Marta Johnson
Honor Code SignatorySigned 13 Apr 2016 | 24171 contributions | 414 thank-yous | 2030 connections
Signed 13 Apr 2016 | 24171 contributions | 414 thank-yous | 2030 connections
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cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
My ancestors were early Dutch settlers, immigrants from Sweden, England, Germany, Scotland... They were developers, wooden shoe makers, proto social workers, mahogany merchants, Revolutionary War Patriots (and probable Loyalists), Confederate soldiers & Yanks whose wealth came from making ammunition. They were generations of slave-holders of enslaved African-Americans in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, & Tennessee, and probable slave-holders who made a living on sugar plantations in Barbados.
with
cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
My ancestors were early Dutch settlers, immigrants from Sweden, England, Germany, Scotland... They were developers, wooden shoe makers, proto social workers, mahogany merchants, Revolutionary War Patriots (and probable Loyalists), Confederate soldiers & Yanks whose wealth came from making ammunition. They were generations of slave-holders of enslaved African-Americans in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, & Tennessee, and probable slave-holders who made a living on sugar plantations in Barbados.
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Marta N. Johnson
Born 1980s.
Ancestors 
and Sister of
[private brother (1980s - unknown)] and [private brother (1980s - unknown)]
Mother of
[private son (2000s - unknown)],
[private daughter (2000s - unknown)],
[private son (2010s - unknown)] and
[private son (2010s - unknown)]
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| Created 13 Apr 2016 | Last significant change: 3 Mar 2023
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Biographical Bullet Points
Marta was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the G2G Forum!
- 1982: Born in Seattle, Washington, USA. Two younger brothers.
- 2000 - 2004: Attended liberal arts college. Studied Chinese, Theater, and Opera Production.
- Nov 2005: Met future-spouse at the university in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Apr 2008: Birth of son in hospital.
- Jul 2009: Married spouse in a civil ceremony by Frau Jürges at the Standesamt am Kloster in Ribnitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
- Oct 2009: Birth of daughter in hospital.
- Feb 2012: Birth of son at home.
- Apr 2015: Birth of son at home.
The Genealogy Thing
Marta gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2022 Secret Santa!
The maternal grandfather's genealogy is well researched and well documented by my cousin Tom. He has shared his research here on WikiTree and over at Geneanet but the really good reading is over at his site Family History Notes. My research on this branch is built off of his.
I've been collaborating with my mother on my maternal grandmother's line. Her family tree centers on New Jersey and New York, but eventually leads to Winterbach (Pfalz), Bebra (Kurhessen), Barbados, Holland, England and Scotland. Her g-g-grandfather had a particularly interesting life as a kind of social worker running orphan trains out of New York City. Memorably, our work on this line has included a wonderful visit in early Mar 2020 to the Department of Archives in Black Rock, Barbados -- just as the world was shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
My paternal grandmother comes from several large southern families whose genealogies seem to be pretty well documented. I put some work into her grandfather Ellis, who was a Confederate veteran in the U.S. Civil War. I visited his company line at Vicksburg in May 2022.
I enjoy helping friends and family puzzle out their roots and break brick walls. I practice conventional paper-trail genealogy as well as genetic genealogy, building out trees of DNA matches and looking for overlap.
The Swedish Connection
A big pursuit of mine has been to research and document my paternal grandfather's side, an extended family of Swedish-Americans and their descendants:
In Dec 2005 and Aug 2014, I made visits to the towns of Vänga and Örsås, the home parishes of my great-grandparents. The current owners of an ancestral home in Vänga welcomed me and my family and let us camp on the property for a couple of nights. I've shared photos and maps from that visit on Enebacken's page.
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| Enebacken Torp in Vänga, Västra Götaland, Sweden |
In Nov 2015, I visited the Swenson Center in Rock Island, Illinois and viewed their microfilm records of Bethel Lutheran Church in Braddock, PA. The church was an important cultural center for the local Swedish community in the first half of the 20th century. The Swenson Center also houses the microfilm archives of the Svenska Veckobladet, which was a Swedish language weekly newspaper published out of McKeesport, PA, and the go-to publication for sharing important news in the Swedish-speaking community around Pittsburgh. It's chock full of social mentions related to the Swedish-Americans in my family.
My great-grandmother Hilda kept a collection of old family photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, postcards, books, and other sentimental personal items. This, along with some items from Hilda's niece Esther Holmquist, was inherited by her daughter Hildur. Hildur assembled cherished mementos into scrapbooks. When Hildur died in 1994, Hildur's beloved niece Sarajane Johnson became the caretaker for much of the collection.
On a visit in Nov 2015, Sarajane gave me generous access to this collection. I scanned a large percentage of the items. Many letters and postcards are yet untranslated from their original Swedish. Sarajane later sent me two photo albums from circa 1890-1910. Processing, translating, and properly sharing this collection digitally has one of my ongoing projects. This includes hunting down and reaching out to (cold-messaging) distant cousins who may have an interest.
