Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Thank you, Emma for the appreciation.

I am a greeter, working on DNA messages for Sundays, and Honor Codes- Wednesdays. I am project coordinator for Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia, Disasters and World War II, Civil War, War of 1812, Vietnam War and Korean War, as well as Project Coordinator for the Jamestown Colony and Team Leader for Province of Carolina (part of SoCOL project.

Not sure if I currently could fit more in. But will keep thinking on it.

I additionally help several people with their stickers for projects.

Thanks for asking

Mary Richardson

Just wanted to say a big thank you to Emma for helping my husband find his biological parents. We had no information to go on so she basically started from scratch. Within a month or so she had found both parents. She is extremely good at what she does! Looking forward to the rest of the journey! Thank you Emma! You are the absolute best!!

Smith Family

Hi, glad to hear you are up and around and doing... I was just so surprised when I saw a news item on my MSN [1] not sure it is something we would or could do anything with but it was shocking. and it is the cemetery that Mary Shadd-Cary was laid to rest and 1 other person out of 37,000 in the 100+ years of its use. just thought you might like to know. Carole

Hi, Emma!

Thank you for your participation in October’s 2020 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

Emma has been a huge help in my search for my birth parents, when I had very little accurate information. To my surprise, I was even more confused after getting my DNA done! She is so great at what she does! Words can not express how much

Emma and her skills have opened up a whole new family to me, and provided as much family research material as I can handle! THANK YOU,EMMA!! ♥️

Hi! I was working through category errors for US Southern Colonies Project - which covers to 1776, but Virginia History was under it, which explains how I hit https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Contraband_Camps_in_Virginia

I fixed the errors, but it needs to have a US Black Heritage category too... I'll leave that to you, since I've got my hands full with figuring out US Southern Colonies categories!

Cheers, Liz

Hi, Emma. Did you receive a private message from me regarding duplicates being created in the Bunch/Punch line some of which are Black Heritage managed profiles? If not, may have gone to your spam filter. This involves an active MIR. Thanks for checking.

Hi Emma,

I dropped by after responding to a request from the US Black Heritage Project and noticed your questions about cousins. Using WikiTree's Relationship to Me calculator, I learned we are 10th cousins twice removed. I'm always delighted to find a new cousin, so please feel free to add me to the list. :)

Pamela

Thank you Emma for your dedication and leadership to Team Roses. You set a great example to us.

Pat Meyer-5224

Hello, Emma!

Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree. You have every right to be pleased with your efforts!

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

On the proposed Fagan/Fagan merge, which one will be the final? How will the most accurate data be chosen from the two profiles?

Just added you to the TrustedList for old Slavery To Do list:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Shira_HumanEra_Slavery_To-Do_List

At least a couple of G2G discussions have had recent activity, either directly mentioning Beyond Kin, or at least dealing with the topic of Categorization of Enslaved Persons and Slaveholders (American Slaves* and Slave Owners are the current descriptions employed here on WikiTree, unfortunately).

I think it would be a great idea to get a working group together that should include the affected projects/category managers.

Here is a conversation that I have begun with the Beyond Kin Project folks on Facebook. We need buy in, all around, but in order for that to work, we need standardization around the Common Method, and a protocol for how the Slaveholders are connected to Enslaved persons.

Because WikiTree allows for non-biological children to be attached, perhaps we have an opportunity for a simpler solution, whereby we would (with permission) use the Current Last Name to identify the plantation (in a standard way, and then as we come across enslaved persons, create them as children and add sourcing to the "parent" profile as well as to the EP's profile.

RE: Category:American_Slaves

"Example profile" (not using the Beyond Kin Common Method): Isaac Holeman

Note that the example profile does not create profiles for the partially named persons, but sourcing and bequeathal are described.

Hopefully the stakeholders here at WikiTree can take the lead in getting us onto the Common Methodology (using Current Last Name or perhaps using a Free Space Profile/Page to identify an entity of the slaveholder function), and the "nonbiological" child function can be employed in some way?

One of the tasks to also be completed is to move all of the present categorization to the preferred terminology enslaved / enslaved person (instead of slave) and slaveholder, too (instead of slave owner). In this effort, hopefully we can first confirm and validate that Black Americans / African Americans with descendants in America are on board with the BK terminology and methodology.

This latter point is important because otherwise, we would not be building an environment for genealogical exploration that is sensitive to the needs of the very community that we are wanting to better document. Noting, for example, that the example profile shown on the current categorization page leads nowhere for the enumerated persons: they are merely stuck on the list of the slaveholder.

