Helen (Thornton) Holt (b. 1930s) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Helen L. Holt formerly Thornton

Born 1930s.

Ancestors

Daughter of Frank Thornton and Vena Gwendolene (Cleveland) Thornton

Sister of Vena (Thornton) Haller and [private sister (1940s - unknown)]

Mother of [private son (1950s - unknown)], [private son (1950s - unknown)], Shari (Holt) Lyon and [private son (1960s - unknown)]

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Helen Holt

[send private message]

Profile last modified 28 Apr 2024 | Created 11 Dec 2017

This page has been accessed 2,796 times.

Helen has completed the Profile Improvement Project's Voyage

Biography

Helen (Thornton) Holt is a New Mexican.

Helen Louise Thornton is the daughter of Frank Thornton Gwendolene Cleveland.

She is on the 1940 US Census with her father Frank, and Mother Gwendolene Thornton. ^[1]

My Genealogy interest started with researching in 1970 by collecting information from every family member I met. In the early 1990's I started documenting all the information. After seeing an original 1930 Chicago US Census that a cousin had in her possession, it really brought forth many questions and a need to keep searching this Mystery puzzle of Genealogy. while researching my husband's Holthoefer family in 2013, I met other cousins of the Holthoefer family, and we co-authored the book "Holthoefer Family History" which we then published in September 2015. Robert J. Yagley was main author and did all work of putting the book together and getting it in print.

Now in the beginning of 2018, at age 80, I decided to to do my "Thornton Family history". I decided what better place for it to be than on WikiTree, where it would be free to anyone, collaborated, corrected if needed and hopefully enjoyed.

Sources

↑ 1940 United States Census; Census Place Barcelona, Bernalillio co., New Mexico. Data base on Line: Home 1500; Line 11-14 (14); April 11, 1940; Ancestry's 1940 Census Image

First-hand information. Entered by Helen L Holt at registration.

Only the Trusted List can access the following:

Helen's formal name
full middle name (L.)
e-mail address
exact birthdate
birth location
images (1)
private siblings' names
private children's names (4)
spouse's name and marriage information

For access to Helen Holt's full information you must be on Helen's Trusted List. Please login.

DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Helen or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Helen:

100.00% 100.00% Helen (Thornton) Holt: AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A539557 [compare], Ancestry member Chashele_H76

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 Helen:

Helen Holt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 30, 2023.
Helen Holt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 14, 2022.
Helen Holt is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 11, 2022.
Helen Holt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 13, 2022.
Helen Holt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 27, 2021.
Helen Holt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 27, 2021.

Comments: 40

Leave a message for others who see this profile. If you prefer to keep it private, send a private message to the profile manager.

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Hello Helen,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing a check-in. The Project operates in a team structure with these participant PIP Teams -- The Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and three Biography Teams. There is also the Voyage Team which guides 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, working on profiles from your watchlist and other profiles that interest you. The other two Biography Teams work on Abandoned and Popular profiles from the provided lists. Please let us know if you are content with your current Team or would like to change to one of the others.

If you have not already done so, we invite you to join the email GoogleGroup. We use the WikiTree Discord server #profile-improvement channel for our project. 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 Mar 14, 2024 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Helen (Thornton) Holt

As a member of the Biography team , I first worked on my own trees, then have worked the last year on the Dyer tree- dyermaeettaavg 2010. ged on 11 September 2010, until it was taken off. I am currently working on some of them from the suggestion list.

posted Mar 14, 2024 by Helen (Thornton) Holt

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Thanks for letting us know, Helen, and for all the GEDCOM cleanup work you are doing. We really appreciate it and the tree is so much better for it. Debi

posted Mar 15, 2024 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Hi Helen!!Thank you for your consistent improvement of WikiTree by participation in the Sourcerers Project during 2023!

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Jan 01, 2024 by Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Bill Feidt

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the March 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

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

posted Apr 01, 2023 by Bill Feidt

Bill Feidt

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the February 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

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

posted Mar 01, 2023 by Bill Feidt

Wes Miller

Hello Helen,

Thank you for adding sources to Amos Bennett-25821. I see that you selected Harriett French-6110 as his wife. While I know he married a woman named Harriett, I did not know her maiden name or that she was the daughter of Ichabod French and Abigail Olmstead. Do you mind sharing the source of that information?

Thanks again.

Wes

posted Feb 10, 2023 by Wes Miller

Helen (Thornton) Holt

Mainly his own Find a Grave Profile. Her last name is on it in Italic. He is on her’s also. Ancestry research also shows her as his wife.

posted Feb 10, 2023 by Helen (Thornton) Holt

Wendy (Skillings) Taylor

Thank you, Helen, for all the sources you added this month.

