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Amy Garber

Amy Garber

Amy Garber

Amy Garber

Genealogical Interests

Communication Preferences: I am interested in communicating with anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.

Here is my family tree.

About 90% of my time is spent working on persons who lived in Yalobusha County, Mississippi between its formation in 1833 and about 1880. I am gradually working my my way through census records and creating profiles for everyone who lived there and identifying connections. While I respond to most private messages, pretty much everything I know is on Wikitree. That said, I'm pretty good at finding stuff and enjoy the occasional diversion from whatever I'm working on to assist in whatever you are looking for. And while I'm interested in all information you have related to either my family or Yalobusha County--I only need what I can put on Wikitree.

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Family Tree of Amy Garber

Amy Garber

Ancestors ancestors

Daughter of [private father (1920s - unknown)] and

[sibling(s) unknown]

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]


Family Tree of Amy Garber

Amy

Amy Garber

Ancestors ancestors

Daughter of [private father (1920s - unknown)] and

[sibling(s) unknown]

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Parents
[private father]

1920s - unknown

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Mary Collums

1930s - 2010s

Grandparents
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John Howard Garber

16 Jun 1893 - 24 Feb 1985
Stuarts Draft, Augusta, Virginia, United States

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Ammie Glenn

1890s - 1980s

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John Quincy Powell Collums

06 Jan 1893 - 02 Aug 1950
Calhoun, Mississippi, United States

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Thelma Ann Tierce

01 Dec 1909 - 13 Dec 1993
Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States

Great-Grandparents
Charles David Garber

20 Aug 1852 - 08 Jun 1937
Fort Defiance, Augusta, Virginia, United States

Mary Virginia Pirkey

19 May 1859 - 22 Feb 1939
Rockingham, Virginia, United States

John Abram Glenn

09 Oct 1855 - 21 Apr 1915
Spring Farm, near Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, United States

Frances Ellen Ramsey

17 Apr 1861 - 20 Dec 1931
Augusta, Virginia, United States

William Thomas Collums

03 Jun 1847 - 11 Nov 1905
Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States

Sarah Margaret Knox

25 Jan 1854 - 19 Oct 1920
Calhoun, Mississippi, United States

Isam Lee Tierce

22 Apr 1879 - 27 Mar 1920
Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States

Eudora Octavia Melton

10 May 1880 - 17 Jun 1965
Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States

2nd-Great-Grandparents

26 Jan 1827 - 13 Jun 1872

15 Feb 1833 - 04 Mar 1909

03 Oct 1827 - 28 Apr 1907

04 Sep 1835 - 12 Feb 1873

27 Sep 1822 - 28 Jun 1862

14 Apr 1825 - 29 Sep 1888

11 Nov 1811 - 14 Mar 1880

22 Jan 1818 - 23 May 1889

22 Apr 1820 - 22 Oct 1895

Apr 1824 - 08 Sep 1900

1828 - 16 Sep 1864

01 Nov 1835 - 20 Apr 1925

30 Jul 1839 - 06 Jan 1926

20 May 1841 - 10 Nov 1897

17 May 1836 - bef 27 Jan 1912

23 Sep 1848 - 04 Nov 1883

Descendants of Amy Garber

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Comments on Amy Garber: 40


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Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM
Hi Amy, the Carroll County, Mississippi 1880 census spreadsheet is ready to go. Thanks!

posted by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM
Hi Amy, Panola County, Mississippi 1880 census spreadsheet is now ready Thanks1

posted by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM
Hi Amy, the Marshall county, Mississippi 1880 census spreadsheet is ready to go. Thanks1

posted by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Eve (Warren) Mayes
Amy, I found the last will & testament for GEORGE P. BONDURANT who you added to the tree today on FamilySearch using the new Full Text Search experiment. I have corrected the transcription of the pages & saved them into a PDF file if you want the information. Thanks for adding him to the tree.

eve

posted by Eve (Warren) Mayes

Robin Jarvis
Thanks Amy, for putting a high level birth and death place on the baby James Jarvis-2195. Did you just correct the formatting of "England, United Kingdom" or were you working with a source?

