Thank you for participating in the January 2025 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create an amazing 6734 profiles. What a great start to the year! We will be at half a million profiles before we can blink.

All first-time participants in 2025 can add the 2025 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

Thank you for participating in the December 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3795 profiles. We created a total of 50,162 profiles for the year through the challenge. We exceeded our 2024 goal of reaching 400k profiles and finished out the year with 455,869!

You can see your personal 2024 challenge total and your all time 2021-2024 total on the 2024 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

We will continue the 1880 Census Project in 2025

Thank you for participating in the March 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4936 profiles. We’re getting oh so close to our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

All first-time participants in 2024 can add the 2024 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

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!

You can see your personal 2023 total and your all time 2021-2023 total on the 2023 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

Thank you for participating in the October 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3315 profiles.

Thank you for participating in the May 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4667 profiles. Our new total is 211,475!

I made a bit of a mess and made some duplicate profiles unintentionally. Expect to see a few merge requests in the next few days (not tonight - I want to be less tired). I have never made this many duplicates so I am really sorry! On the plus side, I think I have info you don't have and I don't care to manage them so am happy to let you have them.

Thank you for participating in the April 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5952 profiles. Our new total is 201,351. 250k here we come!

Emma

Thank you for participating in the March 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3452 profiles. Our new total is 191,151.

Emma

Hi AM. Thanks for all the great profiles you're creating for USBH! When you create a profile for an enslaved American, can you add the the top level "Category:USBH Heritage Exchange" to each one? That's a signal for our Heritage Exchange Team to come check that the profile has all the categories we use. Thanks! Emma

Thank you for fixing up the remaining missed error resulting from a mismerge. Thought I got them all there but I guess not. Much appreciated!

Thank you for participating in the February 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5295 profiles. Our new total is 184,311.

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.

All first-time participants in 2023 can add the participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

Emma

Hello Amy

Just wanted to wish you a happy new year!

Hope we make new discoveries this year!

Thank you for participating in the 2022 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us reach 161,603 profiles! We’re going for 250,000 profiles in 2023!

You can see your 2022 total and your all time 2021-2022 total on our tracking spreadsheet.

Emma

Congratulations on earning a 50+ sticker in the November 2022 Sourcerers Challenge and thanks for all the improvements you've made to WikiTree!

Thank you for joining the February USBH Connecting Challenge, A, and helping us create 3116 new profiles.

We’ve started the March challenge here: March Connecting Challenge.

Thank you for joining the January USBH Connecting Challenge, A, and helping us create 8294 new profiles. Our new total is 82166

We’ve started the February challenge here: February Connecting Challenge.

A, Thank you for joining the December USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 10523 new profiles. We met our goal of creating 50,000 new profiles in 2021!

We’ve started the January challenge here: January Connecting Challenge. We are working toward a goal of 150,000 total profiles in 2022.

Emma

Thank you for contributing to the December 2021 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

Nan, WT Appreciation Team

Hello! We’re putting out a call to all past USBH Connecting Challenge participants. We are only a few thousand profiles away from meeting our goal of 50,000 new profiles for 2021. I hope you’ll be able to join us by adding some new profiles in December. They sign up post is here:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1335880/join-us-black-heritage-connecting-challenge-december-2021

Thanks for your contributions in 2021! Emma

A.,

Thank you for contributing to the November Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

Hello,

I am checking in on behalf of the 1776 Project to announce the new project membership requirements and to verify that you are still interested in being a member of the project. All project members are being asked to join one of the project teams and also to make at least one project contribution every 6 months. We are also asking all project members to join the project's Google Group for project communications.

If you are interested in remaining with the Project, please reply to this comment or send me a message, request to join the Google Group, and let us know what team you would like to participate on.

We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all your hard work. If you have any questions, please ask. We would also love to hear any feedback you may have for the project.

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

SJ - 1776 Project Leader

Thank you for joining the May Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3726 new profiles! I've been coming across a lot of your great work.

We’ve started the June challenge here: June Connecting Challenge

Emma

Thank you for joining the April Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4886 new profiles!

We’ve started the May challenge here: May Connecting Challenge

Emma

Thank you for joining the March Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3850 profiles!

You can add the participation sticker to your profile if you’d like. Connecting Challenge Stickers

We’ve started the April challenge here: April Connecting Challenge and we're now on the challenge tracker.

