Karen (Rollet) Lorenz

Karen, I am on the team for the connect-a-thon. I have come down with Noro Virus and may not get much done this time. Sorry!!!! I wil do what I can but wanted you to know! Thanks Terenda

Hello Karen,

We recently left a message on your profile to check in with the Profile Improvement Project (PIP). Would you like to continue with the Project on the Unknowns Team? If so, please respond to let us know. We would also like to hear from you with any ideas or suggestions.

If we don’t hear from you within 14 days we will remove you from the Project. You're welcome to rejoin the project with a quick Voyage refresher.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Kay Knight, Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Robin Shaules, Project Coordinator, Profile Improvement Project

Thank. e you Karen for your warm welcome. I don't come om very often. I know from my DNA that I have Swedish ancestors but have yet to trace them. All the best Anna

Thank you Karen for your warm welcome and for graciously offering me your help with questions. I'm very new at this, having begun work on my tree at ancestry having received my DNA results from ancestry. I've yet to upload my results to GEDmatch as I'm unsure how to do so though I do have an account. I'd like to post my tree here so it can be viewed by others who may share matches with me. I'm unsure as to how to do that. I have over 2000 ancestors on my tree at this point. I started earlier this year. I'm aware of some glaring errors and am struggling to correct them.

Thank you again Karen.

Sybil Rhea McCafferty Cochrane

Thanks Karen for steering me in the right direction. I was struggling to find the links on the android site.

Thank you for connecting me. I'm new to Wiki. My daughter and I have gone through our family tree that my Aunt so graciously sent to me when I was in college. We are thinking of doing a DNA test mainly to connect my grandpa's and dad's side. In the mean time I have my mom's side from my Aunt going back 3 generations after John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. I will keep adding to the family tree with a few memories of spending time with my grandparents and other information.

Hello Karen,

Thank you so much for the sweet note with the advice in it. I will give it a go as all this is really new to me. Hope I don't mess up too much.

Hi Karen,

I wanted to thank you for greeting me so well and with this being the best advice for being new: "Take your time, keep track of sources and ask questions. Check here for tips. " only there should be links there... one more thing to learn!

Not that I managed to follow your advice about sources. I 'm just remembering how to get around WikiTree. again, thanks Beth

Thank you Karen. I am new to wikitreer also. The reply I got from you means a great deal to me being the 1st of the year. You took time out of your holiday to welcome me to finding out about my family tree so I know I came to the right place to do that. Happy New Year Karen and I am looking to more correspondence in the future with you and others as this new adventure starts.

Thank you, Karen.

I am new at this, so I hope not to make too many mistakes. At 72 years I would like to find out about more of my ancestors before it is too late. Thank you, carl Murphy

Thank you, Karen, for the warm welcome. I have many pieces of my genealogical puzzle and will look forward to growing my tree. Maybe I will be able to find some missing pieces, too.

Thanks Karen. This is gonna be fun!

Thank you for reaching out to me so I can start my Wiki Tree. I have my tree on ancestry, family search and 23 & me but this site is a little different and I need to try to transfer my 5 generations until this site so that I have an accurate family tree. Then I can begin getting cited sources and facts. You're wonderful! Thanks again.

Connie

Thank you for your kind words.

Karen, thank you for your help with posting on Northwest Terriers for the 2022 Spring Connect-a-Thon. Our team seems to grow with each event!

Thanks for the welcome Karen x

Karen,

Thank you for contributing to the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

WT Appreciation Team

Thank you again for the kind greeting. Fingers crossed that the feelings of being in over my head go away as I learn how this all works. Have a nice day.

Thank you for again contributing to the Sourcerers Challenge in February!

Nan, WikiTree Appreciation team

Karen,

Congratulations on adding sources to 20 profiles during the January Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving the health of our One Tree.

Nan, WT Appreciation Team

Thank you, Karen. When I learn more about what I’m doing, maybe I’ll figure out what questions to ask! Thanks for your link.

Hi! I'm on the Northwest Terriers team and have made a few connections this morning, but nothing is showing up on our team report. Help!

Karen,

Thank you for your contributions to the December 2021 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

Nan, WT Appreciation Team

Thanks for your consistent sourcing with us, Karen!

Many thanks for all your hard work Karen.

Karen,

Thank you for your contributions to the November Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

Thanks for the welcome. I'm a little confused about some issues, like identifying my DNA registration number with Ancestry.com so I can include the data there on my WikiTree. I'm certain, though, there's lots of instructional material on YouTube and other places. Getting registered was a little confusing for me, so I'll have to go back and edit, as I come to understand it better. Thanks very much, and I look forward to learning from WikiTree, while perhaps becoming able to contribute at some point. - Ted Lehmann

Thanks for the welcoming e-mail. Much appreciated.

Thank you Karen for the welcome E-mail.

Thank you Karen I'm glad to be here!

Thank you, Karen!