Quite tragically it caused me to notice that his brother Thomas Jarvis-2188 was born in Gedney, Lincolnshire the same year,1865, as James died. This is in the immediate area his mother was born (just outside Boston). They had been in Anmer, Norfolk. I will check church records to see if James died in Anmer or Gedney. It would seem his mother may have gone back to her mother in Gedney for the birth of Thomas, my grandfather. Perhaps having just lost James. The family stayed in the Boston area until she died in 1870. Rob

posted by Robin Jarvis

Amy Garber
Sorry for not being very prompt with a response. So, I work on families in the U.S., primarily in Mississippi and Virginia, but also states in between. I was likely working on a Jarvis family adding people and came up with potential matches who did not have a place of birth at all, not even a continent. To avoid creating duplicates I try to click on every potential match. This is time consuming and could be avoided if everyone added at least a probable country to their profiles. If the person has no place of birth indicated, I track it down--usually on Ancestry, though also sometimes just looking at family members. For example, if a parent is born and died in England, there is a likelihood the the child was born in England also. Not a certainty, but a probability. So, to prevent others from also having to weed out potential matches that are not even in the correct country or continent I go ahead and add place of birth--often even just a country--to help distinguish which part of the world the person is from. I suspect that is what happened here. Occassionally if it took a lot of looking and the source was hard to find, I'll go ahead and add it to the profile. If it was easy to find, I may not.

posted by Amy Garber

Joan (Williams) Whitaker
Hi Amy,

Mary (Unknown) Hill (1803-1837)

I have recently posted a comment and sent a trusted list request to you for the above profile. Could you take a moment to change the LNAB on the profile or grant me Trusted list access by clicking the link in the request email so I may update the profile for you please. Please see the comments section of the profile for further details. Thank you for your contributions to our global tree and for your collaboration to update profiles.

Joan England Tangled Families Team

posted by Joan (Williams) Whitaker

Rodney Long
Hello Amy, hope all is well. From the sources I see, I believe the last name at birth for your profile on Lydia Myers, Myers-9538, should be Moyers. Can you review this and tell me if you concur.

posted by Rodney Long

Carol (Strickland) Dickey
Hello Amy, i am following the Strickland line and wonder if your research includes Absolam Strickland, abt 1765. Thanks, Carol Strickland Dickey

posted by Carol (Strickland) Dickey

Donald Howard
Hello cousin Amy!

I just ran across your profile, while checking gedmatches with another one, related to my Sheffield line. Her largest matching segment was only 5.4 cM.

But as I checked her other Sheffield ancestors, I ran across a link to your gedmatch. We share 18.8 cM. That's a fair amount.

Your tree is private, so I couldn't see our connection. Then, i recalled our Ancestry ThruLines match from your user name. We are 4th cousins. Our common ancestors are Adam Sheffield Jr and Sarah McCraney. My paper trail is really good to him. With Adam Jr's father (Adam Sr (married Priscilla Smith) - I have treed close to 200 Ancestry matches. That's a lot of matches. So it looks legit.

I would love to hear from you. I have a multi-family Facebook genealogy group with quite a handful of your cousins in it. I'll send you a private message with my email and my Ancestry tree url, so you can quickly find my match. Ha!, just remembered... you can go to my bio for all that, too. Hope to hear back! Donny Howard (Donald Dwayne Howard)

posted by Donald Howard

Sarah Long
Hi Amy, can you please update the Last Name at Birth on the profile you manage - Unknown-557249. The surname should be RIcketts.

Thanks

posted by Sarah Long

Rodney Long
Hello Amy Garber, how are you these nice spring days? I was wondering if you would have any hints for me on the parents of Elizabeth (Williams) Baker, Williams-45505. I think you are related to her also, but I am not sure. She is my 3rd GGM. You have a good rest of the day. Thank-you

posted by Rodney Long

Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM
Hi Amy,

Thank you for creating space pages with lists of slaves. This will be a wonderful help in connecting people to their ancestors. We recently launched our Heritage Exchange Program with a standardized way of creating profiles and pages. You can find links to those help pages here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage:_Heritage_Exchange_Portal

I've updated the categories on some of your space pages because we've updated many of the categories we'll be using for slavery. Thanks! Emma~~US Black Heritage Project

posted by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Rodney Long
Hello Amy Garber, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you. Congratulations on your Wonderful WikiTree recognition yesterday. Stay safe.

posted by Rodney Long

Amy Garber
Thank you so much Rodney. As you may have seen I have turned to my Mother's area of the country recently and expect to be working on it for some years. I think Dad's side of the family is well in hand. I hope you and your family are well.

