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Alison L. Gardner

Born 1950s.

Ancestors

Daughter of William Elton Gardner II and Lois Jean (Stoner) Gardner

Sister of [private brother (1960s - unknown)]

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Alison Gardner is of Swiss descent

Alison Gardner has German Roots.

Alison Gardner has Danish ancestors

Alison Gardner has Scottish Ancestors.

Alison Gardner has English ancestors.

Biography

Alison Gardner was born Apr. 2, 1959, at Cottage Hospital, in Santa Barbara, Calif. She lived at 206 West Mason St., in an apartment building built by her father and grandfather, and owned by her parents, until 1963, when she moved to 1645 Shoreline Dr., into another house built by her grandfather. She learned to read at 2 1/2. She went to Washington Elementary School on the mesa until Dec., 1963, when her parents split up, and she went with her mother and brother to Albion in Northern Calif. She attended Mendocino Grammer School for the rest of 5th grade and the beginning of 6th grade. She transferred to the Salmon Creek School (private one-room school) for the rest of 6th grade, then went on to Mendocino High School for 7th through 12th grades, going to the community school (alternative) for 12th grade. She graduated from Mendocino High in 1977. She began taking local college classes through College of the Redwoods in 1975. She continued to take college classes, part-time, off and on, until the current date. She is a potter, botanical consultant and has written and published a wild mushroom cookbook. She has no children, but two step-children.

Alison has participated in 52 out of 52 weeks during the 2019 52 Weeks of Photos Challenge.

Sources

"California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2BD-K41 : 27 November 2014), Stoner in entry for Alison L Gardner, 02 Apr 1959; citing Santa Barbara, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Alison by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alison:

~12.50% David Gardner : 23andMe
~12.50% Fr. Martin Gardner : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A361857 [compare], yourDNAportal JONcc50a703, Ancestry member monkmartin
~6.25% Carol Gardner : 23andMe
~1.56% Karen (Van Ornam) Zortman : MyHeritage DNA

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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Alison:

Alison Gardner is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 10, 2019.
Alison Gardner is a Wonderful Wikitreer Oct 8, 2019.

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Steve Ryan

Just saying Hi. I hope you don't mind the small changes I made to Willis Allen Stoner's profile. He is my closest connection in the Manhattan project category, and it turns out that you and I are 7th cousins. The common ancestors are Andreas and Elizabeth (Kneissle) Kauffman, Kauffman-166 and Kneissle-8.

We had a family friend of my grandmother's generation who worked at Oak Ridge in those days. He and Willis could have easily crossed paths. I can't tell you what he worked on. The story was that his own wife never even found out what he had for lunch.

posted Jul 25, 2023 by Steve Ryan

Alison Gardner

Yes, my uncle couldn't tell his family what he was working on either, at the time, but did tell them later, after the bombs were dropped. He told about how he was transferring a liquid from one beaker to another, and a drop spilled on his thumb, and he was concerned that he might get cancer of the thumb from it. He also said that when they did a bomb test in New Mexico, most of the other people went out to watch it, but he had been working all night, and was tired, so he just went to bed. He was glad, afterwards, when the long term effects of radiation were learned, that he had not bee out there watching. He outlived the vast majority of the people he served with there at Los Alamos.

You did a very nice job with that little graph of the census. It's beautiful. Thank you. And I hadn't seen that newspaper clipping. It sounds like Willis actually moved back to Tennessee to marry, as they gave him a local address. I didn't know that, though I did know that the marriage took place in Tennessee. The two of them moved back to California fairly soon after the marriage.

posted Jul 25, 2023 by Alison Gardner

Steve Ryan

Credit for the census table goes to WikiTree Sourcer. It's a browser plugin with several nice functions, including making formatted citations and the table I used in that profile. More here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_Sourcer

We used to use a pancake griddle given to us by our Oak Ridge friend. It was allegedly some sort of tray used for processing samples at the lab. I am going to assume that the one we had wasn't radioactive!

More trivia: You and I were born just over a month apart, and I went to the same college as Willis Stoner. What a small world.

posted Jul 25, 2023 by Steve Ryan

Alison Gardner

Do you mean Cal-Tech, or Pasadena City College? My grandpa (Willis'

father) taught math and astronomy at Pasadena City College, but wouldn't have been there when you came along. I think they have a small observatory there that he built, and he had a hand in building the one on Mt. Wilson.

Willis was in Jr. High with Jackie Robinson, I hear from his kids (my cousins). He was my favorite uncle. A lot of fun.

posted Jul 26, 2023 by Alison Gardner

Steve Ryan

I remember the observatory dome at PCC, but it was Caltech that I attended. It is sometimes written Cal-Tech, but from at least the late 1970s to today the preferred form is just Caltech. I lived in the on-campus housing closest to Hill Ave. and California Blvd.

Pretty cool about Jackie Robinson.

posted Jul 27, 2023 by Steve Ryan

Traci Thiessen

Hi,

It’s Germany Project check-in time again! Please respond within the next 2 weeks and let me know if you’re still interested in participating with the Project. Remember, the only requirements for membership in the Germany Project are (1) that you work on at least one German profile every 6 months and (2) that you respond to this check-in.

Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. In your response, we welcome any feedback you may want to give on the project (what you like about it, what you’d like to see us do, what we could change, etc.)

If you ever have any questions, please ask. I look forward to hearing from you soon!

