Maggie N.
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Maggie N.

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Maggie L. N.
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Daughter of [private father (1930s - 2000s)] DNA confirmed and [private mother (unknown - unknown)] DNA confirmed
Sister of [private sister (unknown - unknown)], [private brother (1950s - unknown)] [half] and [private brother (1950s - 2020s)]
Mother of [private son (unknown - unknown)]
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Biography

Buda and Pest
Maggie N. is a member of the Hungary Project.
Maggie N. has Slavic Roots.
Maggie N. has Hungarian Roots.
Maggie N. has roots in the region now known as Hessen, Germany.
Maggie N. has roots in the region now known as Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Maggie N. a des origines françaises.
Maggie N. has Irish ancestors.
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Maggie N. has Welsh ancestors.
Maggie N. has Polish Roots.
Maggie N. participated with Legacy Heirs during the Clean-a-Thon.
Maggie N. participated with The Legacy Heirs during the Connect-a-Thon.
Maggie N. participated with Legacy Heirs during the Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.

I think most peoples' interests in family genealogy usually begins at family gatherings, like a funeral or reunion. I know that was the case for me while a teenager because in three consecutive years, I lost a beloved grandparent. Each time the trek to the graveyards during the funerals brought me to headstones surrounding the newly deceased grandparent and each time, most everyone did not know how they were related. I put the family jigsaw puzzle together by identifying everyone through the records office, church records and obituaries.

My genealogical forays were furthered when I studied under Dorothy Dehn, a DAR genealogist. Later, I was lucky to finish a certificate program at Brigham Young in the early 80's and began to help other people with their genealogical queries on the side.

My roots are not very "American"; my earliest immigrant settlers were from France and sailed down the Erie Canal to Buffalo from the port of New York in 1827. I spent years reading French microfilms for my own Alsatian ancestry. My mother is largely Eastern European so I branched out in microfilms from Hungary, Slovakia and Russia Poland. My children's roots have taken me through American records, specifically colonial New Jersey and old Philadelphia. Recently, I tackled my impossible Irish ancestors in county Kerry with slow but steady research in their government records.

I have a rare Hungarian One Name Study registered with the One Name Guild. The Study is hosted by the Guild at their website Stermenszky One Name Study. My Trant One Name study is also registered with the Guild.

Projects

Although I have been a leaders of more than 10 projects in the history of my time here with WikiTree, my main project is the Hungary Project.

We have a new leader with the The Holocaust Project with Elaine. It was created by the amazingly gifted Gaile.

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Maggie N. is a member of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

If you are looking for your ancestors in Galicia or the Ukraine, please visit these projects created by the incredible Skye Sonczalla. She leads the Galicia Project. Skye is also the Project Coordinator for the Polish Roots Poland Project We also have a Project Coordinator and Pomeranian researcher Tina Kobus assisting the Poland Project.

We have an Irish Roots sub-project for county Kerry where I break bricks walls on my impossible Irish roots. I have my own One Name Study for the Delahunty Name Study and the Trant Name Study. By the way, there is a great resource page about the Casey Collection which is imperative for county Kerry research.

If you would like to do a One Name Study or One Place Study project, contact the very organized and amazing Azure Robinson. She will help you set it up.

My kids have Quaker ancestors. If you have Early Penn ancestors, check out the William Penn project which the phenomenal leader, SJ Baty, keeps it in motion for WikiTree.

Although I have no family connections, you will find me cleaning up certain colonial Virginia profiles for the U.S. History project as well as any Quaker settlers in colonial New Jersey for the New Jersey project and Ohio project.

An Article on Cluster Research: How I located my Jones Family

My BRICK WALLS

WikiTree Apps

How to find your Bricktree Ancestors.

An analysis of my Brick Wall Ancestors quoted "Out of 2046 possible ancestors in 10 generations, 379 (18.52%) have WikiTree profiles.12/379 (3.17%) are duplicates due to pedigree collapse." (Updated 10 August 2023)

When is an ancestor MY ancestor?

