Maree (Patroni) Evans
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I came into the world in 1981 during my parents' time in Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia. The initial chapters of my life unfolded on a cattle station in the Bachelor region, Northern Territory, Australia.
Around the age of two, my parents went their separate ways, and I moved with my mother to Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia. In 1991, my mother remarried, welcoming a new sibling into our family in 1993.
My father's work in tourism led to frequent relocations, but I maintained regular contact with him and his side of the family. The pivotal figure in sparking my interest in genealogy was my paternal grandmother, Helen (Howie) Patroni, who, sadly, passed away when I was 17. Before her departure, she entrusted me with her extensive research, including letters from family reunions in the 1990s.
In 2001, I crossed paths with my husband in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and our union in July 2003 marked the beginning of a journey that involved relocating across Australia due to my husbands role in the Defence Force. Our family expanded with the birth of our daughters in the mid 2000's. After 13 years in the defence force, my husband transitioned, and in 2016, we settled in Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia.
Throughout our nomadic lifestyle, my career in administration, finance, and events took a back seat, while my focus shifted to advocacy work for Dyslexia, Autism and Autoimmune conditions, inspired by my daughters.
The roots of my genealogical journey trace back to the family history documents left by my nana, Helen (Howie) Patroni. Unraveling these records in my mid-twenties revealed that my grandfather, John Harry Patroni (1924-2013), wasn't my biological grandfather — one of those facts known by the family but not talked about. In 2017, my curiosity intensified, and armed with DNA testing, I delved into my paternal heritage, uncovering the mystery of my biological paternal grandfather in November 2018, thanks to the collaboration of newfound cousins and eventually connecting with him to confirm his connection.
Beyond my paternal lineage, I'm on a quest to explore my maternal Dutch heritage. I always knew I would be navigating the challenges posed by an unknown Great Grandfather as my grandmother, Tini (Kroon) Huysing, was always very open about not knowing who her biological father was but being very thankful for having a wonderful step-father. Then through DNA testing the known narrative took an unexpected turn, revealing that my maternal grandfather is not my biological grandfather. So now instead of having one unknown maternal great grandparent, I have three unknown great grandparents and very bare maternal tree. I am trying to solve these unknowns with DNA and research. The language barrier has made it a little harder to work on, but I am in love with the Dutch records and the support of the Dutch WTer's that are so helpful.
If you connect with any of my family lines or have an interest in collaborating, please feel free to reach out. Whether you suspect a familial tie or simply share a curiosity about the names mentioned, I welcome collaboration on this genealogical journey. Let's pool our insights, exchange family stories, and work together to uncover the mysteries that connect us. Your contribution could be the key to filling in the gaps in this chapter of our shared ancestry.
My current research interests are;
But I also have interest in;
Surnames of current particular interest are
Through DNA analysis, my current hypothesis points to a connection with the lineage of Matthijs van de Wetering (1893-1953) and Maria Westbroek (1893-1982) for my biological maternal grandfather. This hypothesis extends to the belief that he may be a son or grandson of this couple.
Through DNA analysis, my current hypothesis points to a connection with the lineage of Gerrit van Kampen (1832-1907) and Fennetje Bleijenberg (1837-1894) with them as the potential parents or grandparents of Tini (Kroon) Huysing's biological father.
I first took a 23andMe DNA Test in 2017, I soon realised that I would need to also take an Ancestry DNA Test and did that in 2018. I have since also taken a My Heritage Test. I have uploaded my DNA where ever possible.
Managed DNA Kits MyHeritage: GedMatch: Ancestry: 23 and Me: FamilyTree DNA:
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Cheers Gillian
We're contacting you for the annual Australia Project membership checkin. We really appreciate your involvement in the Project in the last year. Thank you so much for all your help to improve Australian profiles on WikiTree.
Please could you reply to this message, or send me a private message to let us know if you'd like to stay on in the Project, and if you'd like to make any changes to the teams that you belong to. The teams are listed on Australia Project Teams.
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Looking forward to hearing from you!
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You’re a member of Southern Cross Stars for the 2023 WikiTree Source-a-Thon. Thanks for choosing us! Your Bib is 572 if you want to download your Bib and create a sticker. We kick off this evening. The times for starting and finishing for various locations in Australia is at Southern Cross Stars Chat.
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The 2023 Source-a-Thon is coming up on the weekend commencing 29 September. As usual it’s a 72 hour event. The Southern Cross Stars team will be participating and we’d love to have you on the team again if you’re available. You can register at now at register-now-for-the-2023-source-a-thon. We’re not a super-competitive team, so even if you are only free for a couple of hours or you like to work slowly and go down rabbit holes, it will be fun to have you involved. It all helps to improve the tree. We’ll be on Discord again too, if you like to chat during the event.
