Hans Hofmann

You have just replaced the grandparents of Robert Louis Stevenson (Stephenson-2618). The ones who were there were from Ireland, and married in Northumberland. The ones you have replaced them with are from the USA and the female died in Tennessee. What is your reason for this change, please?

Hello Hans,

Well, you straightened out the"Gibson" dup's and extended the family, for which I am grateful! Anytime you'd like to work on my German "brick walls", Ma and Pa sides, I would be pleased.

Hi! I just approved the merge of the Mary Avaline Kinser/Kincer Ellis ladies. I don't know how I missed the Kincer version when I added the Kinser version. Thank you for finding that!

One favor: Could you please leave the last name as Kinser? That family had a whole bunch of spellings of names, probably do the last of education. My grandfather had kind of strong feelings about how it was written and pronounced. I feel a loyalty there. Jeanne Kinser Doom

You recently added South Africa to place names. Please check the Country naming pages before doing that,

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:South_African_Roots/Sources2

Thank you, Hans, for completing the Merge of Woolsey-1261 and Woolsey-1260

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Hans, thank you for seeing the clear duplication of Carl Persson. I have completed the merge you suggested. Howard

Hello Vicki, thank you for your comments, really appreciated. Particularly I thank you for your understanding of the conundrum - there are profiles

who appear to be duplicates solely because one or both profiles contain erroneous data of some sort, be it linked relations or dates or locations. My hope is always that the respective PM's will be motivated to have another look at what is or is not possible to be amended. I know, hard work - but with your help it will get resolved eventually.

Happy Day Hans

Thanks so much for your work in cleaning up duplicate profiles. You recently proposed a merge between one of the profiles I manage and another, I responded with reasons for why I don't think this merge is appropriate, but wanted you to know that I appreciate your efforts. You pointed out some inconsistencies with the same daughter listed for two men with the same name. I hope this can eventually be resolved, but it may not be since I do not manage the other profile, I am hesitant to undo without more input from the other profile manager or more definite proof.

Thanks for catching the duplicate of Giovanna Piccione!

Go ahead with the Swander-106 and Schwander-40 merge. I never found any further info on the LNAB conflict. Thanks.

The proposed merge between Thomas Anderson (Anderson-34253) and Thomas Anderson (Anderson-31560) looks very probable. I suffered a house fire in September 2022. My reference books probably survived (it was mostly the garage), they may or may not have additional sources, but the books are in storage until the very slow rebuilding process is complete. Regardless, you have my blessing to merge, it's been a while since I did real work on WikiTree, so tell me if I need to press buttons.

Thanks for the suggested merger of the Johns Gaulton 1811 and 1815. Makes sense!

Thanks, Hans for pointing out the 2 needed mergers in my family tree. Thank you again, for your keen eye.

Steve

Hi Hans, if you could be careful of race when sourcing USA profiles, that would help us out. You conflated Cad Hicks (Hicks-5813) who was Black with Cadwallader Hicks who was white. Then you merged the two profiles. I had to restore Cad and recreate Cadwallader. In most US states interracial marriage was illegal before 1967, so this marriage relationship wasn't even possible which is what instantly clued me in to the conflation. Plus, the original sources were listed on Cad's profile which shows him as Black! Thanks, Emma

Hi Hans, many thanks for the proposal merger for my 4x great grandfather William Latham!

Thank you for Coleman-18415 merge

Hi Hans,

In regards to my grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Giffin, it's listed that her last name at birth was McLellan. When in truth, her last name at birth was Turnbull. She was adopted by the McLellan's when she was three years old, which was when she had her surname legally changed to McLellan. This is what was told by Mary to my mother, Norma Jean Lyons (Giffin).

Please reach out if you have further questions,

Kerry

Hi Hans,

re Henry John Waters 1868-1928. You have year of his father's death 1899 in there. His father was also Henry John Waters but 1847-1899.

Cheers

Ross Waters

Hi Hans,

I noticed that you edited a few profiles of individuals from Hawaii and changed their death locations from "Hawaii Territory" to simply "Hawaii". This is incorrect as Hawaii was a territory before 21 August 1959 when it was admitted into the union as the 50th state.

Regards,

hello Hans,

saw you had completed a merge I had proposed. Thank you for that. There were some changes you made, which I had to correct: 1) there is no such thing as middle name in French, they are all given names, so the middle name box should be marked as none. 2) women keep their own names. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Quebecois Québécois project page for guidelines on names and location names, which also apply later. Again, thanks for your work on this.

Danielle

If the proposed Albert Kutz merge is to go forward, the fathers (of Kutz-591 and Kutz-746 (both named Reuben Kutz) can't remain a rejected match.

Thank you for combining the two relatives of mine. I have to go in and make sure the descendants transferred of Hettie Elizabeth Godbee and Claudine O’Banion. But you found a duplicate in one or the other…

Thanks, Hans, for merging the two Rebecca Stewart Wilsons.

Hans,I believe you removed the children of William Trosper and Elizabeth Israel by accident. Will you please re-add them to the profile. Thank you, Della Ford Nash

Hi Hans,

Congratulations and welcome on joining the Arborists Project! If you have any questions, please always feel free to contact me.