Answer? When they are genealogically defined!

See this great summary by Bob Genealogically Defined

This is a great app by Jamie

Ancestors Research Statistics


My Ancestors Research Statistics

Genealogy is not a race; statistics in genealogy is not necessary but creating a chart of your progress does make one work harder. After 40+ years of research, I know what records I need to continue onward in this crazy journey back on ancestors. It ALL depends on records. For example, with my Irish line, they will never go back very far because the records for a few of them simply do not exist. For many of my Polish ancestors, I know I will be able to confirm their lines once I get through reading the Russian language in those records.

My Ancestors Research Statistics
BY GENERATION
Generation Number Direct Relation to Maggie Total # of Possible Ancestors Total # of Identified Ancestors Total % of Identified Ancestors
1Parent22100%
2Grandparent44100%
3Great Grandparent88100%
42nd Great Grandparent1616100%
53rd Great Grandparent322681.25%
64th Great Grandparent644875%
75th Great Grandparent1265946.09%
86th Great Grandparent2525320.70%
97th Great Grandparent504428.203%
108th Great Grandparent10083.0029%

My Surnames

Click on Surname to view EKA - Earliest Known Ancestor
Paternal Grandfather , Paternal Grandmother vs Maternal Grandfather , Maternal Grandmother ancestors
Abraham, Adam , Adelman , Adelmann , Albert
Baczewska, Baczewski , Barberet , Barberet , Baumann , Beau , Becker , Becker , Beuschel , Biała , Bobay , Bonneteste , Born , Braunfels , Breckheimer , Browne
Chaux, Chevillat , Chretian , Christ , Chudi , Churque , Conway , Conway , Corre , Crosbie
Danko, DeChaux , Delahunty , Devillars , Diescher
Estiennot
Fabriczy, Farkas , Fehr , Fitzgerald , Fougeron , Fougeron , Freirich
Girard, Girarde , Girarde , Glitz , Godlewska , Gothard , Grob , Gyerus
Hag, Haluska , Hartmann , Haub , Heidet , Heislitz , Henneman , Hoeffert , Hoeffert , Holzemer , Horiel , Husenbeth
Imhof, Istvanik
Jones
Kaiser, Kamienska , Kennelly , Kirchner , Klag , Kosakowski , Kovacs , Kovál , Krieger , Kurpińska
LaMielle (Lamielle) , LaMielle , Ladikovsky , Lambalat , Lang , Langard , Leicher , Lorenz , Lorintz
M (Mahony) , M , Mahony , Maldrut , Marchal , McCroghan , Menn , Mergeler , Milliot , Milliot , Modzelewska , Monnier , Montavon , Mész , Müller
N (Nagy) , Nemes
O'Connell, Oeuvrey , Orielle , O’Connell
Pahl, Pal , Pauli , Pelletier , Pero , Petö , Pfeiffer , Phillips , Plachetka , Podbielskiej , Polgaŕ , Power , Putkowski , Płazewska
Rakai, Roche , Roe , Ross , Rozgany , Ruckteschel , Ruez , Rufsbach , Rückert
Sauvageot, Sauvageot , Schenquelin , Scheuermann , Schmidt , Schnatz , Schumann , Sebő , Simon , Skolnik , Spengler , Spring , Stein , Steinke , Stermenszky , Straub , Stumpf , Stumpf , Sullivan , Sullivan , Sváb , Szymanska , Sóss
Tobin, Trant , Tyborowska , Tyszka
Vautier, Vollmer , Vollmer
Ware, Weppner , Weppner , Westenberger , Wilhelm
Zielezniecka, Zimmer , Zsebik , Zsoka

Want to do this SURNAMES presentation on your profile page? Once again, Greg Clark did another cool app Surname App

Connections

Relationship

Connecting profiles together can get a bit wild. For instance, this one will take years and concrete sources to prove but this is a fun revelation!


