Liz (Noland) Shifflett

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Daughter of Peyton Noland and Betty (Brien) Noland

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Categories: United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) | Daughters of the American Revolution | Noland-165 | MatchBot MPs | Greeters | WikiTree Leaders | Virginia Project | Magna Carta Project | Chocolate Needed | Wales Project | US Southern Colonies Project | Louisiana Families Project | Categorization Project | Templates Project | Peyton Project | Magna Carta Recognition Stickers | Quakers Profile Caretakers.

	Effective 1 July 2018
	I'll be back in 10...
	(but I'm not promising minutes)
Sorry, but it might be a while until I can get back to you.
I'm working up (down) this month to an Internet sabbatical in August. So it may take a while for me to reply in July; if my willpower is strong, you won't hear from me at all in August. I'll be back - with renewed enthusisam - 1 September. At least, that's the plan.

Either my age is showing or I'm over-extended, but I have a hard time keeping track of the projects I'm involved with, so... See the My Projects table below.

Liz (Noland) Shifflett is a lifelong resident of Virginia

Join: Virginia Project ~ Discuss: Virginia A United States History Subproject

About the Badges

Summer Challenge met! Liz developed a Gateway's profile.

Greeter

Greeters welcome new WikiTreeers and help them get started. In the past, they would frequently provide a selection of useful links (some listed below). However, a new "Guided Tour" was recently developed that is a wonderful thing for both new guests and long-time members. Check out the first step on the tour: How to Start Climbing Our Tree. If you're impatient, all the steps are under Category:New Member How To:

1. How to Start Climbing Our Tree
2. How to Make the Most of a Profile
3. How to Join in the Community
4. How to be a Successful WikiTreer
5. How to Manage Your Watchlist
6. How to Dig a Little Deeper

There's also a similar step-by-step for DNA - see New Member "How To" DNA

Here are some of those older links Greeters used to provide, some of which the Guided Tour has either replaced or references:

• How to Use WikiTree
• Sources Resources - Because of WikiTree's collaborative nature, sources are very important. They allow current and future genealogists to assess the accuracy of the information. (See the link at citing sources for tips on creating source links.)
• Genealogy Help - This is a wonderful list of resources that the more experienced genealogists on WikiTree started to help with finding sources. Additions are welcome from all!
• WikiTree Help
• G2G forum (for questions)
• an introductory WikiTree video that a member created
• Video Help has additional how-to videos
• About WikiTree
• Our Honor Code

WikiTree has many Greeters with a wide range of interests. One of my mentors and a former Greeter, Debby, also has good tips and information on her profile page (click her name to see what she's posted).

Another project - "Mentors" - checks in with volunteers after they've been members for a bit. I ran across a followup post by a mentor that included links to Beyond the Basics of WikiTree and Social Media (and I learned a thing or two :D).

Just in time for 2014, WikiTree's Style committee posted best practices for Biographies (the text portion of profiles).

G2G6

This cool badge with the plane on it just means I've offered my opinion a lot in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) question and answer forum. Seriously, Leaders lurk in the g2g forum to ensure it's a friendly place to find answers and help when you're stuck on something.

Wiki Genealogist

The Wiki Genealogist badge, one of four membership level badges, shows that you've signed the Honor Code and become a full member of the WikiTree community.

Project Member

Liz is Gateway Guardian of Robert Peyton, John Awbrey and others.

Liz is Trail Tender for several trails from Gilbert de Clare and others.

Liz is Surety Specialist for the Clares (Richard and Gilbert), and contact for Hugh de Neville.

Liz is on the Magna Carta Project leadership team.

In addition to tending your own branches of the WikiTree, you can contribute through various projects, such as the Project Member badge I have for the Magna Carta Project.

Want to join the project? (We have stickers!) Answer this G2G post "yes!"

Community Star

I'm honored to have been awarded a community star. If you know someone who deserves recognition, you can award them a family star or a community star, depending on what you'd like to recognize them for.

Big Heart

As you explore WikiTree, you may notice that some profiles are up for adoption. If you want to see if there are orphans in your family line, check out the searchable list at Adoptions. When you adopt there, you're awarded a Big Heart badge.

