Cheryl Hammond
Honor Code SignatorySigned 3 Jul 2013 | 8,959 contributions | 425 thank-yous | 1,049 connections
Signed 3 Jul 2013 | 8,959 contributions | 425 thank-yous | 1,049 connections
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Cheryl M. Hammond
Born 1970s.
Ancestors 
Sister of
[private brother (1970s - unknown)]
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Biography
Hello! I'm writing my biography in the first person because I can.
I'm proudly—OK, smugly—a native fourth-generation Seattleite.
I'm a software developer, so I tend to think analytically. Sifting through mountains of complex, conflicting data is my idea of a fun weekend. No surprise I've been researching family histories as a hobby since the mid-1990s.
My paternal grandmother Eddy (Smith) Hammond got us interested in genealogy when I was pretty young. Once I got my own copy of the (spoken of in reverent tones by the entire family) book documenting one of her family's lineages, it only took a few weeks and a couple of emails to determine that its claims of royal descent were totally and obviously bogus. That experience shaped my views on evidence: namely, that I like for there to be some and for it to make sense. I've been a killjoy ever since, disproving my own family's lines and probably yours too.
On my mother's side, we kept a dresser drawer full of lovingly-handwritten family group sheets, copies of family Bible pages, and typewritten genealogical manuscripts from the Baumanns, Fowlers, Frys, and Moores. Every few years when I was a kid, we'd all sit down and pore over them and marvel at our history back to the third or fourth generation. It kind of blows my mind that I can use online resources today to find primary and secondary sources to the 13th generation and beyond—and to confirm that most of what was written generations ago really does check out.
My proudest accomplishment so far is (tentatively) breaking through the Hunnewell Hammond brick wall, with help from my aunt's 2013 visit to a pioneer cemetery in rural Iowa. My research on Ancestry enabled me to tell my father and aunts things—sourced, provable—that they never knew about their own father, Harry Hammond. As far as I know, I'm the only researcher working on this branch of the Hammonds, and it's exciting to be doing a tiny bit of original work.
Also in 2013, I researched my mother- and father-in-law's ancestries as a Christmas present to them, and was thrilled to document my partner's and stepdaughter's descent from a genuine Charlemagne Gateway Ancestor. Every few months I panic and go back and retrace the line from them to Thomas Owsley III just to be sure I didn't make some huge error. Later, I discovered that I have a Charlemagne connection of my own through Peter Worden.
In 2015-16, I also made some amazing progress on two more major brick walls!! Online newspaper archives from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, helped me discover the identity of my great-grandmother Agnes (McCaulskey) Rehbein's semi-estranged mother, Victoria (Matuszak) Lewandowski Michalski and her extended family, and confirm their Polish origins. A DNA match alerted me to the existence of a Polish online records archive (in Polish), where I was able to put together a strong case for the origin, near Danzig (now Gdańsk), of my great-great-grandparents Henry Rehbein and Marianna Gesella. I figured from the names that they were a mixed German-Polish family; now it looks like Marianna's parents were, too.
With varying levels of confidence, I can trace my descent back to a bunch of New England immigrants in the Puritan Great Migration. I keep a list of all my PGM and other immigrant ancestors here on WikiTree, recently moved to its own page. It's useful for me to keep track of what's known and not known about them.
Puritans are fun, but I'm actually majority German/Polish and Swiss. I've been lucky enough to connect with a Swiss researcher who wrote a book about our shared family's migration from Aargau to Sandusky County, Ohio in the 1800s. Unfortunately, it's in German and I only just barely know any German, so a cousin and I are using Google to help him translate the entire book into English one chapter at a time. Eventually we'll publish an English edition for all the USA descendants.
Yes, I do have a full-time job which isn't genealogy, and I also volunteer as a mentor for high school students through Minds Matter Seattle, and an alumnae admissions representative for my alma mater, Smith College.
