Ukena Name Study

Date: 8 Nov 2023 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surname/tag: Ukena

Welcome to the UKENA Name Study

About the Project	How to Join	Our Members	Related Surnames
Research Pages	Tasks for Anyone	To Do Lists	Noteable Ukenas

About the Project

The Ukena Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Ukena name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Ukena name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Ukena's), by time period (18th Century Ukena's), or by topic (Ukena DNA, Ukena Occupations, Ukena Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Ukena Name Study, first start out by browsing our current Research Pages or Housekeeping Items to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Donna Baumann for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

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Research Pages

Please list/link any research pages that should be included in the study and your ID if you are currently working on the page.

• Ukena Surname in US Census - Donna (Tucker) Baumann
• G2G Posts with Ukena Tag

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Our Members

If you are interested in following the study or adding in any way, Please add your name and a short statement about your Ukena connection or interest. Please add to this page or affiliated pages in any way that you feel is useful. Also feel free to add your own To Do List to the bottom so others will know what you are working on or plan to work on.

1. Donna (Tucker) Baumann - I am descended from Eike Fooken Ukena (1793-1870) and am going to work on analyzing persons in the United States Censuses, who the immigrating ancestors were and working my way back into Germany to add family members.
2. Marion Weber I have no Ukena in my family tree, but I'm born in Aurich and East Frisia is one of my genealogical main research areas.

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Related Surnames and Surname Variants

Please add other variants that you find

• Uckena
• Ukana
• Okena
• Ockena

Currently, I have not included Uken, Ukens and similar spellings as they seem to be more likely variants of Akens or Aken.

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Notable Ukenas

Notables with Wikipedia Pages:

• Focko Ukena (1360 or 1370–1435) East Frisian chieftain
• Paul Ukena (1921–1991), American operatic baritone
• Theda Ukena (1432– 1494), regent of the County of East Frisia.

Tasks for Anyone

Anyone should be able to review profiles in these lists and work on fixing or improving them.

1. Review and try to fix Ukena Suggestions
2. Attempt to Connect Unconnected Ukena Profiles
3. List of Profiles with Ukena LNAB but might need the Ukena One Name Study Sticker
4. Improve Profiles - There are some Ukena profiles with Gedcom junk and minimal if no sources. Consider looking through out list of profiles and improving them. Ukena Profiles
5. Add Profiles
   1. Ukena profiles - No Spouses & did not die young.
   2. Ukena profiles - No Children and did not die young
   3. Ukena profiles - No Parents

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To Do Lists

Donna's To Do List

If you find anything on my list you would like to help with, just message Donna, help is always appreciated

1. Need to finish formatting 1900 census entries - DONE 11/9/23
2. Need to create/link profiles for 1870 entries - DONE 11/14/23
3. Need to create/link profiles for 1880 entries - DONE 11/14/23
4. Need to create/link profiles for 1900 entries - DONE 11/14/23
5. Review BMD records at FS and Ancestry for Ukenas and add to WT profiles.
6. Consider adding later censuses - 1910, 1920, 1930
7. Create list of Immigrants family lines back to home in old country
8. Link Germans to America Ukenas to profiles.
9. Need to create profiles for or link profiles to the Notable list.

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