WikiTree LiveCast Secret Santa Challenge 2021

Question

What happens with the weekly LiveCast collides with the WikiTree Challenge?

Introducing 

The WikiTree LiveCast Secret Santa Challenge!

With the success of the Challenges this year, we couldn't resist slipping in one more challenge as we move from 2021 into 2022.  We couldn't think of a more appropriate way to honor The Year of Accuracy while moving into The Year of Family than helping our own WikiTree family members with their wishes.

We will be fulfilling genealogy wishes for Wikitreers by our very own Wikitreers!  We have collected over 30 wishes as voiced by our own members!

WANTED:  

--Elves, we need generous Wikitree elves who are willing to give their time and resources to help fulfill some of these wishes.  Elves will also answer this post and state that they are willing to help.  

ELVES: Please post all hints/answers/responses to wishes on the space page and try to wait until after kick-off.  The G2G is for wishes and Elf sign-up only please.

--Santa's Bag of Wishes is overflowing with great genealogy wishes.   There are so many great ones.  Join as an Elf to help!

Kickoff for the Santa Challenge is 8 p.m. EST on Wednesday, December 22nd.   The final reveal will be 10 a.m. EST on January 8th on the first Saturday weekly LiveCast of the New Year with Mags!

Important pages for Elves to bookmark when working on wishes:

• Real-time communication will be in Discord 
• List of Wishes for WikiTree LiveCast Secret Santa Challenge 2021 

Here is the template for the elves to put a sticker on their profile {{Secret Santa|2021}}
Which gives you this:

 

Answer 1

I would like to be an Elf

Comments

Yay Kay!  I can rhyme!

Answer 2

I could really use some help in finding the parents of Joseph Pechler (alternate spellings are Baechler, Pichler, or even more). He was born Apr 17, 1795 in Probfeld, Germany.

He married Katharina Ingold - Katharina was born in 1805. They had a son, Christian Baechler, who is my great-great grandfather. Christian was born in 1827. They had 3 other children, Katharina, Andreas and Joseph.

Joseph died in Probfeld, Germany on the 17th of April in 1834.

There are other Baechler families in Canada and I'd like to be able to connect them.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Comments

Is this family on Wikitree?  If so, can you provide a link to one of the profiles?  We will be adding all new info to WT profiles.

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Here is the link to Christian Baechler
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baechler-62

Thank you

Answer 3

Elf, elf Baby!

Here to sign up as an elf and peck away at some wishes, perhaps.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Comments

All Elves are welcome, Baby!  Thank you!

Answer 4

I'd love some help locating my ancestor Frank Nelson in Sweden before he came to the United States. His obituary says he was born in Stockholm on 3 Jun 1855. Around 1870, he went to work in Germany for about three years, then made a brief trip back home to Sweden, then came to America. He was in Logansport, Indiana, living with his cousin Gustave/August Nelson for a few years. Gustave died in 1880, and soon after Frank settled in Defiance, Ohio, where he married and had children. I don't really have any information about Frank's parents besides that they lived in Sweden.

Thanks in advance for anything you can find!

Comments

Your Swedish wish has been added

Answer 5

My biggest "brick wall" concerns my Snow immigrant ancestor, [[Snow-4 | Nicholas Snow]] ca. 1599-1676.  Although I and at least one other WikiTreer have Y-DNA tests that show our connection to him & each other, no one has been able to find his English origins.  Earlier attempts to link him to a Nicholas Snow baptized in Shoreditch, London in Jan. 1600 have been shown to be false (that boy's death record is in the same Jan 1600 church record).  This was found by Caleb Johnson for the Mayflower Quarterly in 2013.  See Note 1 on Snow-4 on WT.

Can anyone locate DNA evidence that could tie an English Snow family to Nicholas ?

Comments

Your English wish has been added

Answer 6

My brick wall ancestor is [Roberts-10083|Macedonia 'Donie' Roberts Brantley], my second great grandmother. What's in her profile is all I know.

Comments

Your wish has been added!

Answer 7

My wish would be to find more information about my GG grandparents, Carl Scheffler (Scheffler-265) and Josepha Kaczmarzik (Kaczmarzik-1). This is where my mother's line ends with incomplete 'vital' information. Their names came from my mother's Ahnenpas, a document she needed completed to be able to work in Nazi occupied Selesia, Prussia, now Poland.

I do not know if my Great grandfather Anton had siblings. My mother's DNA matches are at 3rd cousin to distant cousin matches. To date there are no Common Ancestors. It will be a paperwork to find her/my ancestors.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Scheffler-265

https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/78012844/person/38373150773/facts

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Our first Poland wish is added!

Answer 8

I wish for any help and information on my Loyalist ancestor John DeBeck https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DeBeck-24 or his family who arrived in New Brunswick Canada in 1783.  Also for his wife Elizabeth https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Althause-2 and son George https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DeBeck-12.  I am working on proving their profiles to UELAC on their (and my) behalf.  Merry Christmas to all!! 

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Our first Palatine Migration wish is added

Answer 9

I'll Work as an Elve ... snap.. crackle..  POP !

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Welcome Gerald!  We will need all the POPPING we can get!

Answer 10

I would like to break the brick wall of my great grandfather,  Lots of hints about the Field Family in Monmouth County, New  Jersey but so far nothing connecting him.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Field-5789

Comments

Your New Jersey wish is added

Answer 11

I would like to break the brick wall of my great grandfather.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Field-5789

I want to be an elf too.

