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Jack Day is a Military Veteran. Served in the United States Army 1967-1970 as a Chaplain in the rank of Captain He served at Fort Eustis, VA, 4th Infantry Division, Vietnam, Fort Lee, VA. He then served as chaplain for the 115th Evacuation Hospital of the District of Columbia National Guard.
Rev. Dr. Jack Day served in the United States Army in the Vietnam War Service started: 1967 (Commissioned) Unit(s): First Brigade, 4th Infantry Division Service ended: 1971
Jack has written and improved ten profiles for the Biography Builders Challenge.
Jack is the Gateway Guardian for Giles Brent
Education
Various elementary schools in Beijing and Chengdu, China, Allenwood, New Jersey, Teluk Anson and Malacca, Malaysia.
Woodstock High School, Mussoorie, India (Graduated 1959), and Manasquan High School, Manasquan New Jersey
B.A. 1963, Western Maryland (now McDaniel) College, Westminster, Maryland
S.T.B. (now M. Div), 1967, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
United States Army Chaplain School, 1967, Fort Hamilton, New York
M. P. H, 1986, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
D. Min, 2010, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washgington, D.C.
WikiTree
I've been a WikiTree member since February 3, 2013. I'm a member of a number of Projects which reflect my interests--feel free to contact me in connection with any of them!
WikiTree Suggestions
Endeavoring to clear Wikitree Suggestions.
21 August 2024: Managed by Day-1904: 1848 suggestions.
26 August 2024: 1838 suggestions
WikiTree Advance Directive
In the event of my untimely demise I want to be sure that none of my hard work on WikiTree ends up being deleted. Therefore in the event of my incapacitation or death I hereby give permission for all of my private profiles to be transferred to my cousin Gene Walker, whether or not he is currently on their Trusted Lists.
Major Roles in Major Projects
Team Leader
I'm Team Leader for the Province of Maryland Team of the Southern ColoniesProject and welcome new team members.
Project Coordinator
Disproven Existence Project I'm Project Coordinator and resident early medieval/pre-medieval expert as well as Maryland liaison. I coordinate efforts to evaluate simple Disproven profiles (with the research box) or Uncertain profiles/groups and the various steps to get them added to the project (or by another interested project).
Medieval Project I'm Project Coordinator for the Ancient Royals subproject covering profiles of persons born prior to 742. I'm working with John Atkinson, the project Leader, to find ways we can add manpower to developing these very early profiles.
Maryland Project. As Project Coordinator I lead this subproject of the United States Project. I have been working on my Maryland roots for many decades and maintain a significant personal library of Maryland resources
Indonesia. Having spent part of my growing up years in Indonesia, I founded this project which is now a full-fledged project with a Leader. As Project Coordinator I help volunteers with bilingual and trilingual profiles and categorization.
Minor Roles or Minor Projects
Wales Project I work extensively with profiles of pre-1500 Welsh nobility.
Ranger Project. As a member of the "Saturday Shamrock" team I take my public service turn helping monitor potential harm to our site.
Categorization Project. As a former Project Coordinator for this project, I continue to be liaison for some of the other projects I'm involved in.
Magna Carta Project. I highly value the rigor of the Magna Carta project which has affected everything I do on WikiTree. I appreciate the chance to document early English nobility and am "Gateway Guardian" for Giles Brent. As a former Project Coordinator and emeritus member of this project, I hope to find time to do another Magna Carta trail some time in the future.
England Project I help with very early profiles and have a special interest in Marcher counties like Shropshire and Cheshire because of their proximity to Wales.
Early Scandinavia Project I joined this project because of ancestors in extraterritorial Scandinavian entities like the Kingdom of Dublin
Asia Project. I helped found this minor project at present which does not have a Leader, but hopes to become an umbrella project related to various Asia Projects such as Indonesia and India.
Profile Improvement Project I joined the Profile Improvement Project because of my interest in well researched profiles.
King Arthur Legends Project I helped found this small project which engages others in linking together real and legendary people associated with King Arthur.
One Place Studies. I really haven't done anything with this, but I have a particular interest in Llangollen, Wales and Damascus, Maryland.
Personal Projects
Sampson Waring Ancestors Project. I've created a "personal project" for this that others are welcome to join: Sampson Waring Ancestors Project (August 15, 2018). This project traces the ancestry of Sampson Waring, born in Shrewsbury in 1616, back to his possible Norman and extensive Welsh nobility roots. (So far, nobody has!)
The Story of the Maryland Walker Family, 1957 (15 pages, mimeographed). Produced when I was 15 years old, and I was thrilled when the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, and Montgomery County (Maryland) Historical Society accepted copies of it for their collections.
James Day of Browningsville and His Descendants: A Maryland Family. Columbia, Maryland, 1976. Softcover. Out of print, but several hundred copies in circulation. Over 2000 descendants of James Day, my great-great grandfather who guarded British prisoners of war in Frederick, Maryland during the American Revolution.
As a lifelong genealogist, I've developed "databases" of a pre-1800 information on a number of Maryland families. These databases are in MS Word files. They arrange bits and groups of bits of information according to the actual or guessed birth date of an individual, so that contemporaries are grouped together. There are footnotes giving source wherever possible. These databases aren't perfect, of course, but they often contain more information than one can find elsewhere in one place. I'm glad to share these databases with anyone who agrees not to post them intact on the internet -- they contain some coding (such as G in front of a date to indicate it's an educated guess) that would not make sense out of context! But I'd be delighted if anything I've done contributes to enhancing the profiles you work on for WikiTree. So just send me a note! Here are the family names for which I have databases. The focus is on Maryland families before 1800.
Beall
Browning
Darby
Day
King
Lewis
Purdum
Walker
Ward
Wheeler
Windsor
Relatives
Family
My father's family came from upper Montgomery County, Maryland, and many trace back to colonial Maryland. My mother's family came from upper New York State and trace back to New England. My sister is a member of the DAR and other lineage societies. I have joined First Families of Maryland.
Cousins on WikiTree
I've re-arranged the list of my cousins on WikiTree in order of their closeness!
Molly King and I are straight fourth cousins with John Duckett King as our common ancestor. We are also alumni of the same college in Maryland.
Dennis Barton is my fourth cousin, with Peter Beyer, born 1760 in the Duchy of Wurttemburg, Holy Roman Empire, as our common ancestor. Peter Beyer migrated to Browningsville, Maryland, where the farm he started is still owned by his Walker descendants.
