Jack Graham
Honor Code SignatorySigned 3 Dec 2019 | 85,670 contributions | 3,233 thank-yous | 5,594 connections
Born Nov 3 1934 in Waynesboro VA, Lived on Chestnut Ave in Waynesboro then at 7 yrs moved to farm near Fishersville VA. Went to Fishersville Elementary School then to Wilson Memorial High School, playing football and running track. Graduated 1952. Then Univ. of VA School of Engineering, graduating 1957 with B.E.E.. Night law school at George Washington in D.C., then finished at Detroit College of Law (now part of Mich. State) while working at General Motors. LLB (now called JD) in 1961. Worked as patent agent then patent attorney for General Motors, Texas Instruments, Shell, and various patent law firms for 42 years, living in Detroit, Dallas, Houston and Austin.
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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
edited by Patty (Luker) LaPlante
Thank you for all the merging. I was wondering how things could be made simpler, such that the merge with two different LNAB actually will result in a merge into the correct LNAB. See eg your merge https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Bremer-160&diff=186457288&oldid=181319570 and my post https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1668855/merge-direction-still-not-working-when-lnab-are-different
Did you actively choose an LNAB? Was my note visible? Should I have worded it differently?
My claim is that the merge screen does not take the proposed direction into account, such that is forced the merger to look at that direction and actively choose otherwise. Was that the case here?
Thanks, Michel
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!
The method you appear to currently use is to make a bio. without inline referenced source citations. Instead, using the Sourcerer's extension tool (which uses mark-up code relevent within the bio. section only) you list each individual source, (extracted and coded by the automated tool) after the biography's section called :
Sources <reference />
Unfortunately this source reference placement, meant for inline citations, trigger database errors which don't go away until manually corrected. If my explanation has not helped clarify your understanding please ask for help from myself or anyone in Ales group of talented Data Doctor's, or any of the project leaders you work with. Sincerely, Leigh Anne
edited by Leigh Anne (Johnson) Dear
Sandy ~ Appalachia Connectors
edited by Sandy (Craig) Patak
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to the First Place finish with over 7500 profiles added. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 76,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Just wanted to let you know that I sent you an email about WTx. It is no longer supported and used on WT. All your profiles are being added without the required template and coming up as errors.
For the Thons, a full source is now required. A link to an Ancestry Tree or FamilySearch Profile is great but a full source has to be included.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Sandy
Join us for our online Appalachia Project Meetup on Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 at 7pm (EST). If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, an email was sent this morning with all the details. If you are on our Project's Discord Chat Channel, all details were posted under Announcements.
Please make sure to check your Spam folder as many have mentioned the Monthly Newsletter and other communication is landing in their spam.
Appalachia Project Google Group and Discord Chat Channel
Sandy
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the January 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to a Historical Finish with over 10k profiles added and an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 95,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in April (tbd)
edited by Sandy (Craig) Patak
You recently added Jacob Henry Crum (1829-1905). His parents emigrated from my home village (Laisa, Battenberg (Eder), Hesse, Germany) in the spring of 1819. I have connected the profiles.
Are you related to the Crum family?
Kind regards, Daniel Bamberger
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the 2022 Source-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members sourced over 63,000k Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
WikiTree Symposium and Day on November 4-5, 2022
Of the locations you listed as the areas you'll be working, Highland County does not yet have a space page, if you'd be interested in creating one for it.
If you have any questions or suggestions, post them to the team page or send me a private message. See the Membership page for info about a Member sticker (let me know if you have questions about stickers too).
Welcome to the project & the team!
Cheers, Liz - Team Leader, South Central Appalachia Team
We just started a new project on WikiTree: the Appalachia Project and we would love to have you join us. Since you are already working on profiles in Appalachia it wouldn't add to your WT work. Just a sticker and a category, here and there. To join, review the Project page, pick a regional team (or teams) and answer the G2G Membership post.
edited by Sandy (Craig) Patak
What else can we say but... Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 87,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Next Thon: Source-A-Thon in the Fall (tbd) and WikiTree Day on November 5, 2022
If you’d like to rejoin at any stage you would be most welcome to do so by answering the G2G sign-up post here
Mary~ Project Coordinator, Military and War Project
I sent you a check-in message a week ago about the Military and War 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.
Best wishes,
Mary~ Project Coordinator, Military and War Project
Many thanks,
Mary~ Project Coordinator, Military and War Project
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 84,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! You ROCKED it again!!
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in July (tbd)
Thanks for all your work on WikiTree. I noticed that you have begun adding profiles for the pre-1700 ancestors you have found in your search. Congratulations on finding records back that far!
Since you are now back in the time period when many people can be descended from those ancestors, we need more details in your source area. As collaborative genealogists, we need to tell each other our sources so that we can work together to assess the relative reliability of the source and the evidence it contains.
Profiles on other websites may include sources but are not sources themselves. If reliable sources are in those profiles, please bring citations for the sources to the profiles you are creating. If not, please research first before creating pre-1700 profiles.
