M. (Tull) Meredith

Thank you for joining Appalachia Roots on the Connect-A-Thon. 

Our Team finished in 1st place by connecting 17,576 profiles! 

What an incredible job!!!  Check out the scoreboard.

We couldn't do it without you amazing team members! - See you again at the next Thon in July 2024!

Sandy & Patty - Appalachia Roots Co Captains

Thank you for participating in the January 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6202 profiles. We’re reaching toward a new goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

All first-time participants in 2024 can add the 2024 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

Thank you for participating in the December 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6214 profiles. We created a total of 46,036 profiles for the year. We met our 2023 goal of 250k profiles and finished out the year with 168,195!

You can see your personal 2023 total and your all time 2021-2023 total on the 2023 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

Thanks for joining Appalachia Roots on the Connect-A-Thon.  Our Team finished in 1st place by connecting over 16,000 Profiles! 

That is an amazing job!!  Check out the Scoreboard

We couldn't do it without you. We have awesome team members! - Can't wait to do it again at the next Thon in April 2024!

Sandy & Patty - Appalachia Roots Co Captains

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Sticker code for your personal profile can be found here

Hi Margaret, This year 27 members signed up to Connect Soldiers during the 2024 January Connect-a-Thon, which resulted in 367 soldiers being connected to family!!!! We beat last years score by 67 soldiers. Thank you for participating :)

Thank you, Margaret for checking in. I am so glad you create profiles, as well as edit many who need some TLC. It takes all of us to make a difference. I marked you Active.

Mary

Hi Margaret

This is the time for the annual 2024 check in with members of the Military and War Project. Have you been active during the last six months in the Military and War Project? Do you want to remain working with this project? Note that it is a requirement to respond to the Military and War Project Check-ins. Please respond to this message by clicking the reply button below this message, to post your answer. I look forward to hearing from you..

Many thanks,

Mary, Project Coordinator, Military & War

Hi Margaret, thank you for signing up to connect Civil War Soldiers during the Connect-a-Thon. Pam

Margaret! Thanks so much for making Appalachia 'Shine during our December 2023 Challenge. Our January 2024 Challenge is all about the Connect-A-Thon and adding Cemetery Categories to profiles.

Wishing you a very happy new year!

Sandy

Hi Margaret, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and New Years. Thank you so much for all you do for the Challenges, we have again completed a challenge adding more then 800 soldiers to the Andersonville National Cemetery.

The US Civil War January Challenge is to connect US Civil War Soldiers for the January Connect-a-Thon. This year will be a twist of what I usually do. Instead of you choosing a "Surname Letter", you will be choosing from a block of soldiers whom I've already screened that show they have family to connect. Each soldier has a connection to one or more of his immediate family--parents, siblings, spouses, children, on their profile. Whether you work on one soldier or your whole block of soldiers, it's one step closer in our goal to connect each of our US Civil War Soldiers. The goal is to make sure all these soldiers are connected at least by one or two degrees. You can sign up now by clicking this link: US Civil War Sign-up Chart

Thank you for participating in the October 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3315 profiles.

Hi Margaret, thank you for joining the December Challenge, here is the link to page 4: Page 4 it begins with Hiram Wallace grave 4624, page 5 ends with Charles Ward grave 2057.

Hello from the Appalachia Project!

Join us for our online Appalachia Project Party on Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at 2pm (EST)/7pm (UTC).

If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, look for an email with the easy instructions on how to join. If you are on our Project's Discord Chat Channel, all details were posted under Announcements.

(Please make sure to check your Spam folder as many have mentioned the Monthly Newsletter and other communication is landing in their spam.)

Need to sign up for the Appalachia Project Google Group or Discord channel: Google Group and Discord Chat Channel

Sandy

Hi Margaret, our November Challenge went really well, all of the Notable Officers have been connected to the One World Tree, and 69 of the Officers had their CC7 numbers increased. Thank you for the research you did, and for the profiles you created and connected for the Challenge.

Thanks for joining Appalachia Roots on the 2023 Source-A-Thon.  Our Team finished in 1st place by sourcing over 9,000 Profiles! 

That is an amazing job!!  Check out the Scoreboard

We couldn't do it without you. We have awesome team members! - Can't wait to do it again at the next Thon in 2024!

Sandy & Patty - Appalachia Roots Co Captains

We have finished the Shiloh National Cemetery by working together as a team. We added over 1,219 Soldiers to Wiki. THANK YOU for all the time, research and teamwork you gave to our September Challenge!!!

Hi Margaret, thank you signing up for the September Challenge, just wanted to remind you that the Challenge starts on the 4th of September, figured everyone could use a Labor Day Break :)

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!! Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery has now been completed, every soldier who died as a POW in Camp Chase now has a profile on WikiTree. Plus, we've improved many of the Find-a-Grave memorial pages by finding duplicates, putting in merges, and adding military records to the Biographies. Thank you Margaret for all you do for the Challenges and for the US Civil War Project.

