Kathryn Morse (b. 1950s) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Kathryn A. Morse

Born 1950s.

Ancestors

Daughter of John David Morse Sr. and Clara Annis (Boyett) Morse

Sister of David Alton Morse Sr. [half], Cammilla Myrtle (Morse) McCartney [half], John David Morse Jr. [half], Allen Morse [half] and Billy Edgar Morse [half]

Descendants

Mother of Courtney (Morse) Zumwalt

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Profile last modified 8 May 2024 | Created 9 Mar 2018

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Wikitree Notes

Kathryn Morse is a member of the Morse Name Study Project.

Kathryn Morse participated with Southern Super Sweepers during the 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added 199 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 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.

And I have a particular dislike of Ancestry.com because of the incorrect "leaves" that I received. It seemed that the site picked up mistakes in family trees and then shared them with me as suggestions. Several family groups that I have added here (with sources) was in response to my frustration with Ancestry.com. I find FamilySearch and the Internet Archive (Archive.org) quite suitable for genealogy.

Biography

Kathryn Morse is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.

Kathryn Morse has English ancestors.

Kathryn Morse has Irish ancestors.

Kathryn Morse has Scottish Ancestors.

Kathryn Morse was a part of the Occupy Movement.

Kathryn is the 8x-great-granddaughter of Joseph Bridger (bef.1631-1686), a Qualifying Ancestor (see Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestors).

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:

David Alton Morse (1925–1971)
Cammilla Myrtle Morse (1926–2007)
John David Morse (1929–2015)
Allen Morse (1932–2018)
Billy Edgar Morse (1935–2023)

She holds advanced degrees from Louisiana Tech University and Texas Tech University.

Sources

First-hand information. Entered by Kathryn Morse .

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full middle name (A.)
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private siblings' names
private children's names (1)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Kathryn or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Kathryn:

100.00% 100.00% Kathryn Morse: 23andMe, GEDmatch CQ6349200 [compare]
50.00% 50.00% Courtney (Morse) Zumwalt : 23andMe, GEDmatch PY2468573 [compare]
~1.56% Liz Beard : AncestryDNA

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 Kathryn:

Kathryn Morse is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 7, 2020.
Kathryn Morse is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 6, 2020.
Kathryn Morse is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 12, 2019.
Kathryn Morse is a Wonderful Wikitreer Apr 13, 2019.
Kathryn Morse is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 14, 2019.

Comments: 81

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Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Hi Kathryn! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!

Kathryn Morse reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the April 2024 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted May 01, 2024 by Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Kathryn,

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:

Kathryn Morse participated with Southern Super Sweepers during the April 2024 Connect-a-Thon.

Kathryn Morse participated with Southern Super Sweepers during the April 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added ### connections.

Hope to see you in July!

Dorothy and Nan, Co-Captains, Southern Super Sweepers

posted Apr 16, 2024 by Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Kathryn,

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:

Kathryn Morse participated with Southern Super Sweepers during the April 2024 Connect-a-Thon.

Kathryn Morse participated with Southern Super Sweepers during the April 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added number connections.

See you there! Nan, Co-Captain, Southern Super Sweepers

posted Apr 11, 2024 by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
edited Apr 11, 2024 by Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Bill Feidt

Kathryn Morse reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the March 2024 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Kathryn, thanks for your contributions to the project.

posted Apr 01, 2024 by Bill Feidt

Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Hi Katheryn! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!

Kathryn Morse reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the February 2024 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Mar 01, 2024 by Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Hi Katheryn! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!

Kathryn Morse reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the January 2024 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Feb 01, 2024 by Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Jane Embleton

(Thank you for the thank-yous. Doing the Connect-a-thon - glad to help out. Those Morses were challenging but not nearly so challenging as all of the Leaches in Kennedy line...all distant cousins of mine). I see that you have a Morse Name study. You might want to research the Morse family in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. This is a family of funeral directors - Morse & Son - who have been in business for decades. I am distantly related to them. I just checked. Mira (Cook) Morse is my 3rd great grandaunt. I believe that I am also connected to these Morses through the Greens in my family history. The funeral home was featured (fictionalized) in Jane Urquart's novel The Whirlpool (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Urquhart). I seem to recall that her husband, artist Tony Urquart, was a Morse descendant too. Good research starting point. https://nfpl.historicniagara.ca/s/All/page/about

posted Jan 21, 2024 by Jane Embleton

Kathryn Morse

Please check out the Morse Name Study. I'm proud of what we've done so far. If we can get more Morse's sorted by place or state, then I think it will help some with their family trees. See the Categories, Morse Name Study category.

