Please join us this Saturday, November 13th at 3pm Eastern Time for another Parke Society Town Hall meeting online via Zoom. Open to Parke Society members and interested non-members alike.

Ken Parks PS#1406 will give a brief update regarding current DNA test prices for both new tests and upgrades during the end-of-year sales now ongoing, then the meeting will be opened up for discussion on this topic or any other the attendees wish to raise.

To join the meeting, contact Parke Society President Susan Van Allen at the email address found on our website or in your Parke Society newsletter for the join authorization credentials. If you have attended a town hall meeting in the past, the same join credentials will work for this meeting.

Please join us this Saturday, October 9th at 3pm Eastern Time for another Parke Society Town Hall meeting online via Zoom. Open to Parke Society members and interested non-members alike.

Wilma Handley PS#1469 will give a brief presentation about the DAR Library, then the meeting will be opened up for discussion on this topic or any other the attendees wish to raise.

To join the meeting, contact Parke Society President Susan Van Allen at the email address found on our website or in your Parke Society newsletter for the join authorization credentials. If you have attended a town hall meeting in the past, the same join credentials will work for this meeting.

All active members of the Parke Society are invited to attend the annual Corporate Meeting of the Society, to be held on the Zoom platform on Sunday, 26 September 2021 at 4 pm Eastern Time. 

To receive the necessary meeting link, please contact PS President Susan Van Allen PS#1653 at the email address found in your Parke Society newsletter or here on the website. Please provide your Parke Society member number in your correspondence.

Members may participate in the discussion of any business addressed, and will vote to elect a slate of Trustees at this meeting as well as any other items to be voted upon.

The Corporate Meeting will be followed immediately by the 2nd Trustee Meeting, which members may attend, where the Trustees will vote to elect the slate of Officers for the coming year.

Please join us this Saturday, September 11th at 3pm Eastern Time for another Parke Society Town Hall meeting online via Zoom. Open to Parke Society members and interested non-members alike.

Ken Parks PS#1406 will give a brief overview of the upcoming release of the 1950 US census next year, then the meeting will be opened up for discussion on this topic or any other the attendees wish to raise.

To join the meeting, contact Parke Society President Susan Van Allen at the email address found on our website or in your Parke Society newsletter for the join authorization credentials. If you have attended a town hall meeting in the past, the same join credentials will work for this meeting.

Please join us this Saturday, August 14th at 3pm Eastern Time for another Parke Society Town Hall meeting online via Zoom. Open to Parke Society members and interested non-members alike.

To join the meeting, contact Parke Society President Susan Van Allen at the email address found on our website or in your Parke Society newsletter for the join authorization credentials.

Please join us this Saturday, June 12th, as Fr. Michael “Tad” Parks explains the Parke Society’s unique system for identifying both the many different Park/e/s lineages in our database, as well as the individuals within those lineages. The Lineage Key system, or LK for short, is not as complicated as it seems to those unfamiliar with it, and once the basic concept is understood, enables us to quickly identify a Park/e/s individual without confusion or a great deal of additional identifying verbiage.

Following the short presentation, as always, the floor will be open for discussion or questions about this or any other topic attendees may wish to raise. If you have attended a meeting in the past, your link from previous meetings should work, but in any case a join link may be obtained by contacting Parke Society President, Susan Van Allen at her email listed on the Parke Society webpage or in our newsletter. Meetings are open to Society members and to those interested in joining.

Please join us this Saturday for the next Parke Society Town Hall Meeting. Rather than focusing on a specific topic, this month’s meeting will be more of a “free-for-all” where any subject or topic that anyone wishes to discuss will be addressed by all participants; staff, officers, and members alike. If you have a question about your particular lineage or a brick wall problem you’re having trouble with, feel free to share it with the group and take advantage of others’ thoughts and advice. If you’d like Fr. Michael Parks, as PS Historian, or Ken Parks, as DNA Administrator, to address your specific lineage, please contact them ahead of time so they can have the needed information on your lineage handy. You can find their email addresses on the “Contact Us” page on the PS website or in your newsletter. We hope to see you on Saturday!

To obtain the join link, simply contact Susan Van Allen using the email found on our website or in the PS newsletter. If you have attended one of our monthly meetings in the past, the same link will work for this meeting and others in the future. The meetings are open to members and to non-members who are considering joining the Society.

Please join us for this month’s Parke Society Town Hall meeting via Zoom as Parke Society President Susan Van Allen gives her presentation about the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS), postponed from last month’s meeting. As always, following the month’s presentation there will be an opportunity to ask questions about the topic, as well as any other topic of interest.

To obtain the join link, simply contact Susan Van Allen using the email found on our website or in the PS newsletter. If you have attended one of our monthly meetings in the past, the same link will work for this meeting and others in the future. The meetings are open to members and to non-members who are considering joining the Society.

For anyone interested in attending this, here is the information on how to sign up.

Please join us for our monthly Parke Society meeting via Zoom. This month Parke Society President, Susan Van Allen, will give a presentation about the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS). A brief description of the GPS from the Family Search wiki:

“For a long time, serious genealogists have sought to define a standard by which their deduced conclusions—about an ancestral identity, event or relationship—could be measured, to appear cogent and reasonable to other colleagues and the world at large. For the most part, we are talking here about drawing conclusions when we find contradictory or ambiguous information and/or only indirect evidence about the matter or question we want to address. So often our genealogical procedures involve ‘problem-solving’ and not straightforward primary information with direct evidence.”

Following the presentation we will, as always, open up the meeting for questions or comments on this topic, or any other subject of interest to those attending. Parke Society members and non-members alike are invited to attend our monthly meetings. To obtain the link to join the meeting, simply contact Susan Van Allen at the email listed in our newsletter or on our website (www.parke.org). If you have attended a meeting via Zoom in the past, the link used will work for this meeting as well.