Elizabeth Lavallee Noland (Noland) Shifflett

Liz (Noland) Shifflett

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Mrs. Liz L. Shifflett formerly Noland aka Lavallee
Born 1950s.
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of DNA confirmed and
[sibling(s) unknown]
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Noland-165 created 28 May 2012 | Last modified | Last edit: 22 Jun 2017
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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 | Louisiana Families Project | Louisiana Categories Project | US Southern Colonies Project | Categorization Project | Templates Project | Peyton Project.

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.

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About the Badges

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:

WikiTree has many Greeters with a wide range of interests (see the list for details). 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

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 Louisiana Families project.

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:

Biography

Liz Shifflett[1][2] 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.[3]

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![4]

Education[5]

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

Personal Websites[6]


Sources


Attribution

  1. ↑ Entered by Joe Sneed, May 28, 2012
  2. ↑ Updated by Liz Shifflett, May 28, 2012
  3. ↑ Entered by Liz Shifflett, May 30 2012 (updated June 6 and December 1, 2012)
  4. ↑ Added by Liz Shifflett, June 5, 2012; links updated January 12, 2014
  5. ↑ Added May 30, 2012, by Liz Shifflett (firsthand knowledge)
  6. ↑ 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

Leader / Co-LeaderExamples Gallery

Name studies (One Name Studies subprojects):

Project Profiles in the Examples Gallery that I keep an eye on:

Louisiana Families Project
Cymru Project
Magna Carta
US Southern Colonies
Virginia
Project Coordinator / OtherMember

Other (keeper-upper?)

Team Leader


Categories Space Pages
listed here so I don't forget to check on them or work on them


Tags I'd like to follow, but I'm not willing to give up any of the 20 I'm already following (although I did give up Bryan for Cymru... and then Cymru for MacDonald): bonaventureBryandixsonfletcherknowlandnowlandMacDaniel EuroAristoMedievalCymruUNITED_KINGDOMWalesWelshScotlandIrelandEngland PPPPRE-1500PRE-1700 DNAONE_NAME_STUDIESprofilesprojects PennQuakers Quebecoisriver_routes MississippiTennesseeMaryland greeterstemplatesrangersmentorsleadersstyle WikiTree_CalendarSourcing_SprintsChallengesdb_errors

Additional tags I follow via project accounts:

WikiTree-4 (MatchBot): ARBORISTSCONNECTORSLNABMATCHBOTMERGES
WikiTree-8 (NNS): NNSNEW_NETHERLAND HUGUENOTDUTCH_ROOTS
WikiTree-26 (LaFam): ACADIANLOUISIANALOUISIANA_FAMILIESSOUTHERN_COLONIESSOUTHERN_PIONEERSWESTWARD_HO
WikiTree-28 (LaCat): ANNOUNCEMENTScategorizationIMPROVEMENTSNOTABLESSOURCERERSSources
WikiTree-40 (US History): US_HistoryCemeteriesMilitary_and_WarOne_Place_StudiesFloridaMinnesotaVirginiaWashington
WikiTree-41 (Virginia): VirginiaUS_History
WikiTree-42 (Tennessee): TennesseeUS_HistoryDisastersMilitary_and_War

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Followed Tags
Liz is a Wiki Genealogist following these tags:
ALDRIDGE
6x-gr-granddaughter of John Aldridge, born before 1702 in Virginia or Maryland
AWBREY
7x-gr-granddaughter of John Awbrey, born in Wales, came to Virginia in 1665
BRIEN
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)
CHAUVIN
my Louisiana First Families progenitor & 6x-gr-grand, Louis Chauvin m Marie Anne Francoeur before 1773
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)
EPPINETTE
my 4x-gr-grand Louis Eppinette married Dorothea Bonaventure in 1814: Louisiana First Family progenitor/brick wall
GAULDING
Lula Gaulding m A.F. Watkins. Solid to her parents (aka brick walls)
HALL
3x-gr-granddaughter of Evan Hall, son of Pharoah & Mary/brick walls
HARRINGTON
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.
HARRIS
good back to Edward Harris (7x-gr-grand), and his dad Thomas. The wives, not so much.
HOLLINGSWORTH
Sarah (Hollingsworth-1343) may be the answer to family rumor of a Dixon-Hollingsworth connection (to Dixon-1980)
MACDONALD
working on my MacDonald Brick Wall - proof of Willis MacDonald's father/mother & grandparents
MAGNA_CARTA
project coordinator for Index of Surety Barons
MARTIN
my paternal grandmother's maiden name
NAMING_CONVENTIONS
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.
NEAL
John Henry Neal (Neal-865), born 1812 in Virginia, is my 3x-gr-grandfather on mom's side, and a brick wall
NOLAND
pretty solid, albeit circumstantial, back to Philip Noland-120 and his wife, and his dad/granddad (but not at all their added wives/ancestors)
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)
WYNNE
Jane (Wynn) Owen, my 5x-gr-grandmother & brick wall