DNA Statements

So who are those DNA matches on my profile? Joe & Cynthia are two cousins from different lines on my Mother's side who convinced me to get tested. I was hesitant but what an adventure it has been.


  • Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Maggie N. and Anonymous M., her sister. Their most-recent common ancestors are D M and P N, the parents of both Maggie N. and Anonymous M.. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Sister, based on sharing 2,446 cM cM across 49 segments.


  • Maternal relationship is confirmed by a DNA test match between Maggie N GEDmatch T322601 and Cynthia GEDmatch YT6343520 who are 3rd cousins. Their MRCAs are their great-great-grandparents Karol Stermenszky and Susanna Haluska.
  • Maternal relationship is confirmed by a DNA test match between Maggie N GEDmatch T322601and Joe Grusczynski GEDmatch A006381 who are 3rd cousins. Their MRCAs are their great-great-grandparents, August Zimmer and Cycelia (Putkowski) Zimmer.
  • Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Maggie N. and TM, her 1st cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Joseph Nagy and Mary Stermenszky, the great grandparents of Maggie N. and grandparents of TM. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 1st cousin 2x removed, based on sharing 220 cM across 11 segments.

On my Dad's side:

  • Paternal relationship is confirmed by a DNA test match between Maggie N and Kathleen Mahony who are 2nd cousins. Their MRCAs are their great-grandparents, Daniel Mahony and Anna Jones.

Digital Afterlife Instructions : this is my permission that upon my demise, for my family firstly, then secondly, the Wikitree staff, to manage the profiles where I act as PM, in any way they see fit, as long as this is in line with the Honour Code and preserves the privacy of living people. N.-17 19:40, 17 January 2015 (EST)


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Hi Maggie, the category https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Poland_Project_Members has 2 links to the category that need to be removed before the category can be deleted. See "What links here" on the category page.

Thanks, Margaret, Categorization project

Hi Maggie, this category, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Polish_Roots_Project sent for deletion, has several links to it on pages and categories that need removing/changing before the category can be deleted. Editbot does not delete links. See "What links here" on the category page. Also, you shouldn't add the "Confirmed" parameter to the Delete Category template, that can only be added by one of the Categorization review team.

Many thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization Project

Thank you, Margaret! I am glad you reminded me of the "What's Link Here". I just cleaned it out (-:
posted by Maggie N.
Thanks Maggie, much appreciated :)
Hi - it's the first annual check-in for the Holocaust Project.... if you wish to remain a member of the Holocaust Project please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. But don't worry ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help with researching your ancestors or people of interest, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with "holocaust" in order for knowledgeable people to see them.

-Elaine, Holocaust Project Leader

Dear Elaine,.thank you so much for all you do for the Holocaust project. I would like to remain a member. I am hoping to work on more profiles in the coming year.
posted by Maggie N.
Hi Maggie,

I saw your category "Dragșina, Rumänien" and requested deletion for it, because it's a mixture of the Romanian name for the village and the German name for the country. Also please make sure, that all middle parameters you use in an aka template are identical. Only the third parameter, the language differs. Maybe you want to try out creating the categories from Wikipedia using BEE, it takes a lot of work away.

Kind regards

Flo
posted by Florian Straub
Thank you, Florian! I didn't even know about BEE! Thank you for this tip (- :
posted by Maggie N.
You're welcome. I described it at Space:Banat_Location_Categories#WikiTree_BEE. There is also the bookmarklet for people that can't or won't install BEE.
posted by Florian Straub
Hi Maggie,

I intend to start looking at the migration of German speakers to the Russian Empire. I will soon be contacting Skye and Tina to work on a consistent approach with the historic Governates that are now a part of present day Poland, Moldova and Ukraine.

