Steve Archuleta
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since I didn’t see any reaction from your side about the check-in message from May, I assume you don’t want to remain a project member. If I don’t hear from you within the next 14 days, I will then remove your Germany Project badge. If you do not wish for that to happen, please reply to the check-in message below or send me a direct message.
If this message finds you too late, feel free to re-request the badge by replying to our G2G join post.
Kind regards from Black Forest
it's annual check-in time 2023. If you still wish to remain a member of the Germany Project, please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. In this case please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help, with researching your German ancestors, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with Germany in order for knowledgeable people to see them.
If you wish to remain a member, we would like to learn more about your perception of the Germany Project in order to achieve a future development according to our members needs and wishes. For this, we created a survey, which we kindly ask you to fill-in.
In case you want to communicate, discuss and receive help about WikiTree in German, you might want to check out the WikiTree category at Compgen’s Discourse as well as the German Discord server Ahnenforschung.
Of course there’s still the official WikiTree Discord server, where we usually talk English. Feel free to learn more about Discord and the server at Help:Discord.
Kind regards from Black Forest
It’s Germany Project check-in time again! Please respond within the next 2 weeks and let me know if you’re still interested in participating with the Project. Remember, the only requirements for membership in the Germany Project are (1) that you work on at least one German profile every 6 months and (2) that you respond to this check-in.
Since you’re not working with one of our Sub-projects or Teams yet, please look at our main Project page for a full list and let me know which team you’d like to join.
Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. In your response, we welcome any feedback you may want to give on the project (what you like about it, what you’d like to see us do, what we could change, etc.)
If you ever have any questions, please ask. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
So I guess I am still in. In gratitude if for no other reason.
Remember I know nothing about researching German genealogy records, and don't speak or read the language the records are written in.
Members of the the Germany Project gave me & my family the 'gift' of our Becker-Neiderklein heritage.
P Kreutzer, US Civil War Between the States Project Leader.
I tried my best to do the profile pages of my ancestors who served in the CWar up to the Project's standards. And John Edwards... not an ancestor but tied to my family for over 5 decades because of the letters he wrote that somehow (?still a mystery) came into my Grandmother's possession. I'd like to have some of the folks in the project look at that one for opinions/comments... Mindy Silva added her personal touch and expertise to the J. Edwards profile, working with her is a such great experience.
But.... 'real life', a 5 state move, a new job that is consuming weekends as well, and a return to college to get the licensure the new job requires; I think it's best to step away from my WT groups until I got life somewhat under control. To me, being a part of a WT group means being able to contribute, or being involved at times, in some way. I can't do that with the CW Between The States Project (or any others). Best to step aside for a bit. I will just do a bit of family tree genealogy until the craziness mellows out.
Please don't think that I want to 'walk away' long term from this group.. I'm thinking short term (I hope), just need to put things on hold for a bit. Find a sanity balance between work and college. At some point in the future, I truly hope that you will be ok with me coming back to the group.
That would be my sincere hope. SA
Best wishes, Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
The Germany Project Leaders are doing their semi-annual check-in with all project members and we want to verify that you’re still interested in being a member of the Project. Please respond by private message and let me know.
Are you currently working with one of our Sub-projects or Teams? If not, take a look at our main Project page for a full list.
We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all your hard work. If you have any questions, please ask. We would also love to hear any feedback you may have for the project.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
I sent you a message a couple of weeks ago on behalf of the Germany Project and have not yet heard back from you. I hope you are well!
If I don’t hear back from you by the end of April, I will assume you no longer wish to be a member of the Germany Project and I’ll go ahead and remove you from our member roster. You are, of course, welcome to rejoin at any time via our G2G sign-up post.
Best wishes,
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
The Germany Project Leaders are doing their semi-annual check-in with all project members and we want to verify that you’re still interested in being a member of the Project. Please respond by private message and let me know.
