Jeff Ikeler
Honor Code SignatorySigned 3 Jun 2023 | 135,712 contributions | 5,277 thank-yous | 1,307 connections
Signed 3 Jun 2023 | 135,712 contributions | 5,277 thank-yous | 1,307 connections
Communication Preferences:
I am interested in communicating 
with
anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
My family tree is at <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/162503689/family>.
If any of your ancestors ever so much as casually walked through Columbia County, Pennsylvania, we're likely related in multiple ways.
with
anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
My family tree is at <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/162503689/family>.
If any of your ancestors ever so much as casually walked through Columbia County, Pennsylvania, we're likely related in multiple ways.
tested
Jeff D. Ikeler
Born 1980s.
Ancestors 
and Brother of
[private sister (1970s - unknown)] [half] and [private brother (1980s - unknown)] [half]
Father of
[private daughter (2010s - unknown)]
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Biography
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Are you here because I edited a profile that's important to you? Check out my thought process below for some insight into my rationale. If you'd like to discuss an edit I made or merge I proposed, see how to contact me below.
Why I'm on WikiTree
I started editing wikis on Wikipedia in 2006. By 2009, I had amassed about 25,000 edits on my personal account. I became a semi-automated bot operator with about 100,000 edits and 3 bot accounts. They focused on article standardization, wikicode errors, and anti-vandalism efforts.
Since then I've edited dozens of wikis as a side hobby. I especially enjoy building wiki frameworks from the ground up. My favorite method for finding a potential community is to independently partner with indie game developers in alpha, beta, and early access stages, giving them fully customized wikis that are ready to go live on launch day.
I became interested in genealogy in late 2022. When I started, I posessed no family photos older than my parents and didn't know my great grandparents' names. It's been an interesting journey and I can't wait to see where the road leads.
WikiTree provides an excellent combination of two of my favorite hobbies. I especially enjoy fixing syntax and other technical errors on profiles so that others can focus on telling the best stories possible from the available records.
Project memberships
Jeff Ikeler is a member of the Ikeler Name Study Project.
Jeff Ikeler is a member of the Appalachia Project (Northern Appalachia Team).
Jeff Ikeler is a Cemeterist Project affiliate.
Jeff Ikeler is a member of the Connectors Project.
I've found value in joining projects. Below are some of the ones I'm a member of. Perhaps you'd find value in joining one or more of them, too!
- Cemeterist Project
- Connectors Project
- One Name Studies Project
- Project: Applachia
- Project: Data Doctors
- Project: Sourcerers
My personal editing philosophy
Jeff uses the WikiTree Browser Extension to browse and edit profiles more efficiently.
Jeff uses the WikiTree Sourcer extension to generate most source citations with a single click.
Jeff uses the Enhanced Editor (with line numbers) to more easily edit articles with complex syntax.
The cornerstones of my personal editing interests are highly aligned with WikiTree's overarching code of ethics and principal, drawing from my time on Wikipedia and collaborative efforts. The site as a community does a fantastic job of outlining these values in the Wiki Genealogist Honor Code.
My own ethos is mirrored closely in five of the articles and sixth which has no Honor Code correlary:
1. Commit to collaborate.
Correlary: Article I – We collaborate.
- I firmly believe that we can efficiently build the world's most comprehensive, accurate, and story-focused single family tree by working together. This tree and its individual ancestor profiles don't belong to me, nor you, but to all of us collectively. In this endeavor we can collectively improve the site as a community. Alternatively, commit (make good edits) to collaborate (contribute).
2. Improve accuracy.
Correlary: Article II – We care about accuracy.
- I value the opportunity WikiTree gives us to narratively tell the stories of our ancestors in a fashion and format that grants more detail and nuance than any genealogy site bound to rigid text fields and checkboxes ever could. Together we can give meaningful context to situations and details which would otherwise be overlooked.
3. Assume edits are in good faith.
Correlary: Article III – We assume that mistakes are unintentional.
- I learned in the very early days of editing Wikipedia the the vast majority of contributors to every wiki are generously giving of their time to help expand access to information. I presume every edits to be an attempt to improve upon our shared history until proven otherwise; I hope that you will too.
4. Be kind.
Correlary: Article IV – We try to minimize [misunderstandings] by being courteous to everyone.
- I strive to be communicative in a way that makes every contributor, regardless of level of genealogy or editing experience, feel empowered to Be Bold when they see areas they can help out without fear nor apprehension of blowback.
