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We all did a great job last weekend, thank you, for a job well done, we hope you had fun. The total for the event was 100,934 profiles created and sourced to build the tree. Mighty Oaks teams contributed 9,592. Thank you for working with us, to improve the worldwide tree. See you for the next Thon on Apr 11-14: Connect-a-Thon XIV see https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1810122/when-are-the-big-wikitree-events-in-2025
Thanks so much for all you do for WikiTree all year long, John. Congrats on your Golden Owl!
John Elkin reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2024 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
Welcome to England's Mighty Oaks Team once again. Thanks for signing up, we appreciate you joining us for the January 2025 Connect A Thon (CAT}
Please check out the page and the links, Mighty_Oaks
Questions please ask.
We hope you had a Merry Christmas and we wish you a Happy New Year
Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2024! Together, we have made a significant difference to the quality of the One Big Tree, as we strive towards making English profiles the best that they can be.
We all did a fantastic job this weekend, thank you. We hope you had fun. The total for the event was 54,527 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks added 7,456, which placed us in a winning position. We appreciate your input and support for the event and look forward to working with you again next year.
Thanks again for this weekend, from your colleagues and the Mighty Oaks Team Captains
I see you working on the profile of Richard Hards. Are you wanting to research the Hards family?
I am a Hards and my family ancestry, at this time, I have traced back into Surrey. My g.grandfather, Harry Hoblin Hards, and his brother, James Hards, emigrated to South Africa in the 1800's and established the 1st canning and jam factory in South Africa, in their town called Grahamstown.
If you would like to come and help us with the Hards (and close relatives) tree please contact me at [email address removed] I have created a private FaceBook group called Hards Family Genealogy Group where I'm hoping members can chat and share their trees and info with each other. Please feel free to join us there.
My wife and I moved from South Africa in 2011 to be with my son's family in Melbourne Australia.
I also have a very large tree (27000+ records) that I share with a cousin on Ancestry. He created the bulk of the tree and I have helped him as an editor, and now have a copy of that tree in my free account on Ancestry.
I have been trying to find our Hards links back into the greater Hards family in Kent which hasn't happened yet.
I found another Hards relative here in Adelaide who's ancestry goes back to Sussex and quite close to my roots. Together we have created the FaceBook group.
Hoping to hear from you
With best regards
Garth Kay-Hards (Melbourne Australia)
Thanks for getting in touch. The changes I made to Richard Hards' profile were part of the Data Doctor activity to improve the quality of the information on Wikitree, I don't have any personal interest in the Hards family.
Have you considered adding your research here, it sounds as if you could contribute a lot.
Thank you for contributing towards the goals of the England Project! Over the past year, a staggering amount has been done to improve English profiles on WikiTree and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
The England Project leadership like to check in with all our project members at least once a year.
Are you happy to stay in your current project team/s? Or is there another team you would like to join or become more active in?
Please reply to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you. Please also let us know if you have other feedback about the direction of the project.
We all did a great job this weekend, thank you. We hope you had fun. The total for the event was 88,908 profiles.
The Mighty Oaks added 8,292 profiles to the tree. We appreciate your input and support for the event and look forward to working with you all again next time.
Thanks again for this weekend, from your colleagues and the Mighty Oaks Team Captains
I'm not researching any Craigies, any changes you have seen me make to Craigie profiles have been to resolve suggestions flagged to the Data Doctor team.
Thank you John for changing the pre-1922 birth from Northern Ireland to Ireland. A little slip on my part. I’m conscious of the subtleties that partition produced. Anton 😊
Sorry about that. I didn't see your note regarding the Tartan Trail on that profile as it is quite far down the profile in the Research Notes section. In future could you please add the Tartan Trail graphic near the top of the edit box, as shown on the Data Doctor Project page (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Data_Doctors) - that should stop interference.
No John that system was changed more than 6 months ago at WikiTrees request the graphic is no longer used we have to use the Hold Request which does appear at the top in a yellow box and put a note in Research Notes this is WikiTrees process not ours I am afraid
I wasn't aware of that. I've now found the proposal on G2G - unfortunately it wasn't tagged with "Data Doctor" so I missed it. Actually it doesn't say that you can't use the Trail graphics as well as the template! Anyway, I'll look out for it in future, and try to get the Data Doctor page updated.
Hi John! Thank you for your consistent improvement of WikiTree by participation in the Sourcerers Project during 2023!
