Been using Wikitree for awhile, but more since about the beginning of the year (2023).
I see myself more as a researcher, reference sharer, and am focused on building some trees offline.
Discovered a gateway ancestor (Audrey Barlow Stafford) after committing the cliche'd mistake of overly focusing on male lines. I really appreciate the work that (not limited to, but certainly the one I have been most focused on), the Magna Carta group, as well as the Great Migration group, as they have steered me to some pretty great references.
I also might have some information around Nathaniel Thurber (as well as his children) who will eventually come up in the NEHGS Register - their current lead article (Winter 2023) is on a John Thurber, and Nathaniel is from his line about 4 generations down. Nathaniel served in the American War of Independence, and his pension application is available online (take that to mean that I have to find it again); add to that there is some other information that probably requires more thought than what I usually put into a messageboard post (in most places - as I tend to usually treat them as a version of a text message) -it feels like it ought to be a more properly cited post as I know of some published material, from his step daughter (who happened to be reasonably prominent artist in the 19th century in New England), and of course through Alfred King Thurber's own writings.
Come to think of it, I might have some source material on Albert King as well, but for me, anyways, it has ended up partly about how well one can tease out details of stories.
As I said, I am primarly focused on the earlier ancestry of my own gateway ancestor, so I expect to be sifting through various cadet branches of Staffords, and keeping them straight, as well as developing a larger narrative.
I imagine I will be in and out - I did go with a generic surname as for me, this isn't really intended to be overly personal, so I find that distance is useful for me to keep on task. :)
Pleased to meet you all.
~Steve