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 joining Team Roses and helping us grow the Tree during the January 2025 Connect-A-Thon! Together as a team, we created 3,533 new profiles and many new connections to existing profiles. Collectively, all of WikiTree passed the 100,000 mark for the first time! I can’t wait for April to roll around so we can do it again. I hope you’ll be able to attend.

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 November 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4391 profiles. We hit our second goal for 2024 of reaching 450k profiles!

Thank you for participating in the October 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4028 profiles.

Thank you for participating in the September 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4660 profiles.

Thank you for joining Team Roses for the 2024 source-A-Thon. We had 100% participation! Not only did we source 2476 profiles together, we proposed merges, and corrected last names, relationships, and data. A whole lot of great cleaning happened. I hope to see you at the January Connect-A-Thon!

P.S. I hope your wrist has recovered

Thank you for participating in the August 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4047 profiles.

Thank you for participating in the July 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3311 profiles.

Greetings Amy!

I'm the captain of the Heavenly Hemlocks, your team for the 2024 WikiGames. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Heavenly_Hemlocks If you are on Discord, the link to join the team is on the Heavenly Hemlocks page. Would love to have you join us there.

The schedule is a bit confusing. The 2024 WikiGames officially starts tonight at 7:45 pm EDT with the Opening Ceremony. BUT you don't actually start competing until tomorrow (Saturday) at 8:00 am EDT with the first event, Sourcing Slalom, which runs for 22 hours. You compete ONLY when it is time for your heat.

Here is the link to the Opening Ceremonies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk5eu8XALaU

Here is the link for the WikiGames Sourcing Slalom Heat III Kickoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGNHaf0_bTI

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for working alongside Team Roses in the April Connect-A-Thon. Together we added 2,502 new profiles to the Tree! No doubt about it, we rock!

Registration for the August WikiGames has begun early. For this event, a team will be chosen for you. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1738020/have-you-registered-for-our-2024-wikigames-yet

Thank you for participating in the April 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5226 profiles. We’re zeroing in on our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

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.

Thank you for participating in the February 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5129 profiles. We’re getting ever closer to our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

Thank you for joining Team Roses for the January Connect A Thon and helping us create a total of 3,457 profiles!

The April Connect A Thon sign up has already arrived. Team Roses has its own sign up post here. I hope to see you there!

Thank you for participating in the January 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6202 profiles. We’re reaching toward a new 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.

Hello from the Appalachia Project!

Join us for our online Appalachia Project Party on Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at 2pm (EST)/7pm (UTC).

If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, look for an email with the easy instructions on how to join. If you are on our Project's Discord Chat Channel, all details were posted under Announcements.

(Please make sure to check your Spam folder as many have mentioned the Monthly Newsletter and other communication is landing in their spam.)

Need to sign up for the Appalachia Project Google Group or Discord channel: Google Group and Discord Chat Channel

Karen Stewart

Thank you for joining in the fun this month and helping Team Roses source 2993 profiles! There was a lot of great clean up that happened too including merges and last names and relationships corrected. We hope you can join us for the Connect-A-Thon January 19-22, 2024.

Thank you for participating in the August 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2917 profiles. Our new total is 234,419!

Thank you for participating with Team Roses for the July Connect A Thon. Together we created 3323 new profiles. We rock!

Believe it or not the Source A Thon is just around the corner. Look for sign ups to happen in a couple of weeks.

Emma

Thank you for participating in the July 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4445 profiles. Our new total is 226,808!

Thank you for participating in the June 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4320 profiles. Our new total is 220,137!

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!

Amy, thank you for joining in the fun with Team Roses during the April Connect-A-Thon and helping us create 3,911 profiles together. I know the challenge helped push USBH Project over 200k profiles this month! Look for dates for the July Connect-A-Thon coming soon.

Hello from the Appalachia Project!

Join us for our online Appalachia Project Meetup on Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 at 7pm (EST). If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, an email was sent this morning with all the details. If you are on our Project's Discord Chat Channel, all details were posted under Announcements.

Please make sure to check your Spam folder as many have mentioned the Monthly Newsletter and other communication is landing in their spam.

Appalachia Project Google Group and Discord Chat Channel

Sandy

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 2023 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

Emma

Amy,

A very late thank you for participating with Team Roses during the January Connect-A-Thon. Together we added 4320 new profiles! That’s amazing! Look for information about an April Connect-A-Thon.

Emma

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.

Thank you for joining the November USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4748 new profiles! Our new total is 153,062. We’re going for 250,000 profiles next!

Emma

Thank you for joining the September USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2978 new profiles! Our new total is 140,351. We have less than 10,000 to our 2022 goal!

Emma

Thank you for joining the USBH Weekend Sprint—adding birth locations. In 3 days we added 1792 locations! We also made many other valuable improvements to profiles. Together we cleared 19% of the profiles needing love!

Hello, Amy,

Welcome to the Appalachia Project - North Central Appalachia Team!

When you have the chance, please add your North Central Appalachia interests next to your name on this page.  Also, please review our Reliable (and Unreliable) Sources for the Appalachia Project ( LINK ) to help with sourcing our Profiles as you add or come across them.  WikiTree requires valid sources on all Profiles and our Project has certain requirements for sources.  Check the Appalachia Stickers Page for tips on adding stickers to profiles.

I am always available for any questions or help.  Thanks for joining the team.

Karen, North Central Team Lead - Appalachia Project

I think there might be a mistake. My Joseph Gooby is related to family that immigrated from Christchurch, Eng and were mentioned (?) in thee Doomsday Book. They settled in Newfoundland to build a future. Eventually, James Ingram Gooby moved to East Boston, MA. His son married my great grand mother, Mary Hoffman Gooby

Amy, Thank you for all your hard work on behalf of the US Black Heritage Project. Every contribution makes a big difference! Emma

Amy, Thank you for joining the March USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3153 new profiles. Our new total is over 97,000. We’re so close to 100,000!

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

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

Emma

Hi Amy,

Please visit our tutorial pages to learn how to use WikiTree: How To Use WikiTree. They will save you time, energy, and frustration as you add your family profiles.

Exploring the site is the best way to learn. One way to do that is to check out the drop-down menus on the top right side of your profile page. Finding a known ancestor and collaborating with the profile manager is a great way to start.

Questions? You can always use the G2G link in the Help Menu to find answers.

David ~ WikiTree Greeter