Melanie Paul
Honor Code SignatorySigned 19 Oct 2018 | 48,205 contributions | 3,997 thank-yous | 1,016 connections
Signed 19 Oct 2018 | 48,205 contributions | 3,997 thank-yous | 1,016 connections
Rt Rev Melanie Paul
Ancestors 
Daughter of Frederic George Turner Paul
and Ailsa Daphne (Williamson) Williamson Paul
Sister of
Chris Paul and [private brother (1950s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Mother of
[private daughter (unknown - unknown)] and [private son (unknown - unknown)]
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Melanie:
- Melanie Paul is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 3, 2024.
- Melanie Paul is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 21, 2024.
- Meet our Members: Melanie Paul Feb 5, 2024.
- 400,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Melanie Paul, and thank you from all of us! Sep 27, 2023.
- Melanie Paul is a Wonderful WikiTreer Aug 2, 2023.
- Melanie Paul is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jun 11, 2023.
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Thanks for replying - we do appreciate all the work you do. Rabbits have a nasty habit of growing :-)
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Thank you for the help you gave me and such a quick answer to a question I have been trying to find out for many years. I now know when all my grand parents were born now. I had never thought a spelling like that would find my grandmother. Tracey
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As I read through some of the comments here, I see you missed a "0" in describing Minnesota. 10.000 lakes, not 1,000. They take their lake count as seriously as some take CC7. In another comment you pointed out the difference b/t North , South and Mid-Western. I guess we are spread out a bit and are divided by land, politics, religion, cultures and various other denominators. I've always viewed "united" as an oxymoron unless it was used in terms of warfare. As much as I like to travel and meet new people, I always look to get back home where I know how most people think and feel. I think political correctness will be the death of us all, therefore I shall not abide. I was taught rude is rude, right is right and wrong is wrong. Doesn't matter if you are eight or eighty. I was not aware Yank or Yankee was offensive. My late sister-in-law, from the deep south, set me straight. A yankee was anyone not from the south. A Damn Yankee was someone who came for a visit and didn't go home. I attended a music festival and was considered a Northerner b/c I lived North of I-10, the coastal hi way along the gulf shore. My family is from Missouri and was divided during the Civil War. It can all get pretty confusing, or entertaining depending on how you look at it. I do look forward to your PM to explain the "Y" word since I am completely oblivious to how those 'Down Unders' interpret it. As always MPWW.
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(I have "seen" some strange things in the grain patterns of wood!)
I’m posting here because I haven’t figured out how to thank you for your help on some non-sticker things. And based on your comments on stickers in October (?) I really don’t think we’re far apart there. But the real reason for this is that I’ve encountered another sticker issue, this time with an open profile - the subject is deceased. I won’t go into details here. I just wanted to show my appreciation for what you have done for me and forewarn you that I’m raising another sticker issue. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! /s/jr
Stickers can be tricky things, unless you get the code exactly "right". Then there are stickers that aren't, but are templates. (But all stickers are templates, while not all templates are stickers.) For M&W stickers / templates, I usually go for the simplest, and tell the story (when I have enough information to do so) in the biography.
I apologize for guessing wrong. I saw enough in other G2G posts to know there was a strong possibility you were Australian but how many Australians know about the IRRC? My bad. Of course, now I’m assuming you’re native Australian. Perhaps you migrated from a U.S. mining area - I.e., the range - to the Gold Coast? Moving on, while I haven’t seen much of Australia I did spend about a year and a half commuting to Melbourne on a project about 15 years ago. Two months on, one week off. I really enjoyed walking around the city. I gave scant thought to immigration. Australia doesn’t like immigrants of my generation. Happy (forthcoming) Holidays! /s/jr PS: I see I’ve made another mistake. But really, how many would know about the IRRC? I’m a Minnesotan and _I_ didn’t know about them!
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My grand-aunt was an English War Bride, hence the IRRC - although I have reason to believe some documentation for my Swedish great-grandfather may also be found there (mis-idendtifying him as female). My one cousin lives in Colorado.