It's nice to feel wellcomed

I am new to Wikitree. A friend added a tree for me but as it turned out there was 2 trees for me; Carmack-619 and Layton-2737. They were suppose to get merged, but not sure if they are because I am on a page where I just added my dad. Also it has Sister of Carmack(Layton) Carmack half. This person is me, same as Profile manager. I have been doing genealogy a very long time but new to wikitree. What can Be done to fix this mess. If my trees are merged what are they merged to?

Thank you for your help. I am sure you will be hearing from me many times. You were kind enough to notify me that I had duplicate profiles...you are correct. I tried to merge Eaves-1053 into Eaves-1052, but both were active. What do I need to do next? I make many mistake but hope I learn from them. Anyway, I will try.

Thank you for the welcome - I'm sure I'll have tons of questions and very much appreciate any help.

Bonnie ~

Thanks so much for the responses that I received. I am so appreciative of any help I can get on Glover Reynolds.

First let me explain that I tested my uncle as part of the Reynolds DNA project. With the help of one of the administrators and the BigY test we have made great progress so far. I am trying to find out where GLOVER Reynolds fits in and nail down his relationship to the others.

My ancestor: Claiborne (Clayburn) Reynolds born abt 1790 in Virginia died 1847 Whitley County, Kentucky.

BigYDNA results point to his father being Daniel Reynolds born abt 1770 and Daniel's father being John, born 1753 in Virginia.

Results seem to confirm that a Tarlton Reynolds was another son of John. That would make Daniel and Tarlton brothers. So Tarlton would be Claibourne's uncle. We also have records that prove that Tarlton traveled with John.

Although we don't have any DNA for them yet Family History identifies other sons of Daniel as Bradley, born in Tennessee in 1804 and William.

The 1815 Knox County, Kentucky lists Claiborne GLOVER, Tarlton and William. Daniel had sold his land in 1810. We believe it is him who shows up in Brown County, Indiana, Bartholomew Township in 1811 as an early setter. We believe he took Bradley with him. Glover mostly stayed in the Tennessee area until the 1830 census when he shows up in Lagrange County, Indiana along with Bradley. They are both there again in 1840. The 1850 census does not find Glover. There is an Elizabeth Reynolds age 70 who is living with her son John. She may be Glover's widow. Bradley is found in Clinton County, Illinois on the 1850 census.

Another researcher is trying to run down a descendant of William to be tested. I am trying to find one for Glover and Bradley. None of our family histories mention Glover so he is somewhat of a mystery. I am assuming that Glover must be a family name carried down, perhaps his mother's maiden name. His age in 1840, (60-69), may make him a brother of Daniel.

It has taken years to get to this point in unraveling these relationships. We could not have done it without the BigY DNA.

I have never used WikiTree but I am leaving no stone unturned. We are so close to knocking down this brick wall. Our match group on the Reynolds DNA project goes back to John Reynolds and Mary Wood.

Will try to provide any other info anyone would need. I have more records on all of these guys but i didn't want to muddy the waters with too much.

Jan Wilson

Thank you, Karen. Jack Myers and Laura (Knupp) Myers were my maternal grandparents. Great folks.

Hi Karen,

How do I upload my Ancestry.com DNA file?

Thank you for welcoming me to wiki tree

Thank You for the warm Welcome

Hi Karen, thank you so much for taking the trouble to suggest a merge between some of my family to your family. (Otto, Van Aswegen, Piek in Stellenbosch, South Africa)

Thank you, Karen!

Dear Karen, The Beverly Gerow you refer to is my wife of 47 years. Her Father was Laverne Akins (Deceased) and Eva Page (Deceased) . she has 1 brother, Ron Akins and a step brother Steven Periera and a step sister Linda Periera same Mother . We have 3 daughters,10 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren as of 1/11/2021. My name is Michael Gerow from Flint, Michigan.

Sincere thanks for showing me the “ropes” so to speak! Keen to get started!

Best wishes Karen

Thanks Karen,

You are wonderful to help so many people. Just curious how long you have been doing Wikitree, and what was your main goal when you started? I have hopefully made my profile public. I seem to have been thinking I am making it public, but it does not indeed make it public. One more question....

So isn’t “ yourdna portal “ website, the tool to help you upload our GEDmatch relatives? Weaver-12554 - is my 85 year old mom for whom my goal on Wikitree is to prove through DNA relatives, that her Grandpa was a Pless surname.

I have been able to prove the Pless surname is indeed my moms Grandpa’s name in Ancestry through DNA. I am having a difficult time trying to get my DNA matches from GEDmatch, Ancestry to Wikitree. Thanks

Thank you for the welcome. I am sure I will have questions once I have poked around a little!

Hi, Karen!

Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.

Keep up the great work!

Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Tried to merge Corliss 315 and 2 but "permission denied". Sorry :)

Thanks! Great job! We had another month of over 10,000 profiles sourced!

Thanks! Great job!

Hello, Karen!

Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree over the weekend. We are proud of your efforts.

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team