I appreciate Morse's being added to Wikitree, hence the thank-you's!

posted Jan 21, 2024 by Kathryn Morse

Jane Embleton

I see that you have a Morse name study. If you haven't already, you might want to research the Morses in Niagara Falls, Ontario. A very well known family of funeral directors - the Morse & Son Funeral home - has been there for decades. I am distantly related to them. I just went and looked. Mira (Cook) Morse - Cook-1305 - is my third great grand aunt. I believe I am also connected through the Greens to the Morses. The funeral home and the widow of the undertaker were featured (fictionalized) in Jane Urquart's novel, The Whirlpool. I seem to recall that her husband, Tony Urquart, was also a Morse descendant. (Those Morses were challenging but not nearly so challenging as all of the Leaches in Kennedy line...all distant cousins of mine - doing the active Connect-a-thon. ).

posted Jan 21, 2024 by Jane Embleton

Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Hi, Kathryn! We'd love to have you join the Southern Super Sweepers again for the January 2024 Connect-a-Thon. This Connect-a-Thon runs from Friday, January 19 at 8 a.m. EST, through Monday, January 22, at 8 a.m. EST.

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

posted Jan 15, 2024 by Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Kathryn Morse

I signed up! Thanks for the reminder, Nan.

posted Jan 16, 2024 by Kathryn Morse

Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Hi Kathryn!! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!

Kathryn Morse reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the December 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Jan 01, 2024 by Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Hi Kathryn!! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!

Kathryn Morse reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the November 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Dec 01, 2023 by Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Hi Kathryn! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!

Kathryn Morse reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the October 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

posted Nov 01, 2023 by Staci (Hadsell) Golladay

Donna (Schultz) Mulvey

Hi again, I can't figure out how to get the Morse name study sticker on my page!

posted Oct 12, 2023 by Donna (Schultz) Mulvey

Kathryn Morse

Hi! put this on your profile (under biography) Member|ONS|name=Morse surrounded by {{ }}

posted Oct 12, 2023 by Kathryn Morse
edited Oct 12, 2023 by Kathryn Morse

Donna (Schultz) Mulvey

I tried 3 times lol maybe 4 is the charm, yup 4 times the charm thank you

posted Oct 12, 2023 by Donna (Schultz) Mulvey
edited Oct 12, 2023 by Donna (Schultz) Mulvey

Kathryn Morse

Donna, your sticker looks good!

posted Oct 14, 2023 by Kathryn Morse

Barbara Karen Robertson

Maude Shivers Hatton was my MOTHER. Some of the information you have for her is INCORRECT. She was the eldest daughter in a family of 10 children. She died in Texas, not Mississippi. I have her birth certificate if you would like a copy.

posted Sep 30, 2023 by Barbara Karen Robertson

Kathryn Morse

I don't need a copy! Barbara, you are free to delete any incorrect information. You are the profile manager. I just added some sources that appeared to match.

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

posted Sep 30, 2023 by Kathryn Morse
edited Sep 30, 2023 by Kathryn Morse

Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Kathryn,

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

posted Sep 15, 2023 by Nan (Lambert) Starjak

Kate Thompson

Thank you so much for directing me to the US Black Heritage Project! I will head over there today and ask to join. You were so kind to comment. This is exactly what I have been looking for.

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.

posted Sep 10, 2023 by Kate Thompson

Kathryn Morse

I'm looking over your ancestors now. I glanced their FamilySearch profiles and looked for locations. My votes for our commons ancestor go to Susannah (Hall) Garner (1772-1834) or Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Garner (1815-1893) because of their birthplaces. . . . While looking over their families I saw a couple that got married in Prince George, Virginia. That is a common place for my family (then and now). I also noticed Brunswick County, Virginia. I just went back to familysearch to see who it was that stayed in Brunswick County, Virginia, and I can't find them again. Anyway, we have ancestral places in common! :) . . . And I have a joke. When I saw your G2G post that you were stuck in Amherst, I thought, "I've been stuck in Amherst, too. That time my brakes went out there on a Friday and parts had to be ordered. And I couldn't get back home to Richmond for almost a week."

posted Sep 10, 2023 by Kathryn Morse
edited Sep 11, 2023 by Kathryn Morse

Gina (Pocock) Jarvi

Hello Kathryn! I saw you added the Black Heritage tag. I am sending you a PM. Gina - US Black Heritage Project Coordinator

posted Aug 18, 2023 by Gina (Pocock) Jarvi

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Thanks, Kathryn!

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the April 2021 Sourcerers' Challenge

posted May 02, 2021 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Thanks for sourcing, Kathryn!