I am also interested on your opinions about Florian's work in https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Banat_Location_Categories

There's a lot of room for confusion in all this work,

Steve.

posted by Steve Thomas
Hi Maggie,

would love to hear your feedback at [1]. Also from anybody else interested in the former Hungarian area, of course.

Kind regards from Black Forest

Flo
posted by Florian Straub
Hi Maggie,

It is once again time for our annual Ireland Project check-in. Please respond within the next three weeks to let us know:

  1. If you would like to continue as an Ireland Project member. If your answer is yes, please tell us if you are happy with your current team, or if you would prefer to join a different one. If you are currently participating in more than one team we would appreciate you ranking them in their order of importance to you, from highest priority to lowest. This information will be helpful as we consider possible future changes to our team structure.
  2. In the past, the project has had a very minimal membership requirement (one contribution per year) for badged members to meet. Do you believe this is adequate, or should this requirement be increased? What do you believe would be a reasonable commitment to expect from all project members?
  3. How active have you been in the Ireland Project over the past year? Please choose one of the following options: a) I normally spend 1-5 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. b) I normally spend 6-10 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. c) I spend over 10 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. d) I am not able to contribute every month but have spent approximately ________ hours during the past year improving Irish profiles.
  4. Please provide feedback on any things you’d like to see the project do more of in the future.

You can 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 the next three weeks we’ll assume your interests have changed or you no longer are able to participate in the Ireland Project at this time, and your badge will be removed. If your circumstances change later you will be welcome to reapply for membership.

Many thanks for all that so many of you have contributed to the project in the past year, and very special thanks to those who answered the project’s call and gave generously of their time to be part of Team Seanchaithe during the most recent connect-a-thon. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

le dea-mhéin, Jen Hutton, Ireland Project co-leader

posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton
As always I was blessed this last weekend, because you are a Legacy Heir. Thank you so much!
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
You are amazing, Lisa. We are so lucky to have you <3
posted by Maggie N.
Hi Maggie! Could you contact the US Southern Colonies Project about managing Gay-92? Since the US Southern Colonies Project was relaunched, it's been taking back most of the profiles that the Virginia Project picked up while it was dormant. Since Gay-92 is for someone who died before the USA began, he's not within the scope of the Virginia Project anymore.

Thanks!

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Thanks Maggie for the Wonderful Wikitreer award and kind words.

Henryk's mother could not speak English when she arrived to Australia. She did not smile a lot. This photo is the closest to smiling I saw. It is Helena with her first great-grandchild, Christmas Day 1989. https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Kowalewska-7-1

posted by Steve Thomas
edited by Steve Thomas
Wonderful photograph. After such hardship in earlier years, she probably was able to relax a bit in old age.
posted by Maggie N.
Hi

How are you related to Dawid Cedek and other Cedeks.? Thanks

posted by Steven Zedeck
Hi Steven, I am not related to the Cedeks. I was just doing a little profile improvement to Dawid's profile and doing some research in Andrzejewo (-:
posted by Maggie N.
Dear Germany Project member,

it's annual check-in time 2023. If you still wish to remain a member of the Germany Project, please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. In this case please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help, with researching your German ancestors, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with Germany in order for knowledgeable people to see them.

If you wish to remain a member, we would like to learn more about your perception of the Germany Project in order to achieve a future development according to our members needs and wishes. For this, we created a survey, which we kindly ask you to fill-in.

In case you want to communicate, discuss and receive help about WikiTree in German, you might want to check out the WikiTree category at Compgen’s Discourse as well as the German Discord server Ahnenforschung.

Of course there’s still the official WikiTree Discord server, where we usually talk English. Feel free to learn more about Discord and the server at Help:Discord.

Kind regards from Black Forest

Flo (Project Coordinator Research/Resources)
posted by Florian Straub
Hi Florian, please keep me as a member of the Germany project.
posted by Maggie N.
Happy to hear from you. Noted.
posted by Florian Straub
It's time for the One Place Studies Project Check-In!

