Jelena Eckstädt

Thanks, Jelena!

Thank you for being a part of Legacy Heirs. I am truly blessed by being on this team. Hope to see you with me in July for the Connect-A-Thon.

Welcome all the wonderful, Legacy Heirs. I am so blessed to be in this team with you. Tomorrow (Friday) 8 am Eastern US and 5 am Pacific US. All other locations and time zones are at the equivalent time. I look forward to seeing you there, when you can be there.

Thanks for sourcing, Jelena!

Thank you, Jelena!

Hi Jelena,

I see that you're working on some of the French Garrigues family around 1700.

As you work on this, please be aware of The Ancestry of Matthieu Garrigues of Languedoc..., by Robert C. Garrigus, Columbia, Maryland: 2003 and try not to document connections that are now suspect.

This is an area that we need to be using primary sources since the secondary sources have been in error for so long.

That said, some new primary sources that connect to Matthieu Garrigues (1679-1726) would be wonderful!

Thank you, Jelena!

Thanks for creating profiles for members of Simrock family and in doing so connecting the existing profiles to the tree.

Thanks for all the sourcing you did this year, Jelena!

I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether we should add categories for Wikipedians and Wikidata editors. Thanks!

Thanks! Great job!

Thanks! Great job!

Hi, Professor Jelena!

Thank you for your participation in October’s 2020 Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.

Keep up the great work!

Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

PS: Thanks for your every post during the Weekend Chats!

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Thanks! Great job! We had another month of over 10,000 profiles sourced!

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Hello, Jelena

Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree. You have every right to be pleased with your efforts!

Looking forward to seeing what you have for us this weekend during the Chat!

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

As a "Tree Hugger", I want to thank you for contribution in the Monthly Sourcerer's Challenge for adding sources to 56 profiles during the month of June in 2020 and I want to congratulate you for being awarded the Blue Skies milestone sticker.

John Williams

Wikitree Appreciation Team

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Great job sourcing last month! Thanks for all your help, it’s very much appreciated.

Many thanks for your enthusiasm and wonderful work during the Dutch Roots Liberation day challenge Jelena! The Dutch Roots Challenge Team

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Hi Jelena, I've noticed you are creating many profiles for members of the German nobility, and I'm not sure if you know about the Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch's which were produced annually. Many of them can be found online and there is a list here http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Gothaisches_Genealogisches_Taschenbuch They may be a better source than Wikipedia in some instances.

Thanks Jelena, for your help with last months Sourcerer Challenge!

Liebe Jelena,

I was fascinated by your reference to the birth of my great-great-grandfather (and so my great-grandfather) in "zu Neugericht, Kreis Waldenburg in Preußen." Silesia! But I have since discovered Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg, which of course makes more sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldenburg,_Baden-Württemberg I also discovered that Ebersbach as der Fils is in the District of Donaukreis and 5 kilometers from Uhingen, Donaukreis, the birthplace of my grandfather, Herman Julius Dressler. So this geographical location obviously makes more sense in the family narrative. And I will use in my family tree.

Again, many many thanks for your efforts.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David PS - Any thoughts yet about Johanna Karolina's possible maiden name?

Dear Jelena,

Now I know why you are so highly regarded in the WikiTree community!

The document you have so painstakingly translated is especially important to me as it is the only record found thus far of my great-great-grandfather, Johann Gottfried Droßler. And of course it adds information important to knowing the early years of my great grandparents before they came to America.

Through a number of DNA findings on both 23andMe and Ancestry, I have traced back in time either siblings and/or first cousins of my great grandfather. Perhaps one day I will be able to establish the connections.

I found your Meet Our Members interview on WikiTree made in 2019. The remembrances of your family are fascinating. There is so little I know about mine. The standard answer my mother would give me when I asked about our family’s nationality was that I was a “mutt.” Indeed, it is only now that I am beginning to understand how disparate my family was. My maternal grandparents were German and Polish/Russian (probably Lithuanian) and my paternal grandparents were Estonian and Flemish Belgian and along the way my father was born in England.

I began my family search several years ago and was first able to trace my Belgian line by reading records found at FamilySearch (Flemish is akin to German). I knew little about my Estonian grandfather until just this past month when through the help of the Estonian community on Facebook I was sent the record of his birth. This opened a connection to his family tree on geni.com that traced his roots all the way back to my sixth great-grandfather, Aru Toomas, a serf chased from his home in 1690 by Swedish invaders. On the other hand, my success searching for family in Germany has been satisfactory, if limited. Lastly, the origins of my mother’s grandparents are a major mystery. The US Census records show Poland/Russia, but 23andMe suggests Lithuania.

Well I am an old man and a, beginning to ramble. But one last question. Is there a name in the record (indecipherable) of the maiden name of Johanna Karoline? Or is that wishful thinking?

With my kindest regards and appreciation for your efforts,

David

Dear Jelena,

Much thanks for reviewing the marriage record of my great grandparents. If you have a few minutes, I would ask that you go through the document again and review some of my interpretations.

The first column is of course their names, My great grandfather’s anglicized name is Wilhelm Julius Dressler. Here it is shown as Wilhelm Julius Droßler. My great grandmother is Christiana Ankele (although I find it difficult to read “Christiana”).

The second column has something to do with their religion. But I am not able to even guess at what is shown.

The third column gives us the names of their parents. We can see Johan(n) Gottfried Droßler is his father. The next line is indecipherable to me. Then we see his mother is Johanna Karolina, geb. Kastin? Martin? Any guesses at her maiden name? Then, although it is not easily read here, I know her parents to be Johannes Ankele and Maria Ursula Rieker.

The fourth column, I have no idea.

The fifth column however shows when and where they were born. Although it is difficult for me to read in this document, I know he was born 3 Sep 1853 (on his gravestone), but where was he born? (Neu......???) And she was born 30 Nov 1848 (on her gravestone), and was she born in Ebersbach?

The next two columns show, Bans posted (?) 28 Apr 1878 and Marriage 6 Mai 1878.

I know how difficult it may be for you to go through this document again, but any further information you can provide would be enormously appreciated.

With my best personal regards, David Martin

Great Job! Thanks!

Great job Jelena! Thanks for all your contributions to the Sourcerer's Challenges!

Thank you for all the wonderful improvements you made to the Czartoryski profiles!! And those magnificent photos! Amazing. Many thank yous!

Outstanding! We started this program in April of this year 2019 award is April through December.

Great Job! Thanks!

Hey hun, that time again! Scan-A-Thon starts the 10th of January. Registrations have started. Would love to have you with me again on the team.

Chat page:https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/949311/scan-a-thon-2020-g2g-chat-page-legacy-heirs

Space Page: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Scan-A-Thon_2020_Space_Page_Legacy_Heirs&public=1

Help Page:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Scan-a-Thon

Registration Page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/948800/have-you-registered-for-our-2020-scan-a-thon-yet

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Congratulations Jelena !

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Jelena, making more than one thousand contributions in September added so much to the breadth and depth of our Shared Tree. The Appreciation Team thanks YOU!

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Jelena, the Appreciation Team thanks for you for efforts toward making our Shared Tree the best it can be with your 1000+ contributions during August 2019. You are an important part of what we are all about!

And... a further congrats for your achievement in last month's Sourcerers' Challenge.

And... thanks for your continued participation in the Weekend Chat. I always enjoy your posts.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Vielen Dank, Sie haben mein Tag gemacht. Thank you so so much... x

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Thanks Jelena!