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The Parke Society Newsletter Issue 2009 - Vol. 46 No. 1 |
The marriage of Abigail Parke to Jesse Brown on 26 September 1770, in the First Church of Norwich [Bozrah], Connecticut is well-documented.[1] While the ancestry of Jesse Brown, born 2 February 1746/7[2] to George and Elizabeth (Wells) Brown in Colchester, Connecticut, and the Wells,[3] Beardsley, [4] Allis,[5] and Meakins[6] ancestral lines of Eliza- beth (Wells) Brown are likewise well-documented, the ancestry of Abigail Parke does not appear to have been satisfactorily established. ...
[The author examines several conflicting dates for his Parke ancestors from the mid 1700s.
A better interpretation is that the Lydia Parke of the
1762 marriage to Abraham Ackley is not Nathan's
thirteen year old first cousin or even younger third
daughter, but rather his recently widowed wife. Perhaps
this was a marriage of a recent war widow with
seven children and a war veteran given reason for
optimism following the signing of the preliminary
articles of the Treaty of Paris. Further, this better
interpretation is that Abraham Ackley was indeed
the mounted Revolutionary War soldier from East
Haddam, Connecticut (Detachments from Militia
Horse), but that this was not the same Abraham Acly ...
[45 references are cited for readers interested in completing their work on this line.]
... (page 1)
Google Your Family Tree—Unlock the Hidden Power of Google, by Daniel M. Lynch
...
To anyone who uses a computer, the answer may
seem obvious—Google it! Google
Google Books is a search tool provided by Google, giving the user access to an ever-growing database of digitized images of both out-of-copyright and copyrighted materials. Three years ago, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and a handful of authors and publishers filed a class action lawsuit against Google Book Search. Recently, that lawsuit has been settled, and it should prove a boon to researchers, making many more books available online.
Previously, only materials in public domain could be viewed in their entirety and downloaded. Soon, books which are still under copyright but are out-of- print will be available for purchase online. ...
[Examples of using Google Books are given.]
Google News Archive
[As found in Chapter 6, instructions are given for accessing this archive.]
...
Again, from Mr. Lynch: "The content indexed within the Google News Archive represents a broad collection of free and fee-based content from historical newspapers and magazines, news and legal archives, as well as other sources. Our ancestors were often involved in many activities we may never think to search for—business transactions, probate and other legal proceedings, immigration and other international travel."
[Examples indicate how our genealogical searches can reveal
information contained in resources we may not haveexpected.]
... (page 7)
We will soon post the minutes of these meetings on the Parke Society Web site (in the Member's Only pages). A brief summary of the meeting follows. At the Corporate Meeting, two incumbent Trustees, Robert Leon Parke, PS#755, and Lu Etta Terock, PS#861, were re-elected. Ronald Neal Parks, PS#1458, replaced Cynthia Hupper, PS#182, who chose not to run again. All their terms run for three years, ending at the Annual Meeting 2012. At the Trustee's meetings, the current slate of Oficers was re-elected for another one year term. Consideration was given to various Newsletter issues, and it was decided that the heretofore free ...
All active members will receive an Adoption Ballot
with the Winter issue of the Newsletter (Vol. 46#2)
to be mailed in March, 2010. We strongly encourage
all of you to look for the ballot,
fill it out, and mail it in to the Society.
(page 10)
Genealogical Executors
A recent article, "Family Tree: Nude Dude," by Ian Frazier (New Yorker, August 24, 2009, Vol. 85#25, p. 22ff.) relates the common lament of long time family genealogists: What is going to happen to my work after I am gone?
Ian Frazier was the keynote speaker at the 50th Anniversary Banquet of the Ohio Genealogical Society, and sitting at his side at the head table was Kenny R. Burck, a well known family genealogist. In the course of the evening's dinner Mr. Burck made the all too common complaint by family genealogists when he said: "But genealogists' kids generally don't care anything about it, and they sometimes throw out all their parents' hard work before ..."
One suggestion I have made was, absent any other interested party, to deposit their work with the Society, either when they had decided that they were through with that phase of their lives, or as instructions to who ever would be handling their affairs after their passing. Recently, the Society has come into the possession of just such a collection or materials.
[An example is given of a valuable research collection now
in the safekeeping of our Society.]
(page 10)
We have been publishing the index to the Society's lineage keys, starting with Vol. 45, No. 1, including data as to the founder and other details for the general information of Society members. This will be a continuing column as there are over 250 lineage keys currently in use.
As most Society members know, we keep track of the various Park/e/s lines by assigning them individual lineage keys. A lineage key consists of one or two letters like A, or JJ or RX. When new members join the Society, we try to find if their Park/e/s ancestry matches any existing lineage key. If not, we create a new key. Some lineage keys represent ...
[Society lineage keys H Edward Parks, I Mungo Park, J Alexander Park,
L Roger Parke of Rye, M Noah Parke, N Nathan Parke, O John Park,
Peter Parke of CT, Q John Parke of VA, and U Robert Parks of GA
are listed.]
(page 11)
... (page 13)