Steve Gates
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Steve Gates

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Steve C. Gates
Born 1950s.
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Son of [private father (1930s - unknown)] and [private mother (1930s - unknown)]
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Biography

Profile Improvement Voyager
Steve has completed the Profile Improvement Project's Voyage

I was born in Michigan, but for the past 24 years having been living in Arkansas. Genealogy has been a hobby for me for over 20 years. I developed my family tree originally on Ancestry, and joined Wikitree in 2017 in order to link my tree to the global tree, and be able to collaborate with other genealogists.

Project Involvement on Wikitree

  • Sourcing - Have partcipated in monthly Sourcing challenges.
  • Connectors - Participated in January 2023 Connect-a-thon
  • Data Doctors - Focusing on relationship errors like duplicates, and errors within the following geographical areas - Michigan (home state), Arkansas (current home), Ontario (maternal ancestry), New England states (paternal line), Texas, and Ireland.
  • Profile Improvement Project - I completed the PIP Voyage last year. I would highly recommend this to learn how to make great looking and accurate profiles.
  • Arborists - helping to merge profiles. Ask me if you need help on a merge.
  • U.S. Governors - Focus on Arkansas, Michigan, Texas
  • Notables - Focus on key military and business leaders in surnames I follow
  • Mayflower - I just started on this project. I connect to Mayflower passengers from both my paternal and maternal family.
  • Latter Day Saints - Got involved in this due to a cousin being part of the early church leadership.
  • Ireland - I have one family line which Ive traced to Ireland. Planning a vacation there and want to learn as much as I can on my family beginnings there.
  • Canada - Working now on the 2nd stage of the Orphan Trail. Working on tracing my family ancestry through Ontario and Quebec.
  • Palatine Project - Working on the Trout / Traut family line
  • One Name Study Coordinator - Laurin and Flick surnames.

Key Surnames Followed

Gates - Traces back to 1634 - Stephen Gates. It is a well documented line, but still a lot to do. My ancestors migrated from Masachusetts, through Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, then northeast Ohio in Geauga and Trumbull Counties. From there into north central Ohio, and ultimately settling in southwest Michigan.

Dodge - I've traced this back to the 1600s. My ancestors settled first in northern Ohio, migrating to Michigan in the mid 1800s. I'm a distant cousin of the founders of the Dodge Car Corporation.

Laurin - My maternal grandmother was a Laurin, born in Quebec. I'm working on tracing this line back further.

Other Surnames I'm working on - Bundy, French, Corey (Cory), Pepin, Trout, Chandler, Flick, Bresson, Casey.

Notable Ancestors

The section to be completed as I finish updating profiles.

DNA

I've taken the ancestry DNA test recently. I need to upload the results to wikitree.

Helping Others

One thing thing I've enjoyed on wikitree is collaborating with other genealogists, and helping others new to wikitree develop profiles. I have three projects Im working on now to help others developing their family tree on wikitree. Two of these I met through wikitree while I was developing profiles on other projects.

If you're new to wikitree or have a brick wall to solve, Im not sure if I can help, but if I can't I will see if I can find someone who can.

Goals in 2023

  • Continue to support projects I'm on.
  • Participate in more thons, one per quarter
  • Develop space pages as needed to help out on projects
  • Project Leader on at least one project.
  • Complete 15 for 15 challenge.
  • Make more cousin connections
  • Answer/Assist on G2G questions more.
  • CC7 - reach 2,000
  • Do a One Name Study
  • Help other new wikitree members or those that need help on their trees

Please message me privately if you want to communicate further on any shared family tree connections or other areas of interest


Sources

  • First-hand information. Entered by Steven Gates at registration.

Only the Trusted List can access the following:
  • Steve's formal name
  • full middle name (C.)
  • e-mail address
  • exact birthdate
  • birth location
  • images (1)
  • private siblings' names
  • spouse's name and marriage information
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Steve or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree: It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Steve:

Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.

Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Steve:
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Sands-1865 Kay (Sands) Knight
Hello Steve,

We recently left a message on your profile to check in with the Profile Improvement Project (PIP). If you would like to continue with the Project, please let us know.

We would like to hear from you with any ideas or suggestions. If you do not wish to participate in the Project, please let us know. If we don’t hear from you within 14 days we will remove you from the Project, but we will welcome you back at any time.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Kay Knight, Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Robin Shaules, Project Coordinator, Profile Improvement Project

posted by Kay (Sands) Knight
Sands-1865 Kay (Sands) Knight
Dear Steve,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing a check-in with project members. Please review the following and respond to let us know that you are content with your current team or if you would like to be more involved.

