Kathryn Morse
Honor Code SignatorySigned 10 Mar 2018 | 57,876 contributions | 1,664 thank-yous | 6,607 connections
Hi! I am the new coordinator of the Morse one-name study. If you are interested in Morse genealogy, you are welcome to join in. Find out more on the Morse Name Study page.
I have added some pics to Kathryn's Retro Historical Pretty Backgrounds and Pics. Most recent are a baby on a cloud for profiles of children that died as infants and two images to use as profile pics for African-Americans women. I also have a page to share pics of Hopewell, Virginia, Images. I love it when someone uses one of the images I have added.
I welcome sourced additions to profiles that I have added or manage. Please feel free to request to be on the trusted list or a manager for profiles I have added. I actually want cousins or others to be the managers for relatives that they are closer to than I am.
I frequently edit place names to replace abbreviations with the spelled out name. Because we are an international community, I want to facilitate communication by avoiding abbreviations that may not be understood across borders.
I get excited when someone adds a profile that is a "connected" to me! I enjoy the "connection" features that Wikitree offers.
Also, I have a particular dislike of Ancestry.com. The "leaves" that I received as a member were useless, baseless and sometimes nonsensical. Several family groups that I have added here (with sources) were in response to my frustration with Ancestry.com. I find FamilySearch and the Internet Archive (Archive.org) quite suitable for genealogy.
Kathryn was born in the 1950's in Louisiana, United States, daughter of John David Morse (1903–1974) and Clara Annis Boyett (1926–2015).
Her siblings were:
She holds advanced degrees from Louisiana Tech University and Texas Tech University.
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Kathryn, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.
Kathryn, thanks for your work in improving our shared tree.
Thank you for leading the Morse Study Project.
Thank you for encouraging me to participate in the July 2024 Connect-a-Thon. I joined the Appalachia Roots team and was able to add some profiles, including some for Morse. It was my first Thon and I enjoyed participating.
Thank you for participating in the July Connect-a-Thon with the Southern Super Sweepers! We ended the Thon with 3291 profiles added! That's 114 more than in April. We couldn't have done it without you.
Hope to see you in October for the Source-a-Thon!
Dorothy and Nan, Co-Captains, Southern Super Sweepers
Kathryn, thanks for our efforts to improve our shared tree.
Thank you for participating in the April Connect-a-Thon with the Southern Super Sweepers! We ended the Thon with 3177 profiles added! That's 473 more than in January. We couldn't have done it without you.
You can choose either of these stickers to put on your profile:
Hope to see you in July!
Dorothy and Nan, Co-Captains, Southern Super Sweepers
Thanks for joining the Southern Super Sweepers for the April 2024 Connect-a-Thon! We start on Friday, April 12, at 8 a.m. Eastern; and go through Monday, April 15, at 8 a.m. Eastern.
Participation instructions are here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Connect-a-Thon#Participation_Instructions
Our team page is here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Southern_Super_Sweepers
Our G2G chat post: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1730209/southern-super-sweepers-team-chat-april-2024-connect-a-thon
The Southern Super Sweepers Discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/494893309152722955/856524100843208744
A link to the points tracker for this thon will also be posted on the team page, the chat page, and our discord channel as soon as it's active.
Schedule for the video hangouts during the Thon: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Challenge_Hangouts
Share a connecting selfie here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1730772/will-you-share-an-april-2024-connecting-selfie
Stickers:
See you there! Nan, Co-Captain, Southern Super Sweepers
edited by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Kathryn, thanks for your contributions to the project.
I appreciate Morse's being added to Wikitree, hence the thank-you's!
The registration post on G2G is here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1674015/have-you-registered-for-the-january-2024-connect-a-thon-yet? Comment on the answer for Southern Super Sweepers. Registration closes at midnight, EST, Wednesday January 17.
Hope to see you there! Nan, Co-Captain
edited by Kathryn Morse
edited by Donna (Schultz) Mulvey
Sourcing is what we do on Wikitree. I have worked on providing sources for my parents, siblings, etc. We are free to use our "Personal Recollections." But we need census records and other records to go with it. I respect that she is your mother. That's why at the bottom I created a kind of citation with your contributions. I thought about sending you a message that I had worked on your mom's profile and please look over it. I may have forgotten since I've been sourcing a good bit of the day. I am sorry.
Adding, here is a profile that I created primarily from papers at my own house. I used a genealogist citation guide that I found online to help me in working the citations. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morse-6562
edited by Kathryn Morse
Thank you for joining the Southern Super Sweepers for the 2023 Source-a-Thon! Dorothy will be starting a chat page on G2G when we get a little closer to the Thon. Our team page is here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Southern_Super_Sweepers. It has, among other info, the thon's video chat schedule, and a link to the Southern Super Sweepers discord channel.
See you then!
Nan
Co-Captain, Southern Super Sweepers
You and I share a common ancestor on chromosome #9 @ 10.1 cm and Courtney Morse on #1 @6.3 and #9 @6.7 cm
I looked at your pedigree and I don't recognize any of the names, however, there are large sections in my Virginia ancestry that are unknown to me because of lack of DNA evidence or I just haven't found birth parents yet to move my ancestry forward.
Thank you again for taking the time and directing me to the project.
edited by Kathryn Morse
Thank you, Kathryn!
Thanks! Great job!
Thanks! Great job!
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
Thanks! Great job!
Thanks! Great job! We had another month of over 10,000 profiles sourced!
Thanks! Great job!
Great Job! Thanks!
Great job Kathryn! Thanks for all your contributions to the Sourcerer's Challenges!
Outstanding! We started this program in April of this year 2019 award is April through December.
Great Job! Thanks!
I also have a brick wall ancestor, Stephen, born in New York around 1812. My Y-dna indicates he's a descendant of either Anthony or William William of Newbury, Mass.
Thanks! Great job!
I forgot to add this... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Census_Ashley_County_Arkansas_Master_Index
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Arkansas_The_Natural_State
Lynette - Arkansas Project
The final count is on this link for each team and individual member below. We came in 10th place and had worked on a total of 2,117 profiles.
https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourceaThon/TeamAndUser.htm
You had 135 and came in 5th place for our team. Thank you so much for participating and being a part of the Super Sweeper's team this last weekend!!
Thanks for the help with Needham, Sr. I added some info on Needham, Jr's mother.
Mike