Do you want to become an England Project member in 2020? [closed]

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Do you want to become an England Project member in 2020? [closed]

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The England Project is an exciting place to be at the moment! We have a few hundred active members improving and creating English Profiles. We have a strong sense of community, and a team structure where members work in their areas of interest. Amongst our activities we connect, source, and improve bios within our County Teams, we correct data errors, improve old Gedcom profiles, and encourage One-name and One-place studies.

Does this sound like something you would like to be part of?

Your England Project membership will begin with our unique Orphan Trail team (OT) which should take less than a month to complete. The OT helps you learn about building and formatting English profiles using English sources right back to 1700. It will empower you to research your own English ancestors!

Read all about it here.

We do ask that you make the OT a priority in your Wikitreeing activity to be able to complete it in a timely manner. If you know you won't be able to give it your full attention now, please apply to join the England Project at a more suitable time for you.

During the OT, we get to learn more about you and what your interests are. Once you have finished the OT you will join one of our other teams and make connections with members who share your own interests.

PLEASE NOTE: if you are just looking for help with specific ancestors in England, and don't wish to take the Orphan Trail and become active in the England Project, then post a message in G2G tagged ENGLAND and one of our helpful England Project Helpdesk team members will try to assist you :)

If you want to join us, please ANSWER below this post (not comment, or we may miss you!). Also please DO NOT put your email address in your answer - it attracts spammers! I will respond with joining instructions and get you into our England Project Google Group, which is how we all communicate.

Thank you!

Fran, Membership Coordinator, England Project

closed as a duplicate of: Do you want to become an England Project member in 2021?

asked Mar 7, 2020 in Requests for Project Volunteers by Frances Weidman G2G6 Mach 5 (53.5k points)
closed Jan 1, 2021 by Frances Weidman

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Answer 1 · 2020-05-14T20:18:46+0000

Hello, I am interested in joining the England Project and look forward to following the Orphan Trail. I have already been tracing family in several areas of England but more recently in Cumbria. I hope to hear soon from a Trailblazer. Thank you.

Answer 2 · 2020-05-15T06:48:21+0000

Hello. I am interested in joining the project. I am English, from Kent, and have a strong interest in my country of birth and its history and of genealogy, though I'm not an expert by any means. My mother's family were quite good at ensuring that my generation in the family knew as much as they did of their history, and I've enjoyed trying to fill in the gaps, and making many discoveries which my mother would find very interesting.

Reading through the description for the work of the Project I believe that I could do the work. I'm usually quite good at ferreting out information, and even better with good appropriate guidance when needed. Even though I'm in my early 80s I don't feel fazed about attempting to do this. I was doing some Indexing on FamilySearch for a while when I had time on my hands; I see projects like this as needing some similar approaches. There's no suitable Indexing available at this time, and I know it would give me a deeper understanding of the genealogical process. Old age has been no barrier to me learning new skills!

I believe that my knowledge and understanding English-British history/society/geography/language would be helpful. Even though I've been in the Antipodes for the past few decades, the distance has been advantageous to me gaining more insights and understandings of what I left behind as an already mature adult.

Thanks for reading this.

Answer 3 · 2020-05-21T17:37:19+0000

Hello Fran, I would like to join the England project, please. I am managing more the 70 English pre-1800 profiles. I have had the pre 1700 Certified badge since Sep 2018 and I am now begining to find many pre 1700 connections, particularly the family of Clifford-4130 (my 6th gt grandfather). I am the project leader of the Orme One Name Study. I would like to be able to collaborate with other team members, particularly on the older profiles.

Answer 4 · 2020-05-29T16:06:56+0000

Born in Somerset raised all over England. I would like to commit to something worthwhile as i do not work and would like to learn how to deal with my own tree and ancestors at some point. i would like to try the OT1.

Answer 5 · 2020-05-30T20:17:55+0000

I am a descendant of the Beresford Family. I have managed to trace my Beresford line back to a Hugh De Beueresforde about 1227? As a member of the Beresford Family Society who are rich in information, but I am interested in the England project for several reasons, A. where does my family name originate and, B. with so many ancestral connections to various families of nobility, how does it all come together? Would love to know more about the involvement and the requirements to become a member.

David Beresford

Susan Mellor · Answer 6 · 2020-06-01T02:10:48+0000

Hi Fran: My whole family is English, both sides (although I was born in Canada). I'd be interested in joining the project, but I have to admit I don't have a lot of time to spend on Wikitree right now, so I will leave it to you to decide!

Thanks, Susan Mellor

Answer 7 · 2020-06-10T15:31:50+0000

Hi,

I'm really new on Wikitree, although I've been on Ancestry, FamilySearch and FindmyPast for many years. I live in Kent, and my ancestry is almost entirely English, split between Sheffield (my paternal line) and London and Southern Counties (maternal line).
I am very interested in learning to format sources and biographies correctly on WikiTree and make a contribution here. I would like to join the England Project and the Orphan Trail
Kind regards

Maureen

Answer 8 · 2020-06-20T21:25:17+0000

Hi there. I am new here but thoroughly interested in genealogy. I have recently found my own Newfoundland-England connection and would be interested to help out with this project.

Answer 9 · 2020-06-23T18:02:12+0000

I would love to join this project. I descend from fairly recent english immigrants who came to the US in the mid-to-late 19th century on both sides of my family. I have had fun using sites such as FamilySearch to help find records. And I would love to expand my reach and knowledge in the English genealogical world.

Answer 10 · 2020-06-28T18:50:15+0000

hi i am already a member of the england project, but have been unactive for a while i would love to be involved in this to pass some time and i have lots of that available

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