John Elkin reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
Sorry, I don't have any further information. I was working on some Data Doctor suggestions when I spotted the duplicated profiles for Jennie Taft. Thanks for merging them.
Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023! Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!
I'd like to share our end-of-year 2023 Newsletter. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading about what we have achieved in 2023!
On behalf of all the England Project Leaders, we wish you a peaceful, productive and enjoyable 2024!
Good morning John. I see that you have posted birth date and place of birth for McCauley-2550, but without a source. Did you just forget to add a source for this information? Thanks.
As you can see from the change history, I didn't add anything new to the birth details. I just corrected the birth place that was already there, following a Data Doctor 612 suggestion, and also added the Unsourced template, so that somebody who knows about Irish records can add an appropriate source in due course.
Thanks John for researching my 3rd great grandparents Francis Graham and Jane ? . They are buried in the Aghavea Church Cemetery in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, along with my other 3rd great grandparents Michael and Sarah ? ( Johnston ) Gunne and cousins the Johnstons.
We all did a great job this weekend, thank you, a job well done, we hope you had fun. The grand total for the event was 77,293 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks contributed 7,332 of those. Thank you for working with us.
If you open up your contribution or tracker list you can review your work and possibly do some tidying up, on the profiles.
The Connect-a-Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you for helping, it is appreciated.
Our teams did really well. Our big Mighty Oaks Team came first overall, and our Little Mighty Oak Branches Team was in the top 5 on the Normalised Score. The combined score of our two teams was 11,109. A total of was 95,575 new profiles added by all during the thon.
Thank you for all the "doctoring" you've been doing to my English Shave profiles. Having grown up on the Western side of 'the pond' the finer points of English locations escape me. I really appreciate your work!
Deb [Cavel-3]
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for your commitment to the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members periodically to make sure everything is going well. This is our formal annual check-in with you.
Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Would you like to join any other teams?
Also, we would really like to hear which team is currently your highest priority. If you are a member of more than one team, could you please rank them from highest priority to lowest? Thank you! If you don’t see yourself as being part of a team, please let us know.
We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.
On behalf of all the Leaders, thank you again for all you do and we look forward to you continuing to be a part of our collaborative and fun Project!
I've been focusing on Data Doctoring for the past year or so, particularly cleaning up locations suggestions. Hopefully that will be under control soon, and I plan to spend a bit more time on sourcing, particularly in the counties where I'm the team leader. I'll also continue to spend time working on British Politicians.
You sound very busy! And we definitely appreciate everything you do.
You might want to have a chat to Ros Haywood or Marjorie Gibbon about creating a topic for British Politicians. It would be a great way of consolidating any work you do do.
Hi John, thank you for editing Elizabeth Griffiths birth place. I too believed that Tividale did not exist in 1813, but her baptism record from Tipton St Martin for 10th January 1813 clearly has residence as Tividale. I have posted a close up of register entry into Elizabeth's gallery on her profile page of my Ancestry tree (Mansell Hoult dna). I have tried to copy it here but it will not let me, (I will copy here if you can tell me where I can paste it.) I would be grateful if you wanted to take a look as maybe I am misreading. I cannot think of any other area in Tipton it could be.
I think Tividale is the correct location, and existed at the time. The issue I fixed was to remove "United Kingdom" as that certainly didn't exist in 1800. Wikitree recommends that place names are shown as they were at the time, so creates suggestions when it finds the name of countries used before the countries came into being. For the United Kingdom that is 1801, for the United States it's 1776, and so on.
We all did a great job this weekend, thank you, a job well done. The grand total for the event was 76,995 profiles created. The Mighty Oaks contributed 6,258 of those.
If you open up your contribution list you can review your work and possibly do some tidying up, before you orphan the profiles ;)
Go to www.familysearch.org and there you will find parents, family to update this file for Nellie Ensminger Beaumont.
Would be more current.
Ensmingers are of the Hans Meyer and Hans Gerber family.
Read ensminger-1.pdf
Am trying to get my Hans Gerber-Einsminger family on the Mormon site.
My family is not in Ensminger of Alsace and Pennsylvania 2018 edition.
On Library of Congress site.
Thanks.
Thanks for the information. I don't have any particular interest in this family, I was just responding to a suggestion as a Data Doctor. If you have further details, I suggest you add them to the profile, and perhaps consider adopting it.
