Thank you Michael Parker for setting this all up. It's a pleasure to meet all of you cousins! I'm Barbara Tien. My grandmother married into the Parker family by wedding Ross Isaac Parker in Schenectady, New York, where he was a young engineer for General Electric in 1915 or so.
His father, grandfather, and back generations were all Quakers who had come to Indiana and Ohio from North Carolina with the great Quaker migrations. I've found these stories fascinating precisely because they connect me to American history in a way that's completely new to me.
I was one of the co-founders at Ponga.com. Ponga was focused on building a better way to share family stories in pictures. Sadly, we had to take that platform offline in May of this year.
At Ponga, I'd spent so much time with our growing community in events, webinars, and support that it broke my heart to leave the community. So, during the wind-down exercise where we returned archives and made refunds, I spun up a community now called Projectkin.org. It's not a platform or software tool. We're just a community of family historians hooked on stories. I'd love to have you join us.
In fact, I've done a couple of projects as examples using my own family stories and artifacts which led me to explore more about the Albemarle Sound area and more recently, Earlham College in Richmond Indiana where my great-grandparents met.
I'd be happy to share this with any of you. Drop me a note here, or just say hi at Projectkin.org. 👋
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Welcome to Parker Heritage. I would like for you to post to a lot of information about you Parker family and how you connect back family to the Parker family in NC
.I have posted a lot of my research on PH.
I am a member of Parker DNA Project Family Group #7. Do you know which DNA group your Parker belong to?
I am the son and grandson of oral family story tellers and I am a oral family teller and have posted a few here on PH.
If this is your Parker family. I found that I may have parts of your family in my file under FG# 1 and just wanted to check to see if I had any mistakes. Wayne
Direct Descendants of Y-DNA (FG#1) Parker
1 Y-DNA (FG#1) Parker
..... 2 Thomas Parker 1626 - 1690 b: Bet. 1626 - 1630 in VA d: Bef. 1690 in Nansemond Co., VA
......... +?
............ 3 Peter Parker 1660 - 1720 b: Abt. 1660 in Nansemond Co., VA d: April 01, 1720 in Chowan Co., NC
................ +Elizabeth
................... 4 Joseph Parker 1706 - 1749 b: 1706 d: Aft. November 15, 1749 in Chowan Co., NC
....................... +Ruth 1709 - b: 1709
.......................... 5 Jacob Parker, Sr. 1740 - 1824 b: July 02, 1740 in Chowan Co., NC d: August 19, 1824 in Jefferson Co., Ohio
.............................. +Rhoda Draper 1746 - b: July 1746 in Northampton Co., NC
.................................. 6 Benajah Parker, Sr. 1783 - 1857 b: March 22, 1783 d: August 27, 1857 in Henry Co., IN
...................................... +Grace Patten 1784 - 1866 b: November 11, 1784 d: September 22, 1866
......................................... 7 Isaac Parker 1823 - 1902 b: May 01, 1823 d: July 31, 1902
............................................. +Hannah Mariah Newby 1825 - 1903 b: May 01, 1825 d: December 21, 1903
................................................ 8 Henry Allen Parker 1860 - 1942 b: May 22, 1860 d: August 04, 1942
.................................................... +Elizabeth J. 1865 - b: December 1865
....................................................... 9 Ross Isaac Parker 1890 - 1973 b: August 29, 1890 d: January 1973