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The Parke Society Newsletter Issue 2008 - Vol. 44 No. 2 |
The "Five W's of Journalism
In Journalism, the Five Ws, also known as the Five Ws (and one H), is a concept in news style, research, and in police investigations that most people consider to be fundamental. It is a formula for getting the "full" story on something. The Five Ws (and one H) answer a checklist of six questions, each of which comprises an interrogative word: who? what? where? when? why? how?
The "Five Ws (and one H)" in Action
Who?
The Parke Society—a surname organization whose members share
research so that each can benefit from other members' discoveries
toward their immigrant Park/e/s ancestor.
What?
The 45th annual convocation, an opportunity for
members (and non-members alike) to:
Where?
This year's convocation returns to Fort Wayne, Indiana, site of
three former meetings and home to the Allen County Public Library
(see Why? section below.)
The convocation will be held at The Clarion-Fort Wayne.
A room rate of $76 (plus 13% room tax) has been negotiated, with
suites available at $109 plus tax. More information on hotel location,
rates, and amenities will be provided in the next newsletter, as
well as in a special Parke Society 2008 Convocation mailing to members.
When?
The dates for our 45th annual convocation will be September 25-28 (Thurday through Sunday), 2008.
Why?
Some of our reasons for meeting as a society are listed in the "What?"
section above, so let's concentrate here on answering "Why in Fort Wayne,
Indiana?" The locations for our annual meetings are chosen
either for their proximity to an area with a connection to some Park/e/s
lineage, or in a city with a significant genealogical library or resource.
Fort Wayne falls into the second category, being the home of the Allen
County Public Library (ACPL), the largest publicly-owned genealogy
collection in the world.
For a useful video tour of the Allen County Public LibraryÕs Genealogy
Department, use the following links:
Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tcqDqc0SXgo
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mlYhUwu8waQ
I'll include a more extensive article in the next newsletter issue on
getting the most from your time at the ACPL, but for now let me remind
members that, even though the Parke Society Convocation is a
wonderful opportunity to avail yourself of the resources of the Society to
further your Park/e/s research, there is no reason not to use your access to
the ACPL to research other family lines as well as your Park/e/s ancestry.
With several months to prepare, the time spent formulating a research plan
for some particular "brick wall" in your family tree could lead to a
breakthrough that would make the trip well worthwhile. Though our time in Fort
Wayne is short, success can be ours if we all remember to "plan our work,
and work our plan!"
How?
How can you attend the 2008 Parke Society Convocation? Simply fill out the
reservation form when it arrives in your Convocation mailing and send in
your check. Then, reserve your room at the hotel using the contact information
which will be provided, both in the special mailing and in the next
newsletter issue, as well as on our PS website.
Mark your calendars now, and plan to join us in Fort
Wayne for another wonderful Parke Society Convocation in September.
(page 17)
Recently, The Robert and Laban Parks of Ohio Group announced the winners of the 2007 Lola Parks Spohn Nielsen Awards for Outstanding Service and Research in Genealogy.
...
The 2007 Society Member Honorees are:
[PS members 396, 957, 525, 755, 1422 were cited.]
We congratulate this year's winners, and wish them
the very best in all their future endeavors.
... (page 18)
As a professional actor/singer, I must admit an unconscious bias toward the performing arts when seeking subjects for this ongoing look at Park/e/s individuals in the arts. So it was with great pleasure that we heard from Life Member Natalie Park Schutz PS #1086 with the suggestion that we include her father, visual artist David Park, in this series.
David Park, who died in 1960 at the age of 49, is
enjoying a revival of interest in his work, as evidenced
by recent record-breaking sales of his
paintings. Twice in 2007 a David Park canvas has
sold for more than one million dollars. ...
(page 20)
A few years ago there developed a misunderstanding as to exactly the Parke Society was about and attempting to do. We thought it was plain from the cover or our Newsletter, and the caption that is on most of our correspondence. But apparently it was not. Let me try to set the record straight.
As the cover of this Newsletter says: ...
We are not a patronal society, like, say the DAR. The
only requirement for membership in the Parke
Society is to have an interest in Park/e/s genealogy
and ancestry. We don't render official opinions on
lineages. We may have a consensus of opinion on a
particular individual, their dates, locations, marriages
or children, but we are always open to new
findings. We point out where there are differences
between what the member is submitting and what we
currently have in our records.
...
We also not a reunion organization as such. Our membership represents many different immigrant lines, and perhaps a couple of hundred fragment lines where we have traced back to an early Park/e/s, but do not have a connection to a known immigrant, or even if they themselves might be an immigrant. So at a typical Convocation, you will find Park/e/s descendants representing many different lines, most not really related other than having a surname in common.
We're not a pure research organization either. We don't undertake genealogical research for a fee on behalf of anyone. We may review files, compare notes, even go on line to check out obituaries, census, or other documents now available. But the Society itself does not undertake any original research. We are all volunteers, and our participation is an avocation, not a job.
We are a helper organization. We get information from you, the members, catalogue it, and then analyze it against what we already know. This is where that Givename Index comes in. If you tell me you are at a brick wall with a Simon Parke who married a Hannah Havens, I just might find that I already have him or her in our catalogue, and can give you information to break through that wall, perhaps to put you in touch with others related to you within the Society. ...
...Our long range goal (and it is long range) is to catalogue every Park/e/s-surnamed individual that ever existed on this side of the pond with their vital data, and to either get them connected to an immigrant, or to figure out how they came into the Park/e/s surname in the first place. We also help people at our convocations. Each year, for 44 years, the Parke Society has held its Annual Convocation somewhere in the country. (This year its going to be in Fort Wayne, Indiana, see the article on p. 17.) ...Other Projects
[described are Photograph Project,
Cemetery Index, Census Project, Obituary Project, and
Pension Application Project]
... (page 21)
In the last newsletter issue we discussed two of the
four groups from the British Isles who settled early
in the history of the American colonies, as identified
by David Hackett Fischer in his book, Albion's Seed.