Andrea Greene, born 1970's, is my 4th cousin, once removed, Our common ancestor is Joshua Purdum, born in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1767.
5th Cousins
Brenda Orr is my fifth cousin once removed; we're both descended from my mother's third great-grandfather Phineas Slayton.
Dave Finster is my 10th Cousin, through our common ancestor on my mother's side, Francis Kendall immigrant from Hertfordshire, England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. We have known each other for many years, but only recently discovered this relationship through WikiTree.
11th Cousins
S J Baty is my 11th cousin twice removed with my mother's ancestor Peter Foster as the ancestor we share.
16th Cousins
Adrienne Tomkins is my 16h cousin with [[Epes-14|John Epes as our common ancestor. She was previously my 17th cousin, with Sir Thomas de Peyton, born in Cambridgeshire, 1417, as our common ancestor. As lines are added to WikiTree, closer relationships can develop1
19th Cousins
Paige Sgrignoli is my nineteenth cousin, twice removed, with Walter Bromley, born 1320 in Cheshire, England, as our common ancestor! Later on 10 January 2020, Paige is now my 20th cousin once removed, with William Bromley, born 1320 in Cheshire, England, as the common ancestor.
Relationship to Presidents
Every so often I go through and recalculate. These relationships include those which are marked "uncertain" on WikiTree. As WikiTree adds more good data and removes questionable data, sometimes the relationships change!
September 2016, Jan 2017: 17th cousins, 5 times removed. Common ancestor: Hugh le Despencer via Norwoods.
July 2017 -- No relationship.
June 2018 -- still no relationship.
November 2019, May 2021: 3rd cousins, 7 times removed. Common ancestor: Samuel Basse. On mother's side.
5th cousins
14. Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869. Fifth cousins 5 times removed. Common ancestor: John Parker Same July 2017.
7th cousins
30. John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. - 1872-1933. July 2017. 7th Cousins, Once removed. Common ancestor: John Harrington
8th cousins
33. Harry S. Truman - 8th cousins, once removed. Common Ancestor: Richard Cheney. July 2017: No change.
44. Barack Obama. 1961- Eighth cousin, twice removed. Common ancestor, John Jacob. July 2017: same. (As a living person his profile is now hidden, so take my word for it!)
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 16th cousins, twice removed. Common Ancestor: John Giffard. July 2017: 12th cousins, 5 times removed. Common AncestorJohn Bird
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson - 1908-1973. No Relationship. July 2017: 17th cousins, once removed. Common ancestor: David Malpas
18th cousins
10. [[Tyler-150|John Tyler, 1790-1862. 14th cousins 5 times removed. Common ancestor: Thomas Mowbray de Mowbray Julyu 2017 18th cousins once removed. Common ancestor William Bromley
15. James Buchanan, 1791-1868. 12th cousins, 9 times removed. Common ancestor: [[Plantagenet-66|John Plantagenet of Gaunt. JULY 2017: 18TH cousins, 5 times removed. Common ancestor: Llywelyn ap Iorwerth.
19th cousins
5. James Monroe, 1758-1831. 19th cousin, 4 times removed. Common Ancestor, Llywelyn ap Iorwerth Same in July 2017.
21. Chester A. Arthur - July 2017: 19th cousins, four times removed. Common ancestor: Ralph Boteler
23. Benjamin Harrison. 1833-1901. Jujly 201: 19th cousins, once removed. Common ancestor is Iorwerth Foel ap Iorwerth
40. Ronald Reagan - 1911-2004. 19th cousin twice removed. Common Ancestor is Ednyfed Gam ab Iorwerth. July 2017: No change.
28. Thomas Woodrow Wilson - 1856-1924. July 2017. No relationship. January 2020. 19th cousin 4 times removed; common ancestor is Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, born Wales 1173.
20th cousins
4. James Madison, Jr, 1750-1836. 16th cousin, 4 times removed. Common Ancestor, Iorwerth Foel ap Iorwerth July 2017 20th cousins twice removed. Common ancestor: ]]Malpas-131|William ap David]]
7. Andrew Jackson, Jr. 1767-1845. No relationship. July 2017 No relationship.
8. Martin Van Buren. 1782-1862. No relationship. July 2017 No relationshop.
25. William McKinley - 1843-1901. July 2017: No relationship.
34. Dwight David Eisenhower - 23rd cousins. Common ancestor: Common Ancestor, Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. July 2017: No relationship. January 2020: No relationship. Decemberf 2023: No relationship.
45. Donald Trump. No common ancestor. July 2017: same.
June 2018 -- Because Donald Trump is living, his profile is hidden, and new calculations cannot be made.
Relationships to Other Notables
King George VI -- 18th cousins, twice removed. That would make me 19th cousin, once removed, of Queen Elizabeth II, and 20th cousin of Prince Charles. Common Ancestor: Tudur ap Gronwy, born about 1290.
To aid WikiTree in the administration of my account should I be incapacitated, or in the event of my death, I hereby give permission for all private person -profiles and free-space profiles I'm managing to be transferred to the following WikiTreers, whether or not they are currently on the Trusted Lists:
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I just want to thank you for guiding me as I get more familiar with WikiTree. You're so patient and your instructions are clear and easy to execute. Danke schoen!
It has been a good while since the Magna Carta Project asked members to check-in. We are interested now in updating our membership list and making sure that it accurately reflects our current membership. We would greatly appreciate your timely response to the following questions:
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Hi, Jen. I greatly value my experience with Magna Carta; it was my stepping stone to other medieval and ancient projects. My continuing involvement with Magna Carta has been a "Guardian" of Giles Brent's profile. That was initially sort of an "associate member" status, I think. At any rate, I'm too involved in other things to actually take on a Magna Carta trail, but if guarding Giles Brent's profile is enough to keep the badge, I'm delighted, otherwise I'll have to let it go!
