Jonathan Gilbreath

Hi Jonathan, I notice you have connections to the Eakin family (as it is spelled in early days). My spouse Larry Copes-104 is directly descended from these same Eakins. And you two are also connected through Albert Pierce-6977, whose wife's sister is Larry's grandmother. I think you and Larry will have some interesting DNA connections, and I will try to figure them out. Best wishes on your research, Jane Snell Copes

I had made a post about my main source for my information. I have also several other sources. They are the Bibles that belonged to my Great-Grandmothers, and they have information in the records section which I have used.

Here are my pages on Wikitree. If someone sees this and is willing to help with the to do list, please do let me know. Please, if you do help with the to do list, also let me know what you have done. Also, if you decide to work with any other branches that are connected, please do so.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Jonathan_Gilbreath_To-Do_List

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:My_Family_Tree:_Places_of_Birth%2C_Residence_and_Death_for_my_Ancestors_and_their_Relatives

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Powell_Ancestors_who_Came_from_Ireland

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Potential_Ancestors_named_Nelson_in_South_Carolina

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Powell_Family_Rumor_of_the_Three_Sons

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Finding_Milly_Harper [edit]

Notes on Powell Family Tree and Allied Families by Ernest Wayne Powell

The book I use as my main source was self-published in 2002 and mailed to various relatives in 2002 also. The author, my great-uncle, compiled his research by going through many records in libraries, court houses, archives, historical societies, cemeteries and by gleaning information from relatives who had compiled much information on their families. One of his major sources was his aunt Mattie (Powell) Hall (Hall-17097), who was the last living member of her generation of the family. It took Uncle Ernest more than three years to compile the information, and was greatly helped by his family. With this book being self-published, it is unlikely to be found in any bookstores or in any Ancestry.com database. What I have seen through other sources while compiling the family tree here on Wikitree has proven to me that his sources were correct. It may take me quiet a while, but I hope to use his book to compile the family tree compiled herein on Wikitree, and hopefully be of help to others from the same tree who are searching for their roots.

Hello. I do not know much about my family tree, but I have compiled the tree linked to my profile based on the research of other family members of mine and on the memories shared by family also. If you are a descendant and/or moderator of a person whose profile matches a profile you have created, please do let me know. The profiles I created are based on the information given to me by other family members, as I stated above. I do not often find matches to the information I present, and therefore create a profile myself. Sometimes I do find a perfect match, and am unsure about contacting the moderators of the matches. If there is a match, one of the reasons I do not contact the moderators is that I do not know how or why they do not know about the information that I have provided in my profiles. For example, there are ancestors of mine who have had other spouses and children than those listed by my relatives whose research I have used to compile my profiles. The matches to the profiles I create often have nearly the same information, but do not list certain bits of information that are included in my profiles for the same people. This could be due to not talking about their family. It could also be due to not talking to their family. One of my great-grandmothers was practically disowned someone because she "married beneath her". That is, she was from a well-to-do family and her husband was a poor farmer. Therefore, some relatives of hers might not know she even existed. Since then, her relatives have contacted some of her children and grandchildren. As stated above, I do not contact the moderators of the matches because I am unsure if I should. Another reason I do not contact the moderators of the matches is that if there was a rift in the family for some reason, they might not want to hear from any descendants of the person(s) blamed for the rift. Again, please do contact me if there is a match between my profiles and yours. Then, if/when possible, we can work on merging the two.

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You need to have at least one source for each profile you create, so I would look at your source to see if it gives you any clues. Birth and death dates can be marked as estimated/uncertain, before this date or after this date. For example, if all you have is a birth record for a Joe Smith stating he was born in 1800 and his father is listed as John Smith, you know your John Smith was born before 1800. If all you have is a name with no other information, you might want to post in the G2G forum to see if anyone else is working on that person and is able to provide you with more information.

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Hi Jonathan

Perhaps you have noticed at the top of your pages on wikitree, your surname followed by a number. This is your profile id. To fix the problem with your brother showing as your half-brother, you will need the profile id's of the two profiles for your mother. Then working from the profile you want to keep, you are going to scroll down to the bottom of the screen on the profile you want to keep. At the bottom left, look for pending merges. Under this category, click on the link for initiate a merge. On this next screen, you will enter the profile id of the other profile for your mother. For reason for the merge, you would put that they are duplicates for the same person. As you created both profiles, you should be able to approve the merge on each of the profiles.

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