Maddy Hardman

We all did a great job this weekend, thank you. We hope you had fun. The total for the event was 88,908 profiles. The Mighty Oaks added 8,292 profiles to the tree. We appreciate your input and support for the event and look forward to working with you all again next time.

Thanks again for this weekend, from your colleagues and the Mighty Oaks Team Captains

Janet, and Joan

We all did a great job this weekend, thank you, a job well done, we hope you had fun. The grand total for the event was 77,293 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks contributed 7,332 of those. Thank you for working with us.

If you open up your contribution or tracker list you can review your work and possibly do some tidying up, on the profiles.

Thanks again for this weekend, you rock, appreciate your co captaining a team. Congratulations on being our top scorer.

Joan, Janet, Maddy and Fran

Mighty Oaks

Hi Maddy

The Connect-a-Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you co-captaining again. We love working with you.

Our teams did really well. Our big Mighty Oaks Team came first overall, and our Little Mighty Oak Branches Team was in the top 5 on the Normalised Score. The combined score of our two teams was 11,109. A total of was 95,575 new profiles added by all during the thon.

Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for the next event).

The next Thon, towards the end of the year will be a Source-a-Thon, And watch G2G for the WikiTree Games sometime in August.

Thanks again for a great weekend, we look forward to working with you again soon.

Joan, Janet, & Fran (Co Captains)

We are delighted to announce a new Profile Improvements Team namely the England Tangled Families Team which will be formed by merging the Arborists, Gedcoms and Unknown Teams,

As we know tangled families are created from old GEDCOM’s which cover many generations resulting in the need to merge profiles and having to disconnect others together with finding unknown spouses and family members.

The merging of the existing three teams into one exciting new team will hopefully reduce duplications and definitely will increase collaboration between you our experienced and dedicated members.

Team Leader for the England Tangled Families Team will be Fran Weidman who has agreed to manage the team bringing her excellent knowledge and experience from creating and managing the Unknowns Team together with Fran’s five year membership of the England Project.

Currently as a member of one or more of the named teams we are asking you to join our new amalgamated Tangled Families Team and letting us know by contacting Joan Williams or Malc Rowlands through Discord Messaging, England Project Google Group or Private WT Message if you want to join our new team.

Kind regards

Joan and Malc

I want you to know how much I appreciate the work you contributed for me on "Ann Russell formerly Gillet" and her family. The research you have done on this family is thorough and very interesting. It provides me with many new family members to look in to and learn about them. Many thanks for your time and knowledge in the research you carried out on this family. I am extremely thrilled,with the information, and very grateful for your assistance.

Kind regards.

Margaret Cranley

Cranley-15

We all did a great job this weekend, thank you, a job well done. The grand total for the event was 76,995 profiles created. The Mighty Oaks contributed 6,258 of those.

If you open up your contribution list you can review your work and possibly do some tidying up, before you orphan the profiles ;)

Thanks again for this weekend, you rock!

Joan, Janet, and Fran

Maddy Hardman reached the In the Money milestone by sourcing 300 profiles in the March 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Hi Maddy. Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

Maddy Hardman reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the February 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Maddy, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.

Thank you for joining me again Captaining the Mighty Oak Branches in the recent Connect-a-Thon. The 65 members who joined our teams were awesome. Our two teams added 12,905 profiles over the weekend. The Branches Team came second and the Roots Team came forth in the overall scores. Both teams were also in the top ten in the normalised scores. I hope you enjoyed it and are looking forward to joining me again in April when we do it all over again.

Luv Joan

Maddy Hardman reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!

I only joined WikiTree this week and had a quick look at names I am interested in. The first I found pertains to Joseph Collinson (Collinson-67). It contains a note regarding searching LancashireOPC without success for a baptism. It is suggested that Joseph is a son of John Collinson and Jennet Newton from Warton near Lancaster. The couple had four children baptised in Warton up until 1783. This is the year when a charge was introduced for baptisms in the CofE and we find a number of cases where children were not baptised because of this charge. We become aware of this supposed son, Joseph, through his appearance in other events in this parish. Although there is no baptism recorded for Joseph, there was only one Collinson family in the parish of Warton at the time, so I am in total agreement that the evidence suggests his parents were John and Jennet. His subsequent census entries along with his burial record suggest he was born c1784, having married in Warton and had the baptisms of nine children recorded in the parish register. This is not the Joseph Collinson that married Sarah Benson in Stalmine in 1818. They are two totally different people and the parishes are almost twenty miles apart. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a baptism record for either. There is a burial record for the Joseph who married Sarah Benson recorded in 1853 in the Stalmine registers which shows his age as 77, suggesting a birth c1776. Both Josephs can be seen in census entries for 1851 shown here from the LDS site.