I'm looking at making some improvements to some of the older/ancient profiles on WT that need some tending to. While I was looking for any Medieval Project guidance on naming conventions for profiles where they didn't necessarily have a last name, I couldn't find much on profiles such as (for example) the many pre-existing profiles for Roman Emperors or older Roman profiles, not only concerning the LNAB they should carry, but their full name and how it should be displayed. Has there been any discussion on the name formats for these particular kinds of profiles? I'd be keen to collaborate on either coming to an understanding regarding these profiles or writing up what has already been agreed :)
Hi, Amelia -- thoughts (and policies) on these early profiles have sometimes evolved (and sometimes not). I think when the Euro-Aristo project was the primary project for most of these profiles the dominant feeling was that the LNAB for royalty should be the country involved. (Douglas Richardson in his books still assigns the name "England" to British royalty. So for Roman Emperors, the LNAB would be Rome. I don't think this was widely followed, however. Then the LNAB was "dynasty" which was widely used, and so Charlemagne's LNAB became "Carolingian." Which made him hard to find. Most commonly, if a Roman Emperor appeared with more than one name in history or legend, the second name became the LNAB, i.e. Julius Caesar's LNAB would be Caesar. Euro-Aristo was not happy, if I recall, when Cymru said, hey, Welsh names are patronymics and we want the patronymic as LNAB. I think there was an effort to look at real Roman names and identify which name was properly the "family name" but this resulted in LNABs that nobody recognized. The bottom line is that no consensus developed and one result was that people didn't want to work on these profiles because they couldn't find them or didn't like the result! The short version of this note is that (1) for Roman Emperors and their families, the history of LNABs doesn't matter, it would be best to start from the beginning, study Roman names, and create a policy and (2) we're dealing with a very limited number of people, few new ones will be created, and it might be best to just do a free-space profile with a list of emperors and family members by full historical name and by medieval project consensus identify the best arbitrary LNAB assigned to each person. A problem with this is that the best "family name" might appear in the middle of a string of names, and WikiTree management has so far not given priority to creating a possible alternate display page where the "LNAB" appears in its proper position, not necessarily "last name". This is an issue for anyone who has worked on east Asian names, where the family name comes first. Most Chinese who become American citizens bow to the culture and reverse their names, so that "Dai Wan Kwang" becomes "Wan-kwang Dai", but Mao Ze-dung, the first Chinese Communist leader, was always Mao Ze-dung, and WikiTree making him Ze-dung Mao is simply a display of nonsense... In some Latin American names, the "LNAB" is properly in the middle, and I've struggled with Javanese names which consist of only one word -- Indonesia's President Sukarno being one. I could go on.....!
Wow! I think the suggestion of starting over is a good one—from the profiles I've seen so far, both of Emperors and their relatives, and the various other Roman profiles on WikiTree related to other notable people, the naming conventions vary greatly which makes a lot of sense given the numerous changes over the years. Identifying the structure of traditional Roman names and understanding which names are best suited to serve as family names seems like a great idea.
I agree that few new ones will be created, but from what I've identified so far, the number of Roman profiles still reaches into a couple hundred at least, if not more, so I'm not sure if creating a FSP would be overly beneficial at this point though I do think that consensus is the ideal.
Perhaps these two lines of thought could be combined? As a first step, I could do some digging into the structure and format of Roman names (while I do have a degree in Classical Studies and Ancient History, I'm unfortunately not a specialist in Roman names, lol) and identify where we can find names best suited to being treated as surnames. Then, using an FSP with notable Roman profiles (aka, the names or lineages most likely to be come across), consensus can be sought over which names best align with Roman naming structure while being accessible to the everyday WikiTree user? The CLN and OLN fields may come in handy here.
While the FSP may not end up with 200 names on it, I think as a discussion starting point with a minimum of 10 names on it could be beneficial. It would have (a) the name that the person is most often known by,and then (b) the full Roman name, with the various parts identified. Then your recommendation as to which piece of the full Roman name should be treated as the LNAB.
You would want the Medieval Project on board with the process and result. Attempting to discuss the various parts without the visual of seeing how the names play out for 10 individuals would, in my experience, generate unnecssary confusion where you think you're describing one thing and others think you're describing something else and you end up with much ado about nothing!
And I suppose I'm speaking for myself -- I really don't want to get into a discussion about Roman names and LNABs without having a visual look at how it all plays out!
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Well, it could encompass the fictitious element of a Brandenburg One Name Study! There are numbers of very real Brandenburgs, including your father, who should be the core element of such a study. The fictitious part should be there just for amusement!
I tried to award a badge for contributions to the Finleys of Augusta County, Virginia, but there were no more left. Maybe there should be a Clan Finley badge.
Thank you for the compliment. The Finleys debates are a classic case of the importance of digging down to real facts as much as possible, and sometimes even that does not quiet the waters!
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I feel I know this answer, but thought I would leave this for you anyhow.
This is the time for the 2023 annual check in with members of the US Southern Colonies Project. Have you been active during the last six months in this Project? Note that it is a Wikitree requirement to respond to the US Southern Colonies Check-ins. Please reply to this message by clicking the reply button below this message, to post your answer. I look forward to hearing from you..
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Hi, Mary! Yes, I would hope you do know the ancestor. I've been extensively active with Province of Maryland profiles combining my work with Southern Colonies with parallel work on the same profiles for Black Heritage. I'm taking a breather from all that for the moment and doing some work on medieval profiles...
Hi Jack, Wondering if you know if The Germanna Foundation database and related publications are considered very reliable sources, based on original records? For 1700s German immigrants to Virginia / Maryland.
I am researching the Yowell family, in particular David Yowell and seeing some discrepancies between what the Colonial Settlers website has for him and what has been posted to his profile sourced from a Germanna people's book and wonder which one might be most likely to be correct. On Wikitree someone has posted a huge amount of info from Germanna publications to the early Yowell profiles.
One has to pay a yearly fee of $50 to be able to view their database -- not sure it is worth it for just a few profiles. Their publications are also only available thru purchase.
I'm much stronger on Maryland than on Virginia, not very strong on German immigrants, and I'm not familiar with the Germanna Foundation or the Yowell family. I AM familiar with Mike Marshall's Early Colonial Settlers website and use it frequently because he posts original documents or their summaries which themselves would be quite reliable so long as they have been transcribed properly. The top material on his site giving dates and family relationships is generally useful and correct, but it is often not specfically sourced, so when he gives a particular birth year for someone, you really don't know where it came from unless there is a supporting document under his notes.
I have recently updated the profile of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mao-6 to the best of my ability as he now has a Wikipedia page. However, I do not have the linguistic ability to record the place names and any other relevant details in the correct Script. I am there enlisting your assistance to do this if you think it necessary to enhance the profile as I don't want to get it wrong! I would be most grateful for your consideration of this request.