Thank you for joining the Mighty Oaks for the Connect-a-Thon. The 65 members who joined our teams were awesome. Our two teams added 12,905 profiles over the weekend. The Branches Team came second and the Roots Team came forth in the overall scores. Both teams were also in the top ten in the normalised scores. I hope you enjoyed it and will be joining us in April when we do it all over again.
John Elkin 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!
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
I'd also like to share our annual Newsletter with you. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading a bit about what has gone on in 2022 and what our Project has achieved.
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members every 6 months just to make sure everything is going well. There's no need to reply to this message unless you have something you'd like to let us know about (e.g. if you would like to change your team choices or provide other feedback). We will be in touch with you again in the middle of next year when we do our annual check-in with project members.
On behalf of all the Leaders, I wish you a peaceful and productive 2023.
We are conducting a check-in with the England Data Doctor Team, you have been a member for some time and we thank you for all the work you do, it is appreciated. Please let us know if you wish to remain with the team, so we can update our lists. Are you still happy to look after the Counties Berkshire, and Staffordshire?
We all did a great job this weekend, thank you for participating. The grand total for the event was 57,577 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks contributed 7,693 of those.
Responding to a note I saw about some changes you had recently made:
Annie (Minion) Gregson was my grandmother ... let me fill in a few gaps for you:
dob = 6/8/1881. death 3/6/63 marriage = 4/22/1905 St Mary's Church, Warksworth Children = Olive (14/3/1906) - Nancy (14/6/1914), Peter, my father, 8/9/1918 Plenty more if you need it
The changes I made were simply to add some sources during the SourceaThon, if you have further details please feel free to add them. As this is a direct ancestor of yours, perhaps you could consider adopting the profile as it is currently an orphan.
I think you have a different Edward Dawson. The one I have is my 5th Great Grandfather. Descendants: Edward Dawson 1730-1788, Edward Dawson 1788- 1815, Henry Dawson 1806-1849 (Younger brother of Edward Dawson 1802-1859), Arthur Finch Dawson 1836-1928, Arthur Bertram Finch Dawson 1870-1956 (younger brother of Henry Finch Dawson 1869-1939), Helen Graham Finch Hemming (1908-1985) (my mother),
The Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you for joining us, it is much appreciated. Our combined score was 11718. Considering the heatwave in England we did really well. You did a great job.
The total overall figure was 87,731 new profiles added (some 3,000 more than last time) and numerous connections made.
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals over the past year. Every English profile we improve helps!
The England Project Leaders are currently doing our six-monthly check-in with all project members.
Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes anyway.
I have been working on two Staffordshire profiles for OT-1 (Edward Sneyd-133) and OT2 (William Sneyd-69). I have now started on the latter’s father William Sneyd-66.
At the moment, there are some Sneyd profiles on WikiTree but it is quite far from a full house.
I am thinking of setting up a personal project page for the Sneyd family, to pull together the various threads and to put the family members in context, in parallel to improving existing profiles and creating new profiles. This could usefully be a sub-project for Staffordshire gentry families linked to the Sneyds, including the Bagots, Chetwynds and Kynnersleys.
I would be interested in finding out if the Staffordshire team could help me find other volunteers to join, in view of the work involved due to the size of the family and the families linked to them.
It would be also be useful to find someone locally based who was able and willing to visit the University of Keele library. The University of Keele, located in and around Keele Hall, the former seat of the senior branch of the Sneyds, purchased the family papers for its library and a number of researchers have consulted them.
Among secondary sources, there is a four volume thesis on “A Study of an ancient Staffordshire Gentry Family - the family of Ralph Sneyd, Esq., (1723-1793) of Keele, Staffordshire - with a survey of its pre-history” by Sandra Burgess, 1990. This is in the University of Keele library, but I cannot find anything more than a reference to it online.
According to the abstract it is ‘A study of an ancient Staffordshire gentry family, named Sneyd, with a focus on the 18th century and Ralph Sneyd (1723-93). Includes studies of 17th century antecedents, and their origins in medieval times. There is an analysis of everyday life in an 18th century household, including the roles of women, financial issues, and the contrast between the gentry and the 'below stairs' household’.
So this would be a useful place from work on the Sneyds in general and Ralph Sneyd in particular.
