Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt
Honor Code SignatorySigned 4 Jul 2019 | 14,351 contributions | 247 thank-yous | 877 connections
Signed 4 Jul 2019 | 14,351 contributions | 247 thank-yous | 877 connections
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Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of Cyril Hood
and Sadie (Mitchell) Hood
Sister of
Derek Hood and [private sister (1940s - unknown)]
Mother of
[private son (1980s - unknown)] and [private son (1980s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
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Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt participated with The Welsh Dragons during the 2023 Connect-a-Thon.
Biography
Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt was born in Ruislip, Middlesex, England.
Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt has Welsh ancestors.
Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt has Irish ancestors.
Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt participated with Mighty Oaks during the 2021 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 218 suggestions.
Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt has completed the England Project's Post 1700 Orphan Trail I.
Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt is a member of the Wales Project (Counties Teams – Monmouthshire, Glamorgan).
Cherryl Hood was born in Angus Drive, Ruislip, Middlesex, England in 1949 [1].
She lived with her parents until she married Joseph Thatcher on 31 August 1969. [2]
They separated in 1973, divorced mid-1975 and in November 1976, Cherryl met her future (second) husband, Rudi Schmidt.
Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt is a member of the Germany Project.
She moved to Frankfurt, Germany where they married in 1979. [3] Cherryl & Rudi left Frankfurt in January 1981 and drove overland through Africa to Cape Town, arriving in February 1982. They settled in Cape Town and had their two sons while living there.
Mid-1989 the family migrated to Brisbane, Australia and that is still their home.
Cherryl has completed the Profile Improvement Project's Voyage
Research Notes
Space:Cherryl_Schmidt_To-Do_List
Sources
- ↑ Birth: England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916-2005 (https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=oEkZPq8L%2F0RmHdT3bWUrwg&scan=1) ; Accessed 20 July 2020 Database Entry for Birth found in BMD Register for March quarter 1949: Hood, Cherryl with Mother's Maiden name Mitchell registered in Harrow Volume 5f Page 540
- ↑ First Marriage: "Marriage Entry" (https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=jLN8mmXUecHKSiXdphM4WA&scan=1) FreeBMD.org; database online. Accessed 20 July 2020. Citing: BMD record of Marriage in September quarter 1968: THATCHER, JOSEPH and HOOD, CHERRYL registered in HILLINGDON Volume 5C Page 826
- ↑ Civil ceremony in the Frankfurt City Hall with church blessing in a church in Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany
- First-hand information. Entered by Cherryl Hood at registration.
- Birth Certificate
- Marriage certificates
- Divorce papers
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Cherryl or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cherryl:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Cherryl or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cherryl:
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100.00%
100.00%
Cherryl (Hood) Schmidt:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch RY2849582 [compare], Ancestry member Cherrylschmidt1
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~0.78%
Janet (Hood) Mackenzie
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch UL9044044 [compare], FTDNA kit #IN64072
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Categories: Ruislip, Middlesex (London) | Cranford, Middlesex (London) | Frankfurt am Main, Hessen | Cape Town, Cape Province | Brisbane, Queensland | Wales Project | German Roots Project Members
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Thanks for making contact and yes, I am happy with my current team. I always try to create comprehensive profiles and fix up any that I come across during my research. Regards Cherryl
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Stuart
Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023! Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!
I'd like to share our end-of-year 2023 Newsletter. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading about what we have achieved in 2023!
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I am still happy with the Dublin team. My grandparents were from there and I periodically return to my family’s Irish ancestors to improve their profiles and conduct more research.
One contribution a year is definitely minimal and I think could easily be increased to 12 a year, averaging one a month. Are there many members only making one contribution a year?
I don’t spend a regular time on Ireland profiles as I am a member of numerous teams, and tend to follow my nose. Sometimes I work on profiles for a team (unconnected, unsourced, unknowns etc) and other times try to refine my existing profiles. I haven’t kept track of my time but would certainly have spent at least 12 hours over the year, if not more.
