horcgal

Ok, I cant “edit” my post, but I need to change some locations/dates! Ive been digging around on different sites and census stuff all that.
Ok, so my tree (fathers side)
My dad was Edward Charles
his dad/my GF: Frank R Parker (born in CAROLINE county, va.)
my GGF: Phillip G.B. Parker (I found things that indicate the GB is george Burkett/burkitt…seems a strange “middle name”)his wife the name changes, it is something like Ally/Allie/Alwilda/alwilla
My Great great grandfather: Taliaferro Parker
ALL virginia, ALL Caroline county.
NONE of them were ever slaves. On censuses it’s always changing. some years it says black other years (closer to my grandfather) it says white. But, from research Ive done, there were a couple of reasons. At one point, it was “safer” to be considered black than it was to be an indian. Also, ….sorry, forgot the name, but there was some sorta law thing passed when they made a reservation in virginia, when they drew the lines for the reservation, anyone living outside the line got listed as mulatto or black. When my grandfather moved north, he put “white” on the census. Ive come across a cousin that I started messaging from a DNA site. (her line branches from my grandfathers sibling who married a black man up north) she is black as is her family/cousins/etc (we shared pics). Whereas my grandfather (who married an irish woman (mary nettie donovan), father, uncles/aunts, myself, are white passing. I really wish I wouldve pushed harder for family info when everyone was still alive!!!
Still searching for Parker’s in virginia to try to connect some dots and find out where the few stories Ive heard and my name came from