Michelle Enke
Honor Code SignatorySigned 21 Feb 2016 | 38,170 contributions | 1,051 thank-yous | 1,137 connections
Signed 21 Feb 2016 | 38,170 contributions | 1,051 thank-yous | 1,137 connections
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Michelle R. Enke
Born 1960s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of
[private father (1940s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]
Sister of
[private sister (unknown - unknown)]
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Biography
Michelle Enke competed with the
Charming Chestnuts in the 2024 WikiGames.
This profile is part of the Enke Name Study.
Michelle Enke is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.
Michelle Enke is a member of the Maupin Name Study Project.
Michelle Enke is a member of the Enke Name Study Project.
Michelle Enke is the Manager of the Special Collections Section of the Wichita Public Library since 2002.[1][2] She has been an active historian and genealogist for over 30 years.
She graduated with a Bachelor's in History from Northeast Missouri State (now Truman State) University in May 1991.[3] She was awarded the Lucille Marie Cobb Memorial Scholarship in 1999[4] and graduated with a Master's in Library Science in December 2001 from the University of Missouri at Columbia.[5]
Michelle is a librarian
Michelle is a genealogist.
She worked as the Director of the Cole County (Missouri) Historical Society from 1994 to 1996. She as a grant-paid cataloger at the Missouri State Archives in 1996. She worked at the Missouri River Regional Library as a Reference Librarian until 2002.[6]
She is a life member of the Robinett Family Association, Gasconade County (Missouri) Historical Society, Missouri State Genealogical Association, St. Louis Genealogical Association, and Utah Genealogical Association.
She has been a member of the American Library Association since 1998 and has served on the Genealogy Committee, Local History Committee, and the Genealogy Pre-Conference Planning Committee. In 2023, she won the ALA Genealogy / History Achievement Award.[7] She currently is a Certified Archivist and a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists.
She is a member of the Martha Loving Ferrell Chapter of the NSDAR.
Michelle Enke is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
She attended IGHR in 2016 for Military Genealogy, GRIP in 2017 for Writing Your Family History, and SLIG in 2019 for Exploring Native American Research, in 2020 for Advanced Hispanic Research, and in 2021 for Show Me Missouri Research.
Her family has been in the Gasconade County, Missouri, area for many generations. She is actively researching family members and others from this area of the state.
She started the Enke One Name Study and the Gasconade County, Missouri One Place Study, please join! She is the project coordinator for the Missouri Project.
RootsTech Attendee: 2017, 2015
Michelle Enke is participating with Super_Sweepers during the 2019 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 72 suggestions.
Michelle Enke participated with Team Missouri during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon, and added 14 connections.
Michelle Enke is a Missourian.
Michelle gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2019 Secret Santa!
Michelle Enke is a Kansan.
Michelle gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2021 WikiTree LiveCast Secret Santa.
Michelle Enke visited x nations including --- in the 15 Nations Tour.
Notable relatives: DeForest Kelley, Kelley-3056, 5th cousin 2 removed
Sources
- ↑ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJKH-RNQV : 16 May 2014), Michelle R Enke, Residence, Wichita, Kansas, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
- ↑ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJW2-HCDY : 23 May 2014), Michelle T Enke, Residence, Wichita, Kansas, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
- ↑ "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Yearbook Title: The Echo; Year: 1988. Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990 : 9 March 2019.
- ↑ "College Notes," Jefferson City News-Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri), 13 June 1999. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWNB&req_dat=0ED6191465256A49&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F10CD0632CA1BC625 : 28 July 2020.
- ↑ "MU Lists Area Graduates from December," Jefferson City News-Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri), 27 January 2002. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWNB&req_dat=0ED6191465256A49&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F10CD001F959ADF0A : 28 July 2020.
- ↑ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJXC-Z11X : 16 May 2014), Michelle Enke, Residence, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
- ↑ https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2023/03/2023-rusa-achievement-award-winners : 27 March 2023.
- First-hand information. Entered by Michelle Enke at registration.
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"To aid WikiTree in the administration of my account should I be incapacitated, or in the event of my death, I hereby give permission for all private profiles I'm managing to be transferred to the following WikiTreers, whether or not they are currently on the Trusted Lists: ...".
I am not sure who to add, since I have no close relatives on WikiTree. I would hate for the information to disappear so will rely on the WikiTree managers to decide what to do.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Michelle's formal name
- full middle name (R.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
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- images (1)
- private siblings' names
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
- Michelle Enke: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test, haplogroup H5a1n, FTDNA kit #402473
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Michelle Enke:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A290939 [compare] [compare x], yourDNAportal MIC6f84341c, Ancestry member enkem
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, yourDNAportal MIC6f84341c, FTDNA kit #402473
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Michelle:
- 400,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Michelle Enke, and thank you from all of us! Feb 7, 2024.
- Michelle Enke is a Wonderful WikiTreer! Sep 18, 2022.
- 300,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Michelle Enke, and thank you from all of us! May 7, 2022.
- Michelle Enke is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jun 30, 2021.