Cousin Connections

As my line ends with me, I'm pleased to provide what I know for my cousins (however distant :) and their descendants. In addition to profiles of our ancestors, I've added some pages with additional information:

• From the Pen of a She-Rebel
• Descendants of Certain Branches of the Line of William Hamilton Watkins, D.D. (1815 - 1881)
• Hall Family
• Notes from Dad (Dad being Peyton Noland)
• Peyton Families
  • Of Peytons & Paytons (for the English branches of Peytons/Paytons, managed by a very distant cousin)
• Simon Hadley's 1755 will - annotated abstract (possibly not a lineal ancestor, but too much information to pass up)
• The Aldridge Family: England to America
• Watkins Letter
• Harris Families from England to America
• Awbrey Ancestry, connecting Sarah (Awbrey) Noland to her Welsh roots (note - still in progress, so not yet public)

Biography

Liz Shifflett,^[1][2] daughter of Henry Peyton Noland^[3] and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Brien, is working on tracing (rather, proving) her lineage beyond Edward Spencer Martin and to Pearce Noland ("the immigrant"), as well as her Neal and Bell ancestors (of Tennessee) and the Watkins and Briens who settled in Mississippi in the 1800s.

Liz was born in D.C. but raised in Virginia.

Raised in Alexandria, Virginia, Liz moved south (a bit) and lives in Woodbridge, Virginia. She's a graduate of T.C. Williams high school (Alexandria) and began her career with the Federal Government while a senior there. She's now retired from her last Federal position: an editor for the NASA Office of Inspector General in Washington, D.C.^[4]

Thoughts from Liz

I think about the lifetime of my Grandmother Elizabeth sometimes, being born in 1896 with horse and buggy the common conveyance and growing to drive her own car and fly to Israel and elsewhere. Before she died in 1989, man had walked on the moon and Space Shuttles were traveling to low Earth orbit and back.

Then today, as I finished watching the transit of Venus thanks to the Internet (not to mention the Solar Dynamics Observatory and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center), I recalled the early days of the Internet, when I watched a grand slam by the Orioles - depicted by little animated stick figures moving around a diamond on a green screen.

Grandmother not only was born to horses and lived to see spaceflight, she was born to books and saw the advent of radio and television. I used to think, "What wonders will I see before I die?" And then I realized: I just watched the transit of Venus over a computer in my own home. I receive e-mails with images of the Earth from space, distant planets, the Milky Way, and more from the ISS, Hubble, Cassini, and other spacecraft. I think I'm seeing them!^[5]

Education^[6]

AA - Northern Virginia Community College (Liberal Arts)
BA - University College, University of Maryland (Journalism)
MA - University of Oklahoma (Communication)

Personal Websites^[7]

• Liz's Website
• Bear's Website (Ted Lavallee)
• Donnie (Donald Shifflett)

Sources

• Joe Sneed, added Liz Shifflett as a WikiTree member (thanks Joe!)
• Liz Shifflett, firsthand knowledge.

Attribution

1. ↑ Entered by Joe Sneed, May 28, 2012
2. ↑ Updated by Liz Shifflett, May 28, 2012
3. ↑ Confirmed by DNA: 27 segments, 3,581.1 cM (from GEDmatch comparison of T227726 and T479362).
4. ↑ Entered by Liz Shifflett, May 30 2012 (updated June 6 and December 1, 2012)
5. ↑ Added by Liz Shifflett, June 5, 2012; links updated January 12, 2014
6. ↑ Added May 30, 2012, by Liz Shifflett (firsthand knowledge)
7. ↑ Added May 30, 2012, by Liz Shifflett (firsthand knowledge)

August 2013 Notice about E-mails

Something wasn't working right with e-mails to me through WikiTree from July 29 or 30 through August 3. If you sent me a private message and I didn't respond, it's because I didn't receive it. Sorry! Please re-send, as I think I've fixed the problem. You can also contact me by using the public bulletin board posting feature at right (or, if you're not a WikiTree member, post a comment or answer to my G2G post about this). Thanks!

April 2014 Notice about E-mails

The same problem that I encountered last August arose again (although I caught it faster this time). I think the problem started sometime late Saturday, April 26 (after ET 10:30 pm), and I fixed it Monday the 28th about 11 am. If you sent me a private message, trusted list request, or merge proposal and I didn't reply or take action, please re-send! Thanks!