Looking forward to continued conversation and innovation, as well as the stakeholders on WikiTree becoming involved.

Fann Fann

• See for example: [Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher. Other categorizations at lower hierarchical levels exist, such as drilling down from Slavery, United States of America to Slavery, North Carolina to North Carolina Slaves to one of 24 subcategories for NC by county, most of which appear to be empty.

Hi Emma,

If you're not going to be engaged elsewhere, as a member of the Scotland Project, we'd love to have you join the Twisted Thistles in the upcoming Connect-a-thon the weekend of July 17 - July 20. If you'd like to join us and help to develop our ever-expanding Scottish tree, please register on the G2G post here and be sure to mention you'd like to be on the Twisted Thistles team for Scotland.

We also have our team Chat page posted here.

Hope to see you there!

Bobbie & Sarah

Twisted Thistles Co-captains

Thank you Emma for your lovely comment about my bio and my tremendously wonderful husband! I am a very, very blessed woman and I do not take him for granted! Love is a totally wonderful thing, especially when you get that second chance! Thank God for wonderful favors and that favor's name is Robert!

Smiles, Cindy

Hi Emma,

Your England Leaders are completing the six monthly check in with all team members. Thank you for all your work on English Profiles and in particular your work in The Arborist and Data Doctor Teams.

These are unprecedented and difficult times, and we understand as Project Leaders that your situation may have changed somewhat in the last few months. What we are all able to/ wish to contribute on Wikitree has changed. Please let me know if you are happy with your current role and team choice, or if you wish to do something additional or different. Thank you again on behalf of all the Project Leaders for everything you do.

Lizzie

Hi Emma - How do I change my first name from an initial to my full first name? Thank you!!!!!!!

Hi Emma,

I just noticed that you're now a Project Leader. Congratulations! It's well deserved and I'm pleased that all of your hard work has been recognized. Kerry

Hello, Emma!

Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared (over 3000!) made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!

Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Hi Emma, I notice you have been removing the FMG/EuroAristo template and replacing it with a standard statement. Although it is great you are working on these, and I am sure the standard statement is approved, I personally have an issue with the link going to the Index page. It would be like citing a book and linking to the index rather than the page number, or citing FamilySearch but linking to their search page.

When I've been working on these, I've been incorporating the existing link into the template, so that at least it still links with the cited section of Medieval Lands. It takes a little bit longer but I think makes a better citation. Thanks for considering this alternative.

gracias por tu apoyo aveces me desanimo y por personas como tu sigo adelante

Hi Emma,

Thank you for helping me to start entering my information into Wikitree. I didn't know what to do first, and you were very generous with your time in teaching me where to begin and how to do this properly.

All the best.

D Kenney

Hi Emma!

Some time ago, you have expressed your interest in Project Belgium. The project has recently been promoted from a free-space project to a more official project (actually a sub-project of Europe)! You can find the (revamped) project page here.

That means among other things that you can now receive a project badge (of the Europe Project) indicating your involvement, that we can more easily create stickers, that we will be able to discuss and "officially" establish guidelines and standards relating to Belgian profiles, and that we will have a project account for important Belgian profiles.

If you're still interested, could you (re)confirm your interest to become a member of Project Belgium by answering this g2g post? I will then make sure you receive the (Europe) badge!

Best regards,

Filip

Happy birthday to the most awesome fifth cousin a gal can have ;-)

Emma; I'm wondering where you got the nick-name "Martha" for the wife of Van Rensselaer Robbins-6867. All of the records I find only use the name Sarah or Sarah Elizabeth. Incidentally, Sarah Elizabeth Wright-36736 was my 3rd Great-grandmother; no one in the family that I've found ever hinted at the name of "Martha" for a nickname.

According to the 1850 census, Sarah and Stephen did have a daughter 'Sarah M.' age 15 (1850 Census). Likely Sarah Martha was called Martha as two Sarah's in the household would get confusing. She is no longer listed in the 1960 Census; however, there is a 'Sarah' age 9 listed. Wisconsin Deaths record has Martha Robbins date of death as 19, Feb 1888. I find no marriage record for this Sarah M. Robbins; Actually, there are some records with that name, but the dates and locations do not fit. The death certificate for Martha M. Robbins would substantiate that reasoning. Sarah Elizabeth Robbins date of death is 13 Feb 1888. Sarah M. was an older sister to my 2nd Great-grandmother Olive Fay - they were 3 years apart.

Emma, as you know I just joined this site, and there are two Katherine Spicer Ames' who I know are the same, but I hesitate to connect them because each profile reveals a different death date. (Not in the actual bios.) I wrote one of the bios, and then I realized--as I began to add additional family members_--that these are essentially identical, and the computer software didn't instantly pick up on this because initially I spelled Catherine with a C (the documents for both this Catherine and her daughter and the identical woman interchange the name spellings), and also I have a different death date-- but the bio dates provide the same dates. Rather than merge, I placed in under potential merge. I prefer to get the advice of someone more knowledgeable about all of this, as I'm still learning to navigate the help pages (where one may ask these questions, and I'm not quite certain about tagging things properly), so I thought I'd ask you for your thoughts on the matter. Thank you so very much.

Emma, thank you so much for your kind words. I appreciate it. I'm starting to understand how this site works. Thanks again!

Cool, Emma! Glad you are in our tribe now.

Congratulations on your shiny new blue badge ;-)

Incredibly great work during the 2020 Scan-a-thon! Our Tree has been enhanced by your efforts to preserve photos and documents, Emma!

The Appreciate Team THANKS YOU!

Pippin Sheppard Appreciation Team Member

Hi Emma

Happy New Year 

We appreciate your being part of the England Data Doctor Team and all the work you have done during 2019.

With the New Year starting I am writing to ask if you wish to remain on the England DD Team for 2020. If you could let me know as I am updating the page DD Page]

If you wish too, you can adopt a suggestion or two and a county to work on this year. 

Janet

England Data Doctor Team Leader 

G'day Emma

Thank you for confirming me as a full member Most appreciated. You can call me Les. Leslie William Bell

Thanks for offering help. I have completed some research and came to a halt since no last names were listed. My daughter got me interested with a school project!

Hi Emma,

We are delighted that you wish to continue contributing to the France Project, and thank you for submitting your member interest form.

Kindest regards,

Kyla

Hi Emma,

As part of a revitalization effort for the France Project, we are checking-in with members to see if they are planning to remain active in the project and where their interests lie.

If you are planning to remain active, please click here to submit a short Member Interest Form to help us organize and coordinate collaboration.

If you have other obligations at the moment and would like to be removed from the project at this time, you will always be welcome to rejoin if you find yourself with more time and interest later.

We thank you for your contributions and hope that you are enjoying exploring your roots.

Please respond by commenting on my profile or sending a private message. I look forward to hearing from you.

Isabelle

Emma

Thank you for the Welcome! I blundered into this site because I am trying to trace a Tasmanian born relative Vera Mary Hodgetts daughter of Reuben Hodgetts and Annie Maria Fogarty born at Zeehan 19 October 1898. (Annie Maria Fogarty (1871-1906) was born in Victoria. She and Reuben had four children at Zeehan. Vera Mary Hodgetts apparently married William Henry Leatham, Victoria, 1927, reg #08138. She is mentioned as deceased when her father Reuben died in 1953, but I am unable to trace her death/burial. William Henry Leatham is registered as dying 1964 #00393 Carlton, Victoria. The Melbourne Age, 20 Sept 1963 reports that William Henry Leatham, late of New Norfolk, Tasmania, died aged 72 on 18 Sept 1963. NAA have his WW1 record on line. Can anyone help me locate Vera Mary's death

Thank you cousin Emma for your amazing vision, caring leadership, communication on the important details we need as a team and the ability to juggle everything while still delivering as a significant contributor. This multitasking as a team captain is inspiring and appreciated.

Nice to meet you also. Harley

Hi Emma,

On behalf of the England Leaders, I wanted to say a huge thank you for all your contributions towards the project in the past six months as a Team Member for Arborists and Data Doctors. We've achieved a great deal during this time and we couldn't have done it without you.

Are you happy to stay in your current teams and the project as a whole? Are there any other teams you'd like to join? What are we doing well, and what would you like to see us doing differently moving forwards?

Please respond to this message via e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks,

Susie, England Project Leader :-)

What a lovely picture. It's such a pleasure to "see" you :-)

Hi Emma,

I would like to start a "Belgium" sub-project under the "Europe" project. (see https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/922866/id-like-to-join-the-belgian-roots-project).

Since you're one of the members of the "Belgian roots" page, I wanted to ask whether you have any objections to that? Would you mind, if there would be such a project, that I use some of the information on that page to get things going?

Of course, I hope you'll be one of the first members, if the project is set up!

Best regards, Filip