We've put together a survey for you to fill out to check in with you, it will only take a moment as there are only a few questions. Filling out the survey lets us know you are still interested in coordinating your study and provides an opportunity for you to share any suggestions you may have for the project.

If you have decided to step away from your study, please reply to this comment to that effect.

posted by Azure Robinson
Definitely staying with the One Place Studies, Azure!
posted by Maggie N.
Hi Maggie, do you have a gedmatch #?
posted by Larry Smith
Yes, Larry, It's GEDmatch # T322601
posted by Maggie N.
Hi Maggie,

Kylie Haese has retired from the Project Coordinator role for Prussia in the Germany Project. I have been promoted to PC role for Prussia. I do not know if Kylie is still engaged in the Poland Project. If she is - no problem. If she is not not engaged - then I am happy to take some role looking after Prussia in the Poland Project.

posted by Steve Thomas
Hi Steve! I'm not sure of Kylie's engagement in the Poland Project. I do know she is a very busy person and has not had time for it in the last several months. I can tell you we would love to have you as a coordinator in the Poland Project for Prussia/Poland. We can always use all the help we can get. You're aware Tina and I have been working on categorization of profiles and bridging information to present-day Poland. If you have an interest in creating village categories (only in Prussia), Tina and I have a way to run reports to find out any new categories created and then create the Poland village counterpart. Otherwise, the only other job to do is making sure profiles are moved to correct categories and checking the G2G feed to see if anyone has questions (which I believe you already do, thank you!) Is there anything else you had in mind specifically that you can do? Thanks Steve! Skye
posted by Skye Sonczalla
Hi Steve ~ Thank you for being PC. Kylie has been paring down her WikiTree roles, little by little, so it was no surprise. I appreciate you helping out. My best,
posted by Maggie N.
Connect-a-Thon!! It is registration time again. January’s thon will be a connect-a-thon to bring us all together for the new year. It will start on 13 Jan 2023 and 72 hours later, on 16 Jan 2023, it will be a great memory. I hope to see that you are doing well and want to join the rest of the Legacy Heirs who will be there. Registration link is here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1505819/have-you-registered-for-the-january-2023-connect-a-thon-yet
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Thank you for sharing Grandpa’s brother, Daniel’s obit. You rock!
posted by Cynthia Sterman
Hun,

Registration for the Source-A-Thon has started. The thon will start 30 Sep 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours, ending on October 3rd. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1463120/register-now-for-the-2022-source-a-thon

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
As always, you are an amazing Captain! How lucky Legacy Heirs is to have you (-:
posted by Maggie N.
Hi Maggie,

I just submitted an answer to join the Ohio project. I was looking over the 'suggestion list.' What are the meanings of the different highlight colors? I didn't see a key or legend.

posted by Morgan Nalley
Morgan, I am sorry that I didn't see your question earlier. August flew by with very little WikiTree time for me! I am learning something new here about the different highlight colors. I am assuming you mean the COLOURED BOXES under the HEADING "Suggestions" on the farthest left of the columns? PINK means definite ERRORS. These may require intense research or sources to correct. If you need help with those errors in your suggestion, post in G2G or contact a project or a mentor. The IVORY color means WARNINGS. You may need to look at your records again and it may be a simple fix. I don't know what the "PURPLISH BLUE" stands for. I will find out!
posted by Maggie N.
Hey hun,

Thank you so much for being a Legacy Heir and being in the Connect-A -Thon. I hope to see you for the Source-A-Thon in October.

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hi there Hun,

Registration for the July Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 15 Jul 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link:https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1431009/have-you-registered-for-the-july-2022-connect-a-thon-yet

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Frances Triplett Sloan is in my family tree but I know very little about her.

