Claire (Chapel) Nava
Honor Code SignatorySigned 12 Feb 2015 | 55,983 contributions | 2,437 thank-yous | 2,271 connections
I'm a 5th generation native-born Southern Californian. My husband and I have been married for a really long time. We have 5 children, 8 grands so far. We were former franchisees of Spires Restaurant, Orange, CA for almost 20 years. I earned an AA, BA, and MA and completed the coursework for a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern English. I taught at CSU Fullerton, UC Riverside, and Concordia University, Irvine. Now, I volunteer on WikiTree, enjoy my husband and family, old radio shows, pets, and First Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Lake Elsinore, CA.
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Claire is 24 degrees from Zendaya Coleman, 28 degrees from Sting Sumner, 18 degrees from Josh Brolin, 23 degrees from Timothée Chalamet, 19 degrees from José Ferrer, 17 degrees from Frank Herbert, 17 degrees from Richard Jordan, 23 degrees from David Lynch, 18 degrees from Virginia Madsen, 21 degrees from Charlotte Rampling, 31 degrees from Patrick Stewart and 22 degrees from Denis Villeneuve on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Thank you for the remembrance. :)
Wishing you a joyful 2024!
Claire
Claire, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.
Claire, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
Claire, thanks for your effort in sourcing this month.
Thank you for joining the Northwest Terriers Team. The April Connect-a-thon starts Friday at 8 am. This is just a reminder of some helpful links and other links that may help you find profiles that need connections.
Northwest Terriers 2023 Team Chat
Connect-a-Thon Tutorial
Unconnected profiles on your watchlist.
Data Doctor Unconnected List
Needs Profiles Created Category
Here is information about [Scoring] for the thon.
If you have any questions about the Connect-a-thon, ask them on our chat page.
Karen Lorenz – Team Captain
Thanks for being Team Captain.
I appreciate the links! I will happily share my secret weapon with you and the team: I have been working on Ohio Unsourced profiles for a long time. I have been bookmarking the families that have nine ... ten ... fifteen children for the past couple of months, and that's where I'm going to start. Filling in the gaps.
:)
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Nathan is my ggreat uncle
pouses and Children Nathan Gilbert Male 1822–1894 • LZKC-JTX
Amy Mc Daniel Female 1829–1916 • LH5N-NFZ
Marriage 18 Dec 1847 Highland, Ohio, United States
Children (9)
William Harrison Gilbert Male 1848–1899 • 9KL2-M46
Thomas M. Gilbert Male 1850–Deceased • LX32-S3N
Susan Mary Gilbert Female 1851–1920 • LZKC-VHL
Joseph Clinton Gilbert Male 1854–1952 • LD1B-7PL
Alma F Gilbert Female 1857–1939 • LD1B-4XV
Clara D. Gilbert Female 1857–1938 • LHND-WMY
Sarah Adeline Gilbert Female 1860–1952 • 9SSK-HN1
Charles Loren McClelan Gilbert Male 1863–1938 • KGJK-8JP
Quinn E Gilbert Female 1867–1952
Female 1793–1870 • L6P8-V7H
Children (5)
Charity Gilbert Female 1814–1895 • 243M-T4X
Reason Gilbert Male 1817–1898 • LYHN-6H8
Nathan Gilbert Male 1822–1894 • LZKC-JTX
Mahala Gilbert Female 1824–1905 • KCTP-KD8
Joseph Gilbert my ggreat grand father, wife theodosia french Male 1828–1891 • LKH1-5K
I will work on this today. Since I'm a researcher and not a family member, sometimes sources look correct, but they aren't. Please double check my work and correct or expand on anything. I'm just helping out. Once you have vetted Nathan's profile, I can add his family. As it happens, there's a Connectors' Challenge this weekend, so I can add in Nathan's wife, children, and maybe parents.
CN
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Hi Claire. Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
Claire, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.
Claire, thanks for your work to improve the tree.
We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!
Thanks for all your work this month and in 2022 for the Sourcerers Project! Happy New Year!!!
We appreciate you, too.
Happy New Year!
Hi Claire. Thanks for your efforts in improving our shared tree.
Claire, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
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Thanks for your contributions to the monthly Sourcerers Challenge. We appreciate your work!
Thank you for your sourcing contributions in May!
Condit-563
Just let me know and I can make the change - I"m working on building out my Glasgow tree but happy to share their spouses!
Diane
We're in the same boat.
I'm related to the Shrader family. My great-uncle (Shrader-618) married William's daughter, Elisabeth/Elizabeth Condit (Condit-449), so there's no biological link that I know of. I did have the pleasure of meeting her and visiting their home when I was a child. She was charming to a great-niece she had never met before.