DNA Tested
Liz Shifflett's DNA has been tested for genealogical purposes. It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Liz or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
  • Liz (Noland) Shifflett: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H4a1a1a1a, Mitosearch RUJZS, FTDNA kit #360775
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share DNA with Liz:

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Questions

Collaboration
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On 22 Jun 2017 at 07:53 GMT Mel (Gilbert) Lambert wrote:

Thank you for the kind words. I was past thrilled when my cousin shared the photo with me. Sending you'll wishes for a joy filled and happy summer

Mel

On 22 Jun 2017 at 00:05 GMT Rhonda Lucas wrote:

Hi Liz

Thanks for all your work with the Melrose DNA study, much appreciated. But why do I need to have a separate space page? It just seems to be an extra step, I would much prefer all on one page, ie project page.

On a side note, The template did originally work perfectly well when all was set up, it was only a recent change, behind the scenes I imagine, where things went afoul, Lord knows what though.

On 21 Jun 2017 at 17:14 GMT Doug Lockwood wrote:

Liz,

Please change anything that is incorrect on any of my profiles.

Regards,

Doug

On 21 Jun 2017 at 07:37 GMT David Wilson wrote:

Thanks for looking at profiles of the Burton and Hudson ONS categories!

*

On 20 Jun 2017 at 04:48 GMT Rhonda Lucas wrote:

Hi Liz

Thanks for looking into the Melrose ONS! It's frustrating when things change down the track after initial creation, but that's the spirit of wikitree, ever evolving. I see a problem using Melrose one name as it is bith name and a DNA study of Melrose descendants to see if we can connect them down the track. So it really is a DNA One Name Study and needs to be titled to be in both categories. After seeing that it needed a "project" page, my thought was to transfer the data from the category page across, what to you think? If it has a project page it doesn't need a space as well IMO. Thanks Rhonda.

On 15 Jun 2017 at 19:44 GMT Sarah (Murtaugh) Heiney wrote:

Hi Liz, thank you for helping to make the Military Challenge such a success :) The Louisiana category was ON FIRE because of your hard work! I've started a G2G thread to ask about when the next challenge should be. Share any input you have here:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/408622/when-should-future-military-challenges-happen

On 14 Jun 2017 at 05:53 GMT Gillian Thomas wrote:

Hi Liz, thanks so much for fixing that so quickly. The Colorado one looks good now too. I'll keep an eye on the categories, in future as if someone has to set one up from scratch it is tricky to get it right. Let me know after you hear back from Abby, if there is anything else I need to do.

On 14 Jun 2017 at 04:26 GMT Gillian Thomas wrote:

Hi Liz, for some reason the Thomas Name Study has dropped out of the index of One Name Studies. I am sure it used to be there. Are you able to fix it and /or suggest who best to contact otherwise. Thanks so much. Gillian

On 13 Jun 2017 at 15:45 GMT Eric Daly wrote:

All the connections you asked about have been done. I didn't merge the other Elizabeth Eure as its a legitimate profile

On 13 Jun 2017 at 15:31 GMT Eric Daly wrote:

Ive been doing the Strangeway's for 15 years but never looked at the ones on wikiTree till now and the lines were totally wrong. They are right now.

Your connected to James Strangeways: 3rd cousins 20 times removed.

Your connection to his wife Elizabeth Eure is 3rd cousins 16 times removed. This is probably closer than what you had.

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