Jack Kelly
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Jack Kelly

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Jack F. Kelly
Born 1940s.
Ancestors ancestors
Brother of , , [private brother (1940s - unknown)], [private brother (1940s - unknown)], [private sister (1940s - unknown)] and [private brother (1950s - unknown)]
Descendants descendants
Father of and [private son (1970s - unknown)]
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== Biography ==

Jack Kelly has Irish ancestors.
Jack Kelly was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States).
Jack Kelly was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
Jack Kelly served in the United States Army in the Vietnam War
Service started: Jan 1970
Unit(s): 101st Airborne Division
Service ended: Nov, 1970
Descendant
Descendant of William the Conqueror (per [1]).
Descendant
Descendant of Edward III (per WikiTree).
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Jack Kelly has Magna Carta connections.
Jack Kelly is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger John Alden.
Descendant
Descendant of PGM migrant Walter Hoyt.

I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1949 but grew up Tyngsboro, Mass a small country town. My father was very proud of his service in WWII and from a young age I wanted to be a soldier. After graduating from High School in Lowell, Mass I spent a year working locally before joining the Army in 1968 the week I turned 18. I enlisted to become an avionics repair tech however while marching to class a UH-ID/HUEY MEDIVAC painted white with a red cross emblazoned on the side flew overhead and landed on the Parade Field and I was awestruck. I volunteered to become a Helicopter Pilot and was accepted during the last weeks of my avionics training. I graduated as a Warrant Officer Helicopter Pilot in December 1969 and in January 1970 shipped out to Vietnam.

I served seven- and one-half years in the Army, during this time I became a dual rated pilot flying both Helicopters and Fixed Wing Aircraft. I was rated in 18 different aircraft. After receiving my degree, I transferred to the Air Force as a Commissioned Officer and began flying in USAF Special Operations with the 20th Special Operation Squadron. In 1984 I was gravely injured when the MH-53H Pave Low I was flying had a catastrophic tail rotor failure when a metal defect caused it to fall off, of the 15 people on my aircraft I was the only one injured. It took 18 months to recover, and I was then assigned to the Pentagon as a Staff Officer. Another surgery forced me to accept my fate as I was too disabled to continue, and I was medically retired in 1987. I worked for Lockheed Martin for 17 years as the Business Development manager for Special Operations training. I retired from Lockheed and began life as a dedicated amateur genealogist and now spend most days and evening adding to my greater family’s genealogical record. I'm married now for 49 years and have two children and five Grandchildren. I work diligently to entice more of my cousins and descendants to join me in this continuous exploration of our ancestors’ lives.

Sources

Massachusetts, U.S., Birth Index, 1860-1970 for John Frederick Kelly

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2345

  • * Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Jack Kelly and Jeanne (Kelly) Dery, his sister. Their most-recent common ancestors are Robert Kelly and Lena Arsenault, the parents of both Jack Kelly and Jeanne (Kelly) Dery. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Sister, based on sharing 2656 cM across 50 segments.

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It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Jack or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
  • Jack Kelly: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-BY226160, FTDNA kit #B545441
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Hello Jack, and welcome to the American Revolutionary War (1776) Project! At the project home page you will find useful information:

American Revolutionary War (1776) Project

We use Google Groups for Project communication. While sign up is optional, it is highly recommended. When you request to join, be sure to include your Wikitree ID number:

Google Groups Page

You are signed up for the Research Team. Please stay alert for new research opportunities via our Google Group communications. Please let us know if you have any questions!

Betty - 1776 Project Leader

posted by Betty (Skelton) Norman
Hi Jack,

I see you've added a Native American sticker to at least one profile. Please be sure to include some sort of evidence that the person was Native, or had Native origins or heritage. Ideally, we include |tribe= followed by the tribe name.

Thanks.

-- Jillaine , project coordinator WikiTree's Native Americans Project

posted by Jillaine Smith
Hello Jillaine,

Could you provide me the persons wikitree ID#. I am not sure who it is. Thanks Jack Kelly

posted by Jack Kelly
Here's one: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Farr-252

You added it to many colonial Massachusetts Farr family members

posted by Jillaine Smith
Jilliane Thank you for notifying me about this, I have reviewed all of my direct ancestor Farr's and did not find anymore. Is there a way for me to see which stickers I have put into all people? I would like to fix anything I have done in error.
posted by Jack Kelly
I did find the Check sticker compliance tool and it does not show any other sticker issues. I think I may have confuse the native sticker which is missing from all of the Farr descendents. So hopefully it is now fixed and again thanks for your assistance.
posted by Jack Kelly
I removed most of them or restored them to their previous condition because there was nothing on the profile to support them being Native American. Basically if you're going to add such a sticker, be sure to include some sort of source that supports the claim that the person was Native American. Thanks!
posted by Jillaine Smith
All looks good, Jack, well done and thank you for persevering!

