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B Higdon

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Signed 29 May 2015 | 17,561 contributions | 168 thank-yous | 593 connections
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Welcome!

Why hello there! First of all, I am VERY sorry for how bad I am at keeping this up! I have health issues and was able to do a lot of work around it, but I got to a point where I just wasn't able to keep up anymore. I had been working on a grand plan/project to make a profile for everyone in the 1850 census in Knox County and actually got pretty far if I do say so myself, but then not being able to keep up turned into a sort of mess and going forward I'm going to be more selective with adopting profiles and might remove myself as manager from a lot of these profiles that I am not directly connected to.

I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to spend working on here and after what happened, I'm hesitant to commit to much. I've been having some emails get lost in my spam folder or I forget to reply to them, so I apologize if I missed you and thank you in advance for your patience! I'll try to do better with merges and hopefully being more selective with being a manager will cut back with me needing to do that.

Please note that if I make a profile, that doesn't mean that I know a lot (or anything) about that person and am a lot of the time making a place for a person with more information to be able to fill it out. I want to "populate" Wiki Tree so when ancestors or more closely related people find it, they have it set up already and maybe I'll have found something they didn't already have? I remember when I first started here and I plugged in a few people I had on my family tree and what a blessing it was to find all the other connections I had and was able to find how I was related to other people I wouldn't have known about. I LOVE how Wiki Tree works!


What I'm doing now

I recently had my DNA tested for fun and entered that into Wiki Tree's system. I don't know too much about what I found and am still playing around with it, but if you know more and there's something you would like to know more about, please do let me know :) I have been working on my Knox County connections since that part of the family has more brick walls than my other lines. When I thought about getting back to work here, I have thought about branching out more and working on other lines. Again, I don't know how reliable I can be so I'm sorry again if I'm not able to keep up! Also, I'm not an expert and I am so sorry that I probably don't have answers to your questions! I'm learning along with you all :)



Knox County/Tennessee Families

Direct Relations

Coleman, Walker, Wilson, Ford, King, Giffin, Compton, Wade, Jordon, Maxey


Close Relations

(in-laws, cousins, doesn't fit as "direct relations")

Cruze/Crews, McNutt, Childress, Harmon, Haun, Dearmond (various spellings), Foster, Skaggs, Wright, Galyean (various spellings), Glass, Haynes, Hines

Other Families

(I keep seeing these people, a significant family with lots of people that married a third cousin or something, "everything else"/doesn't fit into previous two categories, etc.)

Anderson, Baker, Berry, Flenniken (various spellings), Brakebill, Burnett, Everett, Mynatt, French, Tarwater, Rule, Kirby, Grizzle, Houser, Sayne, McCammon, Huffaker, Johnson, Kidd, Hood, Lonas/Lones, Mikels/Michaels, Monday, Rose, Shook, Simpson, Spangler, Stansbury, White, Wilhite (various spellings), Goolsby, Hickey


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Just to let you know:

I'm presently working on posting my late wife's Jackson family to WikiTree (I've been researching them since the '60s), who were from Red River County, Texas, and who descend from James Andrew Jackson of Knox County. I just went through my data on Frances (Fanny) Jackson, who was James's sister and a daughter of William K. Jackson & Mathena Wilon.

You (or, I guess, "Living Britain") show her has having married James Washam in 1847, bu this is contrary to what I've seen in the notes taken from my wife's great-grandmother's Bible (now missing), which say she never married. And Fanny was, in fact, still living with her parents in the 1850 & 1860 censuses. There were, as I'm sure you're aware, a LOT of unrelated Jackson families in that part of Tennessee during the mid-19the century, and "Fanny" was a pretty popular name. I think this "Fanny Jackson" has simply been erroneously conflated with another one.

"Living Britain" also attached a woman named "Ann Boswell" to William Jackson as his first wife -- but she's not mentioned anywhere else and thre's simply no room for her in that family. All of William's children are correctly attached to his actual first wife, Mathena Wilson (partly through DNA results by the descendants of some of their children). Which leads me to think your predecessor on some of these profiles was prone to making assumptions with similar names. . . .

posted by Michael Smith
edited by Michael Smith
Just checking in as I have not seen you around the Tree in a long time. Let me know if I can help in any way.

Robin Lee

posted by Robin Lee
I noticed that you are the manager of many Monday profiles, but not related.

I am looking for any info on illegitimate children of male Mondays in eastern Tennessee. There was at least one, and I am looking for a 2nd born in 1813. My Y DNA is a match to at least 2 Mondays. Samuel Monday (1787-1868) does not have a profile yet on wikitree.

Jim Ward's Y DNA haploid is compatible with 3rd cousin George L Ward Jr. His is identical to two Monday men, Alan Lee Monday and ErvIn Lee Monday. Samuel Monday (1787-1868) was cited for Bastardy in Knox County and had a son out of wedlock with Isabella Hawthorn in 1818.

My cheap LivingDNA Y DNA has less info than real Y DNA tests. A YDNA expert with FTDNA, Mark M, provided details. My subclade G-S2808 is compatible with G-M201, just not complete. The path from M201 to BY181157 would be M201>L89>L156>P15>L1259>L30>L141>P303>L140>PF3346>PF3345>CTS342>L497>CTS9737>Z1817>Z727>CTS2230>Z726>CTS4803>S2808>BY46757>S23438>FT285825>Z30790>Z30791>BY181157 whereas mine stops in middle at S2808.

posted by Jim Ward
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posted by [Living Britain]
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I am sorry for not replying sooner and also for the frustration I am causing you. When I created the profiles, I set the security to "open" so that anyone could edit them. I see that you and others have done work since then so I'm not sure what there is for me to unlock? My health is always in flux so I knew there probably would be a time when I would not be able to keep working the way I was.