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the In the Money milestone by sourcing 300 profiles in the January 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Feb 01, 2023 by Wendy (Skillings) Taylor

Nancy (Quillin) Long

I'm new here and I don't want to add a new person that is already here. Thank you for the information that you placed on 2nd great-grandfather, Ira D. Quillen. There is already a profile for him (Ira D) and I don't know how to merge him as the father of my great-great-grandfather, Beverly Johnson Quillin. It feels that I might need to make a profile for Ira D...and then try to merge from there. Without adding an Ira, the comparison shows Ira D next to B.J....which of course, are not the same person. The father of my BJ. has the profile Quillen-552. Any suggestions would be helpful.

posted Jan 29, 2023 by Nancy (Quillin) Long

Mel Bishop

Hi Helen!

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the December 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for all your work this month and in 2022 for the Sourcerers Project! Happy New Year!!!

posted Jan 01, 2023 by Mel Bishop

Mel Bishop

Congratulations on earning a 100+ sticker in the November 2022 Sourcerers Challenge and thanks for all the improvements you've made to WikiTree!

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the November 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Dec 01, 2022 by Mel Bishop

Mel Bishop

Thanks for all your work, Helen!

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the October 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Nov 01, 2022 by Mel Bishop

Bill Feidt

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the September 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

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

posted Oct 02, 2022 by Bill Feidt

Bill Feidt

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the August 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Helen, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

posted Sep 01, 2022 by Bill Feidt

Bill Feidt

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the In the Money milestone by sourcing 300 profiles in the July 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

posted Aug 01, 2022 by Bill Feidt

Robert Hunnicutt

Dear Helen,

Thank you so much providing the image of Reverend Henry Staples. He is a great-grandfather and I had no idea what he would look like if you had not provided his image. Thank you so much!

Robert

posted Jul 20, 2022 by Robert Hunnicutt

Dorothy Barry

Hi Helen:

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

Could you go here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1424768/wikitreers-join-the-fun-join-the-integrators-challenge-JUN 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.

posted Jun 14, 2022 by Dorothy Barry

Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Helen,

Thank you for contributing to the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge!

WT Appreciation Team

posted Apr 02, 2022 by Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Robin (Dodge) Shaules

Hello Helen,

In the PM I sent you I forgot to mention that we will help you with Discord and the GoogleGroup soon.

Best, Robin

posted Feb 23, 2022 by Robin (Dodge) Shaules

Robin (Dodge) Shaules

Dear Helen,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing its first annual check-in with our project members. 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. Please let us know which team(s) you would like to participate in.

We would also like to invite you to join the email GoogleGroup and text chat Discord channel for our project. (When you request to join our GoogleGroup, please be sure to include your Wiki ID). You will find more information on the GoogleGroup.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project and WikiTree. The Project’s mission is to:

Make profiles beautiful! We clean up messy biography sections and sources, and try to set standards for attractive, useful, and well-written biographies, starting with those we manage.

We know you’re working on profiles *smile* We would like to hear about successes you’ve had toward the Project’s goals. We would also appreciate any feedback you might have to help us improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or privately via private message to either of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Robin Shaules Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

posted Feb 23, 2022 by Robin (Dodge) Shaules

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Thanks for your consistent sourcing with us, Helen!

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2021 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Jan 03, 2022 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Helen,

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 Jan 03, 2022 by Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Thanks for sourcing, Helen!

Helen (Thornton) Holt reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the November 2021 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Dec 07, 2021 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Donald Howard

Hello Hellen. While checking ancestors not managed by me (and work on them not done by me), I ran into one of your profiles. Looks like we a probably cousins. Distant at 8th cousins - but our gedmatch results look promising. Me and my dad share 8.2 cM and 8.4 cM segments on the same chromosome, and in really close starting and ending locations.

Thomas Vinson Jr (1696-1764) is closest common ancestor. I enjoyed the really good work you did on your profiles with sources and bios. Also, looks like you are active in the Source-a-thons. Me too.

If you use facebook at all, I have a multi-family genealogy page with people that are related. I'll write to your email with the url. I don't think we are allowed to put urls in these boxes. Or you can go to my bio. It's public.

posted Dec 02, 2021 by Donald Howard

Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Helen,

Thank you for your 206 contributions to the November Sourcerers Challenge! That's quite an achievement, and a great step forward for the health of our One Tree. Congratulations!

Nan

posted Dec 01, 2021 by Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Philip van der Walt

Hi Helen, thanks for trying to integrate Johanna Petronella (Badenhorst) de Vos (1803-). I was in the hospital when I last visited this profile in the beginning of this year and was negligent in leaving templates and categories to indicate that this is a project profile.