I am unable to allocate specific times to my WT activity but usually spend a few hours on at least 3 or 4 days a week. I like to participate in the Thons but otherwise tend to work alone.
Many thanks for all you do. Regards Cherryl
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Thanks for getting in touch. I am happy to continue with my current teams (Somerset, Dorset and Gloucestershire) but it is difficult to rank them, as I often get side-tracked and end up somewhere quite different from where I started LOL. I am also in the Wales and Ireland Projects, so there is often an overlap as people move about. I am currently working through the suggestions that have come up on my profile, as I was previously too busy following red herrings for a while. I also intend revisiting my family profiles and improving them, hopefully adding more connections. I usually participate in the Connect a Thons and Source a Thons, although I must confess to being a bit of a loner and not engaging too much on Discord or Google. Regards Cherryl
Best Regards,
Maddy
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Thanks for making contact. I would like to continue being a member of the Germany Project as I have been researching my husband's family (mainly from Hessen and Bavaria). I have completed your survey as requested. Regards Cherryl
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I have added and improved numerous profiles in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire in the past few months, as well as some in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. I am happy to stay with the Glamorgan and Monmouthshire teams at the moment. Often having problems connecting to the Global Tree and end up adding lots more profiles while trying to get connected, but I guess we all do that. I have also been working in Dorset and Lancashire quite a lot lately.
Sorry but I have no suggestions - I just enjoy pottering around and adding sources, building profiles and untangling conflated profiles.
Thanks for all you do on WikiTree. Cherryl
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals over the past year. Every English profile we improve helps!
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Thanks for the check-in. I have mainly been working on my Welsh profiles lately but still often switch over to the English ones where there is a link. I'd like to remain in the same teams for the time being. I probably won't be so active on WikiTree for a while as I am currently on a road trip around Australia which could take up to a year, so Internet access can be patchy from time to time.
Thanks for all you do, as well as the other Team Leaders. Best wishes, Cherryl
Ian
Wales Project Semi-Annual Check-In
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Thanks also for all that you and the other team leaders do. Regards Cherryl
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Thanks for the check-in. Please add me to the GoogleGroup and Discord using the email address [email address removed] as I prefer to keep the WT separate from my personal stuff. I am happy with the team you have assigned me to at the moment. Apart from my own family, I often work on profiles that are unconnected and try to develop their biography and extend their family in an effort to connect them to the tree (not always successfully though!). It really frustrates me to see so many profiles that basically have no useful information or sources, so I frequently start researching them and trying to tease out their stories. It does become a bit obsessive sometimes though! Regards Cherryl
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Thanks for the check-in. I haven't done much on my husband's German profiles for a while as I have been busy on my UK ones and participating in some of the other challenges. I would still like to stay in the project team though. I have sometimes found it difficult to find sources online for Germany - it is definitely a lot harder than the UK! Regards Cherryl
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Thanks for the check-in. I have not been very active on any Irish profiles for a while as I have been busy with Wales and England, although I did update my great grandfather and grandfather recently (both born in Dublin). I am a member of the Dublin team and would like to continue in that role, as I hope to do more research in that area soon.
As I explained to the Wales Team a few months ago, I am not much of a team player (not sure why) and don't really interact with the other team members, but tend to dig around until I resolve whatever issues I come across. I like to participate in the Source-a-Thon and Connect-a-Thon and other challenges as they arise, and sometimes use Discord, although I am not good at "chatting" with other team members. A pity really as I can see that it would probably be very beneficial at times. I have just joined the Ireland Discord group and downloaded your new Fact Sheet for the Ireland Project, which is really useful, and will try to engage more in the future. Kind regards and keep up the good work. Cherryl
Unfortunately I am not in a position to take on any additional roles as I cannot commit any more time to my genealogy at the moment. I am always amazed by how much time all of the team leaders must contribute.
Well, the Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and have fully recovered. Thank you for joining us. It is appreciated. The combined score of 13,284 - is 113 more than the last CAT so well done. The total overall figure was 85,839 profiles connected.