Emma

Thanks for adding sources to Ann (Atwood) Charlton (abt.1608-abt.1679). She's not related to me, but wanted her to have a presence on wikitree. If you'd like to be the profile manager, please let me know.

Thank you, A!

Thank you for creating and editing one of my 4th great grandfathers! I'm about to edit by adding some of the info I have on John J. Brown Sr - please help me improve on it. Larry Flesher

Hello,

Thanks for the message about Fisher Walton management. Here's something else I just noticed today. We need to merge my profile on Elizabeth Nelson (Nelson-23004) with your Elizabeth Melson (or Millson), I don't remember which. Please check my Elizabeth Nelson information and I think you'll see that we are actually dealing with the same person and that her maiden name was Nelson (or Nilson). The handwriting that misled you also misled me--the clerk was evidently copying an old entry of NILSON which he misread as WILSON and the error was repeated over and over and over. I finally researched so much Nelson data that I could see the problem. Please check into it. Let's make a merger of it. Richard Sears

Thanks! Great job!

Hi,

I see you edited William Aydelott II's bio, but looking at it he's married to the wrong woman. His profile has him married to Ann Mary Melson, who is unattached to any parents. These Aydelott cousins are hard to sort into stacks, but Ann Mary Melson is my 4th g-granny and William II is the wrong granddaddy. The right Ann Mary is Ann Mary Melson was married to William Aydelott. She also married Job Johnson and Jones Ricard. William died intestate so there are reams of documents because his property was split between his four surviving daughters, two of whom were still minors at his death. My 3rd g-grandad Levin Clark acted as executor or at least brought the land division to court on behalf of the girls. He was husband of William and Ann Mary's daughter Esther Aydelott Clark.

Thank you for your continued diligence in documenting our Aydelott ancestors! (((Hug)))

Deb Cavel

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Hi there A

Congratulations on being one of the top 10 contributors in the Data Doctor weekly Challenge - for GEDCom, the challenge led to 6,953 profiles being improved. Every suggestion you cleared made our Tree that much better. The Data Doctor Team and the WikiTree community appreciates the work you are doing. Look forward to seeing join us for the next challenge.

Janet 

A Data Doctor Project Coordinator - Member of the WikiTree Appreciation Team

Congratulations !

Re Elizabeth Dagworthy Aydelott Wells. Yes, her mother did marry again after her second husband, ____ Johnson died. Her third husband was Jones Riccord/Riccard. Martha Dagworthy was the wife of John Dagworthy. Elizabeth is named in Dagworthy's will as a beneficiary. I have added the abstract of Dagworthy's will to Elizabeth's profile, and the marriage between Ann Mary Melson Aydelott Johnson and Jones Riccord to Ann Mary's profile. I'm now going to search for documentation on the Ann Mary Aydelott and ____ Johnson marriage and any other facts I can dig up. What fun!

Deb Cavel [Cavel-3]

re: Unknown-485990

Stokley is a misspelling. Should be Stockley. Sussex Calendar of Wills, p145: dau of Cornelius Stockley, wife of Joseph Aydelott (Jos .& Frances were admins of her father's estate Dec 12,1782.

Thank you for your note regarding the Ebenezer Spencers (Spencer-6081,Spencer-6082 ). I have corrected the profiles you mention. Do you have a particular interest in this family? If so, let me know; I would love to trade notes with someone who knows the family well.

Thanks for info on Woodman Stockley. I will do some checking.

Hi, thanks for checking in. Yes, looking at the profiles and sources it does look like a good match. Be sure to leave change explanations and if you can organize any of the profiles and/or add/improve the sources, please have at it.

SJ - William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers Project Leader

A. Haynes is great!

Hello and welcome to the William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers Project. You can find useful information herer:

William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers

and join out chat group here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wikitree-penn-project

You can add the following category to your profile biography to mark your membership in the project:

[[Category:William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers Project Members]]

and add yourself to our members' list with your project-related interests. William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers Members

Please let us know if you have any questions!

SJ - Penn Project Leader

Hi, I would welcome any improvements you can make towards Thomas Fisher's profile and I would also like to extend an invitation to join the William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers Project.

SJ

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:William_Penn_and_Early_Pennsylvania_Settlers

Thanks! Great job!