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Great Nancy, all elves are welcome!  You are in!

Answer 12

I wish I could find my great grandfather’s parents plus his ancestors.  John Robinson (Robinson-45097) was my great grandmother’s 2nd husband of three and their marriage registration I cannot find.  I would love this branch to be filled out a bit.

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Your wish has been added

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Thank you so much!

Answer 13

My wish is to find the parents of my husband's great great grandmother, Alice Susan Tracy (Tracy-1289) .  She was born 9 Apr 1864 maybe Ohio, but more likely Indiana, as death certificate shows. She died 19 Mar 1946 in Eldorado Springs, Cedar Co Missouri and is buried at Humansville, Polk Co Missouri. I have seen her funeral card and have a copy of her death certificate which says parents unknown. She married Joseph D. Lee in Delaware Co Indiana on 29 Dec 1884.  They had 6 children all born in Indiana, but the last one. One child in Delaware Co Indiana and two born Alexandria, Madison Co Indiana. I want to debunk the information on Ancestry that shows her parents and the age on the census do not add up to the birth date above. If the idea of her being born in Ohio is correct in the 1880 census, there is an Alice Tracy living in Alexandria, Madison Co Indiana working as a hired girl the right age.  Is this her?  I can't find her in the 1870 census.

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Your wish has been added

Answer 14

I saw something in the thread that I might be able to help with. So I would like to sign up as a "tomtenisse" which is the little persons that help Santa in Sweden.

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Our first tomtenisse!  There are wishes for all kinds of elves in Santa's bag!

Answer 15

My genealogy wish is to find the birth place of my grandmother. She was born on October 12, 1902. Her name was Angelina Volpone (Volponi). Her father was Pasquale. Her mother may have been Annunziata D'omizio or Lenza Domenica. Angelina may have been from the Abruzzo region of Italy OR from the north. Her brother was born in San Salvo in Abruzzo. Her mother may have been from Bergamo Italy in the Lombardy region. I cannot find her birthplace or a definitive name for her mother. I would appreciate any help you can offer. Thank you!

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Our first Italian wish for Santa's bag has been added!

Answer 16

I have any number of brick walls that I'd like to see broken down, but my brick wall ancestor who was born most recently was Margaret (Crozier) Waddell, so if anybody can find her parents (and any siblings), I would be deeply grateful.

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and now our first Prince Edward Island wish has been added!

Answer 17

I need help reading several parish pages that were sent to me for my Slovenian family. The headings at least I believe are in German. Here's an example page:  https://data.matricula-online.eu/sl/slovenia/ljubljana/semic/02163/?pg=14

I have at least a dozen pages like this and I need to find my family on each page and transcribe the information onto the profiles. I might even be able to break down  a brick wall!

P.S. if you get any requests for family with Black Heritage, I'm happy to help.

Answer 18

First, I like being an elf, so I'll browse through and see what I can do to help.

Second, for my wish.  My Dad's (George A Brandt, Jr.)  family has roots in Prussia in the provinces of Branderburg and Posen in the late 19th century and very early 20th century.  I have found a limited amount of information which is documented in the profiles. Click on the ancestors link on my Dad's profile to see what I have found.

 But here I hit the brick wall because I am not able to read German, the family is Protestant (Lutheran) and those records are in German and many of the available records are also on pay sites that I have not subscribed to because I don't read German. I also don't read Polish and some of the more recent material is in Polish.

So my request to any Santa's elf who choses to help is that I would appreciate any additional information available on my Dad's family.

Mary Jensen (Brandt-1372)

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Thank you. your wish is added and welcome to the Elf Kingdom!

Answer 19

Santa's bag of wishes is overflowing with great wishes.  Please sign up below if you would like to be an elf.   The are nearly 60 wishes to choose from... Check out the space page

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_LiveCast_Secret_Santa_Challenge_2021

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I would love to know more about the owner of a silver tray passed through the family inscribed Joseph Bulmer JP (Justice of the Peace) and with the Bulmer family crest. Hall marks indicate it was made around 1808. Most of our Bulmers are from Yorks/Durham and he may be descended from the shipbuilder Bulmers of South Shields. 

A photo of it can be found here: https://pin.it/3whKPTy

Any info or leads would really make my Christmas!

Answer 20

This is such a great idea!.  I am working on two family lines, one for me and one for my husband.  I have hit brick walls on both of them and would love some help.

I have an ancestor named Nancy UNK Underwood (Unknown-34306).  She was the wife of Obed/Obediah Underwood, and they married in 1785.  He was Quaker and she was not, resulting in him being disowned from his meeting house.  I have not been able to find out anything about his wife, Nancy.  Many researchers claim that her name at birth was Blackburn, but I have been able to refute those claims, as I have annotated on her profile.  I would love to know more about her.

My husband has an ancestor named Charles Henry Stuart (Stuart-5466).  He was born in England in 1808 and according to family lore, stowed away on a ship for America because he was a second son and there wasn't anything for him in England.  Family say he landed in Baltimore and got work as a teacher, eventually showing up in Damascus, Early County, Georgia.  He married Margaret Merritt and they had three children.  He died in 1842.  I am not the profile manager for him and I believe more information and sources are needed to identify exactly who his parents are and when/how he arrived in the United States.

I hope you can help me.