Susan (Emens) Hughes

Thank you for the Swartz merger. That’s great that you work on improving Wiki! I tried when you sent me the email request but some detail kept me from accomplishing it. Thank you!

Thank you, new to me cousin, for posting the "A Genealogy of the Nye Family". It is a great reference for all Nye descendants.

Don Holway

Susan, thanks for cleaning up Francis Ramsdale's information for me! I see we are 17th cousins twice removed - nice to meet you. I'm about to retire and will have more time soon to work on Wikitree; I need to do quite a bit of clean-up on the Ramsdales and Stanfields in my tree.

LaJuana West

Hello Susan.

I saw that you suggested a merge of two profiles for Palmer Coats/Coates (Coats-766 with Coates-2602). While I agree that these are the same person, I am hesitant to merge the two profiles because Coates-2602 has William Coates and Zipporah Palmer as the parents of Palmer Coates. Back in June of 2020, a Wikitree user, John French Ph.D., posted a very reasonable comment "Evidence should be presented to verify attachment of this profile to the indicated parents. His name does not appear among the children of this birth family in published sources."

Here we are in February of 2022 and this comment has not been addressed. I specifically left William Coates and Zipporah Palmer off of the Coats-766 profile for Palmer Coats (despite the fact that many Ancestry User Trees list them as Palmer's parents). My concern is that if I agree to merge the two profiles, William Coates and Zipporah Palmer will become the parents. This is highly problematic, as detailed by John French's comment from June of 2020.

So, I am dragging my feet on this proposed merge.

Hi Susan,

Thank you for adding your DNA Test information to your profile on WikiTree. Your information will be propagated to the profiles of your parents and your ancestors within about 24 hours of being added. It will also propagate to the profiles of the descendants of your ancestors, so they may see your information under the heading "DNA Connections" just as you can see theirs.

Getting started with DNA outlines how to proceed to use your DNA test information on WikiTree and DNA is a link to a collection of links about WikiTree's many features involving DNA.

The DNA Connections list on your profile will provide a visual way for you to find potential relatives on WikiTree who have also added their DNA test information. Using DNA tools at sites like GEDMatch.com, if you find a relative that matches your DNA sufficiently and you have genealogical sources for the intermediate relationships, you can mark the specific parental relationships back to the most recent ancestor that you both share as "confirmed with DNA." For details, guidance, and examples of how to properly document DNA confirmations, see DNA confirmation.

To find other potential relatives, continue adding sourced profiles for other lines until you can connect on all branches. The more branches you are able to add the greater the likelihood of finding potential cousins to match with. The process of identifying which branch elements of DNA relate to will better enable you to find matches that relate to the particular branches you are researching.

Have fun!

Laura ~ WikiTree Greeter

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Hi Susan

Thank you for participating in the Data Doctor weekly Challenge - for Orphan profiles. Every suggestion you cleared made our Tree that much better. The Data Doctor Team and the WikiTree community appreciates the work you are doing. Look forward to seeing join us for the next challenge.

Janet Wild

A Data Doctor Project Coordinator - Member of the WikiTree Appreciation Team

I saw today how much work you did on many of my Haight profiles along my line of ancestors. I believe I adopted a number of orphaned profiles some time ago and had not researched/fixed any errors etc... Anyway, you added sources and cleaned up many of those profiles and I think that was such a generous thing to do. My family line looks much better from all your hard work. Thank you so much.

Hi Susan,

Yes, that was her maiden name (Olive Mae Christenson). I've edited my trees on Ancestry and here. Thank you.

Susan,

Thank you so much for pointing out the duplicate Levi Richardsons. After the merge, my husband's tree grew exponentially, saving me from all that data entry I had been meaning to get around to for some time now! Diane

Susan, every contribution to WikiTree improves the quality of our Shared Tree. The Appreciation Team thanks you for all your efforts by making more than 1,000 contributions during the month of September.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Susan, thank you for each of your more than 1000 contributions to our Shared Tree for the month of August 2019. All of your work makes our Tree all that much better.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Welcome to the Connectors Project! Be sure to check out the Connectors project page to see some of what we do, our To-Do lists which have folks who need connected to our Global Tree, and please add the connectors tag to your G2G feed. We've also got a great sub-project, Connectors Chat, where we talk about what we're working on and where we'd like to help out. If you're new to making connections and want some simplified connections to work on, look at our Connecting Buddies page. Thanks for joining us!

Hi Susan!

The Appreciation Team thanks you for all for your hard work for reaching 1000+ (actually, over 1600!) contributions for the month July 2019. Onward and upward!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

Hello, Susan!

Very well done on your making 1,000 or more contributions to WikiTree in June 2019! We commend and appreciate all of your time and effort in helping to grow and perfect our Shared Tree. Keep up the great work!

Pip Sheppard ~ WikiTree Appreciation Team

Thank you so much Susan. You are the first to help me which I appreciate. No one seems to want to point me in the right direction for some reason. Thank you so much. The courthouse could not help me and now I’m guessing on the county where my grandfather was born, there are only 67 counties in Pennsylvania so that’s good. I just isn’t know where to go but with your help I may find something other than what I’ve found about him already. I’m looking for his parents and if he had brothers and sister. I had no idea there are certain places you can look. It will be a celebration if I can find what I’m looking for. Thank you again for being so kind and helping me.

Hi Susan,

Thanks for having a big heart ? and adopting those Orphaned Profiles. And thank you for all that you do on WikiTree! You have some beautifully sourced profiles. Every ancestor you honor in this way is beneficial to our global tree.

Mindy ~ WikiTree Mentor

Hi Susan!

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