Studied Ancient Civilizations, Archaeology and Paleontology as well as Criminology at UC Berkeley. Studied with the British School of Archaeology and Cambridge University at Knossos Archaeological Dig on Crete in 1970. Specialized in Neolithic Med. Agriculture. Learned how to speak Greek, especially really bad words.
Born and raised in Berkeley attending Quaker Meeting, and the American Friends Service Committee. Began a Half-way House in San Francisco for ex-convicts coming out of San Quentin Prison while working 3-11 pm at the Juvenile Hall with abused and neglected children.
Married in SF, moved to Santa Barbara where I worked for the Poverty Program finding jobs for law offenders. Then became a Stay home Mom for 20 years before getting my law degree at age 54. CEO-Founder of non-profit, Read Me My Rights, Inc. to help promote legal education, especially in the field of preventing Gender-based Hate Crimes as a Civil Rights violation.
Descended from Plantagenet Family Line via 23rd Great Grandfather Edward III. Queen Elizabeth II and Renee are 15th Cousins via our mutual great grandmother Margaret Stanley.
WIKITREE COUSINS:
I especially want to thank my 15th cousin once removed Vincent Piazza for his incredible contribution to adding Sources to my own family line. Such dedication to helping others here on Wikitree is commendable and inspiring. I cannot thank and praise you enough!!
Allison Andrus & Gilly Wood and I are 16th cousins once removed. Bob Jewett and I are 8th cousins!
Hugh De Venables-96, V Barron of Kinderton, whose wife is Alice OXTON from Cheshire, England.
Australian Connections: Renee is 21 degrees from Cate Blanchett, 26 degrees from Russell Crowe, 21 degrees from Howard Florey, 27 degrees from Dawn Fraser, 32 degrees from Cathy Freeman, 25 degrees from Barry Humphries, 22 degrees from Bert Jacka, 26 degrees from Hugh Jackman, 24 degrees from Bertram Mackennal, 23 degrees from Rupert Murdoch, 20 degrees from Banjo Paterson and 17 degrees from Henry Ross on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
Let me know if you need more help with the Pre-1500 profiles that you manage.
If you’d like to rejoin at any stage you would be most welcome to do so by answering the G2G sign-up post here
Many thanks,
Betty -- 1776 Project Leader
I sent you a check-in message several days ago about the 1776 Project to ask you about your past and continued involvement but have not yet heard back from you. Do you still want to be in the project?
If I don’t hear from you in a week or so, I’ll assume that you’ve moved on to other things, but you’re most welcome to re-join the project at any time.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Best wishes,
Betty -- 1776 Project Leader
It's time for a 1776 Project check-in! Please respond within the next two weeks to let me know if you want to continue as a member of the project. We'd like to know:
Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. If we don’t hear from you within two weeks, we will assume you are no longer interested in participating in the 1776 Project, and your badge will be removed. If you wish to reapply for membership later, we will be happy to have you back.
Many thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you!
Betty - 1776 Project Leader
I am checking in on behalf of the 1776 Project to announce the new project membership requirements and to verify that you are still interested in being a member of the project. All project members are being asked to join one of the project teams and also to make at least one project contribution every 6 months. We are also asking all project members to join the project's Google Group for project communications.
If you are interested in remaining with the Project, please reply to this comment or send me a message, request to join the Google Group, and let us know what team you would like to participate on.
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.
If we don't hear back from you we will assume that you no longer wish to participate in the project and if so, you could rejoin at any time as is convenient for you.
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
SJ - 1776 Project Leader
On behalf of the Connectors Project Leaders, we are doing a six-month check-in with members. Please let us know if you are still active. If you are active, please let us know in which ways you are currently contributing to the project.
All of us at WikiTree would like to thank you for your contributions and hope that you are enjoying exploring your roots.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Michelle ~ Volunteer Coordinator
It has been a couple of weeks since we contacted you about your participation in the Acadia Project and as we haven't heard from you, we are following up to make sure you wish to remain a member.
We understand that interests shift as we grow our shared tree and that some members may have moved on to projects more pertinent to the branches they are currently building. If this is the case for you, please let us know.
If we do not hear back from you within the week, we will assume you have moved on to other things for the moment and remove you from the project. Please know that you will always be welcome to rejoin should your interests shift back in this direction.
Thank you so much for your participation; we genuinely appreciate it.
Karen ~ Volunteer Coordinator
The Ireland Project (previously the Irish Roots Project) has now changed its structure into Teams. We require everyone with the Ireland Badge to be a member of at least one Team or Sub-Team and our google group.
See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Ireland for details.
The Teams are :-
Can you let me know if youd like to stay on in the new project and which team(s) youd like to join. Please also let me know your e-mail address so that I can get you added to the projects Google Group or confirm you are already a member of the google group.
Many thanks,
Amy Gilpin Ireland Project Coordinator
On behalf of the Acadia Project Leaders, we are doing a six-month check-in with members. Please let us know if you are still active. Please let me know if you are still active, and if so, in which ways you have contributed to the project, or a sub-project, within the last two months.
All of us at WikiTree would like to thank you for your contributions and hope that you are enjoying exploring your roots.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Karen ~ Volunteer Coordinator
I see your profile doesnt include a mayflower G2G Tag. See Followed Tags above. You should have the tag - mayflower -so you can follow pertinent Mayflower activities on G2G. When you add the tag, please include the names of passengers in whom you are interested. Thank you
Anne B. Leader Mayflower Project.
Youll have to discuss that with the person that uploaded the photo.