Hi, Shoshanah -- you honor me too much! My father was both fluent and literate in Mandarin, but I forgot most of my Chinese when we returned to the states in 1951. It's perfectly acceptable to do his profile in English, using the spellings in Wikipedia. Someone who is literate in Chinese may come along later and create a Chinese language version, making it a bilingual profile.
Cool. From somewhere in the past (I set up Mao originally and it was a bit of scrappy set up back then!) I thought that there was a plan afoot that Chinese profiles were to be in Mandarin (where poss, the names etc) and that you were the man to do that. It was a while back now. So maybe I got it confused. Anyway, glad to get this cleared.
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Hi, Susie. I believe I'm on the England Project team focused on pre-1500 profiles, which is where I make my contributions. I'm already overbooked, so will not want to be part of other teams. Thanks for asking.
Thanks, Susie. My primary involvement with England is pre-1500 profiles. I looked at the England Project pages and see nothing with such a focus, so I supposes King Arthur Legends is as good a parking place as any. While my primary time focus at the moment is US Southern Colonies, where I'm Province of Maryland Team Leader, I have a personal project on the ancestry of my ancestor Sampson Waring, born in Shrewsbury in 1616. Over 5 years I have developed https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sampson_Waring_Ahnentafel, containing Waring's extensive ancestry in England and Wales. One of Waring's ancestors is King Alfred the Great and my next effort will be to do whatever profile improvement and documentation I can to the trail of profiles between Waring and Alfred. One of the unresolved WikiTree issues especially in Waring's Welsh ancestry is what to do with legendary ancestry, especially in a pedigree that reaches back from a documented ancestor, to plausible ancestors, to ancestors with names only, ending at the top with a god. We're clear in Wikitree that we won't have a profile for the god, but where do we stop in the pedigree? That brings us back to the King Arthur Project, with which I haven't done anything for years. Most characters in that legend never actually existed, so no new person-profiles will be created; existing ones are legacy profiles that really should be in the Disproven Existence Project (for which I am Project Coordinator). Anything we added was via a free-space profile. Since any additional work would be via free-space profile, there is really no need for persons interested in King Arthur to be pre-1500 certified.
Van Weert-15 here. Re the name Sweringen, not patronymic, so refers to trade or place most likely. Google "Weringen" and you get a Germanic / Austrian response. Wering is a common Dutch word, meaning barrier, like in Dike. Plural is weringen. The massive sea dikes built since the Flood of 1953 are called Zeeweringen. In older Dutch: Seeweringen. Hope this helps.
Rev. Day, After looking over your profile, Just Wondering if you have any DNA matches to back up your being related to Edward III, or any other Kings in Europe past. I do the oldest being, Judith de Normandy (987-1017), Grandmother of William I of England. I have matches thru all 4 of her children then and some of her descendants now. You just have to know who they are. Shared DNA 0.3% (23.1 cM), Shared segments: 2, Largest segment: 17 cM. (with Judith (Rennes) de Normandy) As they say DNA don't Lie. Take care and have a nice DAY ! RJM
Sorry, I don't! And there's a chance DNA wouldn't back me up anyway -- I read that on the average, every 10 generations there is a "non-paternal event" in which the y-DNA totally changes, and some poor woman's secrets, which she thought she had taken to the grave with her, are on display!
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
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Hello Jack, Dave Finster here. It's November 16. Happy St. Margaret's Day (Wessex-26)! Queen of Scots as the wife of King Malcolm Canmore (Appears on WikiTree as Malcolm Dunkeld), and second patron saint of Scotland. I used the relationship finder and see that you are her second cousin 30 times removed. And she is my 27th Great-Grandmother.
And Happy St. Margaret's Day to you, my cousin! It appears we have 23 common ancestors, some on my mother's side and some on my father's side! We are truly cousins in so many ways! Hope you're well.
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Hi, Stuart -- I'm sure I've made one modification to a Wales-related profile in the last six months! Although at the moment most of my time is being spent on profiles related to freed slaves in colonial and post-colonial US.
As you know, my main Wales interest is in medieval and pre-medieval Welsh profiles. The managed profiles team seems to be the best team at the moment, although since dissolution of the Cymru Project there is no really good place for Welsh medievalists to live. There is an overlap with the England and Wales team of the Medieval Project, but since there are so few people active on these profiles at the moment, it is an overlap on paper only. The medieval project has more competence in the medeival area, but the Wales project has a much greater passion for Wales, so I don't see the matter being easily resolved, and there's little energy for it. So hail to the status quo!
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Jack and Dennis William are 18th cousins once removed
Jack Day and Dennis William Nash are both descendants of Gwladys ferch Llywelyn (1295-).
1. Jack is the son of Jackson Wesley Day (1910-2005) [confident]
2. Jackson is the son of Rachel Vivia Cochel (Walker) Day (1874-1957) [confident]
3. Rachel is the daughter of Rachel Browning (Purdum) Walker (1835-1910) [confident]
4. Rachel is the daughter of Jemima D. (King) Purdum (abt.1805-1892) [confident]
5. Jemima is the daughter of John Duckett King (1778-1858) [confident]
6. John is the son of Rebecca (Duckett) King (abt.1742-) [confident]
7. Rebecca is the daughter of Sarah Haddock (Waring) Duckett (abt.1721-abt.1784) [confident]
8. Sarah is the daughter of Basil Waring Jr (1683-1733) [confident]
9. Basil is the son of Basil Waring (abt.1650-1688) [confident]
10. Basil is the son of Sampson Waring (bef.1616-abt.1668) [confident]
11. Sampson is the son of Basil Waring (1584-1647) [confident]
12. Basil is the son of Margery Hosier (bef.1569-) [confident]
13. Margery is the daughter of John Hosier (1523-1591) [confident]
14. John is the son of Thomas Hosier (abt.1490-aft.1538) [confident]
15. Thomas is the son of Edward (ap Llywelyn) Hosyer (abt.1460-aft.1496) [confident]
16. Edward is the son of Llywelyn ap Deicws (abt.1430-) [confident]
17. Llywelyn is the son of Deicws ap Hywel (abt.1400-) [confident]
18. Deicws is the son of Hywel ap Ieuan (abt.1360-) [confident]
19. Hywel is the son of Ieuan ap Ednyfed (abt.1315-) [confident]
20. Ieuan is the son of Gwladys ferch Llywelyn (1295-) [confident]
This makes Gwladys the 18th great grandmother of Jack.