Here we will address the remaining two groups:
North Midlands to the Delaware: The Friends' Migration, 1675-1725
The Society of Friends, popularly known as Quakers,
came largely from the North Midlands of
England to the Delaware Valley. Individual Quakers
had been in the American colonies as early as the
1650s, only a few years after the founding of the
Society of Friends in England. Most of these earliest
Quakers in America were wandering evangelists and
missionaries, and were punished cruelly by the
Puritans and Anglicans, just as they had been in
England.
The larger movement of Quakers to America began in 1675 when the first full shipload of Quakers came ...
While the history of the Quakers in Pennsylvania is
a rich topic, we will end our treatment here, except
to say that one aspect of their belief, pacifism, led in
part to the presence in Pennsylvania of the next
group we will discuss.
Borderlands to the Backcountry: The Flight
from North Britain, 1717-1775
While commonly known by various names such as
"Scotch-Irish," "Scots-Irish," "Ulster Scots," etc.,
Mr. Fischer and others point out that all these terms
are somewhat misleading, inaccurate, and incom-
plete in describing the origins of this group of
immigrants.
These immigrants came from an area which included the English counties of Westmoreland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham, and the North Riding of Yorkshire, together with the southern counties of Scotland. As early as the fifteenth century this region was called ...
The "Quaker-Scots-Irish" Connection
James Logan was born near Belfast in 1674, of
Scottish parents. His father was an Anglican clergy-
man who became a Quaker, and thereafter worked as
a schoolmaster. Logan was apprenticed at thirteen to
a linen merchant in Dublin, and later fled Ireland
with his family to Bristol, England to escape the
uprisings that led to the siege of Londonderry. Due
to his Quaker faith and his involvement in the linen
industry, Logan was befriended and then personally
recruited by William Penn, who in 1699 appointed him ...
In contrast to the German immigrants during this early period who, once they found a home tended to remain fixed, the Scots-Irish had a tendency to move three or four times before finally settling into a permanent home. One result of this mobility is that excellent land in Pennsylvania that had originally belonged to Ulstermen now came into the hands of the Germans.
The Scots-Irish were indeed restless. They showed no hesitation in pushing into Indian territory ...
The history of these people in America and their
influence on the culture, religion, and mores of this
country is a excellent subject for further reading by
anyone interested in understanding some of the
reasons this country developed the way it did. They
certainly played a large role in the American Revolu-
tion, so much so that a Hessian officer, writing home
during the Revolution wrote, "Call this war by
whatever name you may, ...
Further Reading
[Ken cites eight books on the subject]
(page 23)
As many of you are aware from her announcement in the previous newsletter, Jean Churchill, PS#934 has retired as Librarian for the Society. Also in the last newsletter was a call to any member who might be interested in assuming the position of Librarian.
To date, no member has expressed an interest in taking on the position of Librarian, so the Trustees have decided on a course of action which has been under discussion ever since Jean expressed her intention to retire, over a year ago. ...
The Wayne County Historical Society in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, has recently completed a building addition which has given them much-needed additional space for their holdings. Part of this new space includes state-of-the-art library shelving, and they have accepted our offer of the bulk of the Society's non-Park/e/s related books.
The Park/e/s specific library holdings, listed in the 000
category on the PS Web site's library holdings page, will remain
in the Society's possession and will continue to be available for
loan to current active members. These 000 materials are currently
being kept by me, and although I am not assuming the Librarian
position (which is being eliminated), I will continue to fulfill
any loan requests by active members. ...
(page 26)
This lineage was the subject of a Missing Links article in the Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 42. David and Elizabeth probably lived in Beaver County, PA after their marriage since their two oldest children were born in PA. It is thought that David Parks was born in 1790 in PA. He came to Richland Co, Ohio sometime before 1820. The family first settled in Mifflin Township, later moving to Congress Twp. which became part of Morrow Co when it was formed in 1848. David died in 1834 and was buried on the family farm in Congress Township. His wife Elizabeth died in 1864 at the age of 73 and was buried at Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Morrow Co. We do not presently have an active Parke Society member from this large lineage, and no known descendant has volunteered for our DNA Project. Using Internet resources, ...
David and Elizabeth were the parents of ten children: ...
The search continues for the father of David Parks. Some researchers believe the father was Robert Parks of Beaver County, PA; however, Mary Murphy (family researcher) found a Thomas Sr. and Thomas Jr. on early tax records in Hanover Twp, Beaver Co, PA which has led her to believe Thomas Sr. might be David's father and Thomas Jr. might have been a brother—but there is no documented proof. The given name "Robert" does not appear in the 3rd or 4th generations of this lineage.
This manuscript is with Kenneth Parks PS# 1406, Library Custodian. Please contact Missing Links Editor, Jean Churchill PS#934 at sdtjs2001@yahoo.com with any questions, corrections or if you have more information.
We are saddened by the recent passing of John Willis Park, PS#848, of Toledo, Ohio.
Mr. Park, age 92, former resident of ...
...(page 28)
...
Today's topic centers around two words: hard drives
and backups
Hard drives—the bane or blessing of the
computer world.
A hard drive is a device within your computer on
which is stored all of the files that make your
computer work: programs and files that those
programs use or create.
That is, if your work has been saved somewhere
else; and this leads us to the next topic.
Backups—the way to at least partially save
the day
Backing up means storing your computer's data and
even programs someplace else than on the
computer's hard drive for the eventual recovery of
data should the need arise. Backing up your hard
drive is a little bit of an art. ...
[Five "back up" topics are discussed.]
(page 29)