Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal Family Tree DNA test match between Mags Gaulden and Earle Gaulden, her son (direct ancestor). Predicted relationship from Family Tree DNA: Father, based on sharing 3500 cM across 22 segments. (Gaulden-7 16:26, 16 June 2024 (UTC))
“They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.” - William Shakespeare. My favorite quote, ever. If I were a color I would be cobalt blue. In tense situations, I try to diffuse the tenseness with humor (sometimes this approach works, sometimes not). When it rains I feel calm and restive. When it snows I am an ecstatic child expecting a snow day (living in Canada I am ecstatic often). I am happiest when I am doing something, anything, outdoors. People in my family have had names like Goolie and Nimrod (the last one handed down for generations). I thrive when I am helpful to others. I thrive when I am problem-solving. I am a Carolinian at my core and I am deeply rooted in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains where I grew up. If you cut me I would bleed the sound of bluegrass music.
Maternal relationship is confirmed by a Family Tree DNA Family Finder test match between Mags Gaulden and her maternal 2nd cousin Susan Hunt Silvas. Their most-recent common ancestors are Bert Eugene Hunt, Sr. and Ethel Essie Hammond, great grandparents of Mags Gaulden and Great Grandparents of Susan Hunt Silvas. Predicted relationship from FTDNA: 1st-2nd Cousin based on sharing 405 cM across 6 Chromosomes.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a Family Tree DNA test match between Mags Gaulden and Gaulden-53, her 1st cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Fletcher Gaulden and Sarah Templeton, the grandparents of Mags Gaulden and grandparents of Gaulden-53. Predicted relationship from Family Tree DNA: 1st Cousin, based on sharing 755 cM across 118 segments.
My Genealogical journey
As a Child, my mother, grandmothers, and grandfather would often tell me about my family. Who we were, where we came from and how our family came to be. As a teen I was given some unpublished papers by a Hunt cousin. I scanned them, as teens do, but I kept them. Years later I went back to them and entered the information into Family Tree Maker. Soon after I started my hunt, pardon the pun, in earnest for the rest of my family.
Over the next few years I spent time researching and looking and finding and not finding - you know how it goes. I found I was constantly one step behind another researcher working on one branch of our family. I left notes for him, I emailed him, I did everything short of going to his doorstep to get him to "share" or to point me toward this or that. Not a word. Not a single word did I hear from this researcher...UNTIL he published a book. Oh I got an email from him then, wanting me to purchase his book and I did.
I am all about open source. The Laptop I am currently working on is Linux. When I look for information on line I am accustomed to finding exactly what I want only to find it will cost me money. I have to pay money to see information about myself. There is just something wrong about that. I stumbled upon WikiTree by accident and I fell in love. With the concept, with the openness of the people, the ease of it (once you get in up to your ankles) and the depth of it. WikiTree is liberating and confirms my faith in one simple thing; Genealogy belongs to us, the descendants.
Photos
WikiTree - 10 Years!
Mags Collage (clockwise), Greg, Roberta, and Mags, Murph Moose tired, Greg and Mags doing the LiveCast, Greg and Mags from the back doing the LiveCast, Mags and Ellen Thompson-Jennings, and Mags with Cheri Hudson-Passey.
Sources
↑ Maternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of M. Gaulden GEDmatch F340555, Sandy Sharp GEDmatch a759497 and Larry Milton Peterson GEDmatch F34276 sharing a 26.7 cM segment on chromosome 9 from 103,348,186 to 123,946,544.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 3,585.6 cM Family Finder match between Mags Gaulden and her father Earle Gaulden
First-hand information. Entered by M Gaulden at registration.
Hunt Papers unpublished, [1], [2]. Personal copy in the files of M. Gaulden
Personal papers and notes of Eunice L. Hunt, Family Biographical Information, unpublished. Personal copy in the files of M. Gaulden
Personal Papers and Notes of Frances T. Gaulden, Family Biographical Information and letter to Dave Templeton, August 22, 1976. Personal copy in the files of M. Gaulden
Conversations with Eunice L. Hunt and Thomas C. Hunt Gaulden-7
Conversations with Frances T. Gaulden - M. Gaulden Gaulden-7
Descendants of James Dillard and Sarah Barnard Dillard of Rabun County, Georgia, John M. Dillard November 15, 2009 Revised through August 20, 2012.
