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Biography
Cindy (Hawes) Van Dam is a graduate of the USBH Profile Improvement Track on the PATH.
Cindy (Hawes) Van Dam is a graduate of the USBH Heritage Exchange Track on the PATH.
Graduated with a Bachelor's in Social Work from BYU
Earned a Master's in Secondary Education from Xavier University in New Orleans.
Taught middle and high school for 8 years
Loves chasing down the last possible relative
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DNA Connections
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Thank you for participating in the December 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6214 profiles. We created a total of 46,036 profiles for the year. We met our 2023 goal of 250k profiles and finished out the year with 168,195!
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Thank you for participating in the January 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6960 profiles. It was one of our biggest months of all time! Our new total is 174,667.
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Cindy (Hawes) Van Dam created 24 new profiles during the January 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
A very late thank you for participating with Team Roses during the January Connect-A-Thon. Together we added 4320 new profiles! That’s amazing! Look for information about an April Connect-A-Thon.
Emma
Cindy (Hawes) Van Dam participated with Team Roses during the January 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 5 connections.
Thank you for joining the November USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4748 new profiles! Our new total is 153,062. We’re going for 250,000 profiles next!
Cindy (Hawes) Van Dam created 27 new profiles during the November 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Thank you for joining the October USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3419 new profiles! Our new total is 147,729. We have less than 2300 to our 2022 goal! Wow!
Cindy (Hawes) Van Dam created 37 new profiles during the October 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
I posted a check-in message a couple of weeks ago about the US Black Heritage Project to ask you about your activity with the project, but haven’t heard back from you. Do you still want to be in the project? If I don’t hear from you by next week I’ll assume that you’ve moved on to other things. You’re always welcome to re-join the project at any time.
I’m conducting the 6-month check in for the US Black Heritage Project. Because we are growing so fast, it’s not always possible for me to see what everyone’s working on.
I’d love to hear what you’ve been working on and if you are still happy being a part of the Profile Improvement team. Members can change teams at any time.
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PS If the link does not work, you can a working one in the public comment I left on your profile
I love that the Clark family is so well documented. They were highly influential in their communities. Take a look at Dr.Miles Clark's nephew's page: Stephen Russell Clark. I have link to unidentified photographs. Perhaps you might recognize any of them? This is my mother-in-law's family and I believe the photos are of Clarks and Potter families. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-30033
Hi . I see that you just did the Pre-1700 Self-Certification. That's great! Is there a particular time period, location, or topic you're interested in? Maybe you have some historically-significant ancestors? Let me know. I can help you figure out if there's a project and introduce you to the project leaders.
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Connections to Super Bowl halftime show performers:
Cindy is
22 degrees from Prince Nelson, 19 degrees from Dan Aykroyd, 18 degrees from Garth Brooks, 26 degrees from Chubby Checker, 24 degrees from Ella Fitzgerald, 19 degrees from Dusty Hill, 30 degrees from Whitney Houston, 20 degrees from Mick Jagger, 15 degrees from Paul McCartney, 19 degrees from Tom Petty, 16 degrees from Chris Stapleton and 21 degrees from Shania Twain
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Condolences to your family.
You can see your personal 2023 total and your all time 2021-2023 total on the 2023 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.
Check out our new 1880 Census Project. We’d love everyone’s help in 2024.
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Emma
A very late thank you for participating with Team Roses during the January Connect-A-Thon. Together we added 4320 new profiles! That’s amazing! Look for information about an April Connect-A-Thon.
Emma
You can see your 2022 total and your all time 2021-2022 total on our tracking spreadsheet.
Emma
Emma
I posted a check-in message a couple of weeks ago about the US Black Heritage Project to ask you about your activity with the project, but haven’t heard back from you. Do you still want to be in the project? If I don’t hear from you by next week I’ll assume that you’ve moved on to other things. You’re always welcome to re-join the project at any time.
Thanks, Emma MacBeath, USBH Project Co-Leader
I’m conducting the 6-month check in for the US Black Heritage Project. Because we are growing so fast, it’s not always possible for me to see what everyone’s working on.
I’d love to hear what you’ve been working on and if you are still happy being a part of the Profile Improvement team. Members can change teams at any time.
Emma
I noticed that you used the Challenge Tracker for unsourced corrections in this weekend's Saturday Sourcing Sprint. Please consider officially joining us for the Saturday Sourcing Sprints. You can find information, including how to join, on the Sprints Help page.
No pressure, every profile with a source makes our WikiTree better. Your work will be included in Tracking Sheet's Unregistered total at the bottom of the help page if you do not register.
Your work is appreciated. Thanks for sourcing!
Debi - Sprint Facilitator
PS If the link does not work, you can a working one in the public comment I left on your profile
re the governor.
If you are descended from Johanes Wisner then we are related. I live in St Louis, MO. Thank you for the message!
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If you click the "A" it will skip all the ancestors of that particular person. If you click the "D" it will skip all the descendants. You don't necessarily have to communicate with profile managers of potential matches before you submit your GEDCOM but if you want to reach out to them you certainly can! Collaboration is a huge part of WikiTree so the more you interact with other managers the better :)