David Howse
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David Howse

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David W. Howse
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Hi David

When you recently made a change to the Wikipedia link on Vera Lynn's profile, you changed it from the official WikiTree template. Just to let you know it was actually already correct.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Welch-9234

posted by Ros Haywood
Hello David.

I was surprised to find that a profile for my father Cal smith had already been created and extremely surprised to find that you have a family tree for him. I knew nothing of his family before my great grandparents. Please contact me if you can. I would love to know what information you have.

posted by Melissa Smith
Hi David,

I'm interested on how you came to the conclusion that the Rev W. George Stratton, born in Safe Harbour, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland to Stephen Stratton and Annie Arnold on 14 Jul 1927, married twice in New Brunswick and died on 11 Apr 2006 at age 78 in Fredericton, York, New Brunswick is the same person as John Hampton Stratton, born in Bedford, Colony of Virginia in 1765 to Henry Stratton and Sarah Hampton and died about 1838 at about age 73 in Montgomery, Virginia; represent the same people. I confess I'm at a loss as to a connection.

posted by Aaron Gullison
edited by Aaron Gullison
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Hi David,

Archibald LING & Mary LAIRD are my 5th Great Grandparents. Been researching my mother's family since 1992. I am still in the process of adding my information as most of it is on Ancestry. If you want, I have made a FB Page up with most of our cousins if your interested in joining. Our main idea is for all our cousins to meet and share research material etc. Our Group is private: Our LAING Families and our DNA Matches.

Leanne :)

posted by [deleted]
Hi David! It's great that you're working on adding profiles to our shared family tree.

In regards to: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bungay-107

Please see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Uncertain_Locations

It is WikiTree policy to add locations (particularly birth locations) to profiles for the purposes of searching and matching.

Brad

posted by Brad Foley
David.

On the following profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cheater-43

you added a link to FamilySearch "sources" and there are zero sources in the list.

Please reread the Honor code.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Honor_Code

Please read the discussion of sources:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Sources

If you are using a "source" that has no sources, it's the same as not using sources.

Brad

posted by Brad Foley
Hi David, you added a father for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cheater-16

Do you have any sources to support this relationship?

It's very important to document our work, to add sources, and explanations.

Brad

posted by Brad Foley
edited by Brad Foley
Hi David. On a couple to profiles you created, and connected to some profiles I manage, you cite "the research of Cliff Lilly". This does not help me, or anyone.

A minimally sufficient citation will answer the following questions. Who is Cliff Lilly? What research has he done? Where is it, and how can I find it? Did he use primary sources in his research?

Importantly, if Cliff Lilly used primary sources, you need to cite those.

Please review the links to WikiTree policies and help on citations I sent you two days ago.

posted by Brad Foley
Look at this profile you made:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Manuel-4329

How am I supposed to make anything of this? There is no birth record, no marriage. I have no idea who Julia's parents were, or her maiden name. There were dozens of Manuels in Exploits at the time, without records it's literally impossible to sort them out. It's difficult even with records. I have no idea what's going on here.

posted by Brad Foley
Hi David. I can see that you added a link to the source of the information for Julia. That's much better, and I appreciate you are making an effort to document your work. As yet, the birth and marriage records for Julia are not valid sources, but I'll send you some suggestions how you can improve your sourcing efforts in a way that'll help you, and anyone else looking at these profiles. The Canada project has just started an at-your-own-pace guided tutorial for sourcing and research that I've been going through myself. I can hook you up with a guide.
posted by Brad Foley
Hi David, if you could make sure to add a birthplace to the profiles you create, it's a huge, huge help to anyone else trying to locate the profile.

Brad

posted by Brad Foley
Hi Brad, I always add a birthplace, if it is known to me at the time of their profile creation and I agree it is very helpful for everyone. But, I feel it is better for other collaborators to at least have a starting point with a posted name and birthdate, which is the minimum requirement of Wikitree.
posted by David Howse
My problem is that when you create whole family groups without places, I need to click through and read your links on the profiles to figure out where they lived. I'm not even working on these family groups,.and sometimes not even in the same province, and you're making extra work for me.

