Jelena Eckstädt
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Jelena Eckstädt

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Jelena Eckstädt
Born 1970s.
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Jelena Eckstädt ist ein Mitglied des Deutschland-Projekts (Germany Project).
Jelena Eckstädt contributed a biography to the 2021 Canada Project Notables Biography Challenge.
Jelena Eckstädt solved 10 or more Unknowns in the October 2022 Unknowns Project Skeletons in the Closet Challenge.

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Jelena Eckstädt participated with Mighty Maple Leaves during the 2018 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 115 previously unsourced profiles.
Jelena Eckstädt participated with Legacy Heirs during the 2019 Scan-a-Thon, scanning and uploading 58 items to profiles.
Jelena Eckstädt participated with The German Genies during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon, and added 249 connections.
Jelena was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!
Sourcerers' Challenge Yearly Milestone Summary
Jelena earned 9 Blue Milestone Owls while participating in the 2019 Monthly Sourcerers' Challenges
Jelena Eckstädt participated in the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and added 338 connections.

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Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree, Jelena!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the August 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
The annual Source-a-thon is coming up. It will be from September 29th to October 2nd.

Registration has begun!! I would be so blessed if you go to: Register now for the 2023 Source-a-Thon! - WikiTree G2G and answer that you are in and are a Legacy Heir!!!!

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
I already registered and the Source-A-Thon is my Canadian Thon. Sourcing is my part of working for the Canadian Project.
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Jelena, Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the July 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the June 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Jelena, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Re: John August Saam, I saw that you had edited the first and middle names by combining them into the first and preferred names. At first I was taken aback mostly because I spend a lot of time separating the first and middle names on American profiles that were gedcom creations (not this profile) from back when they were allowed, and first and middle names were often combined in the first name field. Since you didn't leave any explanation for what you did, I went ahead and changed it back to the original. Then, after further research as to why you would make that alteration in the first place, I learned the reasoning behind your work, and have since redone your edit. I like it when I learn new things. Thanks.
posted by Larry Jones
I only followed the Germany Project Name Field Guidelines, which clearly say: "All given names should be entered in the Proper First Name field in the order listed on the birth document. It is common in Germany for a person to have multiple given names - the German culture does not have the concept of middle names." So this is the valid point here.
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Yes indeed. I get that. Thanks again.
posted by Larry Jones
Hi! Just a reminder - if a profile is managed by the Germany Project, it needs to display the project box. See the German Roots table here for profiles that don't (or which have the project box but aren't managed by the project, but there aren't any of those to fix this week).

I've been working on these in the past, but I'm trying to reduce my "WikiTree time", so I won't be looking at these in the future. As PC for Managed Profiles of the Germany Project, please check weekly for new problems (it's fairly easy to maintain, but took me a couple of months earlier this year to clear them).

Profiles that need corrections this week:

Cheers, Liz

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Just a reminder: I am not the Project Leader. If you have stuff that only the leader can do, please post your message on Dieter Lewerenz' profile (Lewerenz-9)
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
You don't have to be a leader to monitor this & you don't have to be a leader to fix the problem unless (1) the profile is not open or (2) the project DOES want to manage the profile and you are not a profile manager (meaning you cannot add the project account as a manager).

None of the profiles that I listed appear to me to need project management and all of them are either open or managed by you (which means you can fix the problem). As the project's PC for managed profiles, I thought that you would be the person to determine whether or not a profile should be managed by the project & could then refer any profiles that need a Leader to add the project account to the Germany Project's leader.

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Project Boxes can be only put on the profiles by the Project Leaders (see here). And I am no Leader. I only told you to go to the Project Leader Dieter Lewerenz, when the task is something a leader has to do. Nothing else.

At least the 4 von Schirach-profiles need Project Management, because all of them are living Notables that have to be managed by a Project to be visible.

posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the May 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Jelena, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Hi Jelena, this category https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Germania to be deleted has 5 links to it on other categories or pages, the links need to be changed/removed, before the category can be deleted, see this list, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Category:Germania

Thanks for your help, regards, Margaret

I deleted all links I could work on. The Predecessor States... FSP is green-locked. I wrote a comment, saying that the cats project waits for the category to be deleted and requested that at least the Germany Project can edit the page, since we're working on categories currently anyway. I hope he gives us access.

Jelena

Edit: Germania is now deleted everywhere, the GP is now manager of the FSP.

posted by Jelena Eckstädt
edited by Jelena Eckstädt
Thanks Jelena, much appreciated.
Hi! Just a reminder... the project box - {{German Roots} - is for profiles managed by the project. Otherwise, use the sticker: {{German Roots Sticker}

I've changed the ones that you added to the profiles that weren't managed by the project.