Again, I apologize for being unresponsive and not more active. I wasn't taken away by choice and I still have plans to do more work. I need a light at the end of the tunnel and something to work for. Right now my biggest obstacle is that my eyes were damaged and I am trying different treatments in hopes of being able to look at a screen for more than a few minutes. I'm not looking for pity, I just want you to know that I haven't been blowing you off. I really do want to help you and it makes me very upset to know that I have caused you this frustration.

I did something where I think I added you to the trusted list for the people you requested, did I do that correctly? Do you need me to do more?

posted by B Higdon
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posted by [Living Britain]
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First of all, I am so sorry that I didn't reply sooner; I could have sworn I did, however I did get to a point where my eyes were just not having any more on that day! So I wanted to give a big belated "thank you" for this very kind comment and also your prayers! Also, thank you so much for being so patient with me!

When I was looking around on that day I was trying to update myself on WikiTree and all the things that have changed since I was really active. A lot has changed indeed! All of this made me more excited about coming back and doing more but alas, I guess that will have to be put on hold for now. It would be lovely if WikiTree came up with a nighttime mode. Anyway, just warning you that I might have trouble understanding some new features right away and again I want to assure you that I'm not intentionally making things more difficult.

Happy hunting and blessings from one B to another ;)

posted by B Higdon
Hello B.,

There is a new group able and willing to help: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Accessibility_Angels

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, there is a list of contacts, each of whom can help you get back into the WikiTree genealogy.

Best of Hope, B.

posted by [Living Britain]
It's been a week since I first contacted you about the Categorization project. If I don't hear from you by August 14, I will assume that you don't wish to be part of the project any longer and will remove the badge. I thank you and look forward to hearing from you.

Natalie, Categorization

posted by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
Hi B,

I’m Natalie, leader of the Categorization Project. Please have a look at the revamped Categorization Project page, specifically about the new team approach. Members will be now be part of the Maintenance Team. Project Liaisons and leaders will be involved in the Vision and Collaboration team. Please contact me within the next week to let me know if you would like to remain an active member of the project. If I don’t hear back from you I will assume you no longer want to be a part of the Categorization Project. Thanks, Natalie

posted by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
B are you going to join in the fun and do the 2018 Spring Clean-a-thon this year you have till April 19th. Here is the page to go to register. Just follow the instruction at the top.https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/581587/will-you-participate-in-our-2018-spring-clean-a-thon-current?start=0#a_list_title
posted by [Living Barnett]
Hi, I would like to invite you again this year to join the 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon and join the Team Tennessee Volunteers 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon this year I am going to be the leader like I was for Team Tennessee 2017 Source-a-Thon. I will also be the leader of Team Tennessee Volunteers 2018 Source-a-Thon too this year. Notice the change in the name of the team. Here is our free space page:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Tennessee_Volunteers_-_2018_Spring_Clean-a-Thon. It is April 21 - 23. You need to register for this by April 19th that is the last day to register. Here is the G2G page to go to register:https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/578811/will-you-participate-in-our-2018-spring-clean-a-thon?start=60#a_list_title. Plus you can add your name, plus your Wikitree ID plus your email on the free space page and go to the privacy tab and click on the trusted list to be added to it and leave your email under where they have the managers listed and I will make your a profile manager of the free space page.

Thank you very much from the Team Tennessee Volunteers fearless leader Linda Barnett of Barnett-3517.

posted by [Living Barnett]
check our page here:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Tennessee_2017_September_Source_A_Thon.

If you have register for the September 2017 Source a thon but haven't chose a team look at this page and if your are interested to join us leave a comment on the page with your bib number, your whole name, profile ID number, also your email address so you can be your own profile manager on this. Or you could email me this information to me at Linda Barnett [email address removed] If you want to register even go to the https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/462656/will-you-participate-the-source-thon-current-registrations?start=40#a_list_title to register. Then ask to be on Team Tennessee we still have room for you.

Did you know there's a new Source-a-Thon 2017 (first register here) organized for 30 September -2 October 2017 ? A huge event, to keep things organized we are going to work with teams again, since you're a member of our Project, perhaps you would like to join our Team Tennessee Team to help and source and improve Unsourced Tennessee profiles ?

We sure can use some help and you can win prizes, but the best thing of course is we are going to work on this together get as many as possible Unsourced profiles Sourced and improved and have a lot a fun ! :)

Greets,

The Tennessee Source-a-Thon Team

WikiTree profile: Space:Team_Tennessee_2017_September_Source_A_Thon

posted by [Living Barnett]
Thank you so much for your help with those Knox Co., TN folks. I appreciate it.
posted by Doug Showalter
Did you know that these 2 links for "Who's Ebra's Great-Granddaddies?" on the "Walker Genealogy" page are broken?

farhttp://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Who's%20Ebra's%20Great-Granddaddies?

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Who's%20Ebra's%20Great-Granddaddies?%20-1

posted by Pat (Fuller) Credit
Hey! I would be happy for any help on Lonas/Yoast etc. I imported an early version of my mother's research (Helen Sharpe - She did a great deal of the find a grave memorials), and have since updated my computer and can't access her newer records until the Reunion software catches up with my Mac! So YES! Any help you can offer would be great and vise versa.
Hey! Stop by The Tennessee Project. I could use your skills in Knox County, as a county manager. Let me know if you're interested!!!!
posted by Summer (Binkley) Orman
Hi!

Congratulations on earning the Club 1000 badge for March! Thank you for all your contributions to help grow and improve our Tree! :)

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