The September Challenge will be to complete the Shiloh National Cemetery, if you'd like to join the September Challenge, here's the Challenge Link: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:USCW_Challenge_Worksheet

Hi Margaret, thank you for creating the June Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery Challenge, we had thirteen members who created about 970 profiles plus updating 110 profiles for a total of 1,080 soldiers. A fantastic month.

IT HAS ARRIVED!!!!!

We need the Kentucky Project Members to join the Kentucky Genealogical Society's WikiTree Challenge! We are going for the record.... over 500 new profiles!

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1592825/wikitree-challenge-research-kentucky-genealogical-society

Hi Margaret, congratulation again on winning the May 2023 Connect-a-Soldier Challenge. We had 20 Wiki members who created over 2,000 profiles. Thank you for all the support you give the Challenges.

Hi Margaret, thank you signing up for the soon coming Connect-a-Soldier challenge. I'm so excited that we'll have the tracker to keep track of the profiles we'll be creating. It will start Monday May 15th and end Friday May 26th. Thank you.

Hi Margareth, Thank you for participating in the March-April POW’s who Died in Andersonville Prison Challenge, there were 25 members who contributed to the Challenge. At the beginning of the challenge there were 137 Profiles created, we are now at 1,629 profiles.

In case you’d like to continue creating profiles for these soldiers we have a new space page https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:POW%27s_Who_Died_in_Andersonville_Prison whose purpose is to steadily create profiles for the 12,681 soldiers buried in Andersonville National Cemetery.

Thank you again for joining the Challenge.

Thank you Margaret for taking the lead for the Southern Super Sweepers team this weekend during the April "Connect a Thon". We as a team appreciate all you did for completing the challenge and getting over 700 points. Wishing you the best in future endeavors!!

Hello from the Appalachia Project!

Join us for our online Appalachia Project Meetup on Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 at 7pm (EST). If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, an email was sent this morning with all the details. If you are on our Project's Discord Chat Channel, all details were posted under Announcements.

Please make sure to check your Spam folder as many have mentioned the Monthly Newsletter and other communication is landing in their spam.

Appalachia Project Google Group and Discord Chat Channel

Sandy

Hi & thank you for joining the Virginia Project. We have two google groups - one for discussion and one for managed profiles. Send a join request if you'd like to join either or both (include your WikiTree ID so we know it's you).

If you haven't already looked it over, Virginia Project is the main project page and has lots more information.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers, Liz

Hi Margaret!

Are you related to the Stacks family? I was the person who left the Research Note about the missing burial location on the profile of Mary Ann Sorrell Stacks (Sorrell-632). She is my 3rd great-grandmother. Mary's father, my 4th great-grandfather, was named Green Berry Sorrell. Her son, my 2nd great-grandfather, was named William Green (or Greenberry) Stacks after him. Mary Sorrell in Jefferson County had a different father. We have no reference to him in the family at this time, but I would love to link him at some point! I had not seen the Find-A-Grave page for Mary. It has her correct parents but is missing my 2nd great-grandfather. I'll contact the person who is maintaining the record for Find-A-Grave to see if they will add him.

Edit to say: I won't contact the person about adding my ancestor until we find out about the Find-A-Grave profile. You made a good catch there!!

I appreciate your assistance with the profiles for the Stacks/Wakefield family and the stickers you added!

All the best,

Pam Parker

Thank you for participating in the February 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5295 profiles. Our new total is 184,311.

All first-time participants in 2023 can add the 2023 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

We’ve started the March challenge here: March Connecting Challenge.

Margaret here is another really good source for the Andersonville POW's: http://www.civilwarprisoners.com/search.php?database=andersonville

Margaret,

Welcome to the Milttary and War progect https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Military_and_War. This covers many wars including the ones you mentioned: World war II https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:World_War_II and Vietnam War https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Vietnam_War as well as others.

I have awarded your Military and War badge.

We use the Military and War google group. https://groups.google.com/g/wikitree-military-and-war If you apply for it, please include your full name and WikiTree link, so that I will recognize it and approve the membership

Mary Richardson, Project Coordinator Military and War

Hi Margaret, just wanted to let you know we have been given permission to use the Memorial images from Find-a-Grave on the Soldier's we're creating.

Credit: Kevin Frye Andersonville Historian has given permission for us to use the images on Find-a-Grave

Hello Margaret,

Thanks again for signing up to RAWK five fellow WikiTreers in the month of March.

Here is your RAWKERs sticker code. To display this on your profile, just add curly brackets at each end:

Community Event |image=WikiTree_Event_Images-1.png |text=was a RAWKER |event=We Will RAWK You Event

If you're on Discord, please do join us on the We Will RAWK You channel using this link:

https://discord.gg/fQ2Z3mFw

If you're not yet on Discord, this Help page should get you going:

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

Looking forward to researching with you!

Kathy

Hi Margaret, thank you for participating in the KIA at the Battle of Shiloh Challenge for February. There were 510 Soldier profiles created during the Challenge. Margaret thank you for all the time and effort you put into the Challenge.