Cheers, Liz

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Hi Jelena, this migration category has been sent to be renamed, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Grafschaft_Moers%2C_Emigrants, if the admin entity (Grafschaft Moers) is being changed to County of Moers, then this sub-category and it's subcategories also need to be changed at the same time, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Grafschaft_Moers%2C_Emigrants_to_the_Netherlands.

Many thanks, regards, Margaret

Dear Germany Project member,

it's annual check-in time 2023. If you still wish to remain a member of the Germany Project, please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. In this case please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help, with researching your German ancestors, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with Germany in order for knowledgeable people to see them.

If you wish to remain a member, we would like to learn more about your perception of the Germany Project in order to achieve a future development according to our members needs and wishes. For this, we created a survey, which we kindly ask you to fill-in.

In case you want to communicate, discuss and receive help about WikiTree in German, you might want to check out the WikiTree category at Compgen’s Discourse as well as the German Discord server Ahnenforschung.

Of course there’s still the official WikiTree Discord server, where we usually talk English. Feel free to learn more about Discord and the server at Help:Discord.

Kind regards from Black Forest

Flo (Project Coordinator Research/Resources)
posted by Florian Straub
I'm still working in and for the Project.
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the April 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Jelena, thanks for your sourcing efforts this month.

posted by Bill Feidt
For genealogy, I think more people should have two surnames like the Spanish. I am looking at Tamez_Galindo-1. It is very easy to see that his son, Antonio (Tamez_Bermea-2), had a father with the first surname "Tamez" and his mother's first surname was "Bermea".
posted by Steve Thomas
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the March 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Jelena, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Congratulations, Jelena, on 100,000 contributions!!!

You’re a trooper. :-)

posted by Oliver Stegen PhD
Hi Jelena, this category, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen has links to it on 4 other categories, that need to be corrected, before it can be deleted. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Category:K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen

Thanks, regards, Margaret

I deleted the categories, so now it can be deleted.
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Hi Jelena, I see you've changed some location names for my relatives including Stanislaus Derdzinski (1868-1955) and Katherine (Coda) Mlodzik (1854-1935). Can you tell me where to find the guidance for this so I get it right? It's distressing to see these changes happen without understanding the rules under which they're being changed. ~ Also, you've change the first and middle names on my relative Jerome Charles Dretzka (1881-1963). Again, I would appreciate a link to the Wikitree guidance. His middle name comes from a USA document, as far as I know he didn't have that middle name in Poland. Thanks, Deb
posted by Deb (Langsdorf) Gunther
edited by Deb (Langsdorf) Gunther
Hi Deb, the Location Field Style Guide says this: "We aim to use the name that was used in that place, at the time of the event you're recording." At the time of the birth of both Stanislaus and Katherine, their birth town was part of Prussia. This means that according to the Style Guide, the town names should be recorded in German.

Neither in Poland nor in Germany there is the concept of "middle names". All given names come into the First Name Field. "Karl" or "Karel" is the German or Polish version of Charles and was not only used as "call name", the name a person was known with, but also as a following name. We can't prove it, since you don't have documents that originate in Poland, but I suppose that it is a name he already had in Poland. That's why I put it out of the Middle Name Field. Jelena

posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the February 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Jelena, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Took me 2 months to get back to my German profiles. Thank you Jelena ... I truly appreciate the new category and expect to use it when I do status checks on "connected" profiles for my husband's family once Life 101 gives me some time.
posted by Karen Wendell
Hi Jelena, also this category https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Geseke%2C_Rheinland-Pfalz AND this category https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Bottrop_%28Kreis%29%2C_Nordrhein-Westfalen need their new categories set up to be renamed.

Thanks, Margaret, Categorization project.

all done now. I don't know what was going on in my head there.
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Hi Jelena, this category https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Alverskirchen_%28Kreis%29%2C_Nordrhein-Westfalen needs it's new category set up before it can be renamed.

Many thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization project.

Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the January 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Jelena, thanks for your work to improve the tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Hi Jelena,

This category has 2 links that need deleting and is still on 2 profiles, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gr%C3%BCnhagen%2C_Niedersachsen, need to be removed for category to be deleted.

Thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization project

Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Yearly Golden Achievement Milestone for 1 sourced profile tracked every month
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!

posted by Mel Bishop
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the December 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Happy New Year, Jelena, and thanks for your continued sourcing.

posted by Bill Feidt
Hi Jelena, these categories have links on pages, profiles or other categories, that need to be removed before the categories can be deleted. See the "What Links Here" link on each category page:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Hannover%2C_Preu%C3%9Fen

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Stralsund%2C_Pommern

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Greifswald_%28Kreis%29%2C_Pommern

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Grimmen_%28Kreis%29%2C_Pommern

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Anklam_%28Kreis%29%2C_Pommern

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Altes_Amt_Ebstorf

Many thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization Project volunteer.

posted by Margaret (Gale) Haining
edited by Margaret (Gale) Haining
I deleted the links on profiles and FSPs where I could, for the pre-1500 profiles in Stralsund and the Ebstorf link I contacted the PMs
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Jelena:

Danke für Deine Initiative zur Orts-Kategorisierung nach (Samt-)Gemeinden. Ich habe meine Heimatgemeinde Gellersen mal erstellt: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gellersen_%28Samtgemeinde%29%2C_Niedersachsen Lass mich wissen, ob das so in Deinem Sinne ist, oder ob ich was übersehen habe. Dann mache ich entsprechend weiter (LK Harburg, Lüneburg, Uelzen).