Thanks,
Debi
Thank you for your participation with Team Virginia in the January 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You did an awesome amount of work! You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 85,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
P.S. Our Discord Channel is also active all year, not only during Thons. Drop in and say hi!
edited by Sandy (Craig) Patak
Thanks for your help completing merges. If you can, please be sure to consolidate duplicate sections and information and try to clean the final profile a bit.
thanks & best regards,
SJ
Registration for the 1st 2022 Connect-A-Thon is open. Can't have a Team Virginia Thon without ya!
We couldn't do it without you & look forward to you joining us on the 2022 Clean-A-Thon!
Mindy & Sandy - Team Virginia Co Captains
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lawrence-16873
edited by Raymond Nichols DD
Just cuz, Thomas James Teters 1952 - ....
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2021 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 74,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Save the Date: October 1st through 4th, Source-A-Thon (with amazing prizes!)
You have been busy proposing mergers of the Jeremiah Brewer Phillips, Sr. family of Chatham, North Carolina. I am one of the profile managers for one of the proposed profile mergers as my ancestor. You proposed the merger at 2:42 pm yesterday, 7 June 21, and by 18:49 which is 6:49 pm on THE SAME DAY you merged the profiles NOT EVEN giving the profile managers enough time to respond at all. Please explain why you merged the Jeremiah Brewer Phillips, Sr. profiles ANYWAY in only about 4 hours of time from your proposed merger when the profiles for the supposed undocumented wife Elizabeth Ann Pearcy has so many notes attached as to her existence and validity as wife starting 3 months ago? You stated she was the same wife as "Ann" my profile page as his wife. Do you have a marriage record for Jeremiah Brewer Phillips, Sr.? Do you have a record of her family living in Chatham, North Carolina, like a deed record for her parents? Elizabeth Ann Pearcy is questioned as being born for she has no English Birth/christening record as her supposed siblings in England. But you connected the profiles anyway with her as a spouse without providing the profile managers time to respond. Please do not merge any of my profiles I manage, I wish to make sure of the accuracy for the merger and complete it myself.
Please leave as is for now, that is quarantined. I am chasing a birth grandmother versus an adoption situation from more than a century ago.
Hello John; I received a notice of request to merge my ancestor Elizabeth Sawyer (Byrd-5157) and Elizabeth Byrd (Byrd-4908) last month. I have been very ill for the past month so I was not able to review and compare the two profiles you notified me about until today. When I tried to compare the two, a banner came up on the page which said that you had already completed the merger (without my permission). John, I see that you do a lot of independent mergers of other people's profiles and that there have been mistakes made on some profiles managed by others, thus, upsetting several people. I appreciate when someone notifies me of work needed on my profiles: however, I am now requesting that in the future you not alter or attempt the merge any of my ancestor profiles that I manage. I have been researching my ancestors and their family branches for many years and would like to attend to these matters myself. Just remember that when you contact a person regarding a merger or other request, you don't know what is going on with them or why they may not be able to get back to you as timely as you wish. Patience is a virtue that is much needed in these matters....especially in the middle of a Covid pandemic!
Teresa
You're right. I apologize. I'll be careful not to merge or alter any of your profiles.
I see from the other posts that you are in the habit of conducting unauthorised merges, presumably for your own satisfaction, without contacting the relevant profilers first to see if there are any issues. Please do NOT do this in future, certainly not with my profiles. I have just gone in and corrected the mess you made of the Bio on the Arthur Symmonds profile. Thanks, Rob
Regards, Rob
-tom
Going back to George Nettles 1714-1799, there are three consecutive generations of Joseph Nettles, then Thomas A Nettles, then William Joseph Nettles. I know this because I have gone to great effort to work with a 101 year old descendant of Thomas Alexander Nettles who has researched her lineage for at least 70 years.
Help me get this straight, please. And don't use FamilySearch for a source; that was your first mistake.
I see you merge a lot of profiles. That's great. Are you volunteering as an Arborist?
Be sure to merge the bios when you merge the profiles. That's the best time to know which data which came from which sources. It will get mixed up in a merge if there are general sources instead of footnotes.
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks for merging Hannah Wilcox: Wilcox-6649 into Wilcox-4172 which needed to be done. Her husband John Cooper Smith also needs merging. Could you do that please. Currently her husband is Smith-166688 who should be merged into https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-29506. Reference: https://johnblythedobson.org/genealogy/ff/Wilcox.cfm - See section 8. Hannah Wilcox.
Louis
Thanks for taking responsibility for the Orphaned Profiles. This After Adopting Orphans FAQ explains the special attention adopted profiles will sometimes need from their profile managers. One quick way to find the profiles you adopted is by searching your Contributions List for the word "adopted" and "manager." You can find a quick link to your Contributions List in the My WikiTree dropdown menu.
Let me know if you have any questions on how to find and record sources, merge duplicates, clean up GEDCOM biographies, and interpret the Suggestions report. I'm here to help!
Debi
PS If you have any GEDCOM cleanup to do, there is a new tool that can help. You can read more about it in the WikiTree AGC FAQ.