5. Cite your work.
Correlary: Article VIII – We cite sources.
- I aim to cite sources and provide them in as easily an accessible format as possible so that others can retrace my steps and have confidence in accepting or refining my conclusions. I understand that creating excellent citations on WikiTree is a learning experience unto itself and assist others who are still learning through demonstration whenever possible.
6. Incremental improvement is the way.
- I've watched articles on other wikis start as tiny stubs and, over the course of years or decades, evolve into to works worthy of print in premier encyclopedias. None of them were created by a single author, nor were they built primarily through large edits. The following adage applies to WikiTree and any other large collaborative effort:
| “ | How does one go about eating an elephant? You eat it one bite at a time. | ” |
| ~ Desmond Tutu |
Did I make an edit that helped?
If you have the time, please leave a comment here on my profile letting me know how I did, especially so if I got it wrong. Feedback is quite helpful!
Did I edit a profile that's important to you?
For most contributors, you'll notice my edit was focused on syntax, sourcing, and code errors. I regularly reference a slew of article checking tools which focus on ensuring consistency between articles. I make my best attempt to use the same style and layout of profile I'm editing unless there's a site-wide policy that mandates a specific format, such as requiring the Biography heading.
For a much smaller fraction of contributors, you may notice more substantive edits in portions of the single family tree that we share more closely. You can check how I'm related to you or any deceased profile using the Relationship Finder (through blood) or Connection Finder (through marriage).
There are a number of reasons that I could have edited a profile you care about, sometimes quite deeply. While it's not possible to anticipate every edit I'll ever make, a large amout of are explained below.
My edits beginning with the words 'Data Doctor'
- These edits are made as part of the Data Doctors Project. The edits themselves will typically appear fairly minor in the change log, often as small as a single character like
*,=,-, or|. However, they often have a large impact in fixing display issues. Some edits consist entirely of leading or trailing whitespace and may be difficult to see in the edit diffs.
- For more information on a specific error I was correcting, feel free to visit Category:DD Suggestions Help and browse for the error number from my edit summary.
My edits containing the words 'Adding sources'
- These edits are usually made as part of the Sourcerers Project to add citations to otherwise unsourced profiles. If I added a source to an unsourced profile, it was found by browsing through Category:Unsourced Profiles, the WikiTree Plus DBE Unsourced Lists, or the profile was connected through biological or marriage relationship to a profile matching the above description.
My edits containing the word 'Unsourced'
- These are typically follow-on edits to profiles that I was already attempting to improve, or perhaps I was just browsing the site for personal research. Occasionally I need a change of pace from other types of editing and go looking for unsourced profiles using the Bio Check which lets me see all manner of issues for many profiles on a single page.
- I add the {{Unsourced}} template to the top of the article (below any categories, above the biography header) along with the location if I can discern it from the profile itself. Please note that adding the Unsource templated is not a condemnation or negative evaluation of a profile or your work. To the contrary, it allows those on the profile's watchlist to see that adding sources may have been forgotten and provides Sourcerers with an easier method to locate profiles that could use some citations. Lastly, it provides a visual indication to WikiTree visitors (non-contributors) that the article could use a helping hand and may encourage them to join us as a contributor.
My edits containing the words 'Reformatted by AGC'
- Note: If the summary also contains the words 'Data Doctor', refer to the above section, Help:GEDCOM-Created Biographies or Warning 853: GEDCOM Junk instead.
- These edits are made to profiles which were imported from GEDCOM files. WikiTree's import software does its best to generate profiles from GEDCOMs, however most profiles end up being more machine-readable than human-readable. This can also occur when a manually created profile is merged with one that was created from a GEDCOM file.
- I make every attempt to preserve all potentially useful information from GEDCOM imported profiles. If there are any bits that I do not have sufficient context to incorporate into the biography in narrative form, I place them in a Research Notes section for someone more familiar with the profile to take a look at, incorporate into the biography, or remove.
- I remove unusable information such as:
- Local file references. Unfortunately we can't see the files inside your GEDCOM unless you upload them separately and embed/attach them to the article.
- The date your GEDCOM file was last modified on your computer. Our Changes tab already tracks our changes on each profile.
- Technical information such as
User IDblocks. This data was added by your family tree software to identify the person internally for its own cross-referencing and has no meaningful context on WikiTree. - Private information which WikiTree automatically redacted upon upload. We can't see it, the data was probably about living people, and we respect privacy.