1. Dennis William is the son of Frederick William Nash (1922-2016) [unknown confidence]
2. Frederick William is the son of Martha Marie (Wolf) Nash (1888-1927) [confident]
3. Martha Marie is the daughter of Lucinda Katherine (Bowles) Wolf (1867-1901) [unknown confidence]
4. Lucinda Katherine is the daughter of Willis W Bowles (1836-1882) [unknown confidence]
5. Willis W is the son of Celia Sally (White) Bowles (1797-1850) [unknown confidence]
6. Celia Sally is the daughter of Rhoda (Arthur) White (1767-) [unknown confidence]
7. Rhoda is the daughter of Martha (Talbot) Arthur (1740-1811) [unknown confidence]
8. Martha is the daughter of Matthew Talbot (1699-abt.1758) [confident]
9. Matthew is the son of Thomas Talbot (1652-abt.1720) [uncertain]
10. Thomas is the son of Frances (Arundell) Talbot (1614-aft.1652) [confident]
11. Frances is the daughter of Thomas Arundell (abt.1560-1639) [confident]
12. Thomas is the son of Matthew Arundell MP (abt.1533-1598) [confident]
13. Matthew is the son of Margaret (Howard) Arundell (1515-1572) [confident]
14. Margaret is the daughter of Joyce (Culpeper) Howard (bef.1480-aft.1527) [confident]
15. Joyce is the daughter of Isabel (Worsley) Leigh (abt.1460-1527) [unknown confidence]
16. Isabel is the daughter of Rose (Trevor) Worsley (1400-) [confident]
17. Rose is the daughter of Edward Trevor (abt.1380-1448) [unknown confidence]
18. Edward is the son of David (Edynfed Gam) ap Ednyfed (abt.1345-) [unknown confidence]
19. David is the son of Gwladys ferch Llywelyn (1295-) [unknown confidence]
This makes Gwladys the 17th great grandmother of Dennis William. Note: Dennis William is descended from Gwladys in more than one way (2). Help
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Thank y ou, Debi and Robin. I was pleased to be part of the Profile Improvement Project when participation requirements were looser. Now that WikiTree is moving to a more activist team structure on many of its projects, I must reduce the number of projects I participate in, so, regrettably, must resign from the Profile Improvement project. Although I continue to improve profiles daily!
Thanks for getting back to me, Jack. Bio Team Level 1 is designed for busy members like you who are self-directed. That's where the "and whatever else you find" part comes in since, as you say, you're improving profiles daily. We'd love to have you stay but certainly understand if you think it is too much. Debi
And there's another that we also share: We both appear to be 27th Great-Grandsons of Saint Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Scots and the secondary Patron Saint of Scotland, She was as famous for her kindness and good works as the various kings in our ancestries were for their ruthlessness. Since I see that you are a part of the Medieval Project, I suspect this connection may be of interest to you! Oh, and I appreciate the Disproven Existence Project! I have checked the information provided on those pages against my own lines, and so far, we're good!
And for those of us who have an interest in "wayback" we both seem to be 35th Great-Grandsons of Cináed mac Ailpín, King of Picts and Scots (MacAlpin-11), AKA "First King of Scotland".
Hey Jack, put you on my Trusted List as requested, and checked to see how you and I are related, and it seems we are tenth cousins by way of one Francis Kendall (Kendall-5). He is my (and your) ninth great-grandfather.
Thanks for the nudge on the Southern Colonies project - I just added a blurb to my team member description. I'm adding profiles from my mom's side gedcom, then I'll get back to that King line, so I expect I'll be looking at a bunch of your profile pages!
I would to thank you for all your contributions towards the goals of the England Project during the past six months. We have achieved a huge amount during this period and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
As the England Project Leaders, we are completing our six monthly check-in with all project members.
Are you happy to stay in your current project teams? Which teams are you most active in? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
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Hi, Michael -- I had offered myself as a resource on pre-1500 England profiles but don't see myself on any teams associated with them. I did discover, however, that I am shown as "Team Leader" for the King Arthur Project, one the topical activities. I"m quite busy with a number of things at the moment, but if what's shown is enough to keep me in good standing with England, I'm happy to re-enlist for another 6 months! Jack
I’m conducting the 6-month check in for the US Black Heritage Project. Because we are growing so fast, it’s not always possible for me to see what everyone’s working on.
I’d love to hear what you’ve been working on and if you are still happy being a part of the Slavery Team. Members can change teams at any time. If you need something to work on, we now have a master task list here:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage_Project_Tasklist
We now have a project badge! Hooray! As soon as I hear back from you that you’d like to continue with the project, I will add the badge to your profile.
Hi Jack! I just noticed that you've added the Magna Carta Project's Affiliate sticker to your profile. Does that mean you want to turn in your Magna Carta Project badge? The project has two membership levels: affiliate and badged (pick one, not both). Let me know.
Oh, I didn’t see the project badge and thought it had gone away and wanted to make sure I was still on as an affiliate! I’m happy to stay a badged member, although my time on Wikitree as a whole just took a hit – at the age of 79 I took on quarter-time responsibility for a church congregation, so I’m slowing down a bit. But I value the MC project, which was my entry into more serious responsibility on WikiTree. I’ll take the affiliate sticker off! Jack
Thanks Jack! We've had so many wonderful project members and leaders over the years that when we added participation requirements in 2017 we "grandfathered" existing badge-holders. As a result, the majority of our members are inactive now, but their contributions - including yours - got us to where we are today! Thank you for your continuing interest in the Magna Carta Project :D
Thank you so much for all your contributions to WikiTree in the last six months, and especially to the Wales Project. It’s been wonderful to have you as part of the team as we work together to increase the quality and quantity of Welsh Profiles.
I have you down as being on the Managed Profiles Team. Is this right? How are things going? Do you have any questions? What can we do to support you? Would you like to change any of your teams? Do you want to continue in the Wales Project moving forwards?
Hope to see you on Discord soon.
I look forward to hearing back from you with all the above. Thanks once again, Olivia, Project Coordinator for Wales :-)
It's that time of the year again: check-in time! As England Project Leaders, we like to check in with you every six months or so to see how things are progressing. Back in May, we didn't ask for a response due to the rapid emergence of Covid-19 because we understood that people's lives were changing rapidly. While we are still living in a Covid world, we do need to hear back from you this time around.
First of all, how are you doing? What are you currently working on? Are you happy with the team(s) you're in, or would you like to change things up?