The Sneyd family is large and quite complicated. The main branch is documented in Staffordshire over at least six centuries. The family spread over time to other locations such as Cheshire, Ireland, Hampshire, and India - where Ralph Sneyd-229 commanded the Governor-General’s bodyguard. His half-sister Emma Sophia Sneyd-25 married John Russell Colvin-697, Lieutenant-Governor, North-West Provinces, and his daughter Harriett (profile to be created) married Cecil Beadon-78, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.
The male Sneyds usually seemed to marry heiresses to landed estates, so that even younger sons could be country gentlemen. Much of this land in Staffordshire had coal seams and iron ore in its subsoil, which was exploited especially during the Industrial Revolution, and some of the Sneyds were seriously rich.
Although I do not have Sneyd ancestors, there are several connections through marriage between my Swetenham and Archer ancestors and cousins, on one hand, and the Sneyds and Kynnersleys (also a prominent Staffordshire family in its day), on the other. The Swetenhams were based not far from Staffordshire, in Somerford Booths near Congleton in Cheshire.
The last male Kynnersley, Clement Kynnersley-5, left his estate of Loxley Park to his nephew Thomas, son of his sister Penelope Kynnersley-3 who had. married John Sneyd. Thomas changed his name to Sneyd-Kynnersley. The Sneyd-Kynnersley family kept Loxley until after the Second World War.
Another son of Penelope, Clement Sneyd-30 a naval officer, married Helen Swetenham-4, sister of Clement Swetenham (formerly Comberbach-11) of the 16th Light Dragoons, where he served in the Peninsula under his uncle Clement Archer-6507 and at Waterloo.
Clement Archer’s father William Archer-6230 had made Clement Kynnersley-5 an executor of his will. Clement Kynnersley-5 also gave Clement Swetenham the horse he was riding at Waterloo which was killed under him.
Clement’s Christian name was not just omnipresent in his lifetime: it was perpetuated by successive generations of Archers, Sneyds and Swetenhams, in certain cases up to the present day.
I am in touch with a Sneyd-Kynnersley descendant who has been actively researching his family over many years. In time for his 101st birthday, he has now handed over the results to his son, who by coincidence happened to be an old friend of my sister and me
That sounds like an interesting, but daunting, project; and well worth pursuing. I suggest that you repost your message on the Staffordshire team page (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Staffordshire_Team) to see if you get any offers of help.
The Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you for joining us, it is appreciated. Our combined scorewas 13,335 51 more than the last CAT so well don
The total overall figure was 84,388 new profiles added and numerous connections made. The total figure was down 1,451 on the January Thon
Thank you for again contributing to the March 2022 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.
Thank you for again contributing to the Sourcerers Challenge in January! 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.
Well, the Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and have fully recovered. Thank you for joining us The combined score of 13,284 - is 113 more than the last CAT so well done. The total overall figure was 85,839 profiles connected.
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.
Thanks for your consistent sourcing with us, John!
John Elkin reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2021 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
Thank you for your 19 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.
Well, it was a fun weekend, we hope you enjoyed yourself. Thank you for joining us. It is appreciated. The combined score for our teams was a fab 9,296 up 419 on last year, well done. The total overall figure was 56,972 profiles sourced.
i am trying to establish if i am related to Grace Darling ( the lighthouse keeper's daughter and heroine). my father's grandfather was James Darling b 1854. he is the son of Thomas Darling b1814 in Galashiels. My father has noted that Thomas Darling is the son of John Darling who married Catherine Wallace, though i have no more details. I guess John Darling would have been born between 1760 and 1790.
I note from WikiTree that Grace Darling's grandfather was Robert Darling (1746 - 1815) and he was born in Duns (which is about 20 miles from Galashiels). So could they have been brothers? or cousins? is there any way of knowing.?
Look forward to your replay. my email is [email address removed]
best wishes
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We all did a great job last weekend, thank you, for a job well done, we hope you had fun. The total for the event was 100,934 profiles created and sourced to build the tree. Mighty Oaks teams contributed 9,592. Thank you for working with us, to improve the worldwide tree. See you for the next Thon on Apr 11-14: Connect-a-Thon XIV see https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1810122/when-are-the-big-wikitree-events-in-2025
Joan, Janet and Maddy
Welcome to England's Mighty Oaks Team once again. Thanks for signing up, we appreciate you joining us for the January 2025 Connect A Thon (CAT} Please check out the page and the links, Mighty_Oaks
Questions please ask.