- Repetitive information. If the information is already present in the profile's vitals fields (such as their name, gender, date of birth/date, location of date/death, etc.) then there's no need for a large preformatted machine-generated text block taking up space in the biography.
- Email addresses. The WikiTree software now prevents editors from making changes to a profile until the email address is removed. I replace these with "<redacted>".
My other edits
- I probably saw a small potential improvement that I thought could help elevate the profile you started and acted bold. Most of these are simple corrections like typo fixes or adding a missing date (with source citation). If you disagree with the improvement, please feel free to reach out by commenting on my profile or sending me a private message. I'd love to hear from you and learn from your perspective!
How to contact me
If you're looking to contact me, I'd be happy to converse with you. Above all, I prefer to converse via Discord voice chat for its ability to convey tone where text alone cannot. Feel free to PM me on Discord or drop an @ notification for me in #general-chat to arrange a meet-up.
Some days I make tiny edits to hundreds of profiles. Please mention the ID (like Smith-1234) of the profile you'd like to discuss so I can follow along with you.
If you'd prefer another method, read on:
- To discuss an edit I've made to an article you care about, please leave a comment here on my profile
- For edits I've made which are too sensitive for the comment section, please send me a private message (email)
- Note that if you leave a comment on a profile which I've edited but which I am not a profile manager on, I will not be notified and most likely will never see it
Useful links and tools
On the site proper:
- Data Doctors Project
- Data Doctors Challenge
- DBE lists: Weekly report • Errors by location • Unsourced • Unconnected • Categories • Projects
- Sourcerers Project
- WikiTree Plus
- Bio Check
- Formatting templates
- WhatLinksHere (change ID as needed)
Productivity and time savers:
Wall o' Things
Stickers:
 Jeff reached the Royal Effort milestone by sourcing 500 profiles in the May 2024 Sourcerers' Challenge | |
| Jeff reached the Royal Effort milestone by sourcing 500 profiles in the April 2024 Sourcerers' Challenge |  Jeff connected 2,222 profiles on the Appalachia Roots Team for the April 2024 Connect-a-Thon. |
 Jeff Ikeler improved 510 profiles with links back to WikiTree! March 2024 Ambassadors Project Link Building Challenge. |  Jeff reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the March 2024 Sourcerers' Challenge |
 Jeff reached the Red Hot milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the February 2024 Sourcerers' Challenge |  Jeff reached the In the Money milestone by sourcing 300 profiles in the October 2023 Sourcerers' Challenge |
 Jeff Ikeler participated with Tree Nuts during the 2023 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 1,676 previously unsourced profiles.  | Jeff reached the Royal Effort milestone by sourcing 500 profiles in the September 2023 Sourcerers' Challenge |
 Jeff sourced the most profiles in the 23 September 2023 Saturday Sourcing Sprint Challenge | Jeff reached the Royal Effort milestone by sourcing 500 profiles in the August 2023 Sourcerers' Challenge |
| Jeff reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the July 2023 Sourcerers' Challenge | Jeff reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the June 2023 Sourcerers' Challenge |
WW's:
| 13 Jun 2024 | ||
| 15 May 2024 | 13 Mar 2024 | 13 Mar 2024 |
| 7 Mar 2024 | 6 Mar 2024 | 5 Mar 2024 |
| 5 Mar 2024 | 3 Mar 2024 | 26 Feb 2024 |
| 9 Feb 2024 | 11 Sep 2023 | 7 Sep 2023 |
| 12 Sep 2023 | 30 Aug 2023 | 26 Aug 2023 |
Sources
- I'm alive and know things about myself.
DNA
Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Jeffrey Daniel Ikeler and J.E.I., his father (direct ancestor). Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Parent/Child, based on sharing 3,489 cM across 22 segments.
Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Jeffrey Daniel Ikeler and V.W., his mother (direct ancestor). Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Parent/Child, based on sharing 3,486 cM across 23 segments.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Jeff's formal name
- full middle name (D.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- personal memories about Jeff (1)
- images (1)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (1)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
- Jeff Ikeler: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 838 markers, haplogroup E-Z38770, FTDNA kit #B944155, MitoYDNA ID T18911 [compare]
- Jeff Ikeler: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup U5a1a1, FTDNA kit #B944155, MitoYDNA ID T19149 [compare]
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Jeff:
- Jeff Ikeler is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 11, 2024.