Secondly, we're looking for some feedback on the Google Group and our Discord server. Do you use either or both of these? If you don't use either, why not? Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve participation and collaboration, either generally or for you personally?
Hi Jack -- Am I remembering correctly that you once posted an idea in G2G about how to put Maryland land tracts on WikiTree and reference them in the owners' profiles? I have a vague recollection of such a post, and I'm 99% sure it was yours, but I can't remember whether you were suggesting categories or free spaces or something completely different. (I'm currently reading a Frederick County will that references a piece of land called "Mistake Rectified", which makes me wonder what the story behind that one is!)
Yes, I create clearly labelled categories for them, i.e. Something Land Tract or Something Else Plantation. Consistent with WikiTree policies, if there's significant descriptive material about the place, it gets an accompanying free-space profile. Because people associated with a land tract are often in the same family, it becomes a handy way of finding, linking and grouping family members. It's important to label them as a land tract, plantation, grant, etc so that they don't become part of the hierarchy of place names, i.e. town, county, state, etc.
Hi, Jack. Thank you for reminding me that Maryland, even though the profile box does not give us that choice, needs to be typed in Province of Maryland (1634-1776) sometimes I am away from doing those years and then when I go back I forget. sure would be nice if "Province of Maryland (1634-1776)" could be added as a choice. thank you
The profile box list is borrowed or leased from Family Search, so it's not easy to amend, but we did get them to remove "British Colonial America" from the options! But it's nice to be able to type in Province of Maryland, because that makes it stand out that (1) this was a colonial profile and (2) it's been worked on by someone who is aware of what the documents stated in that time period!
Hi I need some help with this profile. I found marriage record on the Maryland.Gov but it limited information. I put few sources I found and need to have some help. Putting how the marriage should go in profile I just put it in for basics. Can you help me please.
Richard, m. by 1763, Jane Milburn, dau. of John and Mary Milburn of SM Co. (SMWB TA#1:623).
I need help. I haven't been able to make much of a dent in the hundreds of people profiles in Category: Virginia Colony (which should be top level - no people profiles), so I'm asking you & Lynden to help.
Could you please go to Category: Virginia Colony & for any profiles showing a "B..." county in the list of profiles, could you edit those profiles to not have Category: Virginia Colony but the appropriate County category instead? (And since they are pre-USA, they should only have "Category: A... County, Virginia Colony" not the corresponding Virginia category also. If they aren't pre-USA, they shouldn't be in "Category Virginia Colony.)
The B... County, Virginia Colony categories are
Bedford County, Virginia Colony
Berkeley County, Virginia Colony
Botetourt County, Virginia Colony
Brunswick County, Virginia Colony
Thanks!
P.S. Let me know if this is not something you can help with.
I was surprised when you said "not your Days" so we would not be related, so I did a Finder, and we are "Carole and Jack are 10th cousins" thru my Hathaways ----
Hi Jack, I live in Worcester County, Maryland and have ancestors that arrived in Colonial, VA and then migrated to what was then Somerset County, MD and also Sussex County, DE. George Truitt was the immigrant ancestor of note and his offspring are largely buried in Salisbury, MD at the Parson's Cemetery. I also have an immigrant ancestor, Charles Godfrey, who came here as a servant at 15 years if age although I have almost no other information on him. How do I become a part of the Maryland/Colonial America projects? I would be happy to help others who are looking in this area as well. It seems that in my retirement I unwittingly chose to live in the very area my earliest ancestors helped to settle and there is evidence of them everywhere I go!
Hi, Leslie -- welcome to the Province of Maryland and Maryland projects. Send me an email and I'll add you to the Province of Maryland page. It's great to have someone on the Eastern Shore -- my Maryland people are all Western Shore people.
The Ambassadors project has been reorganizing and is looking for those who have a membership at a genealogical society, to help in spreading the word about WikiTree.
We're working on ways to improve how WikiTree connects and interacts with genealogical and local history societies. This is the kind of thing we want to do:
Liaise with societies: set up your local society with a free-space page and some WikiTree materials as part of a package.
Use social media to promote what societies are offering on WikiTree.
Encourage bloggers to blog about societies and the resources available to them on WikiTree.
Are you interested in participating in some way? Do you have some ideas to share?
We are 18th cousins once removed through our common ancestor John Longland.
I hope all is well, you certainly have made a lot of impressive contributions to WikiTree. Thank you!
Best,
Alex
Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree over the weekend. We are proud of your efforts.
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
PS: I'm intrigued by your profile photo. What was the occasion?
Pip, I should replace the photo, I'm a bit older, now! But I like the photo. It was 2003, if I recall, and it was a rally outside Congress for health insurance for all. I was on staff at the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society at the time.
Thanks Jack for improving the death place of John Smith (Smith-22641). I see that you're a Beall descendant, so wonder if you also have a connection to John of Mattapany Smith or were being a helpful wikitreer with the change. I'm also a Beall descendant, so hello cousin :D Thanks again!
Beth, I have a great-grandmother who was a Beall, but DNA has established that our "up-county" Bealls are a different family than the main group of "down-county" Maryland Bealls. But I've worked on Bealls for so long that I generally take all the colonial Maryland Bealls I find under my wing!
This week's connection theme is Thanksgiving.
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I just want to thank you for guiding me as I get more familiar with WikiTree. You're so patient and your instructions are clear and easy to execute. Danke schoen!
It has been a good while since the Magna Carta Project asked members to check-in. We are interested now in updating our membership list and making sure that it accurately reflects our current membership. We would greatly appreciate your timely response to the following questions:
1. Would you like to continue as a member of the Magna Carta Project?
2. Do you have any interest in taking a more active role in the project and, if so, what might you be interested in doing?
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If you do wish to continue as a project member, please either post a response to this message or send me a private email. If we do not hear from you by October 16th we will assume you are exploring different interests and no longer wish to be involved with the project.
with warmest regards,
Jen, Magna Carta Project co-leader
I'm looking at making some improvements to some of the older/ancient profiles on WT that need some tending to. While I was looking for any Medieval Project guidance on naming conventions for profiles where they didn't necessarily have a last name, I couldn't find much on profiles such as (for example) the many pre-existing profiles for Roman Emperors or older Roman profiles, not only concerning the LNAB they should carry, but their full name and how it should be displayed. Has there been any discussion on the name formats for these particular kinds of profiles? I'd be keen to collaborate on either coming to an understanding regarding these profiles or writing up what has already been agreed :)
Regards, Amelia
I agree that few new ones will be created, but from what I've identified so far, the number of Roman profiles still reaches into a couple hundred at least, if not more, so I'm not sure if creating a FSP would be overly beneficial at this point though I do think that consensus is the ideal.