Joseph in Warton showing birthplace as Warton, his age in later records, suggest he was a couple of years older than shown here. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGY3-M3T?id=9JDM-D5Q

Joseph in Fleetwood with daughter Agnes, showing his birthplace as Fleetwood. The name is not clearly written but the indexing here is totally wrong, Ancestry have indexed it Josephus https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGYK-SGZ

I am not sure who needs to correct this, but since you were tagged in the record, I felt it appropriate to at least inform you of the issue. At some stage I wish to construct the family for the Warton Joseph, he was my 3g grandfather.

Further, since this is my line of interest, I wonder if you have any knowledge of the grandparents of Joseph Collinson, John Collinson and Isabel Jackson who it indicates originated in Sedbergh, Yorkshire and born in 1727 and 1731 respectively. Burials for both are recorded in Warton indicating they were born in 1720 and 1716 respectively.

Regards, Paul Dixon

Apparently my prior response to you were done through the no reply email I received from you.

For the time being I have set aside my involvement with WikiTree. I have finally under taken the project of writing a book on my Lodge family history. I knew it was going to be a time consuming task. It will span the time between present day and 1717 in Aston Ingham, Wales. The earliest documented records I have on the family are from that time and place.

My intent is once the book is published is to return to WikiTree to finish not only my family tree input .but also the orphan trail project.

Kindest Regards, John Lodge

Maddy Hardman reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the July 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

Just sent private message to Lynn Bloomfield, project manager of Alcinda Hardman-2631. In the process of sharing info found out that Saul Norman in 1860 was brother of George with his wife and family. Censuses cited identify Alcinda's husband along with the children along with birth records of the Norman children and Piercee child in the censuses. Lynn is active and hope to here from her soon so merge can take place. Sharon

We would love to have you join the Mighty Oaks for the Connect-A-Thon. The event will start on Friday, July 15th, at 8 AM (EDT) and will run until Monday, July 18th, at 8 AM (EDT) [time zone calculator] You do not need to participate full time.

If you are interested in joining us then please answer the G2G post here before Midnight this Wednesday https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1431009/have-you-registered-for-the-july-2022-connect-a-thon-yet? Connect-A-Thon Registration] remember to mention you would like to join the Mighty Oaks. There are just a few days left to sign up for the event.

Look forward to working with you again

Joan, Carol, Maddy & Fran Co-Leaders for the Mighty Oaks

any connection?

Regards Bill

Thank you for participating in the Liberation Day Challenge. As a group we added close to 50 new profiles of service members. You've helped honor those who gave so much for freedom.

We hope to see you all back soon.

Colleen, Astrid and Eef

Wij houden van uitdagingen

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

Nan, WikiTree Appreciation Team

Maddy Hardman reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the January 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for sourcing.

Congratulations on adding sources to 89 profiles during the January Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving the health of our One Tree.

Nan, WT Appreciation Team

I noticed you recently chose our Integrators Project Challenge for this month (Jan 2022), thank you!

Could you go here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1350169/wikitreers-join-the-join-integrators-challenge-january-2022 to sign up officially please. And if you can please add your question that you will be working on or the profile marked "needs profiles created" for the challenge, Thanks! Got a question, see this page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works

Thank you and Good Luck!! Dorothy, Integrators Project Coordinator.

I saw your name on wikitree. My surname is Heald. Father grew up in Texas.

Bob Heald [email address removed]

Thank you for your 40 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

Thank you for your 26 contributions to the November 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.

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Are you still working on this profile? It shows you saved a draft a couple of days ago. I’d like to add to the profile: Katherine (Hoskins) Hosmer (abt.1616-aft.1685) Thank you, S

Well, it was a fun weekend, we hope you enjoyed yourself. Thank you for joining us. It is appreciated. The combined score for our teams was a fab 9,296 up 419 on last year, well done. The total overall figure was 56,972 profiles sourced.

Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourceaThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for next year’s event)

Thanks again for this weekend, we look forward to working with you again

Joan

I noticed you chose our Integrators Challenge again for this month (July 2021), thank you!

Could you go here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1262443/wikitreers-join-the-fun-join-integrators-challenge-july-2021 to sign up officially please. And if you can please add your question that you will be working on or the profile marked "needs profiles created" for the challenge, Thanks! Got a question, see this page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works

Thank you and Good Luck!! Dorothy, Integrators Project Coordinator.

I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the goals of the England Project during the past six months. We've 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 team/s? Which team/s are you most active in? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?

Also, do you have any feedback on what the project is doing well and anything we could do better in the future?

Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks!

Ian, England Project Leader

Hi Maddy

Thank you for joining the Mighty Oaks for the Clean-A-Thon and congratulations on your work during the CAT what an amazing result for the Mighty Oaks we added 32,841 . Altogether the teams fixed a grand total of 233,558 profiles suggestions. We hope you had fun while cleaning the tree.

See you later in the year for the Connect-A-Thon

Janet & Joan

Co-Leaders for the Mighty Oaks

Hi Maddy

We would love to have you join the Mighty Oaks  for the Spring Clean-A-Thon

If you are interested in joining us then sign up here Clean-A-Thon Registration please mention you would like to join the Mighty Oaks

Look forward to working with you again

 Janet & Joan