Kylie's frequently used source citation examples
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I have wondered about who my great great great grandparents were since childhood. In my mid twenties i went back to school once my son started primary school. It was during my first semester at uni that we were given an exercise of creating a 5-gen family tree. With the family I could find in a day or two I discovered I was at least fifth generation Australian.
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My ggg grand-father Charles Jordan |
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West Australian for generations! |
The origins of my surname and how it ended up in Australia and more importantly, a little town in Western Australia, gnawed at me. With graduation came the free time to research and discover my own personal roots. And I am proud of both my west Australian pioneering family members, my convict, my pensioner guards and warders, and my Prussian Lutheran ancestors who all very interestingly ended up in the exact same district three - five generations ago!
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Proud Prussian Descendant. |
I have many long lost family members who have got in contact with me via other online family trees (familysearch.org; myheritage and ancestry for example) who have very graciously told me about the inaccuracies of my tree. Wikitree, this family tree, is the only one of my online trees that is accurate.
The reason why I have chosen to use this site to house the accurate tree and the other sites have been left inaccurate, is because i tried to correct those trees, without any luck. Too many people have inaccurate trees and simply copy or follow inaccurate hints. It was impossible to do. It was also time consuming without anything protecting the long task. Therefore, I decided to use wikitree because it had the same goal as myself. One accurate global tree, and there were people monitoring the activity on here continuously to stop any potential changes large enough to threaten the entire load of effort and energy I had put in, and vice versa.
So if you are some distant relative, I am glad you are reading this because I believe this tree is correct. If it is not please do not hesitate to contact me. Any mistakes are not intentional. And I need your help to ensure it is accurate.
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Digital Afterlife
It may seem morbid, but in the event of my untimely demise I want to be sure that none of my hard work on WikiTree ends up being deleted. While I fully intend on being around to manage all my profiles for the next 80 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 the following slightly-active WikiTreers in my family, whether or not they are currently on the trusted lists:
I am also the sole profile manager of a large number of profiles that I am unrelated to. The living ones are private only because WikiTree requires it; they contain only information easily available on the web. They can be passed off to any interested WikiTreer.
Perfect little type for a transcription perhaps. This is here as an example for myself, and so it is easy for me to find in the future. If you are reading this then please ignore it. If you cannot ignore it then I leave you with this wonderful quote... "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway also said "Write drunk; edit sober" What can I say - the man was a genius!
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Thanks for adding all the ship categories for the 'Prussian ships....' page. I still believe that the ships categories are excellent collections to look for family connections.
I have just returned to WA from SA and still have to spend 11 days in home quarantine. Plenty of time to pursue my latest interest in tracking immigrants from Lusatia.
Cheers, Steve.
I doing the semi-annual check-in with all project members and I would like to verify that you’re still interested in being a member of the wonderful Tree Hugger Project / Appreciation Team. Please respond by private message and let me know. If you are not yet in the Google group where members communicate with each other, please sign up here: https://groups.google.com/g/wikitree-appreciation
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The Australia Project leadership team are carrying out our annual check-in to see how you are going in the project. We'd really like to thank you for all your work on Australian profiles over the past year! We think we've made great progress in 2020/21 with your assistance.
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Margaret Haining Membership Coordinator
edited by Steve Thomas
I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the goals of the England Project during the past six months. We've achieved a huge amount during this period and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
As the England Project Leaders, we are completing our six monthly check-in with all project members.
Are you happy to stay in your current project team/s? Which team/s are you most active in? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
Also, do you have any feedback on what the project is doing well and anything we could do better in the future?
Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks!
Ian, England Project Leader
Thanks for checking in. I am pretty busy with my other wikitree work, however I do try to contribute to the Cornwall team as much as I can. I would like to continue on as a member of that team and the sourcerers team which is the other team I am on I think.
You are doing great work!
Kind regards, Kylie
Ian
I was wondering if the 'Hayes' variation is to be a part of your study list
edited by Private (Hayes) Living
Also Hayes is not a variation for Haese that I have seen in my research. If I did see it as a name variation then I would include it. Or at least get involved in the Hayes one name study.
Hope that helps :-)
I am looking to join the Prussia sub-project. I have been trying for years to research my Prussian ancestry but have been stymied in finding anything of substance beyond my Great Grandfather who came to the United Stated in the mid to late 1800s from 'Grambow bei Stettin'. Hopefully, I can get further on my quest via the resources and personnel associated with this project. Thank you.
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Scott Pipenhagen
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I am so glad you have joined us. I have sent you an email with information.
Kind regards, Kylie
Cheers, Margaret.
Cheers, Margaret.
Cheers, Margaret.
I'm feeling pleased. I've got past 1843 in my cross-checking project: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Name_list_of_%27Old_Lutheran%27_Emigrants_to_Australia
Steve
That's what it says in Wikitree, so it must be true. 2 more comments.
Cheers, Steve :-)
edited by Steve Thomas
It's that time of the year again: check-in time! As England Project Leaders, we like to check in with you every six months or so to see how things are progressing. Back in May, we didn't ask for a response due to the rapid emergence of Covid-19 because we understood that people's lives were changing rapidly. While we are still living in a Covid world, we do need to hear back from you this time around
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Thank you for the check in. I will send you Amy a private message.