Perhaps these two lines of thought could be combined? As a first step, I could do some digging into the structure and format of Roman names (while I do have a degree in Classical Studies and Ancient History, I'm unfortunately not a specialist in Roman names, lol) and identify where we can find names best suited to being treated as surnames. Then, using an FSP with notable Roman profiles (aka, the names or lineages most likely to be come across), consensus can be sought over which names best align with Roman naming structure while being accessible to the everyday WikiTree user? The CLN and OLN fields may come in handy here.
What do you think?
You would want the Medieval Project on board with the process and result. Attempting to discuss the various parts without the visual of seeing how the names play out for 10 individuals would, in my experience, generate unnecssary confusion where you think you're describing one thing and others think you're describing something else and you end up with much ado about nothing!
And I suppose I'm speaking for myself -- I really don't want to get into a discussion about Roman names and LNABs without having a visual look at how it all plays out!
Thank you for contributing towards the goals of the England Project! Over the past year, a staggering amount has been done to improve English profiles on WikiTree and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
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Jack Day and Polly Watkins are both descendants of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (1173-1240).
I just saw your page Brandenburg from Brandenburg Legends and was asking myself if this would not make a great One Name Study?
Kind regards from Black Forest (nowhere near Brandenburg, but my father comes from a Brandenberg ;))
Stuart
Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023! Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!
I'd like to share our end-of-year 2023 Newsletter. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading about what we have achieved in 2023!
On behalf of all the England Project Leaders, we wish you a peaceful, productive and enjoyable 2024!
Best wishes,
Ian, England Project Leader
Many thanks for your exceptional work in this area.
Best Regards Allan Stuart
I feel I know this answer, but thought I would leave this for you anyhow.
This is the time for the 2023 annual check in with members of the US Southern Colonies Project. Have you been active during the last six months in this Project? Note that it is a Wikitree requirement to respond to the US Southern Colonies Check-ins. Please reply to this message by clicking the reply button below this message, to post your answer. I look forward to hearing from you..
Many thanks,
Mary~ Project Coordinator, Membership, US Southern Colonies
Jack
I am researching the Yowell family, in particular David Yowell and seeing some discrepancies between what the Colonial Settlers website has for him and what has been posted to his profile sourced from a Germanna people's book and wonder which one might be most likely to be correct. On Wikitree someone has posted a huge amount of info from Germanna publications to the early Yowell profiles.
One has to pay a yearly fee of $50 to be able to view their database -- not sure it is worth it for just a few profiles. Their publications are also only available thru purchase.
Many thanks!
edited by J. West
I have recently updated the profile of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mao-6 to the best of my ability as he now has a Wikipedia page. However, I do not have the linguistic ability to record the place names and any other relevant details in the correct Script. I am there enlisting your assistance to do this if you think it necessary to enhance the profile as I don't want to get it wrong! I would be most grateful for your consideration of this request.
Thank you. Shoshanah Luckie
edited by Shoshanah Luckie
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for your commitment to the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members periodically to make sure everything is going well. This is our formal annual check-in with you.
Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Would you like to join any other teams?
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We have you in the King Arthur Legends Topic team. Hopefully that's appropriate and where you think you are.
Regards
Susie
here is the profile Day=9846 that I did the work up on their 1790 census... 2 of them John and Edward.............. same image
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Day-9846&errcode=saved
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
I'd also like to share our annual Newsletter with you. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading a bit about what has gone on in 2022 and what our Project has achieved.
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Please consider these questions:
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- Which teams are you most active in?
- Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
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Please respond to this message by posting a reply in Comments below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Stuart Awbrey, Membership Coordinator
As you know, my main Wales interest is in medieval and pre-medieval Welsh profiles. The managed profiles team seems to be the best team at the moment, although since dissolution of the Cymru Project there is no really good place for Welsh medievalists to live. There is an overlap with the England and Wales team of the Medieval Project, but since there are so few people active on these profiles at the moment, it is an overlap on paper only. The medieval project has more competence in the medeival area, but the Wales project has a much greater passion for Wales, so I don't see the matter being easily resolved, and there's little energy for it. So hail to the status quo!
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Name on Watchlist My WikiTree Nash-9215 Add Find Help Relationship Found Jack and Dennis William are 18th cousins once removed Jack Day and Dennis William Nash are both descendants of Gwladys ferch Llywelyn (1295-).
1. Jack is the son of Jackson Wesley Day (1910-2005) [confident] 2. Jackson is the son of Rachel Vivia Cochel (Walker) Day (1874-1957) [confident] 3. Rachel is the daughter of Rachel Browning (Purdum) Walker (1835-1910) [confident] 4. Rachel is the daughter of Jemima D. (King) Purdum (abt.1805-1892) [confident] 5. Jemima is the daughter of John Duckett King (1778-1858) [confident] 6. John is the son of Rebecca (Duckett) King (abt.1742-) [confident] 7. Rebecca is the daughter of Sarah Haddock (Waring) Duckett (abt.1721-abt.1784) [confident] 8. Sarah is the daughter of Basil Waring Jr (1683-1733) [confident] 9. Basil is the son of Basil Waring (abt.1650-1688) [confident] 10. Basil is the son of Sampson Waring (bef.1616-abt.1668) [confident] 11. Sampson is the son of Basil Waring (1584-1647) [confident] 12. Basil is the son of Margery Hosier (bef.1569-) [confident] 13. Margery is the daughter of John Hosier (1523-1591) [confident] 14. John is the son of Thomas Hosier (abt.1490-aft.1538) [confident] 15. Thomas is the son of Edward (ap Llywelyn) Hosyer (abt.1460-aft.1496) [confident] 16. Edward is the son of Llywelyn ap Deicws (abt.1430-) [confident] 17. Llywelyn is the son of Deicws ap Hywel (abt.1400-) [confident] 18. Deicws is the son of Hywel ap Ieuan (abt.1360-) [confident] 19. Hywel is the son of Ieuan ap Ednyfed (abt.1315-) [confident] 20. Ieuan is the son of Gwladys ferch Llywelyn (1295-) [confident] This makes Gwladys the 18th great grandmother of Jack.
