Week 10 of The WikiTree Challenge was an exciting roller coaster of points and discoveries! Team members started slow with discoveries, and then quickly gained speed and steam-rolled right through those brick walls! People were working right up to the LiveCast adding new profiles.
These challenge participants added 225 profiles to her branches. There were 65 new direct ancestors and 160 nuclear relatives of ancestors. Twenty of the new ancestors were completely new to "Myrt!"
Altogether, more than 37 members made 3,874 edits to her ancestor profiles. Many did research, while others worked on profile narratives, looked up articles, added categories, and contributed in other ways.
Here are some highlights from our discoveries:
- Wilhelmus Brockman was born in Germany and died in Ohio, in the United States. He was a farmer by trade. Wilhelmus' parents, Gerard Bruckman & Joanna (Terlinden) Bruckman, were non-migrating ancestors, of Germany. Both were new to Myrt. Joanna gained eight additional direct ancestors, with the earliest being born about 1642.
- The parents of Charles Player were found. William Player and Jane (Lambe) Player were born in England and were married in St. Marylebone, Westminster, England.
- Anna Catharina (Becker) Lauck, a Palatine migrant, gained new parents this week. Hans Henrich Becker and Anna Clara (Ehlert) Becker had their children baptized in the Lutheran church of Dillenburg.
- Robert West was added as a father for Elizabeth (West) Cliff. Research was done carefully as there were two men with the name Robert West, born within a year of each other, and both christened in Hatfield. A third lived in Hatfield, a father to one of the younger Roberts.
- Anna Catharina "Catherine" (Ruehl) Laux gained new parents: Heinrich Ruehl and Elisabeth (Schneider) Rühl. Catherine had braved the new world, traveling aboard a Palatine ship in 1710 with her husband Valentin. Both died off the coast of New Jersey, with the newly orphaned children landing in New York.
Team Captain: Sarah Mason
MVP: Maddy Hardman
Top Bounty Hunter: Dieter Lewerenz
For more information see the challenge scoring explanation and check out the week 10 statistics to see a summary of all contributors.
If you missed the wrap-up LiveCast and want to see Myrt's reaction to our endeavors, you can view it at any time on YouTube.
Quotes:
Myrt was so touched by all our efforts, it was endearing!
- Wow! It's just astonishing!
- Wow! I'm just blown away. Thank you, thank you! I can't say thank you enough.
- Rob, I'm crying, you know that. No sleep for me tonight.