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader

posted Apr 15, 2022 by Traci Thiessen

Alison Gardner

I think you can take me off the Germany project for now. I've had no luck tracing my German ancestors across the Atlantic, so have been spending my free time finding in-laws, cousins, etc. from the 1800's in the U.S.

posted Apr 15, 2022 by Alison Gardner

Traci Thiessen

Thanks for responding Alison. I've removed your project member badge. Remember you are always welcome to rejoin any time! Best wishes, Traci

posted Apr 16, 2022 by Traci Thiessen

Pam Kreutzer

Hi Alison, I just wanted to thank you for all the work you've done to improve the US Civil War Between the States Project. I'm doing a check-in with all project members and wanted to verify that you're still interested in being a member of the project. Also, any suggestions for the Project would be welcome. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

P Kreutzer, US Civil War Between the States Project Leader.

posted Jan 27, 2022 by Pam Kreutzer

Alison Gardner

You can take me off the project. I have quite a few family members that fought in the union army, and I joined the project to try and learn how to best present their contributions to the union. My contributions to the project have been primarily in their profiles.

posted Jan 30, 2022 by Alison Gardner

Pam Kreutzer

Thank you Alison for responding, your always welcome to return. Pam

posted Jan 30, 2022 by Pam Kreutzer

Traci Thiessen

Hi,

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

posted Oct 18, 2021 by Traci Thiessen

Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Hi Alison, I sent you a message a couple of weeks ago about the US Black Heritage Project. Let me know if you didn't get it and I'll resend. Thanks, Emma

posted May 16, 2021 by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Alison Gardner

I did get the message, just put off answering it. I don't think I want

to join the google group, as I joined the Germany group, having a "brick wall" in Germany, and I find that I'm inundated with e-mails from every question that is asked. I do not have any African American ancestors myself, (though my nephew does), I live in a rural area with insufficient internet services and work for a living and don't have a lot of extra time. I have one 5ish-greats uncle who had (according to the census) 2, then 4 slaves, a family I would guess from the ages and sexes. I located a manumission record for the adult male, with his name and age. I created a profile for him. I have failed to find any other record for him, or for his supposed family. Perhaps the group would like to help, or adopt his profile? https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Looby-165

posted May 16, 2021 by Alison Gardner

Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Hi Alison, Thanks for reaching out. You are not required to join the Google group if you join the project. Or you can join the Google group and set the email notifications to digest so you don't get them all. However, you also don't have to join the project to help. If it seems overwhelming working with records/creating profiles, you go to this Heritage Exchange Portal, near the top is the email address for the Heritage Exchange Program where you can send information you would like to share. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage:_Heritage_Exchange_Portal

Emma

posted May 19, 2021 by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Kylie Haese

Hi Alison,

Welcome to the Germany Project. Please read the Germany project page add GERMANY to your list of followed tags, and can you please send me a private message with your email address so i can add you to our Google Group. The group is where our project communicates.

Thanks for joining, I look forward to working with you.

Kylie Haese ~ Germany Project Leader

posted Jun 05, 2020 by Kylie Haese

Robynne (Thompson) Lozier

Lois, congrats on your mom winning photo of the week!! This is the same child from the photo where she was pushing her big brother in the wagon, yes?

posted Nov 15, 2019 by Robynne (Thompson) Lozier

David Martin

I see a https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gardner-8923#

Is this the kitt DNA?

posted Apr 18, 2019 by David Martin

A. C. Raper

Thanks for looking into the John Strange profile.

Im trying to research Rob(b)ins family members born in Chedworth and they just appear and reappear - thought Id check if she travelled after marriage.

posted Sep 14, 2018 by A. C. Raper

Amanda Frank

Hi Allison, You may or may not have heard about the up coming Clean-a-Thon on Apr 21-23. Team Tornadoes from the Source-a-Thon is back again this time as Tidying Tornadoes. We are still a Midwest team. We would love to have you on the team for this.

If you would like to come join us, registration ends on the 19th. Right now it can be found here https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/586403/will-you-participate-our-2018-spring-clean-a-thon-current?start=40#a_list_title. If it no longer says current it should have a link to the current one. All you have to do then is say you are in and are with Tidying Tornadoes.

I hope to see you there,

Amanda

posted Apr 09, 2018 by Amanda Frank

Anne B

In answer to your comment on Soule-25. Yes it is the same George.

posted Mar 22, 2018 by Anne B

Summer (Binkley) Orman

Hi Alison,

I see that you just did the Pre-1700 Self-Certification. That's great! Participation in a project is strongly encouraged for those wishing to edit Pre-1700 profiles. Is there a particular time period, location, or topic you're interested in? Maybe you have some historically-significant ancestors? Also, feel free to check out our Volunteer Hub, which not only shows a list of projects seeking members, but has other helpful info as well.

Let me know, and I can help you figure out if there's a project that might interest you. Welcome aboard, we are glad to have you!

Summer-Volunteer Coordinator

posted Aug 23, 2016 by Summer (Binkley) Orman

Eowyn (Langholf) Walker

Hi!

Congratulations, you've been a WikiTree member for a month! We're glad you're here. A few tips to help you dive in even deeper:

Check out Beyond the Basics of WikiTree for a guide on some of our more advanced features such as Projects, Categories, and Merging.

We're very active on our social sites and we have an excellent blog where you'll find our monthly newsletter as well as tips, interviews with our members and guest posts from others in the genealogy community.

And we're always looking for volunteers to assist in different ways.

As always, I'm here to help if you have any questions!

posted Jul 27, 2015 by Eowyn (Langholf) Walker