Thank you for merging these two, this really helps me a lot. I wasn't even sure which side of my family she was on. This helps me figure out that she's on my paternal side. Jan Stokes Eliáš

posted by Janice Stokes
I appreciate you being a Legacy Heir. Thank you for signing up for the April Connect-a-thon. I hope to “see” you for the Connect-a-thon in July and the Source-a-thon in October!
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hello Maggie,

We wrote to you about the check-in for Profile Improvement Project (PIP) a couple of weeks ago. Would you like to continue in Biography Team Level 1 where we have placed you? That's the Team that works on improving profiles from both your own watchlist and projects you are involved with to Level 1 of the PIP Profile Standards.

If you do not wish to participate in the Project, please let us know. If we don’t hear from you within 7 days we will remove you from the Project, but we will welcome you back at any time. We would like to hear from you with any ideas or suggestions.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Robin Shaules Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

posted by Robin (Dodge) Shaules
Hi Robin, sorry I missed the prior message. Yes, definitely. Keep me on PIP Biography Team Level 1. Thanks for all you do keeping track of everyone.

My best, Maggie

posted by Maggie N.
Hi Maggie! I was reviewing

You added Virginia Project as a manager for Bowling-1621, but not the project box. Looking at the profile, it seems it would be better if it were managed by a different project - Maryland project, or perhaps US Southern Colonies, Maryland Team? I think that Maryland does not have its own project box/project account, so pre-USA would be US Southern Colonies Project & post-colonial would be United States Project.

Please reply to the comment I posted on his profile: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowling-1621#comment_6378915

Thanks!

P.S. I ran across the profile going through the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:DBE_Project_Status for Virginia Project.

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Thanks, Liz. I agree with you on US Southern Colonies.
posted by Maggie N.
Dear Maggie,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing its first annual check-in with our project members. Please review the following and let us know if you are content where we have placed you or would like to be more involved.

We are in the process of transitioning to a team structure. There will be three participant PIP Teams to start -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team which guides new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.

You're currently identified as a member of the Biography Team Level 1, working on profiles from your own watchlist and whatever else you find. Biography Teams Levels 2 and 3 will work on designated profiles for notables (Level 3) and everyday people (Level 2). Please let us know if you would like to help with a higher-level Bio Team or one of the other Teams.

You joined the Project before the Voyage started in late 2018. We would like to invite you to consider a "fast track" Voyage, especially if you would like to work at a higher level on the Biography Team. If you’re interested, choose a profile from your own watchlist that you have completed to the best of your ability and compare it to the Voyage Biography Standards. If your profile is at Level 2 or better, include a link to the profile in your response to this check-in for a “fast track” review.

We would also like to invite you to join the email GoogleGroup and text chat Discord channel for our project. (When you request to join our GoogleGroup, please be sure to include your Wiki ID). Neither is required; we also use the Profile_Improvement tag in G2G for Project announcements. You will find more information on the GoogleGroup.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project and WikiTree. The Project’s mission is to:

Make profiles beautiful! We clean up messy biography sections and sources, and try to set standards for attractive, useful, and well-written biographies, starting with those we manage.

We know you’re working on profiles *smile* We would like to hear about successes you’ve had toward the Project’s goals. We would also appreciate any feedback you might have to help us improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or privately via private message to either of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Robin Shaules Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

posted by Robin (Dodge) Shaules
Dear Maggie, thank you for merging Mathias Schuck.

Greetings from South Baden, Germany Eva

Hi Maggie,

It’s time for our annual Ireland Project check-in! Please respond within the next two weeks to let me know:

  • If you are happy with the team you’re on or if you’d like to make a change. It is now required that all members with an Ireland project badge work on at least one of the project’s team(s), so if you’ve not yet signed up please do so in your reply to this check-in.
  • What you think the project is doing well, and what (if any) changes you would like to see us make? Are there any teams you would like to become more active in?
  • Would you be interested in helping to work on an Ireland Project newsletter?
  • Please give us some feedback on the use of google group and discord. Do you use one or both of these? If you don’t use either of them, what is the best way for us to ensure you receive project communications? If you would like to join us on either one, Just let us know in your response and we will get you signed up.