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for next event)
Thanks again for last weekend, we look forward to working with you again
Janet & Fran
Wales Project Semi-Annual Check-In
Thank you for being a member of the Wales Project. You may recall membership requires at least one contribution to project goals during each 6 month period. A contribution includes creation of and modification to Wales related profiles.
Have you been able to contribute?
It is recognized some members are active. Thank you for your work. (There is no viable method to determine which members have been active in the Wales Project.)
Do you desire to stay on your current project team(s)? Which teams are you most active in? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
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Thanks for the check-in. I have added and improved many Welsh profiles in the past 6 months, mainly in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire (the teams of which I am a member), plus quite a few in Montgomeryshire, Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. I am happy to remain with these two teams for now, as I am also involved in a number of other projects (England, Ireland and Germany).
Thinking about it, I am not much of a team player (not sure why) and don't really interact with the other team members, but tend to dig around until I resolve whatever issues I come across. I like to participate in the Source-a-Thon and Connect-a-Thon and other challenges as they arise, and sometimes use Discord, although I am not good at "chatting" with other team members. A pity really as I can see that it would probably be very beneficial at times. For example, I often spend huge amounts of time trying to connect profiles which I have created (sometimes in error as they are not who I thought they were!) and end up creating many more unconnected profiles. Having said that, I always make sure that they are properly sourced and usually with a reasonable biography, so I don't feel too bad about it.
Periodically I check in to the project statistics and spend a few hours contributing to various activities such as sourcing or fixing up location names.
I really appreciate the work that the various leaders and coordinators do, as the amount of interaction that can be seen through updates and emails is quite amazing. I honestly don't know how they all find the time to do this and live a normal life. Maybe they don't!!!
Anyway that is all I can think of at the moment, Stuart. Keep up the great work. Kind regards Cherryl
Hi Cherryl
We would love to have you join the Mighty Oaks for the Source-A-Thon. The marathon starts Friday, October 1 at 8 AM (ET) and ends Monday, October 4, 8 AM (ET) but you don't need to participate the whole time
If you are interested in joining us then please answer the G2G post here Source-A-Thon Registration remember to mention you would like to join the Mighty Oaks
Look forward to working with you again
Janet & Joan Co-Leaders for the Mighty Oaks
Happy sourcing, Cherryl
I would 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 teams? Which teams 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!
Joan, England Project Leader
Thank you for your email. I have now joined a number of Project Teams - England, Wales, Ireland and Germany - because my family came from there and I am often going back to my family tree and trying to improve my profiles. I am also in a number of County Teams - Somerset, Dorset, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Dublin, Hessen - and find this is all keeping me fairly busy. The past month or so I have mainly been working in Glamorgan and Somerset, either on my own profiles or working on unsourced profiles. I find it difficult just to add a birth, marriage and death record so usually end up adding in census records, then adding more people to the tree. Unfortunately quite a few of these are unconnected, so that sends me off on another wild goose chase adding in more people and trying to make a connection to the global tree! I find connecting very difficult and frustrating.
I am enjoying the work I am doing and although I am in numerous teams, have very little contact with anyone else. Not sure why. I think I just find it a bit awkward to engage although I read through all the emails and follow up where relevant.
I am happy with my current teams and hope that my profiles are adding good quality sources to the tree overall.
Kind regards Cherryl
Regards Joan
Olvastam, hogy keresi a férje családját. Nekem is vannak az őseim között Schmidt és gondoltam megnézem. Közös szálat még nem találtam, de az én őseimnek nagyon sok utódjaik vannak, akiket még nem írtam be a családfámba, tehát elképzelhető, hogy van közös száll. Viszont találtam még két gyermeket Carl Anton Schmidt-nek.
edited by Eszter Semes-Bogya
Hi Cherryl
Thank you for joining the Mighty Oaks for the Clean-A-Thon and congratulations on your work during the CAT what an amazing result for the Mighty Oaks we fixed 32,841 suggestions.
