Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
and [sibling(s) unknown]
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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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Liz (Noland) Shifflett is a lifelong resident of Virginia |  |
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About the Badges
But first... the stickers! I LOVE the stickers (seriously - don't believe me? click here). Here's the newest one (from the Magna Carta Project - see below).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:
- How to Start Climbing Our Tree
- How to Make the Most of a Profile
- How to Join in the Community
- How to be a Successful WikiTreer
- How to Manage Your Watchlist
- 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 Trail Tender for several trails from Gilbert de Clare and others.
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!) See this G2G post.
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]
Sources
- Joe Sneed, added Liz Shifflett as a WikiTree member (thanks Joe!)
- Liz Shifflett, firsthand knowledge.
Attribution
- ↑ Entered by Joe Sneed, May 28, 2012
- ↑ Updated by Liz Shifflett, May 28, 2012
- ↑ Confirmed by DNA: 27 segments, 3,581.1 cM (from GEDmatch comparison of T227726 and T479362).
- ↑ Entered by Liz Shifflett, May 30 2012 (updated June 6 and December 1, 2012)
- ↑ Added by Liz Shifflett, June 5, 2012; links updated January 12, 2014
- ↑ Added May 30, 2012, by Liz Shifflett (firsthand knowledge)
- ↑ 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
Me:
Liz was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!
Team Virginia:
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!
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.
Challenges:
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
Some of my ancestors -
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
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Liz's formal name
- full middle name (L.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (6)
- spouse's name and marriage information
Sponsored Search
Followed Tags
Liz is a Wiki Genealogist following these tags:
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:
Questions
Collaboration
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
- CYMRU
- Active project participant.
- 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.
- HOLLINGSWORTH
- Sarah (Hollingsworth-1343) may be the answer to family rumor of a Dixon-Hollingsworth connection (to Dixon-1980)
- MACDONALD
- working on my McDonald Brick Wall - proof of Willis McDonald's father/mother & grandparents
- 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.
- PRE-1500
- A badged member.
- PRE-1700
- A badged member.
- VIRGINIA
- project co-leader
- WATKINS
- my Watkins brick wall: John Watkins of Powhatan County, Virginia (my 4x-gr-grand)
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, FTDNA kit #360775
- Liz (Noland) Shifflett: Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T227726 [compare], FTDNA kit #360775
- Peyton Noland
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T479362 [compare], FTDNA kit #360774
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Questions
- Liz Shifflett is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 17, 2019.
- Liz Shifflett is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 8, 2019.
- Liz Shifflett is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 30, 2018.
- Liz Shifflett is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 18, 2018.
- Liz Shifflett is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 9, 2018.
- Liz Shifflett is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 8, 2018.
Collaboration
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- Private Messages: Send a private message to Liz. (Best for comments to Liz that need to be private.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages to or about Liz that can be public. Limit 20 per day.)
On 16 Jan 2019 at 19:54 GMT Bree Ogle wrote:
Happy New Year Liz!
On 15 Jan 2019 at 22:11 GMT Lynnette Frary wrote:
Thank you for the confirmation Liz!!!
On 8 Jan 2019 at 17:31 GMT Karen (Finnerty) Butler wrote:
I also check if information has been added after the greeting message eg, age checks, or if they need a block and delete xxx
On 8 Jan 2019 at 17:17 GMT Karen (Finnerty) Butler wrote:
Hi Liz
It means i am going through the GAF from a few days ago and posting messages for people who have not confirmed their email address, normally Cindy does this but as she has no computer at the moment i am doing them till she is back. C2=Cindy 2 :-) xxx
On 8 Jan 2019 at 06:06 GMT Liz (Noland) Shifflett wrote:
On 8 Jan 2019 at 05:46 GMT Liz (Noland) Shifflett wrote:
Challenge met! Liz gave a gift to two December profiles in 2018
On 5 Jan 2019 at 17:54 GMT Anonymous Sibert wrote:
Hi Liz,
Thanks for the welcome. It is nice to meet you. I have been fussing with my family history of and on for about 10 years, mostly using ancestry.com. I've come across some discrepancies that I think are due to uncritical research. My plan is to upload a gedcom (exported from Gramps) and see what shakes out of the tree. I'm sure I'll make mistakes, so any advice and comment will be welcome. John
On 26 Dec 2018 at 16:25 GMT Doris Manis wrote:
Liz,I don't think Francis Asbury is my grandfather they never had no middle names and he married cynthia manis and her maiden name is manis Asbury's father's name is Henry manis all bored and raised in hawkins county tenn none of them had middle names.not even Asbury's children.there was 8 of them.i went to archives in hawkins county.Asbury married in 1925 and they spent time in jail for living together and we're married when they had two of the 8 children.they are buried in parrot cemetery in hawkins county tenn. My dad would get so mad if you ask anything about them and his brothers children got done same way if ask questions about them.i believe there is a hidden secret in that family.i want to find out what.
On 26 Dec 2018 at 01:24 GMT Debi (McGee) Hoag wrote:
Hi Liz,
I have added the Quakers Project as co-manager and added the project badge to Harry-39. He did meet the criteria for the Quakers Project.
Thanks,
Debi
On 24 Dec 2018 at 15:50 GMT Maggie N. wrote:
Liz, I could be wrong but I don't think the Pocahontas Project have a project account. Maybe Virginia could protect them? And then, when I get back here, I will ask Native Americans project about it. I plan to work on all Bollings (connect, sources, ect) next week so WikiTree can, at least, look good with those guys!
Happy New Year's, my friend.
Maggie
Liz is 22 degrees from Robin Helstrom, 23 degrees from Katy Jurado and 20 degrees from Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.