Julie (Fiscus) Ricketts

Dear Julie,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing its first annual check-in with our project members. Please review the following and let us know if you are content where we have placed you or would like to be more involved.

We are in the process of transitioning to a team structure. There will be three participant PIP Teams to start -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team which guides new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.

You're currently identified as a member of the Biography Team Level 1, working on profiles from your own watchlist, from projects in which you are involved, and whatever else you find. Biography Teams Levels 2 and 3 will work on designated profiles for notables (Level 3) and everyday people (Level 2). Please let us know if you would like to help with a higher-level Bio Team or one of the other Teams.

You joined the Project before the Voyage started in late 2018. We would like to invite you to consider a "fast track" Voyage, especially if you would like to work at a higher level on the Biography Team. If you’re interested, choose a profile from your own watchlist that you have completed to the best of your ability and compare it to the Voyage Biography Standards. If your profile is at Level 2 or better, include a link to the profile in your response to this check-in for a “fast track” review.

We use an email GoogleGroup and text chat Discord channel for our project. Neither is required; we also use the Profile_Improvement tag in G2G for Project announcements.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project and WikiTree. The Project’s mission is to:

Make profiles beautiful! We clean up messy biography sections and sources, and try to set standards for attractive, useful, and well-written biographies, starting with those we manage.

We know you’re working on profiles *smile* We would like to hear about successes you’ve had toward the Project’s goals. We would also appreciate any feedback you might have to help us improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or privately via private message to either of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Robin Shaules Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Hi Julie. I was doing some DNA investigating into your paternal Fiscus line to Rheinland-Pfalz. My maternal line is also from that region. Initially, there was no match between us on GEDmatch, but when I shorted it to 3 cM, I picked up a matching 5.1 cM segment, so it appears that we might share a tiny 0.142% of DNA together. Cousin?

Dear Julie Fiscus Ricketts, thank You very much for your contribution to our Family Tree..

Your contribution will be highly appreciated by the whole family.. Thank You.. GBU

Better late than never -- I wanted to thank you for your help during the Connect-a-thon and later, when I was trying to change a person's LNAB. Your willingness to help some random person is very much appreciated! All the best, Kathleen.

Thanks a million for straightening out my crazy email addresses!

Hi Julie -- Thanks for agreeing to the merge of Abraham Lasher (Lasher-543) and Abraham Lasher (Lasher-326)!

I'll try to figure out how best to do this so that as much accurate information as possible is preserved.

Julie -- Thank you so much for your help in pointing me in the right direction on my maternal Rakes/Fulk line. I really appreciate it!

Thank you for your additions to William Maroo.

Thank you for you work on Fulk-1515.

Hi! It's me. Will miss Friday Date Night (conflicts with women's college basketball), but I just cleared a 133 suggestion

Hi Julie. I've added to Benjamin Covert's profile notes. Can you id and link his mother as a Maria Odell on Wikitree?

See the 1850 census note I added. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Covert-1285

Hi, Julie!

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.

And, thank you for your always cheerful and upbeat hosting of the thon's live chats. I missed a few, but the ones I watched were so much fun and a much needed break from the work of the thon. The chats are one of the things I look forward to during thons.

Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Thank you for your changes made to Frederick William Baker (Baker-29678)

Hi, Julie,

THANK YOU very much for helping me straighten out my Granville Edwards ancestry. This was a major stumbling block in my tree.

Sharon Edwards Linville

Hello, Julie!

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!

I also want to thank you for your dedication to the live chats during the Thon. You have such a happy disposition. And, of course, I love your dogs!

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Hi Julie

Thanks for having a big heart ❤ and adopting those Orphaned Profiles. And thank you for all that you do on WikiTree! You have some beautifully sourced profiles. Every ancestor you honor in this way is beneficial to our global tree.

Mindy ~ WikiTree Mentor

Hi there, famous YouTube host with the best dogs on WikiTree!

Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared (over 300!) made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!

Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

PS: Really, I do love the live chats!

I knew it! <3 We are connected WT Mum! Just 28 steps away! ;-)

Luv you Mum. Missing you! But Aunt Debi does very well!

Sweet regards from The Netherlands, your WT adopted daughter,

A

Awesome Job, Member of the week! Congratulations! we have a connection too

Hi, wife of 1st cousin 7x removed of husband of 1st cousin 7x removed!

WOOT! Member of the week! Congrats!!!!!! =D

Just saying 'hi' to my 7th cousin through the Corsens!

Julie, I have entered the Native American parentage for both John and William Underwood because family history has been passed down through a lot of years to that effect. Geni has both Thomas and Chelo Underwood as Chickasaw Indians, however Chickasaw Indians never lived in Fauquier County VA but the Doeg tribe and the Underwoods did before the Underwoods moved to Surry Co. NC and appear there in Tax lists in 1770s. They moved to Greenville Co. SC and Tenn. This Doeg tribe scattered and disbanded as many members joined other tribes. Members of our Niblett/Underwood/Harris family lived among other tribes in GA, MS, TX Much has been written about the Doeg Tribe and other tribes who lived along the Potomac River in VA. I have studied all of these tribes who lived near this river.

Re: proposed merge, the two Wilkersons (2154 & 477 have different birth places. Please correct to proper one on merge If you have it.

Just FYI, Russell County, Kentucky was formed in 1825, primarily from Wayne County, Kentucky. Thanks for your assistance with the merges to the McClendon family of Wayne and Russell Counties.