The March Challenge will be to create profiles for the Union soldiers who died while POW's in the Andersonville Prison.

Thank you for replying to the Great War Project July 2022 check in (subproject of the Military and War Project), Margaret. It is good to hear you are working on the WW I soldiers. I have marked you as active.

Mary, Project Coordinator, Military and War Project

Margaret,

It is time for a July 2022 check in for the Great War Project. I am sending this message on the behalf of the leader of the Military and War Project. Have you been active in the Great War project in the last six months?

Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the Military and War Project that you respond to these check-ins. To make bookkeeping easier, just click Reply to this message on your own page, add your reply, then SAVE or post reply. I look forward to hearing from you..

Thanks,

Mary~ Project Coordinator, Military and War Project

We recently merged a profile for Freemont Robinson (Robinson-38785). I think that this may have been a mistake. According to the death certificate you provided his parents are NOT Melanthon Robinson and Amanda Harshman. If it is ok with you I will go ahead and remove him completely from any connected profiles that connect him to these people and turn over his profile to you due to the fact that I cannot find any sourced information that proves he is a child of Melanthon and Amanda.

Hi,

Thank you for your participation in October’s 2020 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

Incredibly great work during the 2020 Scan-a-thon! Our Tree has been enhanced by your efforts to preserve photos and documents, Geneadiva!

The Appreciate Team THANKS YOU!

Pippin Sheppard Appreciation Team Member

Thank you for adding 1850 census for John J Tant!

Here is the profile for the team free space page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:2019_Team_Tennessee_Volunteers_Source_-_A_-_Thon

and here is the chat profilehttps://www.wikitree.com/g2g/900841/2019-team-tennessee-volunteers-source-a-thon-chat

Geneadiva I have fix a free space page that they haven't on the list of teams they have it connected to last years source - a - thon and also G2G chat. On the list of teams click on the G2G chat and there is a link to the teams free space page and I have you on the list on the free space page. So click on G2G chat beside the Team Tennessee Volunteers name and then it will show where there is a link to it before you click Answer, Comment.

Hi Geneadiva!

In July 2019, you made 1000+ contributions to our Shared Tree! I commend for your time and effort. Keep up the great work!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

PS: You have ancestors in a few of my NC counties.

Scratch pad: how to add Findagrave Memorials;

Copy source from Findagrave.

Remove the (https:www.findagrave.com, then add the template

Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 July 2019), memorial page for Frances A Randolph (8 Jan 1864–3 Sep 1875), Find A Grave Memorial no. 16030836, citing Coal City Cemetery, Jasper, Walker County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Olive Oyl

(contributor 46829644) . Find A Grave: Memorial #numerals,

Find A Grave, database and images accessed 29 July 2019), memorial page for Frances A Randolph (8 Jan 1864–3 Sep 1875), Find A Grave: Memorial #16030836, citing Coal City Cemetery, Jasper, Walker County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Olive Oyl (contributor 46829644) .

Geneadiva,

Hang in there! You are doing great on the Connect A thon!!!

Geneadiva if you could send me a private message with your email I will like for the other team mates of Team Tennessee Volunteers I will make your the team free space page profile manager

Hi I would like to invite you again this year to join the 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon and join the Team Tennessee Volunteers 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon this year I am going to be the leader like I was for Team Tennessee 2017 Source-a-Thon. I will also be the leader of Team Tennessee Volunteers 2018 Source-a-Thon too this year. Notice the change in the name of the team. Here is our free space page:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Tennessee_Volunteers_-_2018_Spring_Clean-a-Thon. It is April 21 - 23. You need to register for this by April 19th that is the last day to register.

Star this is the link you need to go to and The registration deadline is April 19, 2018, at 12:01 am. Note: Please post as an answer not as a comment. Thanks! https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/586403/will-you-participate

Geneadiva are you going to join in the fun and do the 2018 Spring Clean-a-thon this year you have till April 19th. Here is the page to go to register. Just follow the instruction at the top.https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/581587/will-you-participate-in-our-2018-spring-clean-a-thon-current?start=0#a_list_title

Hi, I would like to invite you again this year to join the 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon and join the Team Tennessee Volunteers 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon this year I am going to be the leader like I was for Team Tennessee 2017 Source-a-Thon. I will also be the leader of Team Tennessee Volunteers 2018 Source-a-Thon too this year. Notice the change in the name of the team. Here is our free space page:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Tennessee_Volunteers_-_2018_Spring_Clean-a-Thon. It is April 21 - 23. You need to register for this by April 19th that is the last day to register. Here is the G2G page to go to register:https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/578811/will-you-participate-in-our-2018-spring-clean-a-thon?start=60#a_list_title. Plus you can add your name, plus your Wikitree ID plus your email on the free space page and go to the privacy tab and click on the trusted list to be added to it and leave your email under where they have the managers listed and I will make your a profile manager of the free space page.

Thank you very much from the Team Tennessee Volunteers fearless leader Linda Barnett of Barnett-3517.