Liz (Noland) Shifflett

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Daughter of Peyton Noland and Betty (Brien) Noland

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Liz (Noland) Shifflett has Welsh ancestors.

Liz was a valued member of the Greeters Project who has moved to Emeritus status.

Liz (Noland) Shifflett is a member of the US Southern Colonies Project.

My latest official sticker!

Liz is a member of the Jamestown Team.

Liz is a member of the Colony of Virginia Team.

My latest unofficial stickers (based on the Recognition Sticker).

And... as of 1 June 2020, my badges are no longer displayed here. To see what I'm talking about, [click here] (it's the page where you'll see all of my badges, not just the ones I highlight in this section).

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

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Project Member

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

Liz is Trail Tender for trails from Peyton, Awbrey, and the Battes.

Liz is Surety Specialist for John FitzRobert of Clavering and the Clares (Richard and Gilbert).

Liz is on the Magna Carta Project leadership team.

Liz is Team Leader of the Project's AM Team (Admin-Maintenance).

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!) Click the link to the G2G welcome post on the Project page.

AND... The recent addition are stickers for subprojects, based on the new[ish] {{Member}} sticker. The Magna Carta Project has one for its affiliate members to use, but the primary use of the Member stickers are for projects that are actually subprojects and do not have their own project badge for members to display.

Liz (Noland) Shifflett is a member of the Peyton Name Study Project.

Liz (Noland) Shifflett is a member of the Noland Name Study Project.

For example, the One Name Studies has a project badge, but the individual name studied do not, but now they can have a sticker!

Yay! More stickers :D

Liz (Noland) Shifflett is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

And another one! (For the version that goes on the Patriot Ancestor's profile, see the this template page. See this G2G post for more information.)

Community Star

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Big Heart

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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
• The Billingsleys of Virginia
• 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.

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)
  

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 participated with Virginia Spring Cleaners during the 2018 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 364 suggestions.We cleaned up 6423 suggestions!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Team Virginia during the 2018 Source-a-Thon, adding 117 sources to profiles. We finished in 6th place!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Team Virginia (which uploaded 303 images) during the 2019 Scan-a-Thon, scanning and uploading 30 items to profiles.

Liz (Noland) Shifflett is participating with Virginia Spring Cleaners during the 2019 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 121 suggestions... We cleaned up 11,253 suggestions & finished 3rd!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett is participating with The Virginia Connectors during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon, and has added 87 connections... We came in 3rd! Yay Team Virginia!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Team Virginia during the 2019 Source-a-Thon, adding 20 sources to profiles. We finished in 3rd place!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated in the 2020 Scan-a-Thon, scanning and uploading 7 items to profiles.

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Virginia Spring Cleaners during the 2020 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 521 suggestions... We cleaned up 15,730 suggestions & finished 3rd!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and has added 111 connections... We came in 3rd! Yay Team Virginia!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Team Virginia during the 2020 Source-a-Thon, adding 109 sources to profiles. We added 3,496 sources & came in 5th!

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Virginia Spring Cleaners during the 2021 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 524 suggestions... Team Virginia held on to 5th with 16,737 suggestions cleaned (3rd, normalized).

Liz (Noland) Shifflett participated with Virtual US Southern Colonies Project Team during the 2021 Clean-a-Thon... contributing to the 23,188 suggestions cleaned that took the team to a virtual 3rd!

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".

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

Summer Challenge met! Liz developed a trail.

Challenge met! Liz participated in the 2018 Source-a-Thon!

October Challenge met! Liz helped four needy project profiles.

November Challenge met! Liz improved Eleanor's profile

Challenge met! Liz gave a gift to two December profiles in 2018

Challenge met! Liz participated in the 2019 Spring Clean-a-Thon!

Liz is a participant in a sticker challenge with 60 stickers as of 1 June 2020.

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

Descendant of John Awbrey, Prospective Gateway Ancestor.

Descendant of the Pulestons (through John's mother).

Descendant of Louis du Bois, Huguenot immigrant.

Descendant of Jan Joosten van Meteren, Immigrant Ancestor.

Descendant of Henry Soane, a Jamestowne Society Qualifying 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 Elias Harris, North Carolina Southern 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.

Descendant of Great Mississippians: Peyton and Betty Noland (my parents).

