'Cousins', This seems like a good time to reiterate some URL's that provide information about the Park/e/s Society. Anyone researching the surname Park/e/s is welcome, but the Society was originally formed to delineate those related to Robert Parke, b 1580, Preston, ENG and in whose honor the name of Preston, CT was derived. As has been well defined, the Thomas Parke under discussion was one of his sons. Membership in the Society, among other things, can be of *great* help to those researching descendants of Robert Parke. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Tad_Parks/ http://www.parke.org/ Other possible Park/e/s help sites: http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/p/a/PARKS/ http://home.earthlink.net/~howardorjeff/park/ http://www.hsv.tis.net/~jparkes/genealogy/ http://www.mcn.org/h/parke_roots/ http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/1498/ I will be happy to answer any other questions. Good luck, Gordon Ralls PS # 500 Online monitor