Karen (Carter) Andersen
Honor Code SignatorySigned 1 Feb 2015 | 3,240 contributions | 232 thank-yous | 3,909 connections
This week's featured connections have Italian roots: Karen is 17 degrees from Frank Sinatra, 27 degrees from Pasquale Aleardi, 22 degrees from Lucrezia Borgia, 19 degrees from Frank Russell Capra, 23 degrees from Stefano Casiraghi, 28 degrees from Guy Lombardo, 26 degrees from Sofia Loren, 21 degrees from Guglielmo Marconi, 25 degrees from Pope Urban VIII Barberini, 20 degrees from Umberto di Savoia, 21 degrees from Martin Scorsese and 19 degrees from Rudolph Valentino on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
Hello! Please check your email to find a message from me. (Sometimes they get placed in your spam folder.) I'd like to offer help and address any questions you might have as you continue your journey on Wikitree.
We have received both of your messages regarding Pre-1500 certification. We originally sent you a message on 2/27/2024. You may want to check you SPAM folder for an email from WikiTree regarding this subject, sometimes they end up there.
Please see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Pre-1500_Profiles to understand the requirements for the certification.
I received your email about the Ancestry DNA test problem you are having. I think that is a problem with your Ancestry DNA page rather than your WikiTree page. The only DNA test showing at WikiTree on your profile is for 23 & Me.
Debi
Are you still actively researching the Calverts, Glasfords, and connected family? I would like to clean up their profiles and add sources, but I thought I would check with you first.
All the best, Jason
I would love for you to clean up the Calverts, Glasfords, and Connected family. Feel free to do it. If I need to turn any of the files over to you, I will be happy to do so also.
Thank you for adding the DNA Test to your profile on WikiTree. Is that your test info or your husband's? I ask because of the note included in your communications preferences section. If it is his, it needs to be moved to a profile for him because DNA at WikiTree provides a visual way to find others who have tested and have the potential of having common ancestors. It normally takes 24 hours from adding a test, or adding a new ancestor, or ancestor’s descendant, for WikiTree to display the tester's name and test results on the profiles of ancestors and their descendants for potential cousins to compare results with.
Getting Started with DNA will tell you more about how DNA kits are used on WikiTree.
If you have any questions about how WikiTree works, use the reply link to let me know. Have fun!
Debi ~ WikiTree Greeter
The way you have the DNA set up right now will put a message on all the profiles of your ancestors and their descendants to show that you have tested. You can see an example of that in the right column on the profile of your maternal great-grandfather. Since you and your brother presumably share the same parents, those connections are probably accurate. The DNA tools are based on whether the test was taken by a female or male, though, so those are giving inaccurate information. You can see that on this page where only MtDNA is showing up (female) rather than Y-DNA connections (male).
You may have already done this but, just in case, did anyone share the pages created by our Adoption Angels Project for helping Adoptees set up their profiles? If not, I thought it might be helpful in setting up your husband's profile(s) to work with both his biological and adoptive parents. Then you could put his test information on his bio profile and see the potential connections that are created with the DNA tools.
Please do let me know if you have any questions about how WikiTree works, even if they seem minor. My rule of thumb when I started was to search for an answer for five minutes, then reach out to my Greeters, and then resume searching. I might have found the answer before they got back with me but they sometimes offered a different way of doing the same thing which was easier. We are always here to help.
See you in the branches,
Debi ~ WikiTree Greeter
PS We have a couple of tools that make finding and citing reliable sources easier. You can read more about the tools in the RootsSearch and WikiTree-X FAQs. I use WikiTree-X all the time to more easily bring my Ancestry sources to profile on WikiTree.
edited by Karen (Carter) Andersen
See you in the branches,
Debi
edited by Karen (Carter) Andersen
Wish you a Happy New Year. May 2018 bring you all you need to be happy.
Congratulation for adding your contributions in December. Whatever the quantity of your contributions, they all count. As I always say "Quality is better than quantity" to make a great family tree.
Thank you for being a Wikitreer,
Guy Constantineau - Wikitree leader
Dan
just a word (late) to congratulate you on the contributions you made during the month of November. Whatever the quantity, they are all important.
Your work is appreciated.
Thanks
Guy Constantineau