Maggie N.
Honor Code SignatorySigned 10 Jul 2013 | 197,963 contributions | 26,759 thank-yous | 2,178 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. I was a regular weekly researcher at our local Family History center where I used microfiche, rolled microfilm and used the very first computer genealogical software, PAF.
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, Quaker 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.
My main focus for 2024 is research, mostly on microfilm as the records are not digitalized, for My BRICK WALLS
Although I have been a leader of more than 10 projects in the history of my time here with WikiTree since 2012, my current main project is the Hungary Project. I am also the current leader of the Ohio project.
Our leader with the The Holocaust Project is the talented Elaine. It was created by the amazingly gifted Gaile.
If you are looking for 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 dynamite Pomeranian researcher Tina Kobus assisting the Poland Project.
WikiTree has an Irish Roots sub-project for county Kerry. My Kerry roots center in North Kerry. 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.
Although I have no family connections, you will find me cleaning up certain Ohio or colonial Virginia profiles for the U.S. History project as well as any Quaker settlers in colonial New Jersey for the Quakers in New Jersey project.
My interview with Cheri on how years of Cluster Research broke my Jones brick wall: 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)
Here's an app that's easy on the eyes! Ancestors Line Explorer
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!
Thanks to WikiTree Heroes like Mags and her blog and the MitoYDNA site, plus Family Tree DNA, I was able to synthesize the Mitochondrial line of my Poland-based great-grandmother's roots to the Ukraine.
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)
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Maggie is 24 degrees from Zendaya Coleman, 30 degrees from Sting Sumner, 20 degrees from Josh Brolin, 25 degrees from Timothée Chalamet, 22 degrees from José Ferrer, 19 degrees from Frank Herbert, 17 degrees from Richard Jordan, 19 degrees from David Lynch, 20 degrees from Virginia Madsen, 23 degrees from Charlotte Rampling, 31 degrees from Patrick Stewart and 19 degrees from Denis Villeneuve on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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The team chat is located here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1712660/legacy-heirs-april-2024-connect-a-thon-team-chat
I am hoping to find out more about the Uveges family in Hungary. I haven't posted much about grandparents and great grandparents even though I know a fair amount about them, most of it is not verifiable.
Thank you for handling the mess around Johannes John Bushong and Buschong. There were a lot of duplicates. I personally have mine and the entire Bushong tree charted on Bushong United, and though it may sound bad, when it comes to for-profit websites, I just try and focus on keeping parentage correct. I also work on Geni.com, but find their process so cumbersome, it's hardly worth it. The LDS tree is easier and I've got their tree straightened out for at least the first couple of generations from the two immigrant brothers, Hans and Nicholas. Thanks again, Rick
I can't remember which side will survive the merge. It's important that Bushong survive and Buschong be merged.
By the way, I checked Findagrave.com and they have zero Buschongs listed.
I saw your proposed merger of Bushong-110 (L) and Buschong-3. I agree they should be merged however, there are mistakes in Buschong-3 and it should be merged into Bushong-110 which is correct. First, the surname was Bushong, not Buschong. This means every child/profile is misnamed and needs to be merged with their correctly named profile. Second Buschong-3's parents are incorrect and his parents were not John Buschong Buschong-5 they were Hans Philip Bushong Jr, Bushong-253. And again, Buschong-5 has the wrong surname and needs to be merged with Bushong-20.
It appears that every single Bushong profile that is named Buschong is wrong and a duplicate of a correct Bushong profile. So all these Buschong profiles need to be merged into Bushong profiles and the Bushong profiles need to survive.
Maggie, from your profile, you are much more experienced than I am with Wikipedia. I would be able to help with the merges, but it appears there are a lot of duplicate and misnamed Buschong profiles.
For sources, I have a Bushong website and a large Bushong tree that charts virtually every Bushong here: http://belizebreeze.com/bushongunited/
Sincerely, Rick Bushong
Btw, what a nice website!
edited by Maggie N.
Thank you for the quick reply.
All those Buschongs that I saw are duplicates of the Bushong profiles. Changing the name only will leave a ton of duplicates that will confuse everyone.
I'm glad you looked at my website. I know the Bushong family and have charted virtually all of them, including every Bushong on FindaGrave (in 2012), the 1930 and 1940 census. Charting showed virtually every American Bushong descends from two brothers. There's no confusion in their name, though there have been occasional misspellings at the hands of unfamiliar clerics. census takers. and even Bushongs, it began as Boschung in 1595 in Boltigen, Switzerland, and in Germany, it varied a bit, but when the brothers, Nicholas in 1732 and Hans in 1731, immigrated, they clearly spelled their name Boschung, in their own hand. In America, it was always predominantly Bushong, and only one time, from the 1719 immigrant was it Buschong. There are documented branches that misspelled it Bushon, and one branch Bushawn. Also one tombstone with Bushum, but that's it.
Thanks again, Rick Bushong
My real pleasure comes in the fact that for the past 5 - 6 years, I have been getting 2 - 3 three distant cousin messages and inquiries every month from people who have found their ancestors in my work and have been able to connect their own work into it. Many of these people are not yet part of the Wikitree Community, so it shows the wide reach that we have. This is what I had hoped to achieve when I started my work here. Best wishes, Jim LaBossiere
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There is no proof for a 1648 birth, nor for birth in Nottingham or Leiden.
Annette Anthony is NOT part of this family ! Regards, Robert Pittenger, Sharon CT, [email address removed]
Robert
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Here is a list of all 4 thons next year:
Connect-a-Thon Jan 19-22
Connect-a Thon Apr 12-15
Connect-a Thon Jul 19-22
Source-a-Thon Oct 4-7
That means the first Thon of the year will be a Connect-a-Thon on the weekend of the 19 - 22 Jan 2024. I would love to have you with your fellow Legacy Heirs at that time, if it works out for you. I will remind you about registration when that time comes.
P.S. I now know a quick and easy little tip on how to add profiles. If you use the Sourcer/Searcher app, and want to know the hint, let me know and I will send you the steps.
I am wanting to send out a message with the dates of the thons and what each is. I know you are/were part of the group that had some people wanting to be Legacy Heirs. If you can, I need the names and ID's of those who want to. Could you find them out for me and get me a list?
Thank you, Lisa
It's time for a One Name Studies Project check-in!
Could you please advise me which One Name Studies you're still actively coordinating, i.e. maintaining the main study page and associated research pages, and replying to queries/comments from members.
You can respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. I look forward to hearing from you!
If I don’t receive your response within the next three weeks, I’ll assume that your interests have changed or you are no longer able to coordinate any One Name Studies, and you'll be removed from the project.
Regards
Jacqueline Baxter, ONS Project Co-Leader
edited by Jacqueline Baxter
My Name Studies are: The Delahunty Name Study > https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Delahunty_Name_Study
The Trant Name Study > https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Trant_Name_Study
And the Stermenszky Name Study > https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Stermenszky_Name_Study
Please check out your Zimmer branch
I hope you are pre-certified so you can make sure this is a 'clean' profile after the merge I am not pre-certified so it is up to you or any others who are pre-certified
However, thank you very much for attending to the merge. Should be helpful in sorting out descendants
edited by Susan Smith
So does it make sense to just use Cloghera Beg? Thanks for any guidance! Karen
edited by Karen Haney
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
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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
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How are you related to Dawid Cedek and other Cedeks.? Thanks
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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
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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
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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
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P Kreutzer, US Civil War Between the States Project Leader.