Hi from a new member!

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Hi, everyone! New member, long-time genealogist. I just found out about WikiTree this week, via a question on TMG-L. I got curious, and immediately fell down the well. wink I have already set up my profile and adopted several abandoned ancestor profiles. This is evidently the nudge I needed to start making real progress on my research again.

I have been researching off and on since I was a teen (back in 19-mumble-mumble), with varying degrees of diligence and source discipline. I like to think I got better quickly thanks to my academic training, but I'm still finding irregularities from decades ago that make me blush. Life intervenes, of course, and once I slapped my makeshift website up back in 2008 (Roots and Threads, for the curious) it did so with a vengeance. I have hardly touched it since, and there are many, many embarrassing errors. It is also woefully out of date, as some of the problems listed there have been convincingly solved (for example, the identity and I believe the parentage of Mary Ann (Leach) Viles). I've been piecing at an update but WikiTree seems to have lit a fire this week. I hope to capitalize on it so I can finally sort and analyze the reams of evidence I've hoarded in spare moments over the last several years.

My lines of interest are Hollaman (IL to MO), Stubbart (Nova Scotia to the Midwest), Morford, Lyon, Viles (colonial New England to the Midwest), Spillman (Germana Colony through MO to CO), Hamlin (ME to MN to CO), and allied lines (McCormick, Lindeman, Sweet, Barrett, and the inevitable Smith, Brown, Wood, and Jones). Some are not yet well represented in WikiTree. They will be. I have been the beneficiary of some extraordinarily generous cousins over the years; I can never hope to repay them, so I will try to pay that generosity forward here.

WikiTree profile: DeAnna Burghart
in The Tree House by DeAnna Burghart G2G Crew (670 points)

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Hi DeAnna,

Welcome to WikiTree and to the G2G forum.

You may find these pages of the Burghart and Spillman profiles useful.

by Tommy Buch G2G Astronaut (1.8m points)
selected by Susan Laursen
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Welcome DeAnna to WikiTree!
by Michelle Enke G2G6 Pilot (407k points)

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