- Jeff Ikeler is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jun 13, 2024.
- Jeff Ikeler is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 15, 2024.
- Jeff Ikeler is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 13, 2024.
- Jeff Ikeler is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 13, 2024.
- Jeff Ikeler is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 7, 2024.
Born in '25 connections: Jeff is 20 degrees from Arthur Guinness, 29 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino, 22 degrees from Juana Aragón, 24 degrees from Jean Martin Charcot, 22 degrees from Johan de Witt, 34 degrees from B. B. King, 19 degrees from Angela Lansbury, 23 degrees from William Little, 22 degrees from Oliver Plunkett, 20 degrees from Joseph-Noël Ritchot, 24 degrees from Catherine Spence and 23 degrees from Wallace Yonamine on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
Once again it is time for our annual Ireland Project check-in.
1. Would you like to continue as a member of the project? 2. Do you have any suggestions for project priorities in the next year? 3. Do you have any interest in taking a more active role in the project and, if so, what might you be interested in doing?
A response to the check-in is one of the project’s few requirements for all members. Please either post a reply below or send me a private message on WikiTree. If we don’t hear from you, we’ll assume your interests have changed and you no longer have time to participate in the project.
Thank you for all of your contributions to WikiTree and to the Ireland Project.
Gach beannacht,
Jen, Ireland Project co-leader
Thanks for following up. I haven't really done anything with the project this year. Perhaps best if we slim me down off the rolls until I'm able to contribute.
Jeff
edited by Albertus Robert Casimir (Fuller) Jung
Looks like you're right. Seems the person who created the Find a Grave memorial saw he died in Nescopeck (Luzerne Co.) and assumed he was buried in the Pine Grove Cem in the same county. But the Berwick one makes much more sense, given its just across the river, about 20 miles closer.
I updated the profile to reflect the Market Street portion of the cem and sent a suggestion on FG to reflect that. Hope he accepts it.
Jeff
Joseph Henry Mills father is John Mills not John Joseph mills. He was a hatter in Rockdale Lancaster England. He came over to America on the Tuscora and landed in Philadelphia. Eventually settled in Wilmington Delaware. Check his story out in Ancestry. I gave a ton of newspaper articles, pictures etc.
George Mills
Are you referring to Joseph Henry Mills Sr (1829-1913)? For that profile, I recently added a category for the cemetery his headstone appears in. But I'm afraid that I haven't otherwise edited or modified his profile, the connection with his parents, nor either parents' profile.
The change log for his profile indicates you connected John Joseph Mills (1804-1888) as his father back in 2017. N Fetterly appears to have done some edits on both parents back in early April.
Let me know if I'm looking at the wrong profile.
Jeff
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Thank you for joining Appalachia Roots on the Connect-A-Thon.
Our Team finished in 1st place by connecting 17,576 profiles!What an incredible job!!! Check out the scoreboard.
We couldn't do it without you amazing team members! - See you again at the next Thon in July 2024!
I'm a newbie here, a refugee from ancestry.com. Are you related to the Singley clan in any way? I see you've been editing Martin Singley. I've always regarded him as the first Singley in my tree to be in the United States. I have a lot of information to share with you.
Best, Kevin Singley
Unlikely. I make a lot of small non-controversial edits to profiles across the globe and time. Sometimes a thousand or more in a day.
But I'm happy to look. Can you provide the WikiTree ID for Martin?
Jeff
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😊 Carolyn Pinkerton
Back in January of 2023, Marilyn Stewart added Frances M (Snuggs) Easley to Category:United States, Needs Biography in edit #166488214.
Categorization aims to have profiles in the most specific level possible. I moved about 3,000 articles from the United States category into their specific states. Seeing that Frances was born and died in North Carolina, I moved her into Category:North Carolina, Needs Biography.
Hope that helps explain things.
Best regards, Jeff
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Have a good day! Carolyn
The category I mentioned is one of the ways we help volunteers from the Profile Improvement Project find candidate profiles to craft beautiful handwritten biographies.
Hope that helps.
Jeff
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Have a good day! Carolyn
I like being able to read the beginning of the biography horizontally, personally. Having to read part of it vertically, somewhat distracts, I feel.
Thank you!
Just took a peek at Gudger-183. You were really close, just missing one {, probably from a typo.
Most folks seem to prefer to place their stickers right below the biography line, before the first line of the biography body. But as long as they're somewhere within that biography block, they're fine.