1. Dennis William is the son of Frederick William Nash (1922-2016) [unknown confidence] 2. Frederick William is the son of Martha Marie (Wolf) Nash (1888-1927) [confident] 3. Martha Marie is the daughter of Lucinda Katherine (Bowles) Wolf (1867-1901) [unknown confidence] 4. Lucinda Katherine is the daughter of Willis W Bowles (1836-1882) [unknown confidence] 5. Willis W is the son of Celia Sally (White) Bowles (1797-1850) [unknown confidence] 6. Celia Sally is the daughter of Rhoda (Arthur) White (1767-) [unknown confidence] 7. Rhoda is the daughter of Martha (Talbot) Arthur (1740-1811) [unknown confidence] 8. Martha is the daughter of Matthew Talbot (1699-abt.1758) [confident] 9. Matthew is the son of Thomas Talbot (1652-abt.1720) [uncertain] 10. Thomas is the son of Frances (Arundell) Talbot (1614-aft.1652) [confident] 11. Frances is the daughter of Thomas Arundell (abt.1560-1639) [confident] 12. Thomas is the son of Matthew Arundell MP (abt.1533-1598) [confident] 13. Matthew is the son of Margaret (Howard) Arundell (1515-1572) [confident] 14. Margaret is the daughter of Joyce (Culpeper) Howard (bef.1480-aft.1527) [confident] 15. Joyce is the daughter of Isabel (Worsley) Leigh (abt.1460-1527) [unknown confidence] 16. Isabel is the daughter of Rose (Trevor) Worsley (1400-) [confident] 17. Rose is the daughter of Edward Trevor (abt.1380-1448) [unknown confidence] 18. Edward is the son of David (Edynfed Gam) ap Ednyfed (abt.1345-) [unknown confidence] 19. David is the son of Gwladys ferch Llywelyn (1295-) [unknown confidence] This makes Gwladys the 17th great grandmother of Dennis William. Note: Dennis William is descended from Gwladys in more than one way (2). Help
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals over the past year. Every English profile we improve helps!
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The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing its first annual check-in with our project members. Please review the following and let us know if you are content where we have placed you or would like to be more involved.
We are in the process of transitioning to a team structure. There will be three participant PIP Teams to start -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team who guide new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team. You're currently identified as a member of the Biography Team Level 1, working on profiles from your own watchlist and whatever else you find. Biography Teams Levels 2 and 3 will work on designated profiles for notables (Level 3) and everyday people (Level 2). Please let us know if you would like to help with another Team.
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edited by David Finster
Here the Methodist project I made of you like to join just go to trusted group and I will add you.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Methodist
Billie
Mary~ Project coordinator, Membershiop, Southern Colonies
I would to thank you for all your contributions towards the goals of the England Project during the past six months. We have achieved a huge amount during this period and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
As the England Project Leaders, we are completing our six monthly check-in with all project members. Are you happy to stay in your current project teams? Which teams are you most active in? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
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Mike Christmas, England Project Leader
Take care Mike
I’m conducting the 6-month check in for the US Black Heritage Project. Because we are growing so fast, it’s not always possible for me to see what everyone’s working on.
I’d love to hear what you’ve been working on and if you are still happy being a part of the Slavery Team. Members can change teams at any time. If you need something to work on, we now have a master task list here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage_Project_Tasklist
We now have a project badge! Hooray! As soon as I hear back from you that you’d like to continue with the project, I will add the badge to your profile.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Emma
Thanks!
Cheers, Liz
Thank you so much for all your contributions to WikiTree in the last six months, and especially to the Wales Project. It’s been wonderful to have you as part of the team as we work together to increase the quality and quantity of Welsh Profiles.
I have you down as being on the Managed Profiles Team. Is this right? How are things going? Do you have any questions? What can we do to support you? Would you like to change any of your teams? Do you want to continue in the Wales Project moving forwards?
Hope to see you on Discord soon.
I look forward to hearing back from you with all the above. Thanks once again, Olivia, Project Coordinator for Wales :-)
It's that time of the year again: check-in time! As England Project Leaders, we like to check in with you every six months or so to see how things are progressing. Back in May, we didn't ask for a response due to the rapid emergence of Covid-19 because we understood that people's lives were changing rapidly. While we are still living in a Covid world, we do need to hear back from you this time around.
First of all, how are you doing? What are you currently working on? Are you happy with the team(s) you're in, or would you like to change things up?
Secondly, we're looking for some feedback on the Google Group and our Discord server. Do you use either or both of these? If you don't use either, why not? Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve participation and collaboration, either generally or for you personally?
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Joan, Amy & Lizzie.
Hi I need some help with this profile. I found marriage record on the Maryland.Gov but it limited information. I put few sources I found and need to have some help. Putting how the marriage should go in profile I just put it in for basics. Can you help me please.
Richard, m. by 1763, Jane Milburn, dau. of John and Mary Milburn of SM Co. (SMWB TA#1:623).
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1500/s1527/html/ssi1527b.html
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnhouse-157
Billie
I need help. I haven't been able to make much of a dent in the hundreds of people profiles in Category: Virginia Colony (which should be top level - no people profiles), so I'm asking you & Lynden to help.
Could you please go to Category: Virginia Colony & for any profiles showing a "B..." county in the list of profiles, could you edit those profiles to not have Category: Virginia Colony but the appropriate County category instead? (And since they are pre-USA, they should only have "Category: A... County, Virginia Colony" not the corresponding Virginia category also. If they aren't pre-USA, they shouldn't be in "Category Virginia Colony.)
The B... County, Virginia Colony categories are
Thanks!
P.S. Let me know if this is not something you can help with.
edited by Leslie Wade
The Ambassadors project has been reorganizing and is looking for those who have a membership at a genealogical society, to help in spreading the word about WikiTree.
We're working on ways to improve how WikiTree connects and interacts with genealogical and local history societies. This is the kind of thing we want to do:
Are you interested in participating in some way? Do you have some ideas to share?
Azure Rae ~ co-Leader of Ambassadors Project
We are 18th cousins once removed through our common ancestor John Longland. I hope all is well, you certainly have made a lot of impressive contributions to WikiTree. Thank you! Best, Alex
Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree over the weekend. We are proud of your efforts.
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
PS: I'm intrigued by your profile photo. What was the occasion?