It is amazing what you can find via the internet these days.
Well, as I said - the internet is a wonderful aid to genealogical research! I found the records for my grand-aunt, then contacted the IRRC to work out how to actually get copies. (I think I paid $10, and got way more than I expected for the price - both physical snail-mailed copies, and emailed digital copies).
I have been to Minnesota a few times. Even drove myself from some place in the St Paul area into the main city to go shopping while hubby had a business meeting. There was this one AMAZING restaurant on the way out where we stopped one year. Australian themed, and decorated inside with some of the most wonderful items, and photographs. The owner had been to Aus, and had fallen in love with my country (as did hubby). The meals were American, but with some of the most inventive names based on Australiana. (I wish I could remember the name of the place, but it is just not coming to mind. It was on our way towards Wisconsin. It was NOT one of the "Outback" chain.)
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I’ve lived in the Twin Cities for decades but actually was raised in and around the Rochester Minnesota area. My wife likes to live with a view of water, so we now live in,”The Birthplace of Minnesota “, right across the river from Wisconsin. We also have a historic lift bridge to Wisconsin. If i want it’s maybe a mile walk one-way. We’re a bit north of the main highway between the two states. Our river is protected. To build a bridge requires one to be torn down but our bridge is historic and cannot be torn down, rebuilt, etc. it took years and I believe an act of Congress to approve a new bridge. That was finished less than five years ago. We have three daughters. Two live within 10 miles, in the same city. The other, the eldest, lives in Pennsylvania, about an hour’s drive from D.C.
While I don't know Minnesota well, I do know it is the "land of 10,000 lakes". It's also the home of the Vikings - whose colours include purple. I have been known to say my daughter should be a fan, simply based on that purple. (Hubby was a lifelong Cubs, Bears, and Bulls fan - and for someone who loved hockey, it always surprised me that he was not also a lifelong, or even a partial lifelong, fan of the Blackhawks. I would tease him every year - especially during Thanksgiving week when we were up in Northwest Wisconsin and all the Christmas "gifts" were already on sale - including masses of Packers gear, which I threatened to buy for him.
One of the last "giggles" I gave him was by wearing my Aussie winter beanie (brought over by my kids) in the hospital, because the staff all thought it was a Packers hat. Soon after that he "left", although he was still "alive".)
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I’m sorry to hear your husband has passed, but I’m also happy to hear you’ve found a coping mechanism. I believe that is important to your own health and happiness. Are all your children and grandchildren still in Australia or are some in the United States? The miracle of the internet makes face-to-face calling ,possible and inexpensive, but it’s not the same. I’ve meant to mention that roughly 50 years ago, l worked in Illinois with a gentleman named Bernard Z Paul. He practiced in Dekalb, but if I recall correctly he lived in a city up on I-90. He was mostly Jewish but I remember him taking home a ham he won at a raffle. Before we started chatting I thought you might be connected. Now I doubt it. I haven’t researched “Rt Rev” but isn’t it Church of England?
I doubt I have any Paul rellies in the US. I have cousins here on my Swedish side, and on my Gran's (English) side through her half-sister the War Bride. (What's funny is - years ago, for one of my son's birthdays, I gave him a balloon ride as his gift. The balloonist was a guy named Will Paul, from the US. (We were in Brisbane at the time.))
Nah, not Anglican, although I have had Anglican pastors as friends. (Also had a few Church of Rome guys as friends.)
