
Kathy Evans
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Two paternal lines: Evans and Crowe to Counties Kerry and Clare in Ireland. Two maternal lines: Woodbury and Head to the 1620's and the original settlers of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
I was born in Massachusetts, and lived there for 30 years. I then lived in the Denver, Colorado area for 6 years, in New Orleans for 1 year, in New Hampshire for 10 years, and retired to Maine.
My introduction to genealogy happened in 2010. A cousin I never knew existed sent a document to another cousin-in-law, and the document eventually arrived in my email. I didn't realize it, but I was looking at an Ahnentafel printout. I'm glad I worked my way through the many pages, because my mother was listed at the end of the report. My sister and I decided we had to figure out who all these people were. Both our parents had died by this time, so we were starting with a blank page. We learned that the markers in Beverly, Massachusetts, and the street names in Rockport, Massachusetts were for our ancestors. Genealogy has become my passion.
Since I started with genealogy just as records were becoming more widely available online, that's how I learned to do research. I am not a paper person, so I never created notebooks for family lines. WikiTree is the perfect solution for me.
I am a Daughter of the American Revolution, working on my 16th Patriot. Here are my proven Patriots, in order of verification:
Generation | Relation | Total w/ Birth Year | Earliest Birth Year | Latest Birth Year | Average Birth Year | Gen Length | Average Lifespan |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Self | 1/1 | 1950 | 1950 | 1950 | - | - |
2 | Parents | 2/2 | 1922 | 1926 | 1924 | 26 | 67 |
3 | Grandparents | 4/4 | 1885 | 1897 | 1892 | 32 | 67 |
4 | Great-Grandparents | 8/8 | 1838 | 1877 | 1856 | 36 | 77 |
5 | 2x Great-Grandparents | 14/16 | 1811 | 1853 | 1830 | 26 | 60 |
6 | 3x Great-Grandparents | 19/32 | 1779 | 1820 | 1798 | 32 | 63 |
7 | 4x Great-Grandparents | 23/64 | 1737 | 1783 | 1761 | 37 | 71 |
8 | 5x Great-Grandparents | 40/128 | 1697 | 1760 | 1730 | 31 | 66 |
9 | 6x Great-Grandparents | 73/256 | 1648 | 1731 | 1699 | 31 | 70 |
10 | 7x Great-Grandparents | 139/512 | 1611 | 1709 | 1668 | 31 | 64 |
Average generation length: 31; Average lifespan: 67; Oldest ancestor: John Francis Evans, 101 years old.
Paternal and Maternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Kathy Evans and her sister. Their most-recent common ancestors are their parents, Albert Thomas Evans (1922-2008) and Ruth Edna (Woodbury) Evans (1926-1974). Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Sisters, based on Shared DNA: 2,578 cM across 52 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
Connections to Super Bowl halftime show performers: Kathy is 21 degrees from Prince Nelson, 17 degrees from Dan Aykroyd, 18 degrees from Garth Brooks, 25 degrees from Chubby Checker, 22 degrees from Ella Fitzgerald, 21 degrees from Dusty Hill, 28 degrees from Whitney Houston, 23 degrees from Mick Jagger, 21 degrees from Paul McCartney, 22 degrees from Tom Petty, 19 degrees from Chris Stapleton and 18 degrees from Shania Twain on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
Once again it is time for our annual Ireland Project check-in.
1. Would you like to continue as a member of the project? 2. Do you have any suggestions for project priorities in the next year? 3. Do you have any interest in taking a more active role in the project and, if so, what might you be interested in doing?
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Thank you for all of your contributions to WikiTree and to the Ireland Project.
Gach beannacht,
Jen, Ireland Project co-leader
Yes I would like to continue as a member. Thanks, Kathy
Sorry, I don't have any other information, other than the death record attached to his profile.
I just wanted to say thank you for your work during the -thon this past weekend. The profiles you added for my Coburn family look fabulous. I appreciate that you took the time to fully source and write a bio for them, instead of just jamming in a Findagrave or Familysearch ID. As a previous team leader for a thon team, I always stressed quality over quantity, and this is exactly what you've done. Many, many thanks for your work! Bobbie
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Thanks for checking in. Yes, I would like to continue on the same team. As far as the requirement goes, I think it should be whatever is easiest to monitor! I fall into the 1-5 hours per month category.
Appreciate your work , David C Schur
~Kathy
Hi Kathy. Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
Jeff Haraden is the 4th generation owner. Still trying to see if he and I are related. His relative went to MIT and worked with Edison.
Kathy, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.
As a reminder Project Boxes should be placed above the Biography heading.
We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!
It is a great project, and I'm glad to help.
Thanks for all your work this month and in 2022 for the Sourcerers Project! Happy New Year!!!
Thank you for adding the Mashpee Cemeteries! I've been too chicken to try it! LOL
Ooh, it's been a steep learning curve for me. But I finally got the hang of it. As you can tell, I'm working on Massachusetts cemeteries and right now it's Barnstable County.
Feel free to add anything to the free space pages if you have more details.
Thanks, Kathy Evans-3182
I see that we are couisns...My 10th great grandfather was John Coggeshall
Yes we are 9th cousins through the Coggeshall line. Nice to meet you!
~Kathy
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However, there is a new browser extension called WikiTree Sourcer [1] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_Sourcer With this extension, when you are on a census record, you just go to the menu and it creates a table for you. Let me know if you need more help, I'll be glad to go into detail.
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I'm researching my ancestors: the 1st to settle in Quebec, Canada. Many were soldiers and Filles du Roy. Gail
I've seen these records and have them in my research but not sure how to add records to Wiki tree. Gail
Let me know if you want more help. I am a member of the WikiTree Profile Improvement Project, and if you are interested, sign up for a Voyage. You will have a personal guide showing you everything you need to know. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1128419/profile-improvement-project-pip-what-we-do-and-how-to-join?start=20#a_list_title
I can't find much on Desire. This is the marriage record, under Gary https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/22608769?h=83c1ce&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url
I think you should merge them, they are the same woman.
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It's great to meet another Lane descendant here! My line comes from Josiah and Abigail's son Isaac, who actually isn't on here yet. I'm in grad school and I don't really have the time to manage this account, I just couldn't bear to see it without a manager. Let me know if you would like to take over management or co-manage it.
Welcome! Lauren-Kate
I would be glad to be co-manager of Josiah.
I'm still working on my GEDCompare report, only about 1/4 through it. Once I've worked through that report I will be adding many more Lanes to the WikiTree! ~Kathy
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P.S. To find reliable sources for your profiles, go to the Family Tree & Tools tab; select Genealogy Research and scroll down near the bottom of that list and select Research with RootsSearch. There are over 20 websites to access from there.
~Kathy
One of our mentors created a tutorial for the GEDCOMpare process that others found very helpful. I hope that you will too.
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~Kathy