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- First-hand information. Entered by me, because I can.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cheryl:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cheryl:
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Cheryl Hammond:
23andMe, GEDmatch M114514 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A944395 [compare], Ancestry member cherylmhammond
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Categories: Hammond-2140
Thanks for your contributions to Puritan Great Migration (PGM) project profiles.
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Bobbie and Sharon, Co-Leaders, Puritan Great Migration Project
Recently I've been focusing on cleaning up my list of PGM ancestors, updating it with a few new connections, and checking for new findings (excited about Jane Yates, for example). As I'm going through the list I'll sometimes come across a profile that would benefit from improvement and I'll try to clean it up and/or ask questions on G2G. I'll generally move on after that. And once I've made it through my own PGM list I'll probably move on to other projects outside of the PGM scope.
If there are specific efforts going on within PGM where y'all think I could be helpful, I'd be happy to chat about them, but otherwise I'm very content in my peripheral role! :)
Thanks for all you do as leaders!!
The Poland Project Coordinators: Skye, Tina & Maggie
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Kind regards from Black Forest
I appreciate your 'Thank-you' for editing the categories for Johann Albert Rehbein (1869-1942). A formal category structure for migration has been approved in Wikitree. 'West Prussia' does not fit in it. I can explain more if you would like.
I would like to correct the categories for Agnes Clara (Lewandowska) Rehbein (1887-1968), but due to the Privacy control I can not edit it.
Would you mind removing the word "West" from Category:Migrants from West Prussia to Wisconsin in this profile? This will link the profile to the approved migration category Category:Migrants from Prussia to Wisconsin.
Agnes was born in the province of 'Posen', which was not 'West Prussia'. As you have shown, the village of Jaronty was in the Prussian Kreis (County) of Hohensalza. There is a location category that you can add to this profile if you would like to. Category:Hohensalza (Kreis), Posen
Please advise me if you have any questions or concerns,
Steve Thomas, Leader of the Prussia Team in the Germany Project
edited by Steve Thomas
Thanks for contributing to Puritan Great Migration profiles over the last six months. Every little bit helps, so please keep those edits coming! Congratulations on joining Germany but PGM has first dibs ;)
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Many thanks!
Brad Stauf, PGM membership coordinator
I think we connect through Stephen Hammond, who is my brick wall. Your entry for him as son of Joseph & Rachel (Winslow) is the closest I've been in YEARS. I'd love to connect and hopefully confirm this is *my* Stephen. I've done DNA tests at Ancestry & 23&Me as Kristin Russell (maiden name) or Kristin Grip.
We're so happy to have you join the Germany Project! I've awarded you a project member badge.
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We're really looking forward to working with you!
Traci Thiessen ~ Germany Project co-leader
Thank you for also looking at the "George MILLS" of Jamaicia, LI NY. USA. He has 7 males on the FTDNA Site that match each other on Y DNA testing. One of which is my brother Kit #33009 as George MILLS, England. at one time on the old MILLS Y DNA Sit e of Charlene KING TINDALL.
I also did autosomal DNA test on Ancestry and match many others, some of which are of MILLS related family of Elias MILLS, son of Elias MILLS, son of Joseph MILLS and Sarah of Westfield, Essex Co, NJ.
Yes, can merge them as long as all the references and sources, notes and comments are NOT lost.
Thank you.
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I am Cheryl Gates. We share the Puritan relatives of Stephan Gates and Ann Verve as well as all of their relatives. He is my direct ancestor, I believe my 8th Greatgrandfather. I have learned that his father was a Hugonaught who defected from France to England. His name was Eustace (Gates) Jaques. I am having my brother do his Y DNA and will let you know.
I added her to the biography.
see source here: Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Vol. 19, p. 12.
Are you able to edit Elizabeth (Browne) Walker https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Browne-447
Widow Walker
Mother of Philip Walker
Here is a link to a book published back in 1861 which shows descendants of Widow Walker
https://archive.org/stream/memorialwalkers00walkgoog#page/n28/mode/2up
There is also Son James Walker, William Walker, and Daughter Sarra Walker married to John Tisdill