Note to WikiTree:

Digital Afterlife: In the event of my death, I would like all of the profiles for people not living that I manage alone to be changed to Open. Also, if any project pages are still just in my name, they need to be turned over to the appropriate project. Space pages that I have created can all be changed to Open. If I missed anything (and for the Red/still living profiles on my Watchlist), I ask that they be managed by Team Wiki or a WikiTree Leader at the discretion of WikiTree. Thanks! Elizabeth L.N. Shifflett Noland-165 12:05, 21 June 2016 (EDT)

My Projects

Liz was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Team Virginia during the 2016 Source-a-Thon, adding 11 sources to profiles. We finished in the top 5!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Virginia Spring Cleaners during the 2017 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 312 suggestions.We cleaned up 5457 suggestions!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Team Virginia during the 2017 Source-a-Thon, adding 91 sources to profiles. We came in third!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett is participating with Virginia Spring Cleaners during the 2018 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 364 suggestions.We cleaned up 6423 suggestions!

Challenge met! Liz developed a Gateway's profile in Feb. 2018

Liz improved Quakers Project-managed profiles during the March 2018 Challenge

Challenge met! Liz developed a trail in March 2018

Challenge met! Liz participated in the 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon!

Liz participated in the April 2018 Quakers Challenge to help protect Quaker profiles

May Challenge met! Liz cleared 5 project profiles of their "needs".

Descendant of Gruffydd ap Nicolas of Dinefawr, the 'Eagle of Caermarthen'.

Descendant of John Awbrey, Prospective Gateway Ancestor.

Descendant of Louis du Bois, Huguenot immigrant.

Descendant of Jan Joosten van Meteren, Immigrant Ancestor.

Descendant of John Stith, Virginia Colonist.

Descendant of Andreas Kilian, Palatine Immigrant.

Descendant of Willis McDonald, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A076388.

Descendant of Samuel Gill, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A044721.

Descendant of Robert Bell, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A008776.

Descendant of Benjamin Rush, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A100013.

Descendant of Robert Peyton, Peyton Name Study.

Descendant of Loius Marie Chauvin, Louisiana pioneer.

Descendant of Pearce Noland, Mississippi pioneer.

Descendant of Rev. W.H. Watkins, Methodist minister (Mississippi Conference).

Descendant of Armajor Kent Hall, Confederate soldier, center of Hall Name Study subproject.

Descendant of James Alexander Neal, Confederate soldier.

Descendant of Henry Peyton Noland, Confederate soldier.

Descendant of J.W. Gaulding, founder (1868), Arkadelphia Southern Standard.

Descendant of Elisha Livingston Brien, a pillar of Crawford Street Methodist Church in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Descendant of Rev. A.F. Watkins, President of Millsaps College (1912-1923).

Descendant of Edward Spencer Martin of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

And tags I'd like to follow if I could follow more than 20 (currently going through a "re-vamp" - see this page):
bonaventuredixsonfletcherknowlandnowlandMacDanielMcDonald WalesWelshScotlandIrelandEngland PPP DNAONE_NAME_STUDIESprofilesprojects PennQuakers Quebecoisriver_routes MississippiTennesseeMaryland greeterstemplatesrangersmentorsleadersstyle Challengesdb_errorsdata_doctors

Additional tags I follow via project accounts:

WikiTree-4 (MatchBot): ARBORISTSCONNECTORSLNABMATCHBOTMERGES

WikiTree-8 (NNS): NNSNEW_NETHERLAND HUGUENOTDUTCH_ROOTS

WikiTree-25 (EuroAristo): EUROARISTOFMGNOBILITYPre-1700 ROYALTY

WikiTree-26 (LaFam): ACADIANLOUISIANALOUISIANA_FAMILIESSOUTHERN_COLONIESSOUTHERN_PIONEERSWESTWARD_HO

WikiTree-28 (LaCat): ANNOUNCEMENTScategorizationIMPROVEMENTSNOTABLESSOURCERERSSources

WikiTree-36 (Magna Carta): Magna_CartaCymruEuroAristoMedievalUNITED_KINGDOMPRE-1500PRE-1700PGMPURITAN_GREAT_MIGRATIONSourcesNAMING_CONVENTIONS

WikiTree-40 (US History): US_HistoryCemeteriesMilitary_and_WarOne_Place_StudiesFloridaMinnesotaVirginiaWashington

WikiTree-41 (Virginia): VirginiaUS_History

WikiTree-42 (Tennessee): TennesseeUS_HistoryDisastersMilitary_and_War

WikiTree-52 (Disproven Existence): Disproven_ExistenceFALSE_ANCESTORSFraudUncertain_Existence

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