Melona (Niven) Gallagher

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ETHEL RITCHIE/SWEEZIE WAS HENRY HERBERT RITCHIE SECOND WIFE,HIS THRID WIFE ETHEL WARDLAW GRANT/RITCHIE

Hi Melona,

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Hello

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Hello-

I saw that you happen to merge some people who are on my tree. Not sure if you have information about them as well, or if I happened to have 2 entries for the same people. I'm still learning this program and site. Any information you have about these people would be most helpful.

Thanks you. Holly

As a member of the Scotland Project, we'd love to have you join the Twisted Thistles in the upcoming Connect-a-thon the weekend of July 17 - July 20. If you'd like to join us and help to develop our ever-expanding Scottish tree, please register on the G2G post here and be sure to mention you'd like to be on the Twisted Thistles team for Scotland.

We also have our team Chat page posted here.

Hope to see you there!

Bobbie & Sarah

Twisted Thistles Co-captains

I want to congratulate you on your Family Star award.

John Williams

Thanks Ellen, I appreciate all your comments and tips.

Hi, Melona.

Thank you for your efforts to document the names for people like De_Bogart-2 and her son Aabram -- I like seeing your attention to genealogical details!

In regard to your comments on De_Bogart-2 regarding the LNAB, I suggest that you review the WikiTree policy that calls for using their conventions not ours and the Project page section that explains the specific implementation of this policy for New Netherland names, including LNABs. The project does not assume that a child had the same last name as their parent (they often did not), nor that all siblings had the same last name (they often did not). LNABs and other primary names are determined from contemporary records, but all other known names are documented somewhere in the profile data fields to help ensure that the profiles are findable in name searches.

I have become a big fan of creating Church Records sections in profiles (after initially thinking it was unnecessary), to show exactly what the records say; these sections are very helpful as a ready reference for confirming names, identifying relatives who witnesses baptisms, etc.

Finally, based on the baptism record for Voorhees-558 and the Name Fields guidance from WikiTree and the NNS project, I would record his Proper First Name as Aabram (because it is the name on his baptism; Shram could still be his Preferred Name) and I would add Vandenbogert to the list of Other Last Names for his mother. But you know more about him than I do!

Ellen Smith

Thank you for your help with my ancestor Martha Simons Young

Melona: I have sent the indication If you add to any of appropriate profiles it will add them. If you add it will give you access and the ability to add to a list of profile. My concentration has mostly on the Pennsylvania Bailey's. More specifically Centre County. As to confusion as to "the War of 1812" I was born and raised in Niagara Falls and my mother was Canadian so the name and who won that war was a long standing argument in the family.

Melona,

Thanks for your help in adding my great-grandmother's maternal line in Ayrshire, Scotland. I wonder what it is about Canada that makes my distant cousins up there so friendly? You are tops in my book. Although we are only 6th cousins, it seems closer. Warm regards to you and your family.

Hello!

I have added you to the Auld Name Project. Thank you so much for looking after my favorite surname! :-D

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

Also, feel free to add the Auld Name Study Sticker to your profile Biography! {{One Name Study|name=Auld}

Chuck Auld