Kylie
By the way:
Kylie and Greta are 19th cousins
Kylie Haese and Greta Moody are both descendants of William (Ferrers) de Ferrers.
Greta
edited by Greta Moody
As a 100% disabled veteran I am increasingly experiencing cognitive and memory problems, but may require your assistance to catch-up and get squared away. In particular, I am interested in Palatine Migration and the names Meffert/Mefford and Traut/Trout.
My thanks for all the work you do as the Project Leader.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Very respectfully, George
I have emailed you!
Kind regards, Kylie
You've done a lot of work to improve the profile of Johann Christian-3746. Is there a family connection? One of your sources is "Iwan, William (Wilhelm) (2003). Name list of "Old Lutheran" emigration...............". Do you have a copy? Cheers, Steve.
I went to make a minor edit but quickly became fascinated and couldn't help myself. I hope you don't mind. I don't have a hard copy but I do have a copy I accessed online for free. Kylie
I'm cross-checking against the passenger lists, such as https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Passenger_list_of_Solway%2C_sailed_9_June_1837_from_Hamburg Steve.
edited by Steve Thomas
I'm having fun working through the List of Lutheran emigrants.
A couple of notes about the free-space pages I linked 4 days ago.
The Solway carried 52 passengers. 28 were old Lutherans from Pomerania.
Near the top of "Space:Old Lutherans to Australia....." I've compiled surname variations found by comparing the German emigration list with Australian records. At the bottom of the page I've compiled a list of villages in the German records with current Polish names and locations if I could find them
Cheers, Steve.
edited by Steve Thomas
The Australia Project leadership team are carrying out a check-in to see how you are going in the project and especially to thank you for all your work on Australian profiles on WikiTree. We really value your participation.
Please could you get back to me by private message to let me know if you are happy with your current role and team involvement within the project or if you would like to do something additional or different. Currently we have you down as the Team Leader for the WA team and a member of the Prussian Settlement, Free Settlers and Convicts team. We do have you also on the Born in the Colony team, but you don't seem to be listed on the team page. If you would like a change, you can check on the Australia Project page to see what other options there are.
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Regards Margaret
I would like to learn how to search for birth certificates and any other records. There are 3 main groups of Brietzkes, one in Brazil, one in Texas and one in Minnesota. The Minnesota ones also came to Canada and those are the ones I know relatives of. Please help.
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The Global Cemeteries Project is currently undergoing our member check-in and wanted to verify that you are still active and interested in being a member of the project. Are you currently assigned to or working with one of our Cemetery Teams? If not, is there a particular Team or area you are interested in participating with? I would be delighted to help you get setup in one or more of our collaborative teams!
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Yes I would like to continue with the project, I am the Oceania Cemeteries Team project coordinator. I would like to continue with this. I am in the google group, and I am following the correct tag.
Thanks, Kylie
Margaret
Margaret
New member Virginia Miltrup added to WA team.
Margaret
Thanks for your comment on the Baltic-Germans page. I'm afraid that I am so involved with the Boren side of my family that I haven't yet done any work on my mother's genealogy. They immigrated here from Szargillen, East Prussia, now Bogatovo, Kaliningrad Oblast. I know from DNA results that I am related to Lithuanians, Latvians and Russians. Just a few days ago I ordered an mtFull Sequence DNA report from FamilyTree. Maybe that will nudge me into starting work on that daunting project.
Good Wishes, dusty
On behalf of the England Leaders, I wanted to say a huge thank you for all your contributions towards the project in the past six months as a Team Member for Cornwall and Sourcerers. We've achieved a great deal during this time and we couldn't have done it without you.
Are you happy to stay in your current teams and the project as a whole? Are there any other teams you'd like to join? What are we doing well, and what would you like to see us doing differently moving forwards?
Please respond to this message via e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks,
Susie, England Project Leader :-)
Welcome to what I know you'll find to be some of the most fun-hard work you'll have at WikiTree!
On behalf of the Australia Project leadership team, we're carrying out a Project Members Check-in to see if you are still interested in being involved as an active member of the project. We have you listed as Team Leader for a couple of teams, so just a checkin to confirm you are still active in those teams.
A list of teams is on the Australia Project page. Please respond by private message.
We really appreciate your enthusiasm in working on Australian profiles on WikiTree, and thank you for all the work you have been doing. We look forward to hearing back from you and that you will decide to be part of the project as we move forward with the new teams for the project.
Kind Regards
Margaret Haining Membership Coordinator
I note that Mary Trudgian née Trethewy has no husband I am sure it is Anthony Trudgian and they were married 28/10/1775 in Brannel I think this Anthony was btz in Brannel 12/11/1748 son. of Samuel Trudgian and Elizabeth Trudgian who were first cousins and my direct descendants.
I have started to concentrate on my mothers Pascoe family and have found Pascoe's marrying Pascoe's it seemed to be prevalent in Cornwall have you come across it at all.? Roger