Susan Pearson
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Susan Pearson

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Susan L. Pearson
Born 1940s.
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Sister of , [private sister (1940s - unknown)], [private brother (1950s - unknown)] and [private brother (1960s - unknown)]
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Biography

This profile is part of the Pearson Name Study.
Susan Pearson Participated in the 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

I was born on October 7, 1949 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Sponsors at baptism were: Marc Bessette and Mrs. Edward Bessette (Geraldine Hoffman).

My father, Wilbur "Bill" Pearson, was 30, and my mother, Sylvia L Bessette, was 31. I was the third of five children - three brothers: Gary, Mark Andrew, and Brian David, and one sister, Diane Lynn.

In January of 1950, our family moved from my maternal grandparents home (Silvia's parents) on Sheridan (east side of Detroit) to Dearborn Township (later became Dearborn Heights), a new suburb west of Detroit. Initially, there was no telephone service. My mother would get messages from the monks at St. Bernard Seminary from my dad as necessary.

Education: attended Clara B. Ford School for Kindergarten; Our Lady of Grace Grade School in Dearborn Heights for grades 1-8 graduating in 1963; Rosary High School in Detroit (9th grade) and St. Alphonsus High School in Dearborn graduating in 1967. College: Wayne State University in Detroit, Bachelor of Philosophy from Monteith College in 1977, and Master of Science from the School of Medicine in 1983.

Marriage: I married Charles Leonard Johnson, son of Irving Johnson and Alice Elaine Gunther, on May 22, 1987, in Ferndale, Oakland, Michigan. We are the parents of Erik Scott Pearson Johnson, born August 20, 1989 in Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan.

Residences: I was born in Detroit, grew up in Dearborn Heights, Wayne County, Michigan, and lived in Detroit; Pleasant Ridge, Oakland County; and moved to Yakima, Yakima, Washington in 2012.

My interest in genealogy grew after a visit to my mother's home in Letellier and Mariapolis, Manitoba in the 1970's on our way to Aspen to visit my sister Diane. We noticed that Letellier was only a short distance from Fargo, North Dakota so we took a detour. It was exciting to meet relatives, listen to exchanges in French, visit the farm built by her maternal grandfather Adolphe Fortier in Letellier, and meet a woman who knew her mother and father in Mariapolis.

Sources

  • Birth Certificate of Susan Linda Pearson, Detroit Department of Health, Vital Statistics Division, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, October 7, 1949, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.
  • Baptismal Certificate of Susan Linda Pearson, St. Anthony, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, October 30, 1949, St. Anthony Catholic Church, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.

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Thank you for participating in the February 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5129 profiles. We’re getting ever closer to our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.
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Susan Pearson created 76 new profiles during the February 2024 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the January 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6202 profiles. We’re reaching toward a new goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

All first-time participants in 2024 can add the 2024 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

25 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 35 new profiles during the January 2024 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the December 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6214 profiles. We created a total of 46,036 profiles for the year. We met our 2023 goal of 250k profiles and finished out the year with 168,195!

You can see your personal 2023 total and your all time 2021-2023 total on the 2023 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

25 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 33 new profiles during the December 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the October 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3315 profiles.
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Susan Pearson created 32 new profiles during the October 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the July 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4445 profiles. Our new total is 226,808!
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Susan Pearson created 27 new profiles during the July 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the June 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4320 profiles. Our new total is 220,137!
50 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 56 new profiles during the June 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the May 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4667 profiles. Our new total is 211,475!
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Susan Pearson created 46 new profiles during the May 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the April 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5952 profiles. Our new total is 201,351. 250k here we come!
25 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 26 new profiles during the April 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the March 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3452 profiles. Our new total is 191,151.
25 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 32 new profiles during the March 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the February 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5295 profiles. Our new total is 184,311.
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Susan Pearson created 63 new profiles during the February 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for participating in the January 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6960 profiles. It was one of our biggest months of all time! Our new total is 174,667.

All first-time participants in 2023 can add the 2023 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

25 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 39 new profiles during the January 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Thank you for participating in the 2022 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us reach 161,603 profiles! We’re going for 250,000 profiles in 2023!

You can see your 2022 total and your all time 2021-2022 total on our tracking spreadsheet.

50 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 49 new profiles during the December 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for joining the November USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4748 new profiles! Our new total is 153,062. We’re going for 250,000 profiles next!
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Susan Pearson created 126 new profiles during the November 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Thank you for joining the October USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3419 new profiles! Our new total is 147,729. We have less than 2300 to our 2022 goal! Wow!
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Susan Pearson created 25 new profiles during the October 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Hi Susan, I wanted to make sure you knew that the USBH Heritage Exchange set of categories is only used on people who were born and enslaved before emancipation in 1863. Also, If you create profiles for people during this time period, could you add the category "USBH Heritage Exchange" ? This will signal to our Heritage Exchange Team that we need to double check that all the Heritage Exchange categories are on the profile. Thanks! Emma
Thank you for joining the September USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2978 new profiles! Our new total is 140,351. We have less than 10,000 to our 2022 goal!
25 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 46 new profiles during the September 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Thank you for joining the August USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2400 new profiles! Our new total is 131,074. We have less than 19,000 to our 2022 goal!
50 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 70 new profiles during the August 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Information presented by Susan Pearson about Susannah Daniels was easy to read. She eliminated a brick wall!