Who manages William's profile? Either way is fine with me. :)
Emma
Great work on the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving our tree.
WikiTree Appreciation Team
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392037/have-you-registered-for-the-april-2022-connect-a-thon-yet
Thanks for sourcing, Claire.
Nan, WikiTree Appreciation Team
Emma
Thanks for sourcing.
Congratulations on adding sources to 96 profiles during the January Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving the health of our One Tree.
Nan, WT Appreciation Team
Thank you for your contributions to the December 2021 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
Nan, WT Appreciation Team
I noticed you chose our Integrators Challenge tracker for this month (Dec 2021), thank you!
Please don't forget to sign up at: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1335903/g2g-integrators-challenge-for-december-2021 in order for your contributions for the month of December to count.
Thanks, Dorothy B. Integrator Project coordinator.
Note: Each month you would need to sign up with the G2G Intergrator challenge post for the current month if you select our project when saving a profile during that month.
I'm with the Data Doctors and Sourcerers - I must have hit the wrong button.
Mea culpa.
Claire :)
Thank you for your 18 contributions to the November Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
So I added the wrong source? My apologies! Many of the South African profiles I've seen don't have any sources at all, so I try to add at least one to each profile to make it easier for the Profile Manager to see what a good source looks like. (Of course, I'm in the GEDCOM Junk or Post-Merge or Unsourced profiles, so I'm going to see the most problematic profiles.)
I do appreciate the advice about middle names. So everything but the last name goes in the first name line? Got it.
Is there anything else that is handled differently in South African profiles?
:)
Claire
Maybe I’ll just leave South African profiles to the experts.
Thanks again,
Claire
Just home from a retreat. I will do what I can tonight. Since you are three hours ahead, I won't get a whole lot done between now and 5 a.m. GMT, but it's always a privilege to work with the Cornbread Catchers.
:)
Last week, I found a young man from Indiana who died on the battlefield at Shiloh, but no one had noted his sacrifice or even suggested that he had been in the Civil War. I am not too good at military tags, so I just added his to his biography, found sources, found his unit and their location during the time period. Now any of his family members can see that he sacrificed his very life for his beliefs.
See you in the rabbit holes,
Claire :)
It's Thon time again, this time the Source-a-Thon! It will be from October 1-4, 2021. Do you want to participate with Team Cornbread Catchers in this Thon? Use this link to get to the G2G sign up post! Click the "answer" link at the bottom of the post and, when the Answer box pops up, mention that you want to be on the Cornbread Catchers team!
Debi
Thank you for thinking of me!
I will be at a church retreat that weekend, but I will still sign up. I will try to get a few in here and there for the Cornbread Catchers. Source-a-thon is one of my favs.
:)
Can you or someone else if and when you have time could you send me a reply? Do a basic quick double check on my work for WikiTree? I am still earning and trying. I have not received any feedback lately. Did I accidently change a setting or are people very busy? I hope I have not made too many bad mistakes. WikiTree is a VERY STEEP learning curve. I am trying. Thank You. Debbie Freeman
Feedback is great! Of course, I'll help. Is there an open profile (where the person is not living) that is bothering you?
If you want more practice:
1. Under the "My WikiTree" drop-down menu you will find "Suggestions." You can click on it and see all of the profiles that you manage that have problems. Most of them will have a link to a video or a webpage that tells you what the problem might be. An unusual first name, abbreviating the name of a state, things like that. Start with the easy ones and do what you're comfortable with. I'd happily walk you through the trickier ones.
2. Both the English and Scottish groups have a program where they pair you with a mentor and you fix an orphaned profile. Here are the links: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:England and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Scotland.
:)
Claire
Suggestions was one area giving me trouble. Thank You so much I did not know there were instructions and videos. Gratefully Debbie Freeman
I wanted to share publicly how much I appreciate your kindness. I'm very grateful to you for helping me to learn how to copy and post sources. What a blessing it's been! I was getting frustrated trying to figure it out on my own. Since then I've been enjoying WikiTree so much more than before. Thank you, Claire, for taking time with me to write out some instructions on my profile page!
Barb (Egglestone-30)
:)
Claire
That's hard to deal with. My mother had many of the same challenges. If there's anything I can do to help you, let me know.
Best,
Claire
It's Thon time again, this time the Spring Clean-a-Thon! It will be from April 23-26, 2021. Do you want to participate with Team Cornbread Catchers in this Thon? Sign up here! And mention that you want to be on the Cornbread Catchers team!
Debi & Sarah
Thanks for the reminder. I'll do my best to help out.
:)
Claire