Altogether the teams fixed a grand total of 233,558 profile suggestions. We hope you had fun while cleaning the tree.
For the template to add to your profile go to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Clean-a-Thon you will need to amend it to this year. See the Mighty Oaks page
See you later in the year for the Connect-A-Thon
Janet & Joan
Co-Leaders for the Mighty Oaks
Thank you so much for all your contributions to WikiTree in the last six months, and especially to the Wales Project. It’s been wonderful to have you as part of the team as we work together to increase the quality and quantity of Welsh Profiles.
I have you down as being on the Glamorgan and Monmouthshire Teams. Is this right? How are things going? Do you have any questions? What can we do to support you? Would you like to change any of your teams? Do you want to continue in the Wales Project moving forwards?
I see you’re not currently on the Discord server. You’d be very welcome to join us where we have live text and voice conversations which really helps with collaboration. Just let me know and I can send you an invitation.
I look forward to hearing back from you with all the above. Thanks once again, Olivia, Project Coordinator for Wales :-)
edited by Susie MacLeod
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
First of all, how are you doing? What are you currently working on? Are you happy with the team(s) you're in, or would you like to change things up?
Secondly, we're looking for some feedback on the Google Group and our Discord server. Do you use either or both of these? If you don't use either, why not? Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve participation and collaboration, either generally or for you personally?
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Lizzie, Amy, Joan
England Project Leaders
Thanks for the check-in. I love the personal touch from WikiTree and am always amazed by how quickly someone responds regardless of the question! In response to your questions:
First of all, how am I doing? Since completing the Orphan Trail 1 a while ago, I am really enjoying applying my new skills and knowledge to improving entries on WikiTree. I found OT1 excellent and almost think it should be a prerequisite for anyone about to embark on WikiTree as it introduces you to so many things. For example I know in my case that I thought I was fairly good at providing sources before OT1 but have now realised a lot of what I was doing was relatively useless!
What am I currently working on? Following on from my remarks above, I have spent a lot of time improving biographies and sources for my family, many of which I had imported from GEDCOM files. Before OT1 I was frustrated at the need to seek out free sources because I had already done the work and documented it (mainly in Ancestry) but of course I now know that those sources are pretty much gobbledegook in WikiTree. My mind set has now shifted and I see the value in working on one person at a time and finding free sources, fleshing out their biography, then following through with their family members, which i believe is giving a much better and more robust result.
I am initially focusing on my Somerset family and then frequently heading off down rabbit holes as I expand the biographies and add other family members that are not directly of interest to me, but hopefully will be of interest to someone else.
I am also more aware of Unconnected Profiles, Unsourced Profiles and Suggestions (mainly relating to my profiles), although I do get side-tracked with these from time to time, which makes things interesting.
Am I happy with the team(s) I am in, or would I like to change things up? As such I am in the Somerset Team but, apart from the Source-a-Thon, have not had a huge amount of interaction with the team per se. I still have a lot of my profiles in Somerset to improve, so am happy to stay in this team. I also have a lot of family from Wales, Ireland, Australia and my husband's family from Germany, so there may be benefit in joining the England Project equivalent for those places (if there is such a thing). I also have family from Hereford, Middlesex, Dorset, Gloucester, etc. so not sure if there is any value in joining more teams. Must admit, I hadn't really thought about it.
Feedback on the Google Group and our Discord server. Do I use either or both of these? I have signed up for both and receive daily emails through Google (many of which I quickly skim then delete), and check in to Discord every few days. I confess I am more of a lurker than participant, but find some of the threads interesting. Everyone sounds very friendly but I haven't really engaged which is my fault, rather than the service. As I live in Australia, I like the fact that there is almost always someone online from somewhere around the world, which does make things interesting.
If I don't use either, why not? I do use them but not as much as I could. Not sure why - maybe just find it hard to push myself into a conversation somehow!! No easy answer to that one. Also with the Google thing, I am not sure I understand how it works. Is it just the email or am I missing something completely?