Thanks

posted by Lewis Bland
Thank you for joining the June USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create almost 6000 new profiles! Our new total is 126903. We have less than 24,000 to our 2022 goal!
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Susan Pearson created 111 new profiles during the August 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Hi Susan, just letting you know we don't count the slave owner's profile for the Connecting Challenge because they are considered the first, anchor profile. Then we count each slave who is linked to their profile. Thanks, Emma
Susan, Thank you for joining the June USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3238 new profiles. Our new total is 113066. We have less than 37000 to our 2022 goal!
100 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 193 new profiles during the June 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Susan, Thank you for joining the May USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3182 new profiles. Our new total is 107702. We have less than 43000 to our 2022 goal!
100 Profiles
Susan Pearson created 105 new profiles during the May 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Hi Susan, when you create profiles for slaves and use a placeholder LNAB based on the slave owner's last name, please add the LNAB template found here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Slave_LNAB Thanks, Emma
Hi Susan, Thank you for joining the April USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4723 new profiles. Our new total is over 99,000. We’re so close to 100,000!

All first-time participants can add the participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

We’ve started the May challenge here: May Connecting Challenge.

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Susan Pearson created 92 new profiles during the April 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Hi Susan,

Thank you for improving the Pearson profiles I have been creating for US Black Heritage! I am big on research and adding all the documents I can find, but not so big on stopping to write biographies. I appreciated your additions. Some of these profiles I have on my list to add more family. I often have 30 or 40 tabs open at a time when adding families, so have to bookmark some people to come back to :-) Emma

Hi Emma, and thanks to you as well for leading such a huge and worthy project! I'm happy to contribute and have learned so much along the way. Sue
posted by Susan Pearson
Susan, Thanks for taking the Pre-1700 Quiz!

Pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, thus coordinating with others is essential.

Thank you for joining the Quacker's project. Please refer to the new recommended sources for Pre-1700’s.Cite Reliable sources

If needed here is the list Pre-1700 Projects list.

For questions, just ask!

Mary ~ Pre-1700 Greeter

PS If links do not work a WikiTree email, check on your profile page for this message.

posted by Mary Richardson
Hi Susan,

Thanks for having a Big Heart and adopting Orphan Profiles. You will want to read this After adopting orphans to understand what to do next.

David

posted by David Selman
Welcome to the Quakers Project! Please visit the project page and consider joining the Google discussion group.

Isabelle

Hi Susan,

Congratulations, you have now been a WikiTree member for one month! Here are a few ways to dive in even deeper:

  • Check out our blog, where you'll find a monthly newsletter along with tips, interviews, and guest posts from people in the larger genealogy community: http://www.wikitree.com/blog

Let me know if I can be of help.

Carole Partridge, WikiTree Mentor

posted by Carole Partridge
Hi!

Thank you for joining WikiTree. As a WikiTree Mentor I am available to answer any questions or help solve any issues you may be having.

I hope you're enjoying our site. Our primary vision is to build a collaborative tree with just one profile per person, so please make sure to look for duplicates on WikiTree before adding a profile. Having dates and locations attached to every person assists in our mission as well!

Feel free to check out How To Use WikiTree. It's a great step-by-step guide to get you started.

We also have our Help Index with links to topics you may have questions on. Don't forget our G2G Forum where many of our generous members help each other out.

And of course I'm here to help, just ask!

Alison ~ WikiTree Mentor

posted by Alison Andrus
Hi again Susan, We have a DNA project if you're interested  :D Just click the 'Find' menu, then select 'Projects', and scroll down until you get to the DNA project link.
posted by Patricia Roche
You are now a member of the WikiTree Community. Please note we are trying to build one Collaborative Tree which means one profile per person. It is important to ensure no duplicates are entered as you add any Profiles to WikiTree.

If you need any help getting started check out the help section from the menu, top left, or head over to the Help section or head over to the G2G forum and take a minute to introduce yourself in the Tree House, you might also want to check out the introductory WikiTree video that a member created.

Our Mentor Team are a friendly bunch of volunteers who will be glad to help you with specific problems if you have any.

Welcome! Patt

posted by Patricia Roche
Will be happy to volunteer to help grow the shared tree.
posted by Susan Pearson
Hello Susan, Welcome as a guest, to WikiTree! We're growing a FREE worldwide family tree, striving for ONE collaborative profile per person. Our Honor Code is a very important part of why our community is such a friendly place to grow your family tree so please take some time to read it.

Feel free to ask a question at our G2G forum. Our help pages, menu top right -very useful information.

Want to Join us? Click the volunteer button and leave a comment here on your profile - include how you can contribute.

Hope you'll join us ~ Happy researching, Patt

posted by Patricia Roche