We hope you had a Merry Christmas and we wish you a Happy New Year
Joan, Janet, and Maddy, Co-Team Captains
Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2024! Together, we have made a significant difference to the quality of the One Big Tree, as we strive towards making English profiles the best that they can be.
I'd like to share our end-of-year 2024 Newsletter. You can read it here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:England_Project_Newsletters We hope you enjoy reading about our many project achievements and ongoing developments.
On behalf of all the England Project Leaders, I wish you all the best for a peaceful, productive and enjoyable 2025!
Elizabeth, England Project Leader
We all did a fantastic job this weekend, thank you. We hope you had fun. The total for the event was 54,527 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks added 7,456, which placed us in a winning position. We appreciate your input and support for the event and look forward to working with you again next year.
Thanks again for this weekend, from your colleagues and the Mighty Oaks Team Captains
Janet, Joan and Maddy
I see you working on the profile of Richard Hards. Are you wanting to research the Hards family? I am a Hards and my family ancestry, at this time, I have traced back into Surrey. My g.grandfather, Harry Hoblin Hards, and his brother, James Hards, emigrated to South Africa in the 1800's and established the 1st canning and jam factory in South Africa, in their town called Grahamstown. If you would like to come and help us with the Hards (and close relatives) tree please contact me at [email address removed] I have created a private FaceBook group called Hards Family Genealogy Group where I'm hoping members can chat and share their trees and info with each other. Please feel free to join us there. My wife and I moved from South Africa in 2011 to be with my son's family in Melbourne Australia. I also have a very large tree (27000+ records) that I share with a cousin on Ancestry. He created the bulk of the tree and I have helped him as an editor, and now have a copy of that tree in my free account on Ancestry. I have been trying to find our Hards links back into the greater Hards family in Kent which hasn't happened yet. I found another Hards relative here in Adelaide who's ancestry goes back to Sussex and quite close to my roots. Together we have created the FaceBook group. Hoping to hear from you With best regards Garth Kay-Hards (Melbourne Australia)
Thanks for getting in touch. The changes I made to Richard Hards' profile were part of the Data Doctor activity to improve the quality of the information on Wikitree, I don't have any personal interest in the Hards family.
Have you considered adding your research here, it sounds as if you could contribute a lot.
Best wishes John
John, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.
Thank you for contributing towards the goals of the England Project! Over the past year, a staggering amount has been done to improve English profiles on WikiTree and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
The England Project leadership like to check in with all our project members at least once a year.
Are you happy to stay in your current project team/s? Or is there another team you would like to join or become more active in?
Please reply to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you. Please also let us know if you have other feedback about the direction of the project.
Many thanks!
Dave, on behalf of the England Project leadership
I'm happy to carry on with what I'm doing!
John
We all did a great job this weekend, thank you. We hope you had fun. The total for the event was 88,908 profiles.
The Mighty Oaks added 8,292 profiles to the tree. We appreciate your input and support for the event and look forward to working with you all again next time.
Thanks again for this weekend, from your colleagues and the Mighty Oaks Team Captains
Janet, Joan and Maddy
WikiTree Team page:Mighty Oaks Other links can be found on our page, as well as a list of your Team members
G2G Chat click here and we will be on Discord for live chat so join us there. Not on Discord contact Joan to join us.
Looking forward to working with you any questions just ask
Joan, Janet, and Maddy Co-Captains for the Mighty Oaks
Which Craigies are you researching? Trusting to Hear from you. Daisy Craigie - 321.
I'm not researching any Craigies, any changes you have seen me make to Craigie profiles have been to resolve suggestions flagged to the Data Doctor team.
Best wishes John
Can I just remind you that profiles that have a Hold Request should NOT be amended even by Data Doctors.
These profiles are held as part of educational programs and the one you altered recently Addison-162 is currently being worked on by a Hiker.
In order for them to learn they must correct these mistakes themselves.
This was most likely just an oversight however I thought I would bring it to your attention.
Tartan Trail Project Co-ordinator
Sorry about that. I didn't see your note regarding the Tartan Trail on that profile as it is quite far down the profile in the Research Notes section. In future could you please add the Tartan Trail graphic near the top of the edit box, as shown on the Data Doctor Project page (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Data_Doctors) - that should stop interference.
Regards John
John
Merged Jennie Taft. Do you know who her parents were?