The Project operates in a team structure. There are currently three participant PIP Teams -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team which guides new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.

There are currently three different Biography Teams - The Biography Team, the Abandoned Team, and the Popular Team.

You're currently identified as a member of the Biography Team. The Biography Team works on profiles from their watchlist and other profiles that interest them.

Are you happy with the Team you are on? If you are interested in working with a different Team, please let us know.

If you have not already done so, we invite you to join the email GoogleGroup and text chat Discord channel for our project. (You will need your Wiki ID for both). Neither is required; we also use the Profile_Improvement tag in G2G for Project announcements.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project meet its goals. We would like to hear about the successes you’ve had and would also appreciate any feedback you have to help improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or via private message to one of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Kay Knight, Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Robin Shaules, Project Coordinator, Profile Improvement Project

posted by Kay (Sands) Knight
Stevens-17832 Jen (Stevens) Hutton
Hi Steve,

It is once again time for our annual Ireland Project check-in. Please respond within the next three weeks to let us know:

  1. If you would like to continue as an Ireland Project member. If your answer is yes, please tell us if you are happy with your current team, or if you would prefer to join a different one. If you are currently participating in more than one team we would appreciate you ranking them in their order of importance to you, from highest priority to lowest. This information will be helpful as we consider possible future changes to our team structure.
  2. In the past, the project has had a very minimal membership requirement (one contribution per year) for badged members to meet. Do you believe this is adequate, or should this requirement be increased? What do you believe would be a reasonable commitment to expect from all project members?
  3. How active have you been in the Ireland Project over the past year? Please choose one of the following options: a) I normally spend 1-5 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. b) I normally spend 6-10 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. c) I spend over 10 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. d) I am not able to contribute every month but have spent approximately ________ hours during the past year improving Irish profiles.
  4. Please provide feedback on any things you’d like to see the project do more of in the future.

You can respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. If we don’t hear from you within the next three weeks we’ll assume your interests have changed or you no longer are able to participate in the Ireland Project at this time, and your badge will be removed. If your circumstances change later you will be welcome to reapply for membership.

Many thanks for all that so many of you have contributed to the project in the past year, and very special thanks to those who answered the project’s call and gave generously of their time to be part of Team Seanchaithe during the most recent connect-a-thon. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

le dea-mhéin, Jen Hutton, Ireland Project co-leader

posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton
Haverty-28 Ellen Haverty
Thanks for rejecting Haverty-72, although i believe them to be the same I do not lnow who posted this Haverty. To my knowledge all or at least most all children were born in Maryland bc the family didn't move westward until 1820
posted by Ellen Haverty
Gates-3086 Steve Gates
Your welcome. I looked again at the two profiles and don’t see anything that matches. Not a spouse, siblings, parents, or children. The other profile also did not have sources, and showed a different birth location. On the death date one was about 1870 and the other was after 1870. So the only reason this appeared to be a match was the same name and birth and death years.
posted by Steve Gates
Loghrin-1 Tom Loghrin
Hi Steve, Thanks for directing my attention to Graham-23897. I took another look and discovered that the Find a Grave record re: his parents is incorrect. I will send a note to the FaG contributor. Also, I have added more sources to "beef up" the information on that profile. It's great to work with others on WikiTree - I need lots of fact checkers! Thanks again, Tom
posted by Tom Loghrin
Gates-3086 Steve Gates
Thanks. Yeah I usually check the dates closer before I add a father or mother, but it was immediately clear after I added the FindAGrave father it was incorrect, so I removed it. Glad you were able to beef up the profile with additional sources. Hopefully FindAGrave will fix the profile quickly.
posted by Steve Gates
K Smith
Thanks for the heads up on Chapman Merge
posted by K Smith
Gates-3086 Steve Gates
Your welcome. Glad I could help.
posted by Steve Gates
Blane-140 Jean Blane
Thanks for all your input on McIntyre Wallis, Steve, much appreciated.
posted by Jean Blane
Gates-3086 Steve Gates
Thanks Jean. I wanted to you to know I didn’t add any input or research to that profile. I just completed the merge and attempted to organize bio notes and sources. Looks like there are still a few sources that are duplicates. I will fix that. Also, the research notes section was part of one of the profiles. I just added the research notes title. Anyway, I see you just joined wikitree. Welcome! If you need any help or input getting started let me know, Steve.
posted by Steve Gates
Blane-140 Jean Blane
I really appreciate that, Steve. And I may well call on you! I think some of my tree, started quite a few years ago, is a bit muddled. So I'm trying to sort through it. I'll start adding direct ancestors to my tree on here and that may help me to clear my head a bit. lol
posted by Jean Blane
Lambert-1995 Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Steve,

Thank you for your contributions to the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

WT Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Feidt-22 Bill Feidt
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Steve Gates reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the February 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for sourcing, Steve.

posted by Bill Feidt
Lambert-1995 Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Congratulations on adding so many sources during the February 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! Great improvements to the One Tree. Thanks!