Four Brothers in Oconee County by John M. Dillard, Dillard Annual, Vol. , Dillard Family Association.
The Gaulden, Gauldin, Gaulding, Family History -- A Seven Hundred Year Study, Volume One, By Dr. Charles H. Gaulden, Self Published, April, 1999.
Templeton Family History, L. B. Templeton, Jr., Self Published, 1953. Personal Copies in the files of M. Gaulden.
Digital Afterlife
September 8, 2014
In the event of my untimely demise I want to be sure that none of my hard work on WikiTree ends up having to be deleted. While I fully intend to be around to manage all my profiles for the next 50 years or so, in the event of my sudden death I hereby give permission for all of my private profiles to be transferred to any of my family members or to any of the other wonderful WikiTreers who have collaborated with me. My own personal profile will be left to Eowyn and Julie to tend and weed and... (I plan to haunt the WikiTree servers once my body has left it's earthly bonds).
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
Mags's formal name
e-mail address
exact birthdate
birth location
personal memories about Mags (1)
images (24)
private siblings' names
spouse's name and marriage information
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships.
Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
Mags Gaulden:
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H1b1-T16362C, FTDNA kit #340555, MitoYDNA ID T10002[compare]
It is likely that these
autosomal DNA
test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mags:
Mags, Carl Ann - who is 80 - are ok. I have added some profiles at Wikitree. I added people at my tree at Ancestry. I have data at other on line places.Ancestry has wrecked Rootsweb. All the websites are on read onlt. Rootsweb World connext is no more.
I will put up other trees at Ancestry. I have "paper" ata few Libraries.
Carol Ann and I remain well, as of today. I added some profiles at Wikitree. And, I will add more. FYI, I am decended from ESli HUnt by way od John Hunt and Esli Hunt jr.
I will add more proflies.
FYI, "Golding" were strong in Newberry/Laurens SC
We are still here. My wife ( Carol Ann) and I , from 2019, have had "the Devil's own day". One illness after another. And, it goes on.
2024 is my 10th year at Wikitree. We know more about Waldrop than anyone. It does seem that we have outlived everyone.
Thank you for your participation in the July 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Appalachia Connectors to the Second Place finish and First Place Normalized Score Finish with over 8700 profiles added. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 94,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information
Mags Gaulden participated with Appalachia Connectors during the 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 25 connections.
Are you ready to go down another rabbit hole? I hope so. Great to have you on the team again! Looking forward to another fun weekend.
I am helping out Debi and Tabor. I edited the team page and did a G2G post on the treehouse page like Tabor did. I added it it to our page in the top paragraph, I can't figure out how to get the chat to the far upper right side of the team page. I am not familiar with it. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
This is what I am sending to each team member. We do have two new members.
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From Nov 3 to Jan 21, I was in hospital with Covid. I was on a ventilator for 4 -6 weeks. I was in ICU until Dec 27. I remember nothing before that date. I do remember leaving iCU for the regular hospital room.
My wife is Craol Ann Waldrop ( who is here at Wikitree.)
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Do you want to participate with Team Cornbread Catchers in this Thon? Use this link to get to register! Click "Answer this post" and mention that you want to be on the Cornbread Catchers team!
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PS For this event, "connecting" means that you add a profile from one of the links on an existing profile for parents, siblings, spouses, and children. The goal is not to connect to the main tree but to add as many linked profiles as possible.
It's Thon time again, this time the Connect-a-Thon! It will be from January 13-16, 2022. Do you want to participate with Team Cornbread Catchers in this Thon? Use this link to get to the G2G sign up post! Click "Answer this post" and mention that you want to be on the Cornbread Catchers team!
We hope you can join us!
Debi
PS For this event, "connecting" means that you use the add links on a profile created before 13 January to create profiles for parents, siblings, spouses, and children. The goal is not to connect to the main tree but to add as many linked profiles as possible.
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This week's connection theme is Saints.
Mags is
16 degrees from Marguerite D'Youville, 28 degrees from Birgitta Birgersdotter, 16 degrees from Marguerite Bourgeois, 18 degrees from Katherine Drexel, 25 degrees from Philippine Duchesne, 26 degrees from Isaac Jogues, 20 degrees from Mary MacKillop, 40 degrees from Zélie Martin, 24 degrees from John Newman, 27 degrees from Lorcán Ua Tuathail, 17 degrees from Elizabeth Ann Seton and 29 degrees from Edith Stein
on our single family tree.
Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
Our data base is on line there; along with other trees. I have trees at Geneaweb and MyHeritage. I am working to preseve data.
I will put up other trees at Ancestry. I have "paper" ata few Libraries.
Howard
Mags
Thanks for the outstanding work that you have done on Hunt!! I will carry o Howard
Thank you for joining Appalachia Roots on the Connect-A-Thon.
Our Team finished in 1st place by connecting 17,576 profiles!What an incredible job!!! Check out the scoreboard.
We couldn't do it without you amazing team members! - See you again at the next Thon in July 2024!
That is an amazing job!! Check out the Scoreboard
We couldn't do it without you. We have awesome team members! - Can't wait to do it again at the next Thon in April 2024!
Sticker code for your personal profile can be found here
I will add more proflies. FYI, "Golding" were strong in Newberry/Laurens SC
We are still here. My wife ( Carol Ann) and I , from 2019, have had "the Devil's own day". One illness after another. And, it goes on. 2024 is my 10th year at Wikitree. We know more about Waldrop than anyone. It does seem that we have outlived everyone.
Just happened to notice your 10-year WikiTree anniversary is coming up!
Gaulden-7 created 3 Dec 2013 :-)
Chris
That is an amazing job!! Check out the Scoreboard
We couldn't do it without you. We have awesome team members! - Can't wait to do it again at the next Thon in 2024!
Sandy ~ Appalachia Connectors
Are you ready to go down another rabbit hole? I hope so. Great to have you on the team again! Looking forward to another fun weekend. I am helping out Debi and Tabor. I edited the team page and did a G2G post on the treehouse page like Tabor did. I added it it to our page in the top paragraph, I can't figure out how to get the chat to the far upper right side of the team page. I am not familiar with it. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. This is what I am sending to each team member. We do have two new members.
Our team page link https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Cornbread_Catchers
The new July G2G post is https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1606954/come-join-the-cornbread-catchers-july-2023-connect-thon-chat
The Discord Channel is the one that we use a lot. Discord: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Discord
Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/cornbread-catchers?pli=1
Oh I am making a homemade blueberry pie this week before the thon. I would make you one, not sure how to ship it from Texas to Canada.
Best,
Kelly
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Mags
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edited by Debi (McGee) Hoag
My wife is Craol Ann Waldrop ( who is here at Wikitree.)
What is the triangular badge? I see it was awarded a few times, all by you, but it doesn't seem to have a description.
Thanks, Eric
I sent you a check-in message a week ago about the US Southern Colonies Project to ask you about your continued involvement but have not yet heard back from you. Do you still want to be in the project? If I don’t hear from you by the same time next week I’ll assume that you’ve moved on to other things but you’re most welcome to re-join the project at any time.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Mary~ Project Coordinator, Membership, US Southern Colonies
Mary, I will never leave the project as I work those southern profiles daily.
Mags
edited by Mags Gaulden
Mary
My wife is Carol Ann Waldrop - Waldrop -97.
We raee related. 6th cousins.
Her George Davidson Sherrill married Elizabeth Hunt.
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Howard Waldrop
It's Thon time again, this time the Connect-a-Thon! It will be from April 22-25.
Do you want to participate with Team Cornbread Catchers in this Thon? Use this link to get to register! Click "Answer this post" and mention that you want to be on the Cornbread Catchers team!
We hope you can join us!
Debi
PS For this event, "connecting" means that you add a profile from one of the links on an existing profile for parents, siblings, spouses, and children. The goal is not to connect to the main tree but to add as many linked profiles as possible.
It's Thon time again, this time the Connect-a-Thon! It will be from January 13-16, 2022. Do you want to participate with Team Cornbread Catchers in this Thon? Use this link to get to the G2G sign up post! Click "Answer this post" and mention that you want to be on the Cornbread Catchers team!
We hope you can join us!
Debi
PS For this event, "connecting" means that you use the add links on a profile created before 13 January to create profiles for parents, siblings, spouses, and children. The goal is not to connect to the main tree but to add as many linked profiles as possible.
This is the semi-annual polling for the US Southern Colonies Project check-in with members to see if you have been active in the last six months in this project?
Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the US Southern Colonies Project that you respond to these check-ins.
I look forward to hearing from you.. Many thanks,
Mary, Membership Coordinator, US Southern Colonies Project
Yes I am still here working away at my and other US Southern Colony Profiles.
Mags