Don Barnett-11431
Sorry, I don't have any further information. I was working on some Data Doctor suggestions when I spotted the duplicated profiles for Jennie Taft. Thanks for merging them.
Regards John
Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023! Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!
I'd like to share our end-of-year 2023 Newsletter. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading about what we have achieved in 2023!
On behalf of all the England Project Leaders, we wish you a peaceful, productive and enjoyable 2024!
Best wishes,
Ian, England Project Leader
Spivey-343
As you can see from the change history, I didn't add anything new to the birth details. I just corrected the birth place that was already there, following a Data Doctor 612 suggestion, and also added the Unsourced template, so that somebody who knows about Irish records can add an appropriate source in due course.
Regards John
Sunday Graham Thompson
We all did a great job this weekend, thank you, a job well done, we hope you had fun. The grand total for the event was 77,293 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks contributed 7,332 of those. Thank you for working with us.
If you open up your contribution or tracker list you can review your work and possibly do some tidying up, on the profiles.
Thanks again for this weekend, you rock
Joan, Janet, Maddy and Fran
Hi John
The Connect-a-Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you for helping, it is appreciated.
Our teams did really well. Our big Mighty Oaks Team came first overall, and our Little Mighty Oak Branches Team was in the top 5 on the Normalised Score. The combined score of our two teams was 11,109. A total of was 95,575 new profiles added by all during the thon.
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for the next event).
The next Thon, towards the end of the year will be a Source-a-Thon, And watch G2G for the WikiTree Games sometime in August.
Thanks again for a great weekend, we look forward to working with you again soon.
Joan, Janet, Maddy, & Fran (Co Captains)
Thank you for all the "doctoring" you've been doing to my English Shave profiles. Having grown up on the Western side of 'the pond' the finer points of English locations escape me. I really appreciate your work! Deb [Cavel-3]
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for your commitment to the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members periodically to make sure everything is going well. This is our formal annual check-in with you.
Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Would you like to join any other teams?
Also, we would really like to hear which team is currently your highest priority. If you are a member of more than one team, could you please rank them from highest priority to lowest? Thank you! If you don’t see yourself as being part of a team, please let us know.
We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.
On behalf of all the Leaders, thank you again for all you do and we look forward to you continuing to be a part of our collaborative and fun Project!
Kind regards,
Susie, England Project Leader
I've been focusing on Data Doctoring for the past year or so, particularly cleaning up locations suggestions. Hopefully that will be under control soon, and I plan to spend a bit more time on sourcing, particularly in the counties where I'm the team leader. I'll also continue to spend time working on British Politicians.
Best wishes, John
edited by John Elkin
You sound very busy! And we definitely appreciate everything you do.
You might want to have a chat to Ros Haywood or Marjorie Gibbon about creating a topic for British Politicians. It would be a great way of consolidating any work you do do.
Regards
Susie
Thank you. Mandy.
edited by M Mansell
I think Tividale is the correct location, and existed at the time. The issue I fixed was to remove "United Kingdom" as that certainly didn't exist in 1800. Wikitree recommends that place names are shown as they were at the time, so creates suggestions when it finds the name of countries used before the countries came into being. For the United Kingdom that is 1801, for the United States it's 1776, and so on.
Best wishes, John
Best wishes, Mandy.
We all did a great job this weekend, thank you, a job well done. The grand total for the event was 76,995 profiles created. The Mighty Oaks contributed 6,258 of those.
If you open up your contribution list you can review your work and possibly do some tidying up, before you orphan the profiles ;)
Thanks again for this weekend, you rock!
Joan, Janet, Maddy and Fran
Would be more current. Ensmingers are of the Hans Meyer and Hans Gerber family. Read ensminger-1.pdf Am trying to get my Hans Gerber-Einsminger family on the Mormon site. My family is not in Ensminger of Alsace and Pennsylvania 2018 edition. On Library of Congress site. Thanks.
edited by Sharon (Dewald) Skeels
Thanks for the information. I don't have any particular interest in this family, I was just responding to a suggestion as a Data Doctor. If you have further details, I suggest you add them to the profile, and perhaps consider adopting it.
Best wishes John
Thank you for joining the Mighty Oaks for the Connect-a-Thon. The 65 members who joined our teams were awesome. Our two teams added 12,905 profiles over the weekend. The Branches Team came second and the Roots Team came forth in the overall scores. Both teams were also in the top ten in the normalised scores. I hope you enjoyed it and will be joining us in April when we do it all over again.