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Many thanks for all that so many of you have contributed to the project in the past year, and very special thanks to those who answered the project’s call and gave generously of their time to be part of Team Seanchaithe during the most recent connect-a-thon. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
le dea-mhéin, Jen Hutton, Ireland Project co-leader
1. Yes I would like to continue, I believe my only team currently is Diaspora team. I would like to stay on that team and join the sub-Team Australia-New Zealand. 2. I am not an overly active member so do not have much of an opinion on this. I think it is fair to expect at least 5 contributions a year. 3. d) I am mainly active in adding lots of descendants of Irish immigrants to Australia, but am working on the actual Irish ancestors where I have enough information. I would estimate over 50 hours on the ancestors and their descendants in the last year. 4. I can't think of anything right now, my main focus has been on Irish Immigrants/Convicts to Australia, it would be good to have a list of the categories we should be using for these profiles.
Cheers
Have just joined so still finding my way around this great site.My grandfather was Clarence Edward Kliese.The family tree goes back to Ireland and Kyle family.I will get it out soon and look for more info.
Kind Regards Diane McGill (Kliese)/
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Fantastic effort on your sourcing additions during the Source-A-Thon on the weekend. Well done. Next time we will beat the "Kiwi Crew"! Ha ha! Take care and keep on having fun on WikiTree . kind regards............Nigel Clark PS Thanks for sharing your citation spreadsheets - it certainly helps to improve the process.
No problem, I am happy to share any tool that helps us all.
Take care and happy WTing...
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Thank you for participating in the Liberation Day Challenge. As a group we added close to 50 new profiles of service members. You've helped honor those who gave so much for freedom.
We hope to see you all back soon.
Colleen, Astrid and Eef
Fantastic effort in the April 2022 Connect-A-Thon. 731 additions! Well done.
You've certainly set a very tough benchmark for next time.
kind regards..........Nigel Clark (Clark-63749)
Now the fun part of going back to all 731 of those profiles and making them decent.... Eeeekk
Looking forward to the next one.
Have fun!
It’s time for our annual Ireland Project check-in! Please respond within the next two weeks to let me know:
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Sincerely,
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Definitely still interested in working with the Ireland Project, but I have not been overly active recently as I have been focused on other areas.
The teams I am most interested in would be the Australia Diaspora team and probably the Counties Team, focusing mainly on County Tyrone (as that is where I have the most experience) I have ancestors from Counties Louth, Kildare, Cork, Limerick, Kerry, Clare and some unknowns as well and would be happy to learn more in those counties.
As I have not been overly active I can't really comment on things that could be improved, but I will make an effort to be more active.
Personally I prefer discord, but happy to use google groups if needed.
Cheers Maree
We're so happy to see you are still active on WikiTree and caring about the Dutch profiles. The Dutch Roots Project is looking forward to give the project a new fresh start to put the Dutch in a more prominent place on the WikiTree map. The project is currently managing over 50,000 profiles and the total number of Dutch profiles on WikiTree exceeds 500,000! Within the project we are monitoring the quality of the Dutch profiles and assisting other WikiTreers in producing those profiles. We would love to pick up some other tasks but to do so we need more volunteers. This is why we check in with the members of the DRP to see if you would like to help us expand.
1) Would you like to do some volunteer work for the Dutch Roots Project? 2) If yes, what kind of work would you prefer to do within the Dutch Roots Project? E.g. translating, sourcing, or something else you want to work on?
We hope for a positive reaction but please don't feel obliged to volunteer. We just want to have a group of persons we can ask to help us with certain activities
Kind regards,
Jan, on behalf of the Dutch Roots Project
Maree and Herman are 8th cousins once removed Maree (Patroni) Evans and Herman Overmars are both descendants of Hilletie Pieters Mooij (1672-1708).
The Australia Project leadership team are carrying out our annual check-in to see how you are going in the project. We'd really like to give you a huge thank you for all your work on Australian profiles over the past year! We've made great progress in 2020/21 with your assistance.
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If you would like to do something additional or different, take a look on the Australia Project page to see what other opportunities there are.
It would also be great to get any feedback or suggestions that you have to improve the project.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Gillian, Co-leader, Australia Project
Thanks for checking in. I definitely would like to stay in the project. I would like to continue in my existing teams, but I am also interested in the categories team and anything to do with DNA Confirmations. I am pretty good with developing procedures/plans so happy to help out with any admin stuff like that as well.
I need to get more involved in some of the teams but I am not always sure how to get involved. Some mini challenges or focus items for each team each month would be a great way to get a better idea of how to help. Or maybe a time each week where we use discord to chat and ask questions get a focused thing done. (Along the lines of Friday Date Night).
I have loved how much I have learned already and look forward to learn more from all the members.
Cheers Ree
Cheers, Margaret
edited by Gillian Thomas
I encourage you to share with me if there are any particular things you are most interested in working on - whether subject areas, localities, historical eras... whatever really.
In terms of the NSW Team, who we are, and what we do, please feel free to review everything on our page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Australia_Project_-_New_South_Wales_Team. If you are ever looking for areas that may need special attention, please feel free to check-out the weekly data doctors lists of potential improvements at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Automated:DD_Suggestion_List_AUS
Otherwise, please feel free to share any concerns and questions and I will be happy to help.
Thanks for the welcome. I am slowly getting my head around WikiTree and getting my information added. My current areas of interest are the locations of Crookwell, Binda, Dubbo and Goulburn but I will have more as I do further research, particularly when I get to my husbands side of the family.
I'll have a look through the links you provided and ask any questions I have as they arise.
Cheers
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