Do I have any suggestions on how participation and collaboration can be improved, either generally or for me personally? Not really. I think all the project and team leaders do an amazing job and I frequently wonder how you can make so much time available, assuming that you all lead normal lives as well outside of WT. Genealogy is an obsession for me too, and I spend many hours on WikiTree just trying to improve my family profiles, but cannot imagine how many hours you all put in each week helping other people!!
I have now committed myself to WikiTree as my repository of choice, which has helped my new mindset. I spent years stressing about how I had updated Ancestry but not FindMyPast or FamilySearch and I often became confused or annoyed that I was wasting my time and duplicating effort continually moving from one repository to another. Now I just focus on WT and use the other sites to inform what I am doing, which has simplified things a lot. Consequently I am happy to spend time seeking our free resources and replacing all of my useless Ancestry ones on WT and am taking a lot of pleasure in giving a voice to so many people I never knew, who nonetheless must have led full and interesting lives.
By now you probably wish you had never asked me your questions, so I will stop writing and wish you all well. Thanks for doing a great job. Cherryl
Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.
Keep up the great work!
Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Hi Cherryl
Thank you for joining the Mighty Oaks for the Source-A-Thon (SAT). Congratulations on your work during the SAT. Its an amazing result for the Mighty Oaks, we sourced 8,887. Altogether the teams sourced a total of 57,577 profiles on wikitree. We hope you had fun while building the tree.
We are looking forward to working with you for another Thon soon.
Janet & Joan
Because pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, working with members of the projects which coordinate them is essential. You can learn more about joining the community in How To #3 and in the Project FAQ.
Sources are very important here on Wikitree, especially on Pre-1700 profiles. It is how we show where we got the info and help others find it too. Find out more about sources here and more detailed info here.
Use the Pre-1700 Projects list to find one which best fits your research focus. Review the project pages for special guidelines and to learn how to collaborate with the project members.
Let me know if you have trouble finding projects which fit your focus. To contact me, log in to WikiTree and go to your profile. Use the ‘Reply’ link below my comment to be sure that I will be notified. You can also click my name to send a private message, or post a comment on my profile page.
Cheryl ~ Pre-1700 Greeter
Regards Cherryl
You have not done anything wrong. I am sorry that you took my message that way. You are doing a great job on WikiTree. I am going through the Orphan Trail also. It is very interesting.
Good luck . . . I know that I need it.
Cheryl ~ WikiTree Greeter
Anytime you need any help, please let me know
Take care Karen
As you have been a member of WikiTree for a few weeks now I thought I would check in to see how you are getting on with the site.
Has the New Member How-To been helpful or left you with any questions?
I am here to help with any problems or queries you may have. Just click my name, then ask in the comment section of my page or send me a private message.
Sometimes links don't work in emails. If that's happened to you, check the public comments on your profile. The links will work from there.
Karen ~ WikiTree Messenger
You can put both names in the middle name with a comma between. Then put the discussion about them in the biography section.
If we keep the name sections clean then the search engines work better and it is easier to find people and connections.
Catherine
I am pleased to confirm you as a full member, and welcome you to the WikiTree family, your contributions will go a long way to joining the world together.
I would suggest starting with the New Member How-To pages, they will save you a lot of time and frustration.
I am here to answer any question you have, no matter how trivial you may think it is. There is no such thing as a silly question. Please add as much information as you can, it all helps to turn a name back into a person. I hope you enjoy the site
Happy tree climbing
Karen ~ WikiTree Greeter
P.S. If links do not work in an email from WikiTree, try them from the comment section on your profile page.
This is just a note to say hi and to let you know that I'm available to answer questions about joining WikiTree.
To contact me, click the link to my name, then send a private message or post a comment on my profile page.
Karen ~ WikiTree Greeter
P.S. If links do not work in an email from WikiTree, try them from the comment section of your profile