One of the things that surprised me when I realized it was that while Australia is physically huge, its population is less than Florida’sby a couple of million. Still, it has a thriving professional sports presence that to read the news, is as active as in the US. That South Island appears as far south of the equator as Minnesota is North. We’re a bit bigger, too (I’m avoiding any comparisons with any part of Australia - well, maybe precipitation. ;)
Americans like to laugh at Australian mountains, because they are so much smaller than American ones. Uh, guys, the Australian mountains are so old most of them has long ago eroded away, while the Rockies (as an example) are still growing. The Glasshouse Mountains (Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland) are what is left of volcanoes, where the land part has been gone for millennia, leaving behind only the solidified lava plugs that are also eroding away faster than the Rockies are growing. Castle Hill in Queensland's north (Townsville) is too short to be named "mountain", so a bunch of Uni students carted stuff up there to make those final feet, just long enough for it to be "Castle Mountain". (It may have lasted a day or two, I forget.) We used to be the largest island, smallest continent, but "they" stripped the title of "largest island" from us and gave it to teensy tiny Greenland. Now "they" call us "the island continent" instead. We are told so often about America being made up of people of all nations, as though that's the only place in the world that is so. Australia's history is FULL of immigrants from around the world. My Australian cousins are descended from German, Chinese, Scottish, and English ancestors, while my own include Swedish, Irish, and Welsh, in addition to the English and Scottish. Other (Australian) cousins of mine have Prussian ancestry.
Somewhere in my photo albums I have a postcard I bought I forget how many years ago that overlays the 48 with Australia. It shows very clearly that our landmass is pretty close to the same size (excluding the largest US state - which is, as already stated, not Texas). There'd need to be a bit of chopping up and redistribution, but size-wise we are very close. Population-wise, however, there is no comparison. The last time hubby and I did a check, Aus had fewer than 25,000,000, while the US had around 300,000,000. (And we can't even claim EnZeds population as a boost!)
Sports-wise, we are more on the international stage than the US. Y'all call your baseball premiership the "world" series, when it is not. We have "World Cup" cricket, which IS. (There are even US teams that play cricket, albeit not in the World Cup - yet.) Rugby and Association Football (and even Aussie Rules) are played around the world - and as much as I am a loyal Aussie, I have to admit the NZ All Blacks are consistently better. (I used to say you could tell guys who played the various codes by the thickness of their necks. Gridiron and Rugby League guys have no necks (maybe it's all that tackling!), Rugby Union guys have thick necks, Aussie Rules and AF (aka soccer) guy have normal necks. If nothing else, it gave hubby a few chuckles. There are a number of Aussies who play, or have played, in the US professional teams. (I believe baseball, basketball, and gridiron. (Sorry. I have trouble calling it "football" without laughing.)
We are also more prone to poke fun at ourselves, while many (not all) Americans seems to take themselves so seriously it's as though they're afraid to crack a smile. American: Australia - land of the killer spiders. Aussie: yep. American: Australia has nothing but poisonous (when they actually mean venomous) snakes and killer crocs. Aussie: yep. American: you have killer sharks and jellyfish. Aussie: yep (and we refrain from citing the number of shark kills in US waters, and explaining that our worst jellyfish is actually a stowaway / illegal immigrant). We create maps pointing these things out, just for fun. (In the attached map I added the rabbits in the centre.) We warn tourists of the need to beware of the creature known as the "drop bear", a ferocious distant relative of the harmless Koala - which is NOT a bear, and not in any way related TO bears of any kind. (The closest relative of the Koala is the Wombat, and whole it has fierce looking teeth and claws, is about as ferocious as a newborn lamb.)
Ok, I'm soapboxing now, so it's time to stop!
As for the term Midwest, that dates to the days of Daniel Boone an Davy Crockett. “We’ve always been called that.” ;-) Took a geography class once that showed the perception of New York State children drawing maps of the United States. Would you be surprised to learn that New England was larger than the whole rest of the country? One thing that surprised me and I envied as I traveled the world: the number of backpackers from all over waiting for flights at airports. I resolved that my grandchildren would not be limited to US culture as they grew. My work gave me lots of airline and other travel points. I used them to take my family to Thailand for over a week. Over ten of us, five under 18 but over 12. The youngest is now 18. One more under 21. The eldest? Just finished her BS at Minnesota State University-Mankato ; 24 years old.
My girl spent a few years in Thailand, teaching in an English school. As her time there was during periods of great unrest, with military "action" taking place at the end of her street, I spent most of that time worrying about her and her little family. Thankfully, they all returned to Australia alive and well.