Nan, WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Clark-55845 Robert Clark MA, MBA
Steve, congratulations on receiving a Community Star recognition! Your efforts on WikiTree are truly appreciated.
posted by Robert Clark MA, MBA
Gates-3086 Steve Gates
Thank you! Really appreciate your comment.
posted by Steve Gates
Feidt-22 Bill Feidt
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Red Hot Effort Milestone for 100 sourced profiles
Steve Gates reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the January 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for sourcing.

posted by Bill Feidt
Lambert-1995 Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Steve,

Congratulations on adding sources to 105 profiles during the January Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving the health of our One Tree.

Nan, WT Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
McGee-1611 Debi (McGee) Hoag
Thanks for your consistent sourcing with us, Steve!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Yearly Golden Achievement Milestone for 1 sourced profile tracked every month
Steve Gates reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2021 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Debi (McGee) Hoag
Lambert-1995 Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Steven,

Thank you for your contributions to the December 2021 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

Nan, WT Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Jester-173 Lynette Jester
Hi Steve, Welcome back to wikitree. Thank you for adding to what I had started in the Gates family. If you would like to manage them, please submit a Trust List request and I'll transfer them to you.

Also, I would like to take this time to apologize for the actions of my distant relative (no definitive relationship established yet) against your relative.

posted by Lynette Jester
edited by Lynette Jester
Gates-3086 Steve Gates
Thank you. Doesn’t matter to me if I manage these profiles or you do, but I did send a request to be added to the trusted list of Asel. Probably I should also be added to his descendants lists also. I plan to add additional details to the family when I get time.

No need to apologize for your distant relative. It would be interesting to determine the relationship sometime

I had ran across Asel a few weeks ago when Imwas researching the descendants of Jacob Gates. My 3g great grandfather William Gates was a brother to Warham Gates.

Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday.

Steve Gates.

posted by Steve Gates
Jester-173 Lynette Jester
You are now co-manager. And I'll add you to the others.

Well, as to my relationship to William Alexander, 1st he's a Jester, so that makes him automatically a cousin. Legend says his grandfather Jacob, and my 4th ggf and 1 other were brothers from Scotland. And facts are murky. DNA where 3 males of my 3rd ggf match the Jesters who have near proven lines to Richard b. 1632.

Warham is an unusual name. Its not unusual to name a son after a family name. I think have a Warham, Horsemanden, St. Leger connection way back there, in the Johnston line.

posted by Lynette Jester
Cory-504 Earl Cory
Two branches of the Cory family moved into VT. Both the William (RI) and Thomas (Mass) branch and some members moved on to Mich. I might be able to help you out. Let me know. Since your tree is not visible, I can't offer anything now.
posted by Earl Cory
Lee-5956 Robin Lee
Please make sure to add the tag presidents to you followed tags so that you can help out with the US Presidents Project.
posted by Robin Lee
M Cole
Hi Steve,

I just put in a merge request for Prudence Dodge(d/o Josiah Dodge). Please let me know if you have any questions!

posted by M Cole
Langholf-2 Eowyn (Langholf) Walker
Awesome, Steve! We'd love to have you as part of the project :)
posted by Eowyn (Langholf) Walker
Lockwood-1016 Doug Lockwood
Hi Steve

Thank you for joining our ONS project. The FAQ section on the project page should answer most of your questions.

Regards,

Doug

posted by Doug Lockwood
Barry-1264 Dorothy Barry
Hi Steve

I see that you just did the Pre-1700 Self-Certification. That's great! Here at WikiTree we like to have our members involved with others; collaboration is key!

Thank you for joining the "Connector" project. That's exciting. Also, not sure if you noticed but we have a Mayflower project, check it out here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Mayflower

Here is a list of our other WikiTree projects you might like to check out: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Projects

Why don't you also stop by the One Name Studies project, to see if there's already a name study for (surname) going on? The current leaders for that are Doug Lockwood and Alison Andrus. They would be happy to get you started.

Dorothy, Volunteer Coordinator.

posted by Dorothy Barry

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