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Hey Hans,

I found your profile for Anna Koestner formerly Hauser and she's actually my 1C3R. I've been doing a lot of research on my Bohemian ancestors and you write in your research notes on the profiles that many documents got lost after 1945, but there are actually a lot of parish books still available. Here is the marriage entry of Anna Hauser and Johann Köstner for example: https://portafontium.eu/iipimage/30065987/mutenin-60_0190-o?x=16&y=169&w=1080&h=459

That page has a lot of digitized parish books from that area (not just the Census you found).

Anna Hauser's birth entry (and the ones of her sisters) are not available yet, because of privacy laws.

I'd like to edit her profile and make a connection to my tree (by adding her parents etc), of course with sources.

Best wishes, Anna

Not sure, but I think the profile for Frank Clark is wrong. The father of Hobart Clark is Frank/Francis Mariam. This Frank Clark’s parents were John Clark 1826-1876, and Elizabeth Lowther 1831-1880. He is buried in Ross county Ohio.

Hans, ek sien jy het Helena Jacomina Beukes se middelnaam ingevul pleks van al haar name in die voornaam veld te sit. Volgens SA protokol gebruik ons nie middelname nie. Is daar 'n rede hoekom jy dit so doen?

Hello Hans, Thank you for fleshing out the bios of some of the Cleveland Family in South Carolina. ( nee Georgia). The branch I come from is the Rev John. However, I have 2 of his sons as grandfathers as well. Lots of inter-marrying. :)

Again, Many thanks! Melinda

Hi Hans, it would be great if you would add sources for your changes. You changed the birth, death, and marriage dates and locations on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pillsbury-2071 but neither the 1860 census nor the FindAgrave Memorial (which doesn't even have a death date) proves any of these changes. If you see information somewhere without a source, that can always go in the research notes. Thanks, Emma

Thank you for your message, Steve - it was a pleasure to add a few sources. There are more for this family on FAG,

I did not do all of them. I am sure it will help the "Tree"

Happy Day Hans

Thanks Hans for adding so much to the profile of Isaac Whitbread and his family in Australia.

You have found a lot from 'Find a Grave'. It was not a system that I knew about when I created the profiles. The extra information, with sources, is very valuable.

Best wishes, Steve

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Hi Hans, I am researching Celina Carpenter, Carpenter-8875, and I noticed that you have edited her profile.

I wonder if you are related to her and, if so, if you have had a DNA test; if so I would very much like to do a comparison! Many thanks, Rob

Thanks for updating Lewis Robert's info. He is my great-great grandfather. :)

My name is Robert Livensparger, ggnephew of Isaac Livensparger would like to have any information you have of him from the time he was medically discharged from the Union Army.

Thank-you Hans for adding new information to Lenora Cowart (my grandmother). Every little bit helps. :)

Hans,

Thank you for everything and helping me with this profile.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mathewson-594

Billie

Hi,

I have corrected the Last name for Georgianna

Hans,

I want to thank you for adding some the Hershey family to the Carpenters lines. That was big help thank you will look in to them when I get some time.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hershey-873

Billie

Hans, I thought you might like to see how I add a Find a Grave link by editing their source citation to use our FindAGrave template. See this edit:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Williams-93401&diff=117146888&oldid=116184789

You have noted on my profile that the site lacks sources. I have sourced my birth certificate. Please tell me what other sources are needed. I appreciate you keeping us on our toes.

Hans,

I have been correcting "821 Headings starts with blank - removed blank in front of Biography heading" on many of the profiles you have worked on. Please check your work. Most errors have been in headings. Best, Linda

Thank you for finding my dad and mom's marriage license in Oklahoma (Verl Valentine Shaull and Georgia Ruby Mc Clary). I tried but couldn't find it. My dad and mom didn't have much. It was during the Depression when they married. Dad came to Oregon by himself to find work. He went to work for the Doctor who ran the dental college. Doctor Miller convinced him to go to school. My dad was a janitor at the school at night and student during the day. Dad became a successful dentist here in Portland, OR.

Thank you, Hans, for every one of your more than one thousand contributions to our Shared Tree during the month of September. The Appreciation Team honors you for all of your efforts.

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Hans, thank you for each of your more than 1000 contributions to our Shared Tree for the month of August 2019. All of your work makes our Tree all that much better.

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Bill, your comments are well noted, and I agree. The problem arises with multiple spouses and perhaps children with each one - when it becomes an issue to deliniate when one marriage might have started and / or ended. And as long as there is a field to document the end of a marriage - for any reason, sometimes the date of a death will have to serve.

Hans, Thanks for adding the profile of Reuben Skaggs. I wanted to point out the a death of one spouse ends any marriage by default, but not explicitly. A specific date for the end of a marriage is more commonly used to signify divorce or marriage dissolution. Moreover, adding marriage end dates that correspond to dates of death can create Database Errors in certain instances. These are just my observations from experience, provided as a suggestion. - Bill