One of the things hubby noted early on in our relationship was just how insular his thinking (and knowledge) was, and how much broader mine was. He spent the years we were married remedying that lack - even if he still could not properly pronounce English County names. Or Kookaburra. He could, however, and did, pronounce Aussie correctly - with the hard zed sound ala Ozzie Osbourne, Wizard of Oz, etc. Had he lived, in another 10 years or so he had intended retiring to my country, as he had fallen in love with it on his first visit. Instead, one day, a part of him will lie there when I scatter the ashes I retained when the rest were scattered in NW Wisconsin. I very much applaud your ensuring your family got international exposure! I think everyone should have at least 1 year where they do something like that.
My middle daughter liked to spend winters in Chiangmai . She was there Fall of 2019. She finally got back to the US Fall of 2021. Notice I said liked. She’s a dual, so no visa issues. On the other hand, while she was breaking up with her husband, she went to visit a friend in Sweden then proceeded to travel through Europe and Africa for almost a year. \/\/ Thanks for the : suggestion, still on my todo list. /s/jr
Nowadays I have family in Africa, too. Fascinating continent. (I've always wanted to visit Sweden, so am envious of your daughter.)
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Since I’m telling you which countries I’ve worked in, I should mention Brazil, Colombia, Mexico (Monterrey, terrorist country) and Venezuela. I told the folks finding me work that I’d go anywhere except the Middle East. This was all ten years ago,or so. My Australia project spread over 18 months on and off, in Melbourne. Never made it to China, Russia or Eastern Europe. Snow hit you yer? We got almost 6 inches Tuesday! /s/jr
When my kids came over in March 2018 (their first trip - before hubby died) they saw their very first snowfall in THEIR memories. The selfie they took is now the image on my phone - and one of the photos of them both I like most.
Melbourne (pronounced more as Mel-bun / Melbn than Mel-borne (as I hear Americans say it) was quite lovely last time I was there - although I actually stayed in a place called Mt Waverley. I was there to "meet and greet" Lady Baden-Powell, as one of hundreds (thousands?) of brownies and Girl Guides. And don't call us Brownie Guides -- we were NOT! (Guides were a higher level. Now they have LOWER levels, for even younger girls!) What I remember most of that time wasn't just shaking hands with her Ladyship and being IN the MCG!, but seeing the beautiful floral clock and captain Cook's cottage elsewhere in Melbourne. I have no memories at all of My Waverley, even though I was there for several days (billeted with a local Brownie's family). Funny how the mid works. Funnily enough, when my girl was contemplating teaching overseas, I told her "anywhere except the Middle east", which was why she chose Thailand. It was, at the time, stable. Things changed soon after they arrived, hence me worrying for the rest of their stay.
Snow, yet? Or have you been misleading me with your talks about Wisconsin? /s/jr
When he was taken ill back in 2018, he was transferred up to UW-Madison, where I lived for weeks, firstly beside his bed, then (after they banished me from his room except for "visits") in what they termed a "family room". He was in UW-Madison when the kids visited - their first trip they stayed in Fitchburg, the second trip over we all slept in the hospital, I have in-laws in Milwaukee area, as well as up north. There is a wonderful meadery / winery (or was) in Iron River. One year we drove almost all the way over to Michigan, but turned back because he got hungry and he'd forgotten he needed to be in Howard the following day. So, no snow here just yet, but "up there" there probably is.
One of the first things I taught hubby was that he spoke American English, while my Aussie-English was closer to the version the English speak. This was reinforced when he started watching one of my favourite shows EVER -- Time Team -- because they used words he had thought I had made up, and they used them in the same way I did. Plus, early on, in a Borders store, I had shown him the proof -- an American English dictionary side by side on the shelves with an Australian English dictionary, and an English English dictionary. Until then he was adamant he spoke "English".
I also learnt of the Pope drawing his line down the map of the world and saying "this half belongs to Spain, that half to Portugal" as though there were no other people anywhere on the earth -- including the occupants of the lands he'd just given away. My brand new computer, even though it is supposedly set to Australian English, still refuses to accept my Aussie spelling, but insists only the American spelling is valid. Perhaps I confuse the poor thing by living in the US, but speaking proper English!