Kathryn reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the March 2021 Sourcerers' Challenge

posted Apr 06, 2021 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Craig Dunstan

I like your personal profile. Especially the "Relationships to US Presidents" section. I've been keeping a list of ancestors in my "Scratch Pad" so using your example I created a section titled "Craig's Notable Ancestors". I'm including in this section Magna Carta Sureties, Passengers on The Mayflower, US Presidents, Pequot Indian War of 1637, US Revolutionary War 1775-1783, The Black Hawk War 1831-1832, American Civil War 1861-1865. Check it out sometime.

posted Mar 24, 2021 by Craig Dunstan

Kathryn Morse

Your page does look nice! Well done!

posted Mar 24, 2021 by Kathryn Morse

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the January 2021 Sourcerers' Challenge

Thank you, Kathryn!

posted Feb 23, 2021 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Debi (McGee) Hoag

Thanks for all the sourcing you did this year, Kathryn!

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the December 2020 Sourcerers' Challenge

Kathryn earned 6 Blue and 2 Red Milestone Owls while participating in the 2020 Monthly Sourcerers' Challenges

posted Jan 03, 2021 by Debi (McGee) Hoag

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the November 2020 Sourcerers' Challenge

Thanks! Great job!

posted Dec 01, 2020 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the October 2020 Sourcerers' Challenge

Thanks! Great job!

posted Nov 01, 2020 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Pip Sheppard

Hi, Kathryn!

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

posted Oct 08, 2020 by Pip Sheppard

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the September 2020 Sourcerers' Challenge

Thanks! Great job!

posted Oct 03, 2020 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the August 2020 Sourcerers' Challenge

Thanks! Great job! We had another month of over 10,000 profiles sourced!

posted Sep 01, 2020 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the July 2020 Sourcerers' Challenge

Thanks! Great job!

posted Aug 02, 2020 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the February 2020 Sourcerers' Challenge

Great Job! Thanks!

posted Mar 02, 2020 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Alex Stronach

Kathryn reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the January 2020 Sourcerers' Challenge

Great job Kathryn! Thanks for all your contributions to the Sourcerer's Challenges!

posted Feb 07, 2020 by Alex Stronach

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2019 Sourcerers' Challenge

Outstanding! We started this program in April of this year 2019 award is April through December.

posted Jan 04, 2020 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the December 2019 Sourcerers' Challenge

Great Job! Thanks!

posted Jan 04, 2020 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Terry Morse

Hi Kathryn, I'll make a note to watch for a Joel Morse born around 1782, as you requested. Do you have a place of birth? I see are a few close matches in Morse & Leavitt.

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.

posted Dec 09, 2019 by Terry Morse

Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Kathryn reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the November 2019 Sourcerers' Challenge

Thanks! Great job!

posted Dec 06, 2019 by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay

Betty (Harrell) Gerlack

Can you be more specific? Yes, I've done the research. The sources seem pretty straight forward. I can add more details if you think that's necessary. My Mores line is Samuel>Daniel>Samuel>Samuel>Sarah Woodcock.

posted Nov 15, 2019 by Betty (Harrell) Gerlack

Lynette Jester

Oh Thank you on the location cats.

posted Oct 29, 2019 by Lynette Jester

Lynette Jester

I also try to add location categories to the profiles.

I forgot to add this... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Census_Ashley_County_Arkansas_Master_Index

posted Oct 28, 2019 by Lynette Jester

Lynette Jester

I only have the 1850 Census for Ashley Co transcribed. The county pages are always a work in progress. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Ashley_County_Arkansas

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Arkansas_The_Natural_State

posted Oct 28, 2019 by Lynette Jester

Lynette Jester

Hi Katheryn Thank you for following Arkansas and your interest in improving the presence of Arkansas on Wikitree. Let me know, please, exactly what you are interested in. I'm particularly interested in the SW corner where my family lived. Lots of Boyettes et al in my collaterals.

Lynette - Arkansas Project

posted Oct 28, 2019 by Lynette Jester

Dorothy Barry

Hi Kathryn:

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!!

posted Oct 07, 2019 by Dorothy Barry

Michael Tyler

Hi Kathryn, You may be correct about our shared segments, but my family lines have been in Virginia for many years, so Gedmatch shows many matches with me at 4th-6th cousin level whom I have no idea how we are connected.

Thanks for the help with Needham, Sr. I added some info on Needham, Jr's mother.

Mike

posted Aug 04, 2019 by Michael Tyler

Paula J

Your efforts are very much appreciated!!

posted Jul 07, 2019 by Paula J

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