Tags I follow:
ALDRIDGE^[8] AWBREY^[9] BRIEN^[10]
CHAUVIN^[11] CYMRU
EPPINETTE^[12] HARRINGTON^[13] HOLLINGSWORTH^[14]
MARTIN^[15] MCDONALD^[16]
NAMING_CONVENTIONS^[17]
NEAL^[18] NOLAND^[19]
POLICY PRE-1500 PRE-1700 PROJECT_LEADERS SOURCES TEMPLATES VIRGINIA

And tags I'd like to follow if I could follow more than 20 (currently going through a "re-vamp" - see this page):
bonaventure dixson fletcher knowland nowland MacDaniel Welsh Scotland Ireland England Wales PPP DNA ONE_NAME_STUDIES profiles projects newsletter Penn Quakers Quebecois river_routes Mississippi Tennessee Maryland templates rangers mentors leaders style Challenges db_errors data_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_CartaCymruEuroAristoMedievalScotlandUNITED_KINGDOMPRE-1500PRE-1700PGMPURITAN_GREAT_MIGRATIONSourcesNAMING_CONVENTIONS

WikiTree-40 (United States): United_StatesUS_History1776AFRICAN-AMERICANCemeteriesMilitary_and_WarOne_Place_StudiesCaliforniaMichiganFloridaMinnesotaVirginiaWashington

WikiTree-41 (Virginia): VirginiaUnited StatesUS_History

WikiTree-42 (Tennessee): TennesseeUS_HistoryDisastersMilitary_and_War

WikiTree-52 (Disproven Existence): Disproven_ExistenceFALSE_ANCESTORSFraudUncertain_Existence

Tags for "Functional Projects" I'm a member of:

Templates Categories Rangers

Moving tags (April 2019, "Added before December 2015."):

• dixon - brick wall between my 4x-gr-grand John Dixon and the family rumour of a Dixon-Hollingsworth connection (maybe Hollingsworth-1343). See also Dickson (as spelled in the transcript of the will of Zachariah Dixon, my gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
• hall - 3x-gr-granddaughter of Evan Hall, son of Pharoah & Mary/brick walls
• harris - good back to Edward Harris (7x-gr-grand), and his dad Thomas. The wives, not so much.
• peyton - George Noland married Ann Peyton...in a burned county.
• watkins - my Watkins brick wall: John Watkins of Powhatan County, Virginia (my 4x-gr-grand)

Sources

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)
8. ↑ 6x-gr-granddaughter of John Aldridge, born before 1702 in Virginia or Maryland
9. ↑ 7x-gr-granddaughter of John Awbrey, born in Wales, came to Virginia in 1665
10. ↑ gr-gr-gr-granddaughter of Elisha Brien, born in Virginia, married (2) in Tennessee in 1818; Elisha's father John changed his name from Bryan to Brien (his father was William Bryan, my 5x-gr-grand)
11. ↑ my Louisiana First Families progenitor & 6x-gr-grand, Louis Chauvin m Marie Anne Francoeur before 1773
12. ↑ my 4x-gr-grand Louis Eppinette married Dorothea Bonaventure in 1814: Louisiana First Family progenitor/brick wall
13. ↑ The mother of Fannie Dixon (my 3x-gr-grand) was for sure a Harrington (Harrington-1539), and I'm fairly confident of the Harrington line for a few more generations. But it gets a bit squirrely around Thomas Sr (Harrington-428), my 7x-gr-grand.
14. ↑ Sarah (Hollingsworth-1343) may be the answer to family rumor of a Dixon-Hollingsworth connection (to Dixon-1980).
15. ↑ paternal grandmother's maiden name - brick wall is William P. Martin born about 1795
16. ↑ working on my McDonald Brick Wall - proof of Willis McDonald's father/mother & grandparents
17. ↑ Many projects have developed guidelines to help standardize how name fields (including LNAB) are filled out for the project's profiles. I created http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Name_Field_Guidelines to help people locate these guidelines & I follow this tag to help me keep it current.
18. ↑ John Henry Neal, born 1812 in Virginia, is my 3x-gr-grandfather on mom's side, and a brick wall
19. ↑ pretty solid, albeit circumstantial, back to Philip Noland and his wife, and his dad/granddad (but not at all their added wives/ancestors)

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

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