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Beware the rabbits!
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Same team/s. I sometimes consider others, but am probably best as I am.
From where I'm at the Project is doing ok.
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I have been trying to add you as a trusted list person for a half an hour. Every time it just tells me it is best to add a family member to another family member. Then it sends me to a page to start a whole new profile. I am copying your email address correctly but it will not add you. I'm ready to just give up. Edit: took a break and tried again. Made a new page. Everything ran together, "the two dates" I finally got into their own lines but I have colons. Make corrections and merge all you want. Thanks, I"m off to get a car oil change. What would I use as a url to put a g2g reference about it?
Beulah
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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Faunce-176#comment_6781572
Leaves the door open - for a while, at least. But I note your caution about doing nothing. Again, many thanks.....Phil (Grace-883).
If I mess things up in trying to detach then re-orphan that profile, is there a simple way to recover the existing status quo (i.e. profile before I started messing about)?
Everything you do, once saved, is in the change logs, so can be found and reversed if you make mistakes. Don't not do things for fear of making mistakes. If we all did that, nothing would ever get done at all!
So, if you detach a parent, and it is decided later it was the correct parent and should not have been detached, the change logs will show who was detached, and they can then be re-attached. (I'm thinking detached, and attached are starting to not look like words anymore!)
* To whom it may concern: Please be advised that I propose to edit this profile and break all connections to the claimed parents, siblings, etc. I, and all interested parties to date, have been unsuccessful in producing sourced evidence to support this profile's correctness. In particular please refer to earlier comments on this profile and, also, the G2G forum of 24 September 2022 where this profile is questioned as an ..."orphaned profile becoming a problem"...
In view of your WT experience and familiarity with the hierarchy could you please let me have your thoughts on whether such a proposed comment could be seen as ill-advised, counter-productive, not according to Hoyle (one of whom apparently created, what has now become this dilemna, back in 2009), etc., etc.?
Alternatively, would you prefer to suggest a more appropriate way to rectify the current, apparent, anomalies with this/these Faunce profile/s, or would you rather direct me to another "fixer-upper"? Finally, my apologies if I have exceeded my claims on your expertise, but I really have no idea as to how to fix something, which appears to be broken, without stepping on anyone's toes. Or should I go back to G2G? My thanks in advance, best regards.....Phil (Grace-883).
Thanks Melanie for a great example. I don't think Florian is going to get very far arguing that "From the German Confederation" is equivalent to "From Germany". Austria was also in the German Confederation. I don't expect any Austrians to be very happy being described as "From Germany". I'll maintain my view that the country name "Germany" only makes sense after the formation of the German Empire in 1871.
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P.S. I'm still waiting for a reply to my inquiry about our formatting question. I hadn't forgotten about it.
The help file does not say you can not, or must not. It just lays out what the headers are, and where the stickers, categories, etc go. (I've started using a slightly different format until I get a firm yay or nay on it.)
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Thank you for being a member of the Wales Project. You may recall membership requires at least one contribution to project goals during each 6-month period. A contribution includes creation of and modification to Wales related profiles.
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It is recognized some members are active. Thank you for your work. (There is no viable method to determine which members have been active in the Wales Project.)
Please respond to this message by posting a reply in Comments below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Stuart Awbrey, Membership Coordinator
edited by Melanie Paul
Regardless, I will request Rich to add the badge.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Stuart
Thanks!
I seem to recall someone posted on g2g AGES ago that one / some of their badges had just done a vanishing act, and wondered if there was a bug. Wanted someone else's eyes on it, though, before bringing it to anyone's attention. I'll email info.
You solved a decades old family mystery.
"Melanie, hello again. You kindly responded to my 27/2/2022 'comment' posted on your profile. My initial aim was to add the DOB for my Ggmother (Bushell-171), as appears in FamilySearch records, however as you have so expertly expanded information on her profile, since I originally created it many years ago, I thought it best to consult you - before attempting to do so. If you have the opportunity of guiding me in this matter I would be most grateful. Many thanks, best regards.....Phil (Grace-883)."