On WikiTree
I manage a couple of Space pages that relate to my family:
- Bethel Lutheran Church, in Braddock, Pennsylvania
- Enebacken, an ancestral home of my family in Vänga, Sweden
- Holmgren Family History, written by my great-aunt and her cousins
Related Sites
Outside of WikiTree, you can find me a these other related sites:
Subscriptions
I have access to a number of online databases and I'm glad to assist you by looking things up in these sources:
- Ancestry.com
- Sweden's ArkivDigital.se
- Germany's Archion.de
- Newspapers.com
- GenealogyBank
- NewspaperArchive
I am also a supporting member of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, the Genealogical Forum of Oregon, and the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana College.
DNA
DNA tests on 23andMe and Ancestry.com have confirmed both my paternal and maternal relationships.
Conventional genealogies of my DNA matches appear to agree with my documented paper-trail genealogical lines back to my:
- great-grandparents Claus Johansson & Hilda Holmgren
- great-grandparents E. Collins Humble & Myrtle Boaz
- great-grandparents John Scheig Miller & Grace Robinson
- great-grandparents Russell Rock & Beth Watson
- 2x great-grandparents Andreas Tobiasson & Magdalena Holmgren
- 2x great-grandparents J. August Olausson & Klara Johansdotter
- 2x great-grandparents Ellis Boaz & Sue Thompson
- 3x great-grandparents Zedkijah Boaz & Nancy Fancher
- 4x great-grandparents Johannes Adam Müller & Catharina Margaretha Siegel
- 4x great-grandparents Johan Magnusson & Kerstin Olsdotter
- 5x great-grandparents Johann Adam Roschy & Maria Magdalena Seibert
- 5x great-grandparents Anders Bengtsson & Martha Andersdotter
Sources
- First-hand information provided by Marta Johnson.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Marta's formal name
- full middle name (N.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (3)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (4)
- spouse's name and marriage information
Sponsored Search
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Marta or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Marta or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Marta Johnson: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup T2d1, FTDNA kit #MK72590, MitoYDNA ID T17920 [compare]
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100.00%
100.00%
Marta Johnson:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A334192 [compare], Ancestry member martanoble
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MyHeritage DNA
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50.00%
50.00%
Bruce Johnson
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A415388 [compare]
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50.00%
50.00%
Paige Miller :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member paigemillr
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50.00%
50.00%
Russell Johnson :
23andMe, GEDmatch M680020 [compare]
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~12.50%
Christopher Johnson :
23andMe
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~6.25%
John Miller :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A762298 [compare], Ancestry member jtmiller42
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Marta:
- Marta Johnson, RAWKer Extraordinaire, is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 2, 2023.
- Marta Johnson is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 17, 2023.
- Marta Johnson is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 12, 2022.
- Other than Marta herself, is anyone closer than 19 degrees from Marta Johnson? Mar 2, 2021.
- Meet our Members: Marta Johnson Mar 1, 2021.
- Marta Johnson is a Wonderful WikiTreer Aug 30, 2020.
Marta is 18 degrees from Robert Beheathland, 16 degrees from Bartholomew Gosnold, 16 degrees from Thomas Graves, 17 degrees from Anne Laydon, 19 degrees from Alice Longe, 16 degrees from Samuel Mathews, 19 degrees from Christopher Newport, 20 degrees from John Smith, 16 degrees from Nathaniel Tatum, 16 degrees from Temperance West, 18 degrees from Francis Wyatt and 23 degrees from Valerie Penner on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Thanks again for signing up to RAWK five fellow WikiTreers in the month of March.
Here is your RAWKERs sticker code. To display this on your profile, just add curly brackets at each end:
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If you're not yet on Discord, this Help page should get you going:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Discord
Looking forward to researching with you!
Kathy
edited by Sandy (Craig) Patak
During the winter, the Nordic Project performed check-ins, sent as a private message from your profile. You are one of those members who has not replied, and this is a last chance to get in touch and let me know if you like to continue as member in the Nordic Project.
Please answer this comment, and get in touch by sending me a private message. If we have not heard from you within a month you will be removed from the Nordic google group and your badge will be removed.
If you have not received any check-in emails, you might want to check that your email adress for WikiTree is one you actually still use.
Thank you!
Missy Berryann Co-Leader, Nordic Project
I sent you a message a couple of weeks ago on behalf of the Germany Project and have not yet heard back from you. I hope you are well!
If I don’t hear back from you by the end of April, I will assume you no longer wish to be a member of the Germany Project and I’ll go ahead and remove you from our member roster. You are, of course, welcome to rejoin at any time via our G2G sign-up post.
Best wishes,
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
The Germany Project Leaders are doing their semi-annual check-in with all project members and we want to verify that you’re still interested in being a member of the Project. Please respond by private message and let me know.
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We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all your hard work. If you have any questions, please ask. We would also love to hear any feedback you may have for the project.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader
It was interesting reading your story on your Wikitreer of the week page. You mentioned some surnames, three of which I also have in my family tree. They are Naylor, Robinson and Watson. Also we are very distantly related through WELLES, 18th cousins!
Marsha Cramer Baker
edited by Marsha (Cramer) Baker
Kay Tindel
Sarah Dickson Park
Congrats on the Super Star Badge!
Welcome to the Germany Project. Please read the Germany project page add GERMANY to your list of followed tags, and can you please send me a private message with your email address so i can add you to our Google Group. The group is where our project communicates.
Thanks for joining, I look forward to working with you.
Kylie Haese ~ Germany Project Leader
Marta Johnson and Charles Onstott are both descendants of Isham Nettles.