(Project and research banners would have slightly different placement rules, with each described on their template pages.)
Hope that helps, Jeff
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Thanks for the work you're doing on categorizing profiles. However, top level categories shouldn't be used. For example, I'm working on cleaning up the category, Needs GEDCOM Cleanup, by moving those profiles into location specific categories. The latest example is moving Thomas Luttrelle [Luttrelle-3] from the top-level category to the state specific Kentucky, Needs GEDCOM Cleanup. The same practice would apply to Needs Biography.
Again, thank you for the work that you're doing.
edited by Nikki Orvis
I hear you. I sorted (I'd estimate) about 500 from Needs Biography and Needs GEDCOM Cleanup into finer categories over the weekend.
Please note that neither of those categories are labeled as top level. Category: Needs Biography is labeled mid-level and Category: Needs GEDCOM Cleanup isn't labeled at all.
Jeff
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I did some re-categorizing last day and change.
Got Category:Needs Biography down by a thousand profiles or so. So many of the leftover ones are profiles from Australia, England, or other place which don't have sub-cats. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also got Category: United States, Needs Biography down from about 3,700 profiles to below 300.
Hope it helps!
Jeff
Take care,
Nikki
I saw those, but the description had given me a little pause. Like perhaps they're only supposed to be used with project-managed profiles?
If you're confident I'm fine dumping articles in there, I'll get started.
Jeff
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p.s.: Also for your service to our country!
edited by K (Beals) Kready
Sorry, I was away for a bit working on coursework.
Glad you found the chart helpful. Shucks, I'm really just tickled pink that anybody's even seen the thing other than me! :D
But having had additional time to review the implications of it, it actually seems to have been crucial for me in achieving a breakthrough in understanding the life and motivations of Isaac Johnson (c1740s-1824), who is my #1 brickwall ancestor, a highly-mobile Revolution-era yeoman farmer who seems to have moved multiple times in the 1780s-90s within the newly-created United States before ultimately seeking a land claim in Upper Canada (Ontario). I had suspected that Isaac was a "soft" or "quietist" Loyalist (i.e. did not serve in a militia but was either truly neutral in the war, or provided material support to British forces and became a pariah afterward), and the association with Wilhelm (Eichler) Ikeler (1753-abt.1808) helps to affirm this suspicion. In Upper Canada historiography, many settlers are retrospectively referred to as "Loyalists" despite their actual feelings on the British Crown, and many early settlers were actually opportunistic Americans seeking the free land available early on, so it can be difficult to winkle out actual motivations and associations. One consideration for me is that Isaac had no known association with any British-aligned militia unit or members of any militia unit, and settled amongst Quaker and Mennonite pacifists.
Obviously researching a Johnson is an infamous process on par with a Jones or a Smith, and any known family associations are key to verifying whether you have the right one. In this case, Johnson family records had that Isaac's oldest daughter Jane married a "Mr. Ikler" and another, Hannah, married a "Mr. Woolever". This established a connection to the family of Daniel Welliver (1748-1823) and creates a three-way Johnson-Ikeler-Woolever association. I now believe that Isaac may have been a neighbour or associate of Ikeler and Welliver who likely also migrated from New Jersey to present-day Columbia County, Pennsylvania, likely due to "push and pull" factors of available land and potentially conflict with Patriot neighbours. Isaac had strong Quaker and pacifist associations which was likely a major factor.
I strongly suspect that "Mr. Ikler" was either Andrew Ikeler (1773-1850) who married Christina (Johnson) Ikeler (abt.1774-1865) (possibly an alternate name for "Jane" or "Janny" Johnson in family records), or Barnabas Ikeler (abt.1774-), whose wife's name seems to be unknown. Obviously more research is needed.
Cheers to the possibility that your 6x great grandfather and my 7x great grandfather seem to have been so closely associated.
Sounds like you're definitely on the right track.
There is some evidence to indicate that Wilhelm, after being labeled a loyalist and having his land seized, went into hiding for ~7 years on the farm of Daniel Welliver. He reappeared, purchasing a large tract in Columbia (then Northumberland) county. His daughter Elizabeth married Daniel's son William. After Wilhelm's death, his land was split amongst his widow and children, with the largest share going to... drumroll... Elizabeth and William. Perhaps he considered William like a son, or perhaps (my probably unprovable suspicion) he had originally intended to give it to Daniel for his sheltering his family those years, but accidentally outlived his good friend.