Cheers.....Phil (Grace-883)
Also, not knowing whether you are still in the Nthn. hemisphere, or not, will likely affect the further help I hope you may be able to offer - in addition to all the extremely valuable work you have already so kindly done, in expanding the profiles of some of my 'rellos' over the years - regarding several profiles with which we are currently directly involved. (You may also recall my previous lack of confidence in adding info. to profiles - in a way which meets the WikiTree rules & regulations - where you so selflessly helped me at the time. However despite my almost 7 years' connection with the WikiTree 'system', I'm an even older 'old dog', trying to learn even more new tricks. I also suspect I have outstayed my welcome at G2G - thus my direct approach to you.) Please let me know, at your convenience, whether I should now address my further questions by way of "Comments" on your 'profile' page or on those of the individuals concerned. Kindest regards.....Phil (Grace-883).
(She was - and is - one of my daughter's favourite writers.)
I totally agree with you that there is no best answer to the connection posts in G2G-even the suggestions/nominees posts. If you see them, just let me know. I try to remove them when I see them, but do not check on the connection posts as frequently as I probably should. They're definitely posts where there should be no best answer...unless it's mine, of course, ha!
Thank you! Abby
(p.s. I miss your contributions to the nominees posts!)
I just wanted you and the team to know just how much I enjoyed being a part of the recent Source-A-Thon. T-H-I-S much!! I hope that I can be a part of the next one.
Thanks for the post about creating a new team. You never know what you can accomplish if you don't try, right? Good luck with regards to the turtles-themed team you've created. The graphics are cute!
edited by Judi Stutz
(Thanks for the comment on my silly tortoise images. Ya just gotta have some fun!)
Congrats on the Super Star Badge!
I've added as much information as I currently have, enough to keep you going for a while, anyway. :) Especially with all Edward John's kids! (The notice of his death names those still living, so there may be more who predeceased him.)
Please change your category to Category:Military and War Project Members. Category:Military and War Project is a top level category and should not hold profiles. Thanks, Natalie, M&W Leader
I have the sticker I was told I could use. I presume that has changed, so the new template for the sticker would be helpful, thanks.
Regards,
Natalie
edited by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
(inspired by an email conversation with Loretta Corbin.)
I wanted to make sure you knew that the US Black Heritage Connecting Challenge is now on the challenge tracker if you decide you want to participate at any time. It's now so much easier to track how many new profiles we add!
Thanks, Emma
I wanted to make sure you saw the change up in themes for this coming week for the EPOW, since you're great at finding candidates: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1210761/connect-weeks-connection-finder-profiles-childrens-authors.
Thanks! Abby
Thank you so much for all your contributions to WikiTree in the last six months, and especially to the Wales Project. It’s been wonderful to have you as part of the project as we work together to increase the quality and quantity of Welsh Profiles.
You don’t seem to have selected which team(s) you would like to be on. Please have a look at the project page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Wales and let me know your choices so I can introduce you to your Team Leader(s). Do you have any questions? What can we do to support you? Do you want to continue in the Wales Project moving forwards?
Please can you also private message me your e-mail so I can add you to the Google group.
I see you’re not currently on the Discord server. You’d be very welcome to join us where we have live text and voice conversations which really helps with collaboration. Just let me know and I can send you an invitation.
I look forward to hearing back from you with all the above. Thanks once again, Olivia, Project Coordinator for Wales :-)
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Just a quick note to say THANK YOU for all the time you spend helping out with the Connection Finder stuff each week, including helping corral people back to the right post and encouraging them to create and/or connect profiles they mention. It's much appreciated!
Abby
I do worry about stepping on toes, but I also know you can't be everywhere and read every post, and would hate for eligible profiles to miss being considered because nobody saw them nominated.
Thank you for joining our first ever Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2729 profiles by adding 45!
You can add the participation sticker to your profile if you’d like. Connecting Challenge Stickers
We’ve started the March challenge here: March Connecting Challenge
Emma