REMINDER: add GERMANY to your followed G2G tags so you don't miss any discussions in G2G (see: Help:Tags#How_to_follow_tags Help:Tags).
Are you currently working with one of our Sub-projects or Teams? If not, take a look at our main Project page for a full list. We recently launched a new Profile Improvement Team and are seeking new team members. Let me know if you’re interested.
We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all your hard work. If you have any questions, please ask. We would also love to hear any feedback you may have for the project.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
Thank you for your questions about a Civil War profile you are developing. You sent to me quite a lot of information. The best thing I can tell you is each part of the man's life in the Civil War as well as his travel across unexplored lands will need documentation with sources. Military sources are sometimes harder to find than historical sources. I just say, keep looking, even in Familyhistory.org. Some sources can be listed as secondary sources. But you need primary sources to place him in the Civil War, as well as the regiment he served in. You need the source if he received any awards.
The Germany/German Roots Project is currently undergoing our member check-in and wanted to verify that you are still active and interested in being a member of the project. Are you currently assigned to or working with one of our Sub-projects or Teams? We have many new teams so have a look on the Germany project page for the list of them. Is there a particular Team or area you are interested in participating with? I would be delighted to help you get setup in one or more of our collaborative teams!
We use Google groups for internal project collaboration, so if you are not yet setup for access feel free to submit a join request and we will get that approved as quick as possible. We also ask that members check their follwed tags to make sure you are following the correct project tag (GERMANY) so you don't miss any disucssions in G2G.
We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all the work you have been doing. We look forward to hearing back from you and that you will decide to be part of the project as we move forward with the new teams for the project.
Please respond by email. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Kylie ~ Germany Project Leader
Welcome to the Germany Project. Please read the Germany project page add GERMANY to your list of followed tags, and can you please send me a private message with your email address so i can add you to our Google Group. The group is where our project communicates.
Thanks for joining, I look forward to working with you.
Kylie Haese ~ Germany Project Leader
Sorry I missed your message. 'RL' really knocked me off track, and to be honest, I lost my genealogy 'mojo' for a little bit dealing with it all. As I think more about it now, I am not sure about this. I am searching for help and support on tracing my German ancestors, confirming the region they lived in, their home town, and gathering good sourced and verifiable records as I explore this genealogy line. My hesitancy is that I really know nothing about my German ancestors except their names, when they emigrated to the USA, and about their lives here... ie. their lives in Germany are a complete mystery. Being clueless, I need help and direction on exploring my Germany ancestry from knowledgable WikiTree folks who have the time and are willing to educate me, I can't contribute anything to the project itself [yet]. I love learning new things, I am more than willing, motivated & excited to be a student, and to learn how to do German genealogy research from someone/people. I was recently mentored by some wonderful Wiki-folks who taught me the basics of how to read church records written in Spanish, even though my brain is 100% monolingual English. I have to learn the skills necessary to do basic German genealogy research work [find & confirm records on my ancestors] before I can contribute anything of support/value to the German project [Goggle group?]. I would appreciate your thoughts on this... my hesitation is not a 'withdrawal' of my interest in the Germany Project; it's just that I am a 100% clueless newbie regarding Germany, I feel that I need an 'education' first on how to do good genealogy work regarding my ancestors, the fabulous Becker brothers, before I can contribute to the Germany Project.
edited by Steve Archuleta
The Kurfürstentum Hessen, also referred to as Hessen-Darmstadt, had about 800,000 inhabitants at the time you are interested in and Becker is not an unusual name. I'm afraid that you won't get very far unless you can narrow your search down to a town or at least a region. Helmut Jungschaffer
I usually look for the sources which have a translated version. Or do a google translate..
Glad you took the mentoring course.
Mary
I feel sorry for your great-grandmother. It must have been a really hard start to her life.
Don't worry for now about those accent marks. You'll learn them over time working with the records. Your valuable research should have given you a great start with documenting your ancestors!
Mindy ~ WikiTree Mentor