- Michelle Enke is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 20, 2019.
- Michelle Enke is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 4, 2019.
This week's connection theme is Game Show Hosts. Michelle is 18 degrees from Chuck Woolery, 21 degrees from Dick Clark, 25 degrees from Richard Dawson, 31 degrees from Cornelia Zulver, 35 degrees from Magnus Härenstam, 36 degrees from Steve Harvey, 20 degrees from Vicki Lawrence, 18 degrees from Allen Ludden, 23 degrees from Michael Strahan, 23 degrees from Alex Trebek, 25 degrees from Ian Turpie and 36 degrees from Léon Zitrone on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
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The 2024 WikiGames starts this Friday and the excitement has been building! Our WikiGames will take place over two weekends, with two events taking place each weekend: August 23 and 24 and also August 30 and 31.
You are on the Charming Chestnuts team and in "Heat I". What does Heat I mean? Your game time starts at 8pm EDT/1am UTC/10am AEST and runs for 10 hours each. We will not know which team takes home the Gold Medal until the end of the games.
The Charming Chestnuts will communicate via G2G only as that was decided when you signed up. Please feel free to leave a G2G post anytime you have a question.
Thanks for participating!
Sandy, Team Captain
Sourcing Slalom: The goal of this event is to remove profiles from the Unsourced Profiles category or profiles already present on WikiTree and unsourced. They cannot be new profiles that you create. For the purposes of this event, unsourced means there are no sources listed at all. Add the source(s) according to our Sources guide. Make sure you have the Sourcer Extension added to your browswer to make sourcing super easy! Any questions about the Sourcing Slalom?
Date Diving: Pick from one of these lonesome categories on WikiTree+ (don't forget to click "find suggestions" to generate the report) that need dates added. Dates can be usually be found on sources. If you can not find a date for a profile, please leave a Research Note saying so. A sample report to find Undated Profiles. If you would like a report for a specific location (State or Country), please let me know.
edited by Sandy (Craig) Patak
This weekend's schedule: (also on our G2G post )
Cross-Country Connecting: If you've participated in one of our Help:Connect-a-Thon, this event is just like it. The goal of this event is to connect more people on WikiTree by adding missing relatives.
Scores are tracked automatically ONLY FOR THIS EVENT. You do not need to use the "challenge tracker" or manually keep track of how many profiles you add. All profiles must have at least one valid source. Our system counts the number of non-living family members you add. Often these will be "collateral" relatives that members neglected to add when adding their family tree.
Long-Distance Locating: This year we started the Locators Challenge! This will be like that!
Modify a search on the Locators space page to get profiles from a specific country or region (state, province, county etc.). These searches include the country or region in the marriage and/or death location. If you want a big challenge, try these profiles with no locations in them. If you want me to create a specific report based on a Project Sticker, please post the request on our G2G post.
My Brown family came from Scott County, Virginia, with a group of neighbors to Miller County, Missouri, in the 1850s. I had the daunting task of finding a John Brown born in Virginia about 1806. Ugh! Luckily, John's grandson George married a Neal girl in Missouri. While tracing her parents back, I found John Brown and his family living two farms away in Scott County, VA.
Best wishes, Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
The Germany Project Leaders are doing their semi-annual check-in with all project members and we want to verify that you’re still interested in being a member of the Project. Please respond by private message and let me know.
Are you currently working with one of our Sub-projects or Teams? If not, take a look at our main Project page for a full list.
We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all your hard work. If you have any questions, please ask. We would also love to hear any feedback you may have for the project.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
Thank you for contributing to my tree during the WikiTree Challenge this week! Yvette Hoitink
Since Eowyn provided the major links in her email, I'm dropping by with the other main one you'll need. This will take you to the state links for the suggestions that need to be fixed. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:DBE_Errors_By#East_North_Central Click on the state you want to work on and it will bring up a huge chart of suggestions. If you have any question about how things work or if there's any issues, drop a note in the Team chat or PM me.
And the most important thing is...have fun!
Go Team MO!!
I sent you a message a couple of weeks ago on behalf of the Germany Project and have not yet heard back from you. I hope you are well!
If I don’t hear back from you by the end of April, I will assume you no longer wish to be a member of the Germany Project and I’ll go ahead and remove you from our member roster. You are, of course, welcome to rejoin at any time via our G2G sign-up post.
Best wishes,
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
The Germany Project Leaders are doing their semi-annual check-in with all project members and we want to verify that you’re still interested in being a member of the Project. Please respond by private message and let me know.
Are you currently working with one of our Sub-projects or Teams? If not, take a look at our main Project page for a full list. We recently launched a new Profile Improvement Team and are seeking new team members. Let me know if you’re interested.
We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all your hard work. If you have any questions, please ask. We would also love to hear any feedback you may have for the project.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
you added some info for Catharine (Horstmann) Drewel.
I added some info in comments on her and her parents. I looked for them, to see if they may be related, because Prussia is a wide range :) There is only a very slim chance for me to be related to them, so I did not edit the entries myself.
Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s 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
edited by Michelle Enke
Team Missouri page:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Missouri
Team Missouri chat:https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1097901/team-missouri-source-a-thon-2020-chat
Clarification on what counts:https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/470614/what-profiles-count-as-unsourced-for-the-source-a-thon
Main Source-a-thon page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Source-a-Thon
Unsourced profile listing: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Unsourced_Profiles (You can also find a link at the top of the Team Missouri page.)
Tracking: https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourceAThon/2020/TeamAndUser.htm
If you have any questions or concerns not covered here, stop by our chat page! Most importantly, have fun!
The Ambassadors project has been reorganizing and is looking for those who have a membership at a genealogical society, to help in spreading the word about WikiTree.
We're working on ways to improve how WikiTree connects and interacts with genealogical and local history societies. This is the kind of thing we want to do:
Are you interested in participating in some way? Do you have some ideas to share?
Azure Rae ~ co-Leader of Ambassadors Project
Thank you, regardless!
Laura and Gloria
Sat, Aug 8, 11:53 PM (7 minutes ago) to WikiTree
Thank you so much for replying. Gloria, Alexandra, Loren and I have connected since Anthony popped up on my Ancestry DNA test. It's been an absolute pleasure learning about the path the rest of the family took while my great grandfather, Rudolph, remained in Chicago. Thank you for helping me with missing pieces!
Best wishes,
Laura
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!
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Our team chat is located at: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1054866/team-missouri-2020-connect-a-thon-chat Feel free to ask questions there or cheer the team on. I will be posting the link to the live team stats in the team chat after the event starts. Good luck and have fun!!
Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!
Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Hope to see you back on the team for the next event!
Just wanted to provide you with a few links to help you out during the event. Team page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Missouri Team Chat: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1007823/team-missouri-2020-clean-a-thon-chat DBE suggestions by locations: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:DBE_Errors_By
Happy to have you on Team Missouri! Let's go have some fun!
On behalf of the Disasters (and Titanic) Project Leaders we are carrying out a check-in to see how all the members are doing and taking the opportunity to thank you for all your hard work in the past.
We have recently made a lot of changes. We are changing the focus of the project to include more about people involved in disasters and the effect it had on them and their families. We have divided the project into teams. Please have a look https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Disasters
Please let me know, by comment on my profile or a private message, whether you are still active in the project, and which team(s) you would like to work with. What are you enjoying most about being in the project? What would you like to see improved or changed?
We're looking forward to hearing back from you,
Joan and Lizzie
I would like to be a part of the Health Disasters Team. I have been working on the 1918 Flu Pandemic, mainly for Franklin County, Missouri. Michelle
Please ensure locations are entered on all profiles and data matches dates of profile. Avoid abbreviations, add sources with citations & links for sources to support the data. From wiki ID go to Research to find sources
Thanks for joining the GERMANY project, great to see your enthusiasm. Explore Pre-1700 Projects list to find links to your research focus, whether time period, location or topic For help with tags, click editing your tags
Questions ask Here
Janet~Pre-1700 Greeter
PS Links not working, click them in the comment box
I have recently taken the SLIG week-long class on Advanced Hispanic Genealogy. It is okay for me to enter profiles of persons in early New Mexico? They have wonderful church records back to the late 1600s that trace families across the years.
That sounds good to me as long as they are before 1501 you will be able to create and edit. Do review the Pre-1700 help pages https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Pre-1700_Profiles and this one may also be useful https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:United_States_Project_Reliable_Sources
I would also recommend you catagorise the profiles as you create them explore the pages from here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:New_Mexico add profiles to the church / cemetery categories if you are not confident in creating a category just ask the category team.
Also use this on these profiles https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:New_Mexico_Sticker
Good luck with this work
Janet
Looking forward to our next "a-thon" together!
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/903504/team-missouri-source-a-thon-2019-chat
Pippin Sheppard
WikiTrees Appreciation Team
Missouri is a fortunate state to have you living there, and we are fortunate also for being a member of our community.
Pippin Sheppard
WikiTrees Appreciation Team
An older sister, Agnes, came a few years earlier. The older sister married Peter Schaffer who was born in the US but was of German descent. I am in recent correspondence with a descendant of Peter and Agnes whom I recently discovered on Ancestry. She has just sent me a descendant chart with a lot of information that I did not have before-
Why can't I get into the profile to correct the spelling of theit marriage place, Boone? Misspelled BOON. Chet Ogan
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Missouri
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/851956/team-missouri-connect-a-thon-chat
Any questions or comments? Post them in the team chat. We'll use that during the event to chat with or encourage our team mates.
I hope you don't catch flu from all the Categorizing you are doing :-)
Thank you so much for responding to our check-in. We are delighted that you wish to continue contributing to the Categorization Project. Below is a quick checklist for active members. The project leaders would like you to make sure you have done the following:
1) Checked the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Categorization]for ways to contribute.
2) Added Categories to the tags you follow.
3) PMed the project leaders with your email address to be added to the https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wikicategories.
Thank you!
Karen ~ Volunteer Coordinator