
Alexandra Carter
Honor Code SignatorySigned 2 Aug 2017 | 2322 contributions | 124 thank-yous | 365 connections
Current Children's Librarian and former Special Collections Librarian. I was born in and eventually boomeranged back to Ohio.
My heritage includes ancestors from Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, Scotland, England, and Wales. Recently I've focused my research on my maternal lineage in Canada and the Netherlands.
Canadian surnames of interest include Capell, Cunningham, Harvey, Hawk/Hawke, Hoople, Lount, Robertson, Sheek, and Wheeler in Ontario; Bennet and Murray in Quebec and Scotland.
Dutch surnames of interest include Birkhoff, van Brakel, Carpentier, van Es, Koogje, de Kan, Schut, Strijker, and Verhoef.
Alexandra is 20 degrees from Mary Cassatt, 33 degrees from Salvador Dali, 28 degrees from Théodore Géricault, 27 degrees from Hans Heysen, 24 degrees from Bruno Liljefors, 26 degrees from Margaret Mackintosh, 23 degrees from Charles Porter, 30 degrees from Rembrandt van Rijn, 19 degrees from John Sargent, 18 degrees from Tom Thomson, 36 degrees from Jan Vermeer and 21 degrees from Mindy Silva on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
I'm from Dundee in Scotland and I am a 6th Cousin to Joan Alexander Murray..
Jim Campbell
The 6th Source-a-Thon will take place from the 1st of October till the 4th of October. This Thon is all about adding accurate sources to unsourced profiles and improving the accuracy of WikiTree. We really hope you will join us at our Team The Flying Dutchmen. Registering is open now HERE (registration ends Wednesday the 29th). More info at our Team page HERE or at our G2G-S-a-Th-Chat.
Hope to see you!
Michel, Astrid, and Colleen
The G2G will be started around that time, but if you would like to join, you can already add your name to the participants list
Greets from the Dutch Roots Challenge team ;)
A big thank you for the fun we had and all your wonderful work during the Clean-a-Thon 2021!
team Flying Dutchmen - Vliegende Hollanders x
For a great start of the spring this year we will have a Spring Clean-a-Thon again. The fun starts Friday, April 23, at 8 AM (EDT) until Monday, April 26, at 8 AM (EDT) make sure to register for this event (hurry ;) (and respond with an ANSWER not a comment or reply) and of course also mention in the answer you are joining the Flying Dutchmen- Vliegende Hollanders team !
edited by Bea (Timmerman) Wijma
Alexandra Carter and Martha Garrett are both descendants of John Hand.
The 5th! Source-a-Thon will take place from the 2nd of October till the 5th of October. We really hope you will join us at our Team The Flying Dutchmen. Registering is open now HERE. More info at our Team page HERE or at our G2G-S-a-Th-Chat.
Hope to see you!
Margreet, Bea and Astrid
Alexandra and Janine are 20th cousins
edited by Bill Donley III
"Alexandra and Karen are 11th cousins once removed"
After a great Liberation day challenge, the Connect-a-Thon is coming up, it will take place from Friday 17 July 2020-Monday 20 July 2020) so everyone is invited to join the Flying Dutchmen Team - Vliegende Hollanders..so let's all hop on the boat (teampage) ;) again and have some fun together. Don't forget to first register here (you can register until wednesday 15 july) and let them know you're going to rock the Flying Dutchmen (women) - Vliegende Hollanders boat ..and here's our connect-a-thon chat.
Hope to see you soon,
Bea and Astrid x
The Dutch Roots Challenge Team
Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared (over 200!) made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!
Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
A big thank you for the fun we had and all your wonderful work during the Clean-a-Thon 2020
team Flying Dutchmen - Vliegende Hollanders x
edited by Bea (Timmerman) Wijma
Please join us at Team Flying Dutchmen after registering HERE.
And please feel welcome to join us in the mean time at cleaning up a Dutch Roots Gedcom we work on together for the next weeks.
Hope to see you soon!
Margreet, Bea and Astrid
First of all we all are wishing you a very happy and healthy 2020! And for a great start of this new year we will have a Scan-a-Thon again. The fun starts this weekend, from Friday 10 January (8 AM (ET) until Monday 13 January (8 AM (ET) and the registration cut-off is Wednesday, January 8th, at 11:59 pm, ET, so if you want to participate make sure to register for this event (hurry ;) ) (and respond with an ANSWER not a comment or reply) and of course also mention in the answer you are joining the Flying Dutchmen- Vliegende Hollanders team !
Hope to see you soon,
Bea & Astrid :)
Wanna have some fun ? It's almost time for the Source-a-Thon 2019 (Friday 4 October-Monday 7 October) and we would love to see you ! make sure to first register (with an answer!), and let them know you join the Flying Dutchmen - Vliegende Hollanders and of course feel free to add your name to the team here (click link) (don't forget to remember and add your number (for the prizedrawings) there as well). ;)
Hope to see you and have a great day,
Bea + Astrid :)
The registration for the brand new Connect-a-Thon is open now, so if you would like to join us, make sure you first add an answer at this Connect-a-Thon 2019 registration G2G saying you would like to participate and join the Flying Dutchmen - Vliegende Hollanders team and just add your WT ID to the team Flying Dutchmen - Vliegende Hollanders, at our Connect-a-Thon team page where you also can see how everything works. And here's our team chat .
Many thanks and hope to see you (again) !
The Flying Dutchmen - Vliegende Hollanders Team :D
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It is time for the spring cleaning at WikiTree! For the third time WT organizes a Clean-A-Thon (CaTh-) challenge. And we need you! Please join us again! Here is all info. And make sure to first register by clicking answer Here and let them know you want to join the Team Flying Dutchmen-Vliegende Hollanders .
Many thanks and hope to see you all !
The Flying Dutchmen - Vliegende Hollanders
Did you know our first annual Scan-a-Thon 2019 is almost starting ? It will last 72 hours from 11 January-14 January 2019, a big event here you can register and since you're a member of our project perhaps you want to join us and have some fun ? Here's our Flying Dutchmen Scan-a-Thon Team hope to see you soon !
Greets from the Netherlands ,
The Dutch Roots Project Team :)
Laurie
Ive not heard back from you so presume you dont want to continue in the Canada Project at this time so have gone ahead and removed your badge. If that changes anytime you would be most welcome to re-join in the future.
Susie :-)
Greets from the Netherlands and keep up the wonderful work !
Bea x