that may be appropriate:
A. Submission of a DNA sample by any PS member who is a direct male descendant
bearing the Park/e/s surname. ...
B. Recruitment of a qualified DNA donor by a PS member who is not able to submit a
DNA sample [i.e., fund their submission of a DNA sample into the testing project] ...
C. Contributing to the General Fund [the contribution may be directed to be used for a
specific project group or for tests within a specific lineage] ...There is a link on the
left hand side of the Park/e/s Surname Project Web page called "Contribute to the Surname
Project General Fund" ...
To order a Y-DNA test as part of the Park/e/s Surname Project: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/park%2De%2Ds/
To contact Ken Parks with questions or comments: kenparks@earthlink.net ...(page 41)
... I look forward to hearing from many of you during the year and to meeting many
of you at the 2006 Convocation in Connecticut next September—make your plans now to
attend!
Contact: kenparks@earthlink.net
The practice of genealogy—researching and publishing information about someone's ancestors—falls under the purview of intellectual property laws. Computer attached to CD-ROM readers and communication networks make it easy to compile information from disparate locations and then convey it to any point on the globe. Who owns a compiled genealogy? The one who possesses a copy? The one who compiled it? The one whose ancestors are the subject of the compilation? Anyone? No one?
This article does not purport to answer every question about copyright and related doctrines. Nor can it even plumb the depths of all the legal issues involved with the practice of genealogy. Rather, it should be taken as a launching pad for further discussions in intellectual property. It should definitely not be construed as legal advice. First, I'll define several terms related to copyrights, then ...(page 43)