I have a copy of Almon Ikeler's The Ikeler Chronicles, which he never sold in stores or made available online. He's a pretty nice guy and, once I was able to get in touch with him through cousins, he quickly shipped me out a copy. It is chock full of info and he adds in some suppositions of his own. Unfortunately one byproduct of it not being made for mass market is that there's no footnotes or other direct citations to easily follow the breadcrumbs on – moreso passages like "according to the records of a Lebanon, New Jersey merchant". While I have no reason to doubt any of his work, I had planned to not post it until I've been able to give it the appropriate rigor and verification. (I do believe a sizeable chunk was in collaboration with Donna (Ikeler) Laubach, a cousin who resided in Millville and was a member of the Columbia County Genealogical Society until her death about 4 years ago. She was a great granddaugther of Eri Ikeler (1830-1910), whose line I have not built out on WikiTree quite yet). That said, a lot of his sources seemingly just aren't available online today and I've been more focused on other genealogical pursuits.
If you'd agree not to re-distribute his work, I'd be happy to email you some cell photos of the pages. Given the seemingly strong connections, perhaps there's some clues in there that can help you pin down your Isaac with them.
By the way, I think you can safely discount Barnabas if the suspected connection is through a wife. He's not known to have married, and is not listed with a wife when his father's land is distributed / re-consolidated under Andrew. I recently transcribed the deed transfer consolidating the early Ikeler land after Wilhelm's passing over at Space:Ikeler Family Land Transfer of 1825. Unfortunately, no signs of any Isaacs bordering in the plot description, but who knows, he may have been one of the plots bordering where we're telling direction off of white oaks.
Jeff
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A lot of my research has been exploratory/subjective based on examining the patterns of which families had strong intermarriage links, since in my experience, at least for the time period, multiple intermarriages within a family cluster (usually of 3-4 families) tend to indicate either close proximity or religious/political/ethnic ties, or both (e.g. shared local church/congregation). Isaac and his descendants/extended family were also connected to some Catawissa Quakers (William Fenton, for example, who owned an inn or hotel of some kind at Catawissa) and Derry families as well. These are fairly loose family associations but are the basis for how I initially "placed" him in the area. Knowledge of the Ikeler and Woolever connections has done a lot to affirm that because I am doubtful, especially with the specificity of those two names, that he would have been located anywhere but the Columbia County area in the 1790s or so when those daughters would have married their husbands.
One consideration I've had is that he may not have lived directly next to the Ikeler/Woolever cluster, but had some association with them going back to New Jersey and ended up with other land in Greenwood or a neighbouring township. However that would need to be explored further. My hope once I can firmly connect Isaac to the area is to see if he is traceable to New Jersey, as there is some indication that that is where he was born.
I would be very interested in the Almon Ikeler book. Even if it does not abide by modern sourcing standards or lean on "facts" so to speak, I am not unused to works like these as they are much of what has guided my Johnson research and led me to the right places where I have later found more concrete records. Of course I would be willing to not republish it especially as I doubt there is much there of my concern anyhow, and my hope would be that a more "impressionistic" source like that might lead me in the right direction, even if it was through lateral connections like these. You can feel free to email it to me as an attachment. Once I get a chance to look through it, I can let you know if I find anything that I feel strengthens the connection or potentially contributes to further Ikeler research as well.
Thomas.
edited by Thomas Little
Thanks for the following: 14 Sep 2023 02:38: Jeff Ikeler edited the Biography for James Wesley Sloss (abt.1851-1934). (Data Doctor - Error 843: Missing Template (Spelling) - Fixed spelling or removed accidental template call) You edited several profiles for the same error. Can you tell me what was wrong so that I do not continue to make the same mistakes? Thank you. Kristen
Sure thing, happy to take a look.
You had Template:African-American Heritage but that template name doesn't exist. It was generating a red link error instead of drawing a sticker. I changed it to African-American Sticker and it draws the sticker the right of this message now.Hope that helps!
Jeff
Edit: typos
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Becky Thames-Simmons
Thanks Jeff, for catching needed merge of Frances Ley-902 and Frances Ley-903 Brinson. I checked my source and it was correct. The problem was user error. I entered married name rather than maiden name. I went to your profile page and so impressed. Thank you for your service. I mean that most sincerely. And bless you for applying your time and energy to genealogy. There are thousands of people who will benefit from your dedication to a job well done. Julia Glenn
Sorry I didn't reply a bit earlier. We just got home from Back to School night.