In the Dutch Cape Colony project, we do not follow PIP's journey because it is too impractical to work with narrated texts, Instead we collate data. Many of the pre-1800 profiles would have been merged over and over, due to duplicates. It is much easier to collate than narrate. Also we have quirks (as do other projects) of not using the middle name field, and signing our edits with our names.

I reset the bio of Johanna Petronella (Badenhorst) de Vos (1803-), collated with your slightly tweaked edits.

posted Nov 13, 2021 by Philip van der Walt
edited Nov 13, 2021 by Philip van der Walt

Dorothy Barry

Hi Helen!

Thanks for participating in the Integrator Challenge tracker for the month of October!

We have the October Challenge posted in the G2G forum. Please don't forget to sign up at: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1308737/wikitreers-join-the-join-integrators-challenge-october-2021 in order for your contributions to count.

Thanks, Dorothy, Integrator project Coordinator

posted Oct 22, 2021 by Dorothy Barry

Rosetta (Helm) Link

The Pricilla Hewitt Wilbanks profile is on the merge list waiting for approval from other profile manager. It will stay on waiting list til other profile manger approves or for said time period then it will be merged, Thanks

posted Jan 28, 2021 by Rosetta (Helm) Link

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Thanks for your note, Helen. I received the profile that you would like me to review. I'll be doing that tomorrow evening and should be getting back with you then or Sunday morning. Debi

posted Oct 19, 2019 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Dirk Laurie

I have credited Arvin Leon Thornton Jr for a photograph on G McC Theal's profile.

posted Mar 29, 2019 by Dirk Laurie

Amy Brooke

I noticed you added Weaver as an interest so I checked to see if we are related. We are, but not as expected! It is through your grandfather's side rather than grandmother's. Just sharing. Amy

posted Dec 02, 2018 by Amy Brooke

Shan (Ward) Dawson

Hi. Just thought I'd let you know we are 6th cousins 2xs removed through the Cardens. =)

posted Dec 01, 2018 by Shan (Ward) Dawson

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Hi Helen,

Thanks for taking the Pre-1700 Quiz!

Because pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, working within the projects which coordinate them is essential.

Use the Pre-1700 Projects list to find one which best fits your research focus, whether time period, location, or topic. Review the project page to learn how to collaborate with the project members.

Can't find what you're looking for? Let me know, and I can make some suggestions! :-)

Debi ~ Pre-1700 Greeter

P.S. If links do not work in an email from WikiTree, try them from the comment section on your profile page.

posted Sep 17, 2018 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Vicky (Freeth) Majewski

Hi there! My name is Vicky (Freeth) Majewski and I am a WikiTree Mentor.

This is just a courtesy e-mail to see how things are going. Are you enjoying WikiTree so far? Any questions? Any issues?

Feel free to contact me via my profile page. I am happy to help!

posted Dec 26, 2017 by Vicky (Freeth) Majewski

Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)

Helen,

I have used a gedcom a couple of times, once with the new procedure just to see how it works. You will wind up doing each entry one at a time even if you use a gedcom. Before deciding check out GEDCOM Help. Should answer some of your questions.

One factor to consider: you will not be able to load your entire tree from ancestry.com via gedcom. It is too large so you will need to split it into smaller files.

Shirley

posted Dec 18, 2017 by Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)

Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)

Hi --

Youve been here about a week, so Im just checking in. How is it going so far? Were the How-Tos helpful or did they leave you with questions?

We want to help! Click my name, then ask in the comment section of my page.

Shirley ~ WikiMessenger

PS Sometimes links don't work in emails. You can always find a link that works in the public comments on your profile.

posted Dec 18, 2017 by Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)

Bill Dunkley

Hi again Helen,

Welcome to the WikiTree family!

You are now a full member and can add your family to the big tree! Start with our New Member How-To pages. They will save you time, energy and frustration as you add your family profiles. We are so happy to have you here in the WikiTree community. Please let me know if you have any questions. I'm always happy to help! I've been here over 4 years and still don't have ALL the answers, but I try hard.

Wildbill

WikiGreeter

Bill D :-D

p.s. Sometimes links don't work in emails. If that's happened to you, check the public comments on your profile as the links will work from there.

posted Dec 11, 2017 by Bill Dunkley

Bill Dunkley

Welcome!

Just a note to say hi and to let you know that I'm available to answer questions about Wikitree. You can contact me by clicking the link to my name, then sending a private message or posting a comment on my profile page.

Wildbill

WikiTree Greeter

Bill D :-D

posted Dec 11, 2017 by Bill Dunkley

Rejected matches ›

Featured National Park champion connections: Helen is 16 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 23 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 16 degrees from George Catlin, 16 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 21 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 18 degrees from George Grinnell, 28 degrees from Anton Kröller, 15 degrees from Stephen Mather, 25 degrees from Kara McKean, 15 degrees from John Muir, 20 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 26 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.