Kind regards, Margaret

Hello Margaret, Thanks for all of your assistance in placing my DFC award correctly. You are certainly a great Wikitreerer. I do appreciate your guidance and help.

Jack Kelly

posted by Jack Kelly
Hi Jack, you still have that red incorrect category on your profile, the medal template needs to be changed to: |medal=Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)

Currently you have; |medal=Distinguished Flying Cross Medal

Once that is changed, you will be placed in the correct category, which is Category: Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)

Kind regards, Margaret, Categorization Project

Hi Jack, you might have noticed you have a red category on your profile, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kelly-10128#categories that has been caused by the medal template which adds a category. The part of the template should be:

|medal=Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)

I hope that makes sense, regards, Margaret, Categorization Project.

Hi Jack, I see you used the USBH Connecting Challenge button on the tracker to record 12 profiles you added sources to. I assume you meant to use the Sourcerer's Challenge button instead. I wanted to let you know so you can choose the correct button in future on the tracker and get credit for the challenge you are working on. Thanks, Emma MacBeath~~US Black Heritage Project
Hi again Jack

Please note message I sent you 19 days ago about signing up for the Integrator Challenge. IF you don't sign up your contributions will NOT be counted.

Thank you, Dorothy, Integrators Project Coordinator.

posted by Dorothy Barry
Hello Dorothy,

I’ve tried to join but I still find it somewhat difficult to figure out things here on Wikitree. I’ll figure it out in time. Thanks Jack Kelly

posted by Jack Kelly
Hi Jack,

I see you have a mayflower connection to John Alden like me we are cousins nice to meet you through Nehemiah Hayden (1647-1718) we are 9th cousins 1x removed

Scott

posted by Scott Wessel
Hi Scott,

I do link to John and Priscilla and proud of the connection. Best Jack

posted by Jack Kelly
Hi Jack:

I noticed you chose our Integrators Challenge again for this month (July 2021), thank you!

Got a question, see this page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works

Thank you and Good Luck!! Dorothy, Integrators Project Coordinator.

posted by Dorothy Barry
Thanks, Hope I signed up correctly.
posted by Jack Kelly
HI, I see you are working on merges, you may want to review Merging FAQs to understand your responsibilities in doing merges. Remember, after the merge you will want to clean up the text. During a merge, the text from the merged-away profile is simply appended onto the end of the text of the merged-into profile. You will want to integrate it into a single biography and a single sources section. Thanks so much for helping improve Wikitree! If you have any questions, just let me know.

Robin Lee Wikitree Mentor

posted by Robin Lee
Hi Jack,

Congratulations on being Pre-1700 certified!

Based on your pre-1700 ancestors, it looks like you are going to be working on profiles that fall under the England Project. You also expressed an interest in the LDS Project:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:England http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:LDS

Because pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, coordination is essential and project participation is strongly encouraged. You have already added the LDS tag. Check out the project and add the england tag to your profile too. That way you will see their discussions in your G2G Feed and any changes to related pages.

Have questions? Click my name, then ask in the comment section of my page.

Debi ~ Volunteer Coordinator

posted by Debi (McGee) Hoag
Please add a statement(s) to this profile explaining how DNA was used to confirm the parental relationships. Here are the instructions: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DNA_Confirmation

Let me know if I can help with the wording. Thanks!

posted by Kay (Johnson) Wilson
Welcome! We are so glad you are here! Please let me know if you are interested in joining our WikiTree DNA Project: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:DNA or our FamilyTreeDNA.com public page at https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/wiki-tree/about

If you have not done so already, please set your preferences for your Tags Followed of interest to you to include DNA: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Following

If you are adding any DNA test info to profiles on WikiTree, please be sure to add the tests to the actual test participant's profile, and that the Privacy is set to show the participant's Family Tree tab.

We also encourage you to join our Google+ Community for DNA discussions, questions and new information: https://plus.google.com/communities/111329829039015718912

posted by Kitty (Cooper) Smith
Hi John,

I do have Kelley's, Kelley's, and other Irish family members. I did check on GEDmatch and found that on lower SNPs levels and Cm levels we share chromosomes 1, 7, and 9. And welcome to the Wiki family.

posted by Rebecca Walker
Welcome to Wiki looks like your exploring DNA genealogy, Having your family tree posted does wonders to help, Just starting mine, and I have my first DNA confirmation.
posted by L (Sibley) S
Hi John,

Welcome to the WikiTree family! The initial email from us has useful links that will get you started.

WikiTree is different because our goal is to have one profile per person, and that means we all work together as one collaborative team. (It still amazes me to create a profile, include what little I know about an ancestor, then get a message that a new cousin has added details that I never had a clue about!)

When you confirm your email address, you have an option to volunteer to add information to WikiTree. If you do, you'll be asked to add tags to your profile. (Tags are surnames, locations, concepts, etc. that you'd like to track.)

A greeter will then confirm your membership, and you'll be on your way!

Carole

P.S. I'm always happy to answer questions.

posted by Carole Partridge