Grüße! Oliver

posted by Oliver Stegen PhD
edited by Oliver Stegen PhD
Das sieht gut aus.

Gruß! Jelena

posted by Jelena Eckstädt
LK Lüneburg ist, soweit es bereits Kategorien gab, fertig neu geordnet, siehe https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:L%C3%BCneburg_%28Kreis%29%2C_Niedersachsen. Für dieses Jahr reicht's mir :)
posted by Oliver Stegen PhD
Ich will Uelzen dieses Jahr noch fertigmachen. Mal gucken, ob ichs schaffe.
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Hi Jelena. I think you have incorrectly edited some profiles I manage like Gottlieb Pfitzner (1827-). You have added Deutscher Bund to the birth field when Posen was not part of the Deutscher Bund. Apart from Posen, I appreciate the corrections you are making. Regards, Steve.
posted by Steve Thomas
According to the German Wikipedia-entry, the Provinz Posen existed from 1815 to 1920. With these categories I refer to the German Wikipedia rather than the ones in other languages. Also other websites like the "Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen", which is supported by the German government says on its website that "already in 1815 the Prussian King named the first Oberpräsident for the area of Posen". Here is the website of the Kulturstiftung https://kulturstiftung.org/zeitstrahl/das-besitznahmepatent-fuer-das-grossherzogtum-posen
posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Congratulations on earning a 50+ sticker in the November 2022 Sourcerers Challenge and thanks for all the improvements you've made to WikiTree!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the November 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Mel Bishop
Thanks for all your work, Jelena!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the October 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Mel Bishop
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the September 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Hi Jelena. Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Hi Jelena,

I noticed you recently chose our Integrators Project Challenge for this month (September 2022), thank you!

Could you go here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1463526/wikitreers-join-join-integrators-challenge-september-2022 to sign up officially please. And if you can please add your question that you will be working on the profiles marked "needs profiles created" for the challenge or working on questions asked in the G2G Forum ablut family, Thanks!

Got a question, see this page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works

Thank you and Good Luck!

David ~ G2G Integrators Project Leader

posted by David Selman
edited by David Selman
Hi David,

I did not choose to enter the Integrators-Challenge. I don't even know of which profile I worked on you are talking about. Please tell me the profile ID that I might be able to reconstruct what I did. Probably it was a profile I chose to source or connect to the Tree. I recently connected a branch that was only created in July. But I did not intend to join the Integrators Challenge.

Thanks Jelena

posted by Jelena Eckstädt
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the August 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Jelena, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the July 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Hi Jelena,

Thanks for your contributions to the June Sourcerers Challenge. We appreciate your work!

Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the Jun 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Mel Bishop
Thanks for your sourcing contributions in May!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the May 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Mel Bishop
Thanks Jelena, we appreciate your work!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the April 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Mel Bishop
Hi Jelena! Thank you for joining the Germany Genies for the April Connect-a-Thon. As a team, we created 5,602 new profiles, coming in 4th place overall and 1st place by normalized (average) score! We couldn't have done it without your help! Best regards, Traci
posted by Traci Thiessen
Jelena, thank you for posting info about Carl Friedrich and Elisabeth Lehrenkraus Reitz. I hope to someday see an outline of German Reitz families.
posted by Paul Reitz
Hi there Hun,

Registration for the April Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 22 Apr 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392037/have-you-registered-for-the-april-2022-connect-a-thon-yet?start=0#a_list_title

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Jelena,

Great work on the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving our tree.

WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Thanks for your contributions Jelena !
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the Mar 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Mel Bishop
Thank you! (You know why.)

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posted by Melanie Paul
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the February 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for sourcing, Jelena.

posted by Bill Feidt
Congratulations on adding so many sources during the February 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! Great improvements to the One Tree. Thanks!

Nan, WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the January 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for sourcing.

posted by Bill Feidt
Jelena,

Congratulations on adding sources to 58 profiles during the January Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving the health of our One Tree.

Nan, WT Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Jelena, Thanks for your contributions in December!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the December 2021 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Mel Bishop
Jelena,

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

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Hi there Hun,

Registration for the January Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 14 Jan 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341478/have-you-registered-for-the-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-yet

And here is our team Chat page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341305/legacy-heirs-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-g2g-chat

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy