Debi (McGee) Hoag
Honor Code SignatorySigned 6 Sep 2015 | 109,975 contributions | 16,180 thank-yous | 5,097 connections
Signed 6 Sep 2015 | 109,975 contributions | 16,180 thank-yous | 5,097 connections
Communication Preferences:
I am interested in communicating 
with
cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
My pronouns are she/they. You can find me all over, working with the Sourcerers and Sprinters, Profile Improvement Voyagers, and during the Big Annual Events with Team Cornbread Catchers.
with
cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
My pronouns are she/they. You can find me all over, working with the Sourcerers and Sprinters, Profile Improvement Voyagers, and during the Big Annual Events with Team Cornbread Catchers.
tested
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
and Sister of
Unnamed Infant McGee and Margaret (McGee) Dimsdale
Mother of
Mark Christopher (McGee) Cundiff
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Sep 2015
This page has been accessed 38,844 times.
Biography
Debi was born in Jacksonville, FL, just as her father, Charles McGee, returned to military service with the United States Air Force (USAF). As soon as her mother, Rachel Helms McGee, was released by the physician, the family moved to McDill Air Force Base in Tampa FL where her father was stationed. The USAF played a large role in Debi's growing years, sending her family to live all over the world including places like Denver Colorado, Japan, southern California, Germany, England, Okinawa, and finally back to Florida in 1973.
After finishing High School in 1976, Debi went to work for a local governmental agency where she had positions in the Finance and IT departments. She has been married twice, first to Ray Cundiff, and currently to Daniel Hoag.
She started gathering names, dates, and places around 1982 as a way to deal with the grief of a child's death. "Serious" genealogy research began in the early 1990s when the internet and computers introduced her to research partners who taught better habits and shared resources. A ten-year break from 2005 to 2015 was full of other fun things but she found that she missed the joys and challenges of research.
Coming back to genealogy, she discovered that two of her mentors/research collaborators had died. One's research had been transferred to an interested but non-active descendant and is not accessible; the whereabouts of the other's research is unknown. She felt it was necessary to find a place to share, collaborate, learn, and assure that her research would never suffer such a fate. WikiTree met that need.
Unfortunately, she made a decision to upload a (*sigh* too large) GEDCOM. In reviewing the profiles, it became obvious that a "Genealogy Do-Over"[1] was in order. All records are being reviewed; profiles and source citations are being updated. Things have changed but ... the more they change, the more they stay the same; there are always more questions than answers.
These days she is enjoying retirement and WikiTree. She's still working on that *sigh* too-large GEDCOM and has recently started working with another one because, obviously, she has lost her mind.
She's also planning for a future that will include extended research trips with a mobile workspace in a small motorhome.[2]
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| "Trouble is never a problem. It comes looking for me because it knows I'm a willing accomplice."[3] |
Sources
- ↑ MacEntee, Thomas, The Genealogy Do-Over Workbook, 2015; WorldCat link.
- ↑ Biography written by Debi Hoag, September 2015, based on events as related by her parents and on personal knowledge of events in her own life.
- ↑ Escarlata Cisneros aka Debi Hoag, 25 June 2010, Facebook conversation
- Birth and Marriage source documents on file and available on a need-to-know basis.
DNA Confirmation Notes
- Paternal Line
- The relationship to father Charles McGee's maternal line is confirmed by a 70.8 cM match between Debi McGee Hoag GEDmatch G293623 and her paternal third cousin Nancy Rose GEDmatch A125363.
- The relationship to father Charles E McGee's paternal line is suggested by a 61.4 cM autosomal DNA match between Debi McGee Hoag GEDmatch G293623 and her paternal fourth cousin Larry Hayer GEDmatch A037820; more cousin matches are needed for triangulation.
- Maternal Line
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal GEDmatch comparison between Debi (McGee) Hoag , GEDmatch kit # TN9500362, and Jackie Helms, GEDmatch kit # A772129, (compare kits), her 1st cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Martin Helms and Seena Baucom, the grandparents of Debi (McGee) Hoag and great grandparents of Jackie Helms. Predicted relationship from GEDmatch: 1st cousin once removed, based on sharing 402.6cM cM across 19 segments. Debi is the daughter of Laura Helms who is the daughter of the common ancestors Martin Helms & Seena Baucom.
- The relationship to mother Rachel Helms's paternal line is suggested by a 74.2 cM autosomal DNA match between Debi McGee Hoag GEDmatch G293623 and her maternal third cousin once removed Julia (Bell) Lansberry GEDmatch M071333; more cousin matches are needed for triangulation.
Also Known As
- I've been doing genealogy research for many years (and on the internet since 1992 with the emails to prove it LOL). During that time, I've gotten divorced and remarried, created websites, and changed email addresses too many times. When I'm looking for someone, I'll often search the web for names and email addresses. To facilitate people finding me, I'm listing the names, websites, and addresses I've used.
- Debi McGee Cundiff
- Debi McGee Hoag
- sasicnet @ gate.net
- sasic @ aol.com
- debic @ mpinet.net
- Debi_McGee_Cundiff @ comcast.net
- DebiMcGeeHoag @ centurylink.net
- Genealogy @ DebiHoag.com
- Debi McGee Cundiff's Genealogy Homepage and Book Index Links
- Escarlata Cisneros on Facebook and Second Life. My pseudonym started from having to stay under the radar when I joined Facebook (supposedly respectable small government employee nearing retirement having too much fun at renaissance faires). About half the people I know only know me as Escarlata.
- @ImprovDebi on Twitter
Wiki-Will for Digital Afterlife
- In the event of my death or incapacity for more than 90 days, the following shall serve as my unspoken permission:
- I would like all of the profiles for people not living, and which I alone manage, to be changed to Open. This is up to and including my own profile.
- Space pages that I have created for projects should be assigned to the leaders of those projects
- Other space pages can all be changed to Open with the exception of the DAM_Collection.
- If I missed anything (and for the DAM Collection space page and any Red/still living profiles on my Watchlist), I ask that they be managed in keeping with the Honor Code and preserving the privacy of living people:
- by any of my extended family members (including my former spouse and his family), whether or not they are on the Trusted Lists.
- Should these profiles/pages not be accessed within 180 days from my demise, the Wikitree staff shall have full and total access to manage said space and profiles in any way they see fit, up to and including assigning them to any willing Profile Manager, orphaning them, or deleting them.
- My thanks to the following members for bits and pieces which were incorporated into my Wiki-Will:
Pat Saunders, Paula (Bond) Kohring, Liz (Noland) Shifflett, Lisa Thurston, Andreas (Basso) West, Deborah (Réaume) Collier
Community Spirit
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2016 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2017 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
Debi (McGee) Hoag has completed the England Project's Post 1700 Orphan Trail I.
Debi (McGee) Hoag has completed the England Project's Pre-1700 Orphan Trail II.
RootsTech Attendee: 2018
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Team 811 (cleaning merged profiles) during the 2018 Clean-a-Thon.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2018 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
Debi improved Quaker Project profiles in 2018 as part of the managed profiles challenges
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Team Cornbread Catchers during the Connect-a-Thon.
Debi has written and improved ten profiles for the Biography Builders Challenge.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2019 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
Debi reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2019 Sourcerers' Challenge
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2020 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
Debi was a valued member of the Greeters Project who has moved to Emeritus status.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2021 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2022 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
WikiTree Day Attendee: 2022
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the January 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 179 connections.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated in the 2023 WikiGames.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the 2023 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 232 previously unsourced profiles.
WikiTree Day Attendee: 2023
Debi (McGee) Hoag reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
Debi (McGee) Hoag participated with Cornbread Catchers during the January 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added 144 connections.
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Debi (McGee) Hoag competed with the
Collaborative Conifers in the 2024 WikiGames.
rev. 29 Oct 2024, McGee-1611
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Debi's formal name
- full middle name (A.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (4)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (1)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
- Debi (McGee) Hoag: Mitochondrial DNA Test Other, haplogroup K1a
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100.00%
100.00%
Debi (McGee) Hoag:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch TN9500362 [compare] [compare x], Ancestry member debihoag
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Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch G293623 [compare] [compare x]
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Living DNA, GEDmatch YN4977385 [compare] [compare x]
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~6.25%
~12.50%
Jackie Helms
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A772129 [compare] [compare x], Ancestry member jcook102106
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~1.56%
Max Tarlton :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch EV4316491 [compare], FTDNA kit #366002
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~0.78%
Nancy Rose :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A125363 [compare], Ancestry member nancyroselea
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~0.78%
Ken Tarleton :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch MY4074858 [compare], Ancestry member betseycotter
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Debi:
- 400,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Debi Hoag, and thank you from all of us! Sep 17, 2024.
- Debi Hoag is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 22, 2024.
- Debi Hoag is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 11, 2022.
- Debi Hoag is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 19, 2022.
- Debi Hoag is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 12, 2021.
- Debi Hoag is a thoughtful and effective WikiTreer Sep 21, 2021.
Rejected matches › Deborah McGee
Australian Connections: Debi is 19 degrees from Cate Blanchett, 22 degrees from Russell Crowe, 22 degrees from Howard Florey, 26 degrees from Dawn Fraser, 34 degrees from Cathy Freeman, 25 degrees from Barry Humphries, 23 degrees from Bert Jacka, 27 degrees from Hugh Jackman, 25 degrees from Bertram Mackennal, 20 degrees from Rupert Murdoch, 20 degrees from Banjo Paterson and 19 degrees from Henry Ross on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
M > McGee | H > Hoag > Debi (McGee) Hoag
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I am a guest here and I saw a member offering a lookup on the World Family Tree CDs that were sold back in the 1990's. I contributed to that project. I saw a Simon Canning offering a member a lookup from those CDs. I don't know how to contact him to see if he could do a lookup for me. I have the CDs, but I find it difficult to search them. Gary K [email address removed]
There is only one Simon Canning who is active at WikiTree. You could leave a comment on his profile to see if he is who offered the lookup.
Debi
I have been trying to help a PM with sourcing on profiles she manages for almost 12 months, but she says its too difficult. She has been a member since 2015 and I guess never learned sourcing after it became more of a requirement. She is Melzark-1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Melzark-1
I said I would add the unsourced banner as needed to her managed profiles, so others could source them.
I added the unsourced banner, plus needs biographies or more research to about 75 or probably more profiles managed by the same person, and that’s only on 1 page of her contributions. They are all part of about 2-3 families. Most are German or Swiss and their descendants who emigrated to the U.S.
I know nothing about European sourcing.
I wondered whether fixing them would be a good mission for a Sourcing Saturday.
I asked Jelena to work on merges for 3 identical wives of one person, all created by the same PM.
You can find the profiles I edited to add the unsourced banner and plus needs biographies or more research if you look at my contributions for 20 June 2024. There are more profiles that need work.
I leave for a long road trip vacation on 25 June returning 20 July.
M
What you’ve done so far is already helping. The first profile I looked at had already had a source added.
When adding the unsourced and needs categories, it’s really helpful to include the location parameters. It helps people familiar with those locations find the profiles. Let me know if you need more info on that.
I’m currently on a long trip, expecting to be home in mid-August. I’m going to make a note to return to your Sprint idea then. Thanks for suggesting it. I hope you have as good a time as I am.
Debi
The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing a check-in with project members. Thank you for all you do with all the Project.
The Project operates in a team structure. There are currently three participant PIP Teams -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.
There are currently three different Biography Teams - The Biography Team, the Abandoned Team, and the Popular Team. You're currently identified as a member of the Voyage, Biography, Maintenance Category, and Popular teams, as well as the Unknowns team.
We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project meet its goals. We would like to hear about the successes you’ve had and would also appreciate any feedback you have to help improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or via private message to one of us.
Sincerely,
Debi Hoag and Kay Knight, Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project
Robin Shaules, Project Coordinator, Profile Improvement Project
Blessings, Lynn
On your profile, click your wiki ID menu at the top and select DNA. Select DNA tests from the button bar near the top of the screen. That will open your DNA Test page, showing the tests you have taken. In the upper right quadrant of the screen, click the "add new test" link and choose FTDNA mitochondrial from the drop-down list.
I've not taken that test, so we've gone as far as my knowledge allows. The rest should be pretty straight forward. If not, let me know and I'll find someone who can give a better answer about that test.
Debi
Blessings, Lynn
We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!
edited by Bill Feidt
Have fun, be safe! Katie
Outstanding! We started this program in April of this year 2019 award is April through December.