Joan, Maddy, Janet & Fran.
We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!
edited by Bill Feidt
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
I'd also like to share our annual Newsletter with you. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading a bit about what has gone on in 2022 and what our Project has achieved.
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members every 6 months just to make sure everything is going well. There's no need to reply to this message unless you have something you'd like to let us know about (e.g. if you would like to change your team choices or provide other feedback). We will be in touch with you again in the middle of next year when we do our annual check-in with project members.
On behalf of all the Leaders, I wish you a peaceful and productive 2023.
Best wishes,
Ian, England Project Leader
We are conducting a check-in with the England Data Doctor Team, you have been a member for some time and we thank you for all the work you do, it is appreciated. Please let us know if you wish to remain with the team, so we can update our lists. Are you still happy to look after the Counties Berkshire, and Staffordshire?
Look forward to hearing from you
Janet and Derrick
Yes, I'm happy to continue with my activities with the Data Doctor Team, and with the county teams for Staffordshire and Berkshire.
Kind Regards John
We all did a great job this weekend, thank you for participating. The grand total for the event was 57,577 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks contributed 7,693 of those.
See: https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourceAThon/2022/TeamAndUser.htm to open up your contribution list so you can review your work and possibly some tidying up.
Thanks again for this weekend, we look forward to working with you again.
Joan, Janet, Maddy and Fran
edited by Janet (Langridge) Wild MSc RN
Annie (Minion) Gregson was my grandmother ... let me fill in a few gaps for you: dob = 6/8/1881. death 3/6/63 marriage = 4/22/1905 St Mary's Church, Warksworth Children = Olive (14/3/1906) - Nancy (14/6/1914), Peter, my father, 8/9/1918 Plenty more if you need it
The changes I made were simply to add some sources during the SourceaThon, if you have further details please feel free to add them. As this is a direct ancestor of yours, perhaps you could consider adopting the profile as it is currently an orphan.
John
The Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you for joining us, it is much appreciated. Our combined score was 11718. Considering the heatwave in England we did really well. You did a great job. The total overall figure was 87,731 new profiles added (some 3,000 more than last time) and numerous connections made.
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for the next event)
Thanks again for last weekend, we look forward to working with you again during the next thon in 3 months time
Joan & Maddy
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals over the past year. Every English profile we improve helps!
The England Project Leaders are currently doing our six-monthly check-in with all project members.
Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.
Many thanks!
Amelia, England Project Leader
Good to hear from you. I'm happy to carry on with what I'm doing!
Best wishes, John
I have been working on two Staffordshire profiles for OT-1 (Edward Sneyd-133) and OT2 (William Sneyd-69). I have now started on the latter’s father William Sneyd-66.
At the moment, there are some Sneyd profiles on WikiTree but it is quite far from a full house.
I am thinking of setting up a personal project page for the Sneyd family, to pull together the various threads and to put the family members in context, in parallel to improving existing profiles and creating new profiles. This could usefully be a sub-project for Staffordshire gentry families linked to the Sneyds, including the Bagots, Chetwynds and Kynnersleys.
I would be interested in finding out if the Staffordshire team could help me find other volunteers to join, in view of the work involved due to the size of the family and the families linked to them.
It would be also be useful to find someone locally based who was able and willing to visit the University of Keele library. The University of Keele, located in and around Keele Hall, the former seat of the senior branch of the Sneyds, purchased the family papers for its library and a number of researchers have consulted them.
Among secondary sources, there is a four volume thesis on “A Study of an ancient Staffordshire Gentry Family - the family of Ralph Sneyd, Esq., (1723-1793) of Keele, Staffordshire - with a survey of its pre-history” by Sandra Burgess, 1990. This is in the University of Keele library, but I cannot find anything more than a reference to it online.
According to the abstract it is ‘A study of an ancient Staffordshire gentry family, named Sneyd, with a focus on the 18th century and Ralph Sneyd (1723-93). Includes studies of 17th century antecedents, and their origins in medieval times. There is an analysis of everyday life in an 18th century household, including the roles of women, financial issues, and the contrast between the gentry and the 'below stairs' household’.
So this would be a useful place from work on the Sneyds in general and Ralph Sneyd in particular.