Very best regards, Amy

posted by Amy Garber

Rodney Long
Hello Amy, hope all is well with you. I was working on Wilford Cook, Cook-35127. He was a GG grandson of John Baker/Becker Sr. Wilford was married to 2 women that you are the profile manager on, a Barbara Metzger, Metzger-909, and a Lydia Garber, Garber-1005. I updated their profiles and posted all the sources. This comment is just for your information, and there is nothing for you to do. Stay safe my friend.

posted by Rodney Long

Amy Garber
Thank you! I am constantly looking for ways to thin my watch list. If you would be the profile manager for these I will remove myself.

posted by Amy Garber

Rodney Long
Hi Amy, hope all is well with you. That would be acceptable to me.

posted by Rodney Long

Amy Garber
I've removed myself as profile managers of those two profiles. Let me know whenever I have one that you would be willing to manage.

posted by Amy Garber

Rodney Long
You had removed yourself from Frances Baker, and I adopted her, I would also take her husband, Conrad Long if you want to get rid of him. He is my great great granddfather, Long-9606

posted by Rodney Long

Amy Garber
I have removed myself as profile manager from Long-9606.

posted by Amy Garber

Rodney Long
I got it, thank-you very much.

posted by Rodney Long

Rodney Long
Hello Amy, hope all is well. What I am trying to do is get the daughter of Hensel Baker, Baker-24793, opened up. You are her profile manger. Her name is Irene, and she is deceased. I put in a request to be on her trusted list.

posted by Rodney Long

Amy Garber
At long last I have figure out what you were asking, have added you as both trusted list and manager and removed myself. I'm trying to check this space at least once a week.

posted by Amy Garber

Rodney Long
Thank-you Amy, I appreciate your help.

posted by Rodney Long

Rodney Long
Hi Amy, hope all is well, I replied to your question yesterday, but did not get any answer. I see you are on WikiTree everyday making contributions, but I have trouble getting answers from you. Am I putting these messages in the wrong place that you do not see them? Thank-you

posted by Rodney Long

Amy Garber
I assume they come to my email but my email has been overwhelmed with junk these days. The more lists I ask to get off the more I get signed up for it seems. I'm sorry. I've never paid much attention to this main page but I'll start trying to come here periodically.

posted by Amy Garber

Rodney Long
Hello Amy Garber, hope all is well with you, on the Hensel Baker profile, Baker-24793, has a daughter on his profile that is private. Do you know if the daughter is Irene Meyerhoeffer Baker, b-1919 and d-2014, and married to a Major John Smith, b-1915 and d-1950. I do not want to create a dupicate.

posted by Rodney Long

Amy Garber
Hi Rodney--

Sorry I was off Wikitree for a while. Did this get resolved?

posted by Amy Garber

Rodney Long
Hello Amy Garber, hope all is well with you, it did not get resolved completely. I found out under Hensel Baker's profile, Baker-24793, that the daughter is Irene, so I did not create a duplicate. But when I click on Irene, it says she is a Living Baker. She passed away about 6 years ago. Can you open up her profile so I can complete her profile with her husband, that passed away back in 1950.

posted by Rodney Long
edited by Rodney Long

Amy Garber
Apparently I'm missing messages again. I didn't realize I was so inattentive. So, when I try to access Baker-24973 I get the following: Sorry, Baker-24973's family tree is not public and you are not on their Trusted List.

posted by Amy Garber

Rodney Long
Hello Amy Garber, hope all is well with you, on the Hensel Baker profile, Baker-24793, has a daughter on his profile that is private. Do you know if the daughter is Irene Meyerhoeffer Baker, b-1919 and d-2014, and married to a Major John Smith, b-1915 and d-1950. I do not want to create a dupicate.

posted by Rodney Long

Rodney Long
Amy, on your profile Baker-24793, Hensel Baker, could you open up the daughter that is "Private". All of his children have passed away and I would like to up date profiles.

posted by Rodney Long

Rodney Long
Amy, on your profile Baker-24793, Hensel Baker, could you open up the daughter that is "Private". All of his children have passed away and I would like to up date profiles.

posted by Rodney Long

Rodney Long
Amy, on Eliza Baker-Baker-24743, can you remove her spouse that says "Private"". Thank-you

posted by Rodney Long

Rodney Long
Saufley-168 and Saufley-159 represent the same person and need merged

posted by Rodney Long

Pip Sheppard
Amy, every one of your more than 1000 contributions for the month of August 2009 adds to the improvement of our Shared Tree. Thanks so much for all of your efforts.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard

Pip Sheppard
Hi Amy!

Thank you for your time and energy in creating over 1000 (actually, over 2300!) contributions to WikiTree for the month of July 2019. Your efforts are appreciated!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard

Pip Sheppard
Hello, Amy!

Very well done on your making 1,000 or more contributions to WikiTree in June 2019! We commend and appreciate all of your time and effort in helping to grow and perfect our Shared Tree. Keep up the great work!

Pip Sheppard ~ WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard

Pip Sheppard
Hi Amy!

Congratulations on making more than 1,000 contributions to WikiTree for the Month of May. We all appreciate your efforts to make our Shared Tree the best it can be. Keep up the great work and THANK YOU!

Pip Sheppard WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard

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