Bea Wijma is a Wonderful WikiTreer

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Bea,

Already in such short notice, you are showing team effort and help and communication!  If I could hug you in person I would!

Thanks for helping!  If we could find that ship, I am sure much would be explained!

Hugs!

Tanya
WikiTree profile: Bea Wijma
in Appreciation by Tanya Lowry G2G6 Mach 1 (18.8k points)
Sure is - she is one of the best and most kind

Thanks Navarro you are pretty amazing as well ! heart

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Thank you Tanya and big hugs from the Netherlands, so love your enthusiasm,  and of course will try my best to find the ship and hopefully the deeper ancestors. That we all can work on them together is what makes WikiTree such a great place eeh. 

One little tip ;) before creating early (Pre-1700) ancestors it's probably a good idea to ask if perhaps a family or lineage you are related to or interested in and perhaps would like to add, isn't already known and present at WikiTree, you can just ask Project coordinators/ leaders or members, if they know if they are present already and if perhaps someone can show you where they are if you can't find them. 

Especially if these people were New Netherland (or other) Settlers / emigrants/ immigrants, and their ancestors, because most of the early families (lineages) already are present and many lineages and LNAB often are corrected, for example if people were not born with a last name that only the later generations used (backwards projected last names) and were known only by their patronymics, these patronymics are their LNAB at WikiTree and if lineages had errors or if families were conflated or mixed up, those are (going to be) corrected at WikiTree as well, so they sometimes can be really hard to find around here if  you are not aware of this. 

One profile for every person that ever lived is a great goal, but can be pretty hard to achieve with thousands of very enthusiastic members, it's also why we work with projects, because this way we can monitor things a bit better and manage and work on them with all project members together (and try to prevent new duplicates :P). But well ... 

eeh and have fun ;)

by Bea Wijma G2G6 Pilot (303k points)
selected by Susan Laursen
I appreciate your kind explanation.  I have experienced accidentally making duplicates (the system did not show any matches...which I found odd)  thankfully but annoyingly those can/have to  be merged.  

Practice makes perfect.  I just want to meander into Holland and find the family truth.  :-)

thanks again for being "there" for me "here".

i am off to correct some tree stuff. I found a spot where some ships and passengers are listed!  nothing positive thus far, though.  

Sincerely,

Tanya.

PS. If its okay, might I ask you for this guidance re making sure no duplicates before I move forward?

My pleasure Tanya and you so remind me of me when I just arrived and still had to learn and discover everything about WikiTree, also enthusiastic and so love love loved (still do) the goal to have just one profile for everyone that ever lived, we didn't have so many projects and guidance as we have now, and I remember I created a whole bunch of duplicates for our Dutch kings and queens, because I couldn't find them and when I created profiles for them there was no match popping up cheeky

Our search engine is improved but it just won't recognize for example that Jan Andries and Jan Andries de Graaf with the same dates and places perhaps are matches, so we still need each other (and projects) to prevent or find duplicates.

Anyway I discovered soon that they all were already present and falling under the European Aristocrats Project that has it's own naming convention (no prepositions added to the LNAB and using House names only). So don't worry we all made the same or similar mistakes when we just arrived, but we have a lot of wonderful members who totally understand these things happen and who love to help and the beauty of WikiTree is that we all are here to help each other and work together on building one world wide tree eeh.

Also looking for the ship here and also no luck so far, and will send you some links to sources ;)  

And happy to help of course, so if you can't find them just ask you know where to find me eeh :D

Congrats Bea, love your fall photo and saying!!
Thank you Dorothy :)
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Keep Shining

Thank you, Bea, for all you do! It is appreciated by us All.

Thank you, Tanya, for recognizing Bea!

by David Selman G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
Thank you so much David, and all the same for you, pretty amazing yourself and a big thank you for making all new members feel right at home from the start !
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Congratulation Bea I could not agree more Tanya, Bea is a superstar a treasure for wikkitree, always helping where she can.

Bea is simply the best
by Susan Laursen G2G Astronaut (3.0m points)
Thank you Susan you are pretty awesome as well just read the wonderful post of SJ about your meeting in Spain, you all look so great and happy. WikiTree really is the best place ever to meet family and new friends eeh, and when we finally meet it's like we all have known each other already our whole life...it's really amazing :)
How right you are Bea when we meet it was like we have know each other always, the talk never stop from we meet, and SJ s wife Poul too like they had know each other always

It was amazing

Sure can imagine that, I met my cousin and his wife from America last year and my teammates in Amsterdam and it was the same..so awesome and ...amazing eeh, we all never met and only know each other true and from Wikitree and when we meet for real it's like we all are family laugh heart

What an amazing historie it is so wonderful to meet people you never know before then it is just like family you have know always thank you for telling me love the story
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A true super star!  Way to go Bea!  Well deserved!
by Laura Bozzay G2G6 Pilot (817k points)
Thank you Laura..just on my way to the weekend chat :D

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