The Sneyd family is large and quite complicated. The main branch is documented in Staffordshire over at least six centuries. The family spread over time to other locations such as Cheshire, Ireland, Hampshire, and India - where Ralph Sneyd-229 commanded the Governor-General’s bodyguard. His half-sister Emma Sophia Sneyd-25 married John Russell Colvin-697, Lieutenant-Governor, North-West Provinces, and his daughter Harriett (profile to be created) married Cecil Beadon-78, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.
The male Sneyds usually seemed to marry heiresses to landed estates, so that even younger sons could be country gentlemen. Much of this land in Staffordshire had coal seams and iron ore in its subsoil, which was exploited especially during the Industrial Revolution, and some of the Sneyds were seriously rich.
Although I do not have Sneyd ancestors, there are several connections through marriage between my Swetenham and Archer ancestors and cousins, on one hand, and the Sneyds and Kynnersleys (also a prominent Staffordshire family in its day), on the other. The Swetenhams were based not far from Staffordshire, in Somerford Booths near Congleton in Cheshire.
The last male Kynnersley, Clement Kynnersley-5, left his estate of Loxley Park to his nephew Thomas, son of his sister Penelope Kynnersley-3 who had. married John Sneyd. Thomas changed his name to Sneyd-Kynnersley. The Sneyd-Kynnersley family kept Loxley until after the Second World War.
Another son of Penelope, Clement Sneyd-30 a naval officer, married Helen Swetenham-4, sister of Clement Swetenham (formerly Comberbach-11) of the 16th Light Dragoons, where he served in the Peninsula under his uncle Clement Archer-6507 and at Waterloo.
Clement Archer’s father William Archer-6230 had made Clement Kynnersley-5 an executor of his will. Clement Kynnersley-5 also gave Clement Swetenham the horse he was riding at Waterloo which was killed under him.
Clement’s Christian name was not just omnipresent in his lifetime: it was perpetuated by successive generations of Archers, Sneyds and Swetenhams, in certain cases up to the present day.
I am in touch with a Sneyd-Kynnersley descendant who has been actively researching his family over many years. In time for his 101st birthday, he has now handed over the results to his son, who by coincidence happened to be an old friend of my sister and me
Richard Clement Swetenham
That sounds like an interesting, but daunting, project; and well worth pursuing. I suggest that you repost your message on the Staffordshire team page (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Staffordshire_Team) to see if you get any offers of help.
Good luck, John
Curious if you are an extended family member.
Doug
I don't have any connection I'm afraid. I updated that profile while working through some Data Doctor suggestions.
Regards John
The Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you for joining us, it is appreciated. Our combined scorewas 13,335 51 more than the last CAT so well don
The total overall figure was 84,388 new profiles added and numerous connections made. The total figure was down 1,451 on the January Thon
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for the next event)
Thanks again for last weekend, we look forward to working with you again in 3 months.
Joan, Janet Maddy & Fran
Thank you for again contributing to the March 2022 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.
WT Appreciation Team
Nan, WikiTree Appreciation Team
Thank you for again contributing to the Sourcerers Challenge in January! 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
Well, the Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and have fully recovered. Thank you for joining us The combined score of 13,284 - is 113 more than the last CAT so well done. The total overall figure was 85,839 profiles connected.
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for next event)
We are a bit late with out thanks, but we appreciate all your help and we look forward to working with you again.
Joan and Maddy.
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
Thank you for your 19 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.
Well, it was a fun weekend, we hope you enjoyed yourself. Thank you for joining us. It is appreciated. The combined score for our teams was a fab 9,296 up 419 on last year, well done. The total overall figure was 56,972 profiles sourced.
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourceaThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for next year’s event)
Thanks again for this weekend, we look forward to working with you again
Joan & Maddy
i am trying to establish if i am related to Grace Darling ( the lighthouse keeper's daughter and heroine). my father's grandfather was James Darling b 1854. he is the son of Thomas Darling b1814 in Galashiels. My father has noted that Thomas Darling is the son of John Darling who married Catherine Wallace, though i have no more details. I guess John Darling would have been born between 1760 and 1790.
I note from WikiTree that Grace Darling's grandfather was Robert Darling (1746 - 1815) and he was born in Duns (which is about 20 miles from Galashiels). So could they have been brothers? or cousins? is there any way of knowing.?
Look forward to your replay. my email is [email address removed] best wishes
Chris