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 Ireland 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!

Sincerely, Jen Hutton, on behalf of the Ireland Project

posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton
Jen, thanks for checking in. All's good as far as I'm concerned.
posted by Maggie N.
Hi there Hun,

Registration for the April Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 22 Apr 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392037/have-you-registered-for-the-april-2022-connect-a-thon-yet?start=0#a_list_title

And here is our team Chat page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392211/legacy-heirs-april-connect-a-thon-g2g-chat

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hi Maggie, I just wanted to thank you for all the work you've done to improve the US Civil War Between the States Project. I'm doing a check-in with all project members and wanted to verify that you're still interested in being a member of the project. Also, any suggestions for the Project would be welcome. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

P Kreutzer, US Civil War Between the States Project Leader.

posted by Pam Kreutzer
Hi P, I am afraid I haven't been able to help much with the Civil War project since it's inception. I do appreciate how organized it is.
posted by Maggie N.
As usual, I have the best team for the thons!!! Thank you for being a Legacy Heir for the January 2022 Connect-A-Thon. I am hoping you will join me for the next thon too!
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hello!!!!

As we start this first Thon of 2022, I just want to say thank you for being a Legacy Heir!!! Have fun with this one and remember, We take it at our own individual pace. If you like to love one profile all weekend, so be it! Make that the most beautiful profile you can. If you choose to do many profiles!!! That is great too!! Just make sure you have at least one good source. Even one contribution makes this amazing tree more beautiful, healthy and strong that it was before that contribution!!

Family, obligations and most importantly, YOU are more important than the thon! We love having you here, but if something comes up, elsewhere, take care of that first. You Rock Legacy Heirs, lets have some fun and connect some profiles!!

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hello, Maggie

On behalf of the G2G Integrators Project Leaders, we are doing a first of the year 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 most enjoy contributing to the project. All of us would like to thank you for your contributions and hope that you are enjoying exploring your roots.

Please reply as we look forward to hearing from you soon.

David, Pip and Dorothy ~ G2G Integrators Project Leaders and PC

PS: You have a BEAUTIFUL profile!

posted by Pip Sheppard
Hi there Hun,

Registration for the January Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 14 Jan 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341478/have-you-registered-for-the-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-yet

And here is our team Chat page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341305/legacy-heirs-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-g2g-chat

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hi Maggie. I'm doing some Data Doctor work and came across some orphan profiles that have Jewish Roots. I know his is from Russia. I was hoping you could find people in your project that might want to adopt them and give them the work they deserve. I added all the sources I could find from Google, Ancestry, & FS then wrote a small bio around them. So far I've done Sacknoff-1 and Gourse-9. His parents can be found on Ancestry & FS. Hers are here. I'll keep going down the DD list making corrections, adding sources with basic bios. I think you can find everyone from these two people. I'm sorry I don't have time to do more for these profiles. I've bookmarked your project & hope to come back to it. Take care, Lucy
posted by Lucy (Wilson) Robinson
Thank you for your recent assistance merging Jane Hill/Leader!
posted by Andrew Boyd
Hi Maggie,

My name is Becky Stein, I'm Alice (Fougeron) Stein's granddaughter.

I've tried sending both you & Cousin Myron messages on here, but haven't quite figured out if either of y'all ever got them.

Myron & I emailed each other a few times about the Fougeron/Riddle/Gardner etc. family tree back in the mid-1990's when public/college email was fairly new, but then I left college & didn't have regular internet access until quite a few years later (so I lost Myron's email).

I was wondering if we could get in touch, because I have info on Alice & Florence, that I'm not seeing here on Wikitree?