No worries on the duplicate/merge. It happens literally all the time.
And thank you for your support!
Jeff
j.
No worries at all. I found somewhere in the range of ~200 duplicates yesterday so I admit I can't remember the ID # of the profile you're referring to.
That said, merges are rarely time-sensitive; merge proposals auto-approve after 30 days anyway. If both sides approve and you don't feel comfy with the merge tool, I'm happy to lend a hand in the final steps if you feel like sending the ID.
Hope your camping is going well. :)
Jeff
Edit: typo.
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Regards, Jack Parker
Tim
Any time! Happy to help.
Jeff
Hmm. That... would indeed affect some things I was doing going forward. I can't seem to find a button to let me see the change history.
The verbiage on Special:Delete doesn't seem to be aligned with Help:Living People yet and says "This is generally only appropriate if highly sensitive information is being revealed, e.g. if it's a profile of a young child". Is deletion still the best course of action here for non-minor living people I'm not closely familiar with?
Jeff
edited by Jeff Ikeler
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Jeff
I'm one of the WikiTree Team members, and Elaine let us know about your questions here.
I would recommend going with the newer information on Help:Living People + the Privacy Policy page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Privacy_Policy
I've also asked the rest of the Team to consider a wording change on Special: Delete.
Thanks!!
Julie, WikiTree Community Assistant
Appreciate the clarification. I spent the morning pruning back the living profiles.
Many of the (unlisted) profiles I had created were represented by DNA matches I've had contact with, at least until yesterday evening while I was working on my CC7. While I suppose I could have contacted them and offered cousin bait to get them to sign up, that seemed like an arduous task and one I should tackle faster than most reply to their messages.
All have been deleted with exception of my wife, my child, and my small handful of aunts/uncles. That seems to be a more manageable pool to work on. I also retained one (very) recently deceased profile as unlisted for sensitivity reasons.
Jeff
The correct template is the Australia Born in the Colony template, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Australia_Born_in_Colony
Thanks, regards, Margaret, Australia Project.
Appreciate the feedback! That's certainly a template name I hadn't seen until you mentioned it. I was leaning towards the Sticker at first based on the template page, but landed on the ProjectBox thinking it was managed. This is a third option I hadn't encountered with other countries up until now. Certainly something to keep in mind going forward, for sure.
A big thanks for taking the time to reach out. :) I know it probably took 10x longer to post a comment here than just fix it yourself, but taking this longer route certainly helps us learn and grow.
Jeff
Thanks again, regards, Margaret
Hard to tell of we're related due to privacy settings. But through Sarah's lines, likely not.
I found her article with the error listed in the changes log. She appeared on a site-wide report used by Project Data Doctors.
Jeff
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Thanks for the welcome and for the info. Just signed the Honor Code. Working my way through the UI 😅 to add family members now.
Trying to get my Y-Haplo to appear on my paternal line. I assume once I have that side connected up, it'll automatically propogate upwards? Or are there additional steps? Please advise.
Jeff
edited by Jeff Ikeler
We do not download DNA Data on WikiTree. We do enter our DNA testing information and it is very easy to do. On the top right of most pages, there is an active button "ADD". If you hover over that button there is a drop-down box and the first item is DNA. Click on that and follow the instructions. You can enter your testing company and the type of test such as Y-DNA, mtDNA, or Autosomal (Family Finder): Ancestry, FTDNA, My Heritage, and GedMatch are examples of the companies. You will also add your identifying information such as the kit # for FTDNA.
If you have already entered ancestors it will take about 24 hours for your test information to populate those profiles. As you add more profiles the information will continue to show up on all the appropriate ancestors' profiles.
I hope this helps. If you have problems or other questions, be sure to ask.
David ~ WikiTree Greeter
Thanks again. I've already added both my autosomal and Y-DNA tests to my profile.
I'm linking up my grandparents to the tree and will give it a day to sync up. It currently shows no Y haplo for my paternal line, but I'll check again then and let you know if I'm still not seeing it propogate so we can troubleshoot.
Jeff
Everything seems to have connected up fine on the autosomal and Y tests.
Took me a couple more generations to get back to existing profiles than I'd counted on. Seems most of my lines (so far) are either entirely undocumented here or just have skeletons profiles. E.g., my nearest DNA match is 10 steps away. 🙃
Thanks for helping me get started!
Jeff