
Maggie N.
Honor Code SignatorySigned 10 Jul 2013 | 192,495 contributions | 26,119 thank-yous | 1,883 connections
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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.
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.
---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
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)
Answer? When they are genealogically defined!
See this great summary by Bob Genealogically Defined
This is a great app by Jamie
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.
BY GENERATION | |||||
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Generation Number | Direct Relation to Maggie | Total # of Possible Ancestors | Total # of Identified Ancestors | Total % of Identified Ancestors | |
1 | Parent | 2 | 2 | 100% | |
2 | Grandparent | 4 | 4 | 100% | |
3 | Great Grandparent | 8 | 8 | 100% | |
4 | 2nd Great Grandparent | 16 | 16 | 100% | |
5 | 3rd Great Grandparent | 32 | 26 | 81.25% | |
6 | 4th Great Grandparent | 64 | 48 | 75% | |
7 | 5th Great Grandparent | 126 | 59 | 46.09% | |
8 | 6th Great Grandparent | 252 | 53 | 20.70% | |
9 | 7th Great Grandparent | 504 | 42 | 8.203% | |
10 | 8th Great Grandparent | 1008 | 3 | .0029% |
Want to do this SURNAMES presentation on your profile page? Once again, Greg Clark did another cool app Surname App
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!
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.
On my Dad's side:
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)
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Maggie is 20 degrees from Jimmy Buffett, 17 degrees from James Cooper, 18 degrees from James Dean, 17 degrees from James Ganong, 22 degrees from James Garner, 21 degrees from Jimmy Hoffa, 19 degrees from Jesse James, 22 degrees from Phyllis White, 28 degrees from James Earl Jones, 16 degrees from James Stuart King James VI of Scotland and I of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, 19 degrees from James Kraft and 25 degrees from Jacquès Julie on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Categories: WikiTree Leaders | County Kerry Project | Polish Roots | Slovak Roots Project Members | Hungary Research Assistance | McBeth-165 Chocolate Needed | Descendants of András Stermenszky | H11b1 FS mtDNA Haplogroup | Hungary Project Members | Slavic Roots | Hungarian Roots | German Roots | Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Project
Thanks, Margaret, Categorization project
Many thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization Project
-Elaine, Holocaust Project Leader
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
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.
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
It is once again time for our annual Ireland Project check-in. Please respond within the next three weeks to let us know:
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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
Thanks!
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
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
edited by Steve Thomas
How are you related to Dawid Cedek and other Cedeks.? Thanks
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Kind regards from Black Forest
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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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
My best, Maggie
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.
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Greetings from South Baden, Germany Eva
It’s time for our annual Ireland Project check-in! Please respond within the next two weeks to let me know:
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
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
P Kreutzer, US Civil War Between the States Project Leader.
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!!
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!
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
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
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.
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.
edited by Margaret Ann Mc Nutt
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
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
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?
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