Thanks, and I hope you're well

posted by Becky Stein
Thank you for all of your work on merges in the Deuel/Davol/Soule Families.....great team work!
posted by Robin Lee
Thank you for your work on my Wikitree during the challenge. It is well appreciated, happy hunting!
posted by Shelley Murphy
Maggie, You are a Rock Star! 💞You know your stuff! Just saw all the new information……Can’t thank you enough! So…. Grateful!!
posted by Cynthia Sterman
More to come, dear cuz! Thank you
posted by Maggie N.
Hey hun,

You are an amazing part of WT and of Legacy Heirs. I am so thankful that you are a part of our team. Hope we see you on the team for the next thon.

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hi there hun,

Just a quick reminder that starting tomorrow morning at 8 am Eastern time in United States is the source a thon. I am going to be in at that time (5 am here) but please do not worry if you have to come in hours or days later. Remember we work around family, etc... and even if only one per teammate gets done, that is one more that was not done before the thon. It all makes our tree better and stronger.

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hello Maggie!! You Merged McNaught Nutt-2 which I am grateful for!!! Thanks!! In checking out your profile noticed you have posted a delightful Symbol indicating your relationship to Empress Maud. It seems in checking my relationship to Empress Maud we are cousins!!! It turns out I am a 26th great granddaughter (Confident) of Empress Maud. How can I post on my own profile the Symbol indicating this connection??? ~~~ Update,,, All sorted. Found information how to go about creating a Sticker on Empress Maud's profile!!!
posted by Margaret Ann Mc Nutt
edited by Margaret Ann Mc Nutt
Hey there hun,

Source a Thon starts on October 1 this year so registration started today. We would love to have you on the team again. If you will be, go to the link below and say you want to participate and you are a Legacy Heir. “See” you soon.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1291959/have-you-registered-for-the-2021-source-a-thon-yet

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Thank you for being on Legacy Heirs for the Connect a Thon 2021. We hope to have you on the team again for the next thon.
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
See you this weekend, Have fun!!
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Maggie, if I add parents, wife, and children to Lajos Kossuth (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kossuth-26), can those profiles be managed by the Hungary project? (And while we're at it, I'm pretty sure the current PM of Kossuth's profile would be happy to hand it over to the project, too.)
posted by J Palotay
That would be amazing. I need to set it up. Give me a couple days to get the project on him.
posted by Maggie N.
Hey hun,

Connect-A-Thon is from July 23 through the 26th. Registration started today!!! Here is the link for registration https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1253349/have-you-registered-for-the-2021-connect-a-thon-yet

This is where our chat page is: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1254362/2021-legacy-heirs-connect-a-thon-chat

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Since you were the greeter for Laura Eagleboy (some time ago now), I thought that I would seek you out to help me upgrade Laura's account from "Guest" to "Member" (is that the right term for someone with full rights?). I had created a page, when I was working on Hochunk genealogy, for one of her ancestors, Frank Tebo, I think it was. She wrote me wanting to add further information to the profile, but we didn't know how to go about it. I have her email and I have put her on the Trusted List, but her status remains the same.

Also, I want to sponsor a person who has most of her tree on Ancestry.com, but which is quite small compared to mine. She is related to me through my paternal GG-grandfather, and so would only need to connect to him to get the Wikitree benefits. So how do I go about getting her established?

posted by Richard Dieterle
Laura Eagleboy has to move herself from guest to member by herself. Is she still using the same email address for her WikiTree account? [email address removed] may be able to help her, Richard.
posted by Maggie N.
Hi Maggie, perhaps you missed my requests to be added to as active manager of the profile Van_der_Merwe-2703. I'm researching the van der Merwe-genealogy (with other WikiTree members), using In Search of Notability - the Antecedents of Dawid van der Merwe of the Koue Bokkeveld by Susan Newton-King - See Appendix 2. as research tool (see the comment box of the uploaded document). If you follow the comments on this profile, you'll see that there are several Death Notices involved where facts became blurred, already in the 19th century.

It is important for me to be an active manager on this profile, and not only on the trusted list.

Kind regards, Philip van der Walt

posted by Philip van der Walt