I understand the minimum info policy, but you'll help the whole community work more easily if you add the best place names you can in the provided fields when you create profiles. You'll save potential collaborators, and other people, hours of work.

posted by Brad Foley
And you'll save a potential world of trouble with duplicate profiles. I've just spent two days sorting out triplicate replicate lines, apparently because none of them bothered with place names.
posted by Brad Foley
Hi David,

The England Project Leaders check-in with the members every six months to see how people are getting on. How are you doing? I notice you've dropped out of the Orphan Trail. Is there a particular reason for this? I'd love to have your feedback.

One requirement for membership in the project is that you contribute to a team at least once every six months. Are you willing to rejoin the Trail or would you prefer to leave the project for now and focus on other things? If you do the latter you'd be most welcome to rejoin later on.

Please respond to me via e-mail.

Many thanks,

Susie, England Project Leader :-)

posted by Susie MacLeod
Hi David,

Under Ash-2464 wouldn't Mary Ash last name also be Barnes as well. Her Husband and Daughter last name is Barnes.

posted by Patrick Grenier
Hi David!

Congratulations on making more than 1,000 contributions to WikiTree for the Month of May. We all appreciate your efforts to make our Shared Tree the best it can be. Keep up the great work and THANK YOU!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
Would you know the origin of the name 'Mahershalahashbaz George Goulding',

born 30 Jun 1910 in Dark Cove, Newfoundland. Am just curious. His parents and siblings have rather traditional UK-centric names.

Bill Golden [email address removed]

Best regards, Bill Golden

Facebook - Research of Golden/ing and Goulden/ing families http://www.facebook.com/GoldenGenealogy

posted by William Golden
David,

There is a record on Ancestry.com for the marriage of Lenora Gibbons to Robert Wiseman 28 Dec 1901. I haven't found Lenora in my tree but I have many from around Newfoundland. My father was born in St John's. Two surnames that are in my tree are Howse and Gibbons. Martin Peckham

posted by Martin Peckham
Hello David,

Thanks for taking the Pre-1700 Quiz!

Because pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, working within the projects which coordinate them is essential.

Use the Pre-1700 Projects list to find one which best fits your research focus, whether time period, location, or topic. Read the goals and tasks of the project and join if it is a good fit.

Add the project tag to your Following list to be kept up to date on any activity that occurs for that project.

Can't find what you're looking for? Let me know, and I can make some suggestions! :-) Natalie ~ Pre-1700 Greeter

posted by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
Hi David, my name is Brad Foley, and I'm the coordinator for the Atlantic Canada Team, as part of the Canada project. I've noticed that you're working on a lot of profiles for people in Newfoundland, and I'd encourage you to check out the Newfoundland project https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Project:Newfoundland if you haven't already. We're trying to make sure that every Newfoundlander is proudly recognised for their place in Newfoundland history.

We'd also love to hear from you, and get your ideas and input. One great way to keep an eye on what the project is doing, is to add newfoundland to your list of followed tags. That way, you'll get a list of current Newfoundland topics on your page.

posted by Brad Foley
Nice to see your work on the Newfoundland Churchills:

George

posted by George Churchill
Hi David,

DId you get my msg about adding you as a manager to the profiles of Adora and Bert King? Please let me know. I received an email saying that the reply I sent you went to the "noreply" box. So not sure you got it now. You have been tho. :) Added I mean.

posted by Betty Tindle
Thanks for adding that source! I'm not familiar with the book, but I'll see if I can check it out.

A couple of other really good places for source information are FamilySearch, which often has images of the actual records that you can refer to (and also a preformatted citation for each record!), or the Newfoundland Grand Banks site.

Regardless, thanks for adding details, and sources, to the tree.

posted by Brad Foley

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