Day (Pendleton) Garwood
Honor Code SignatorySigned 27 Mar 2021 | 28,286 contributions | 991 thank-yous | 2,754 connections
Signed 27 Mar 2021 | 28,286 contributions | 991 thank-yous | 2,754 connections
Communication Preferences:
I am interested in communicating 
with
cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
I am totally blind and use screen reading technology, so there may be mistakes, as I will primarily be reading off transcriptions.
with
cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
I am totally blind and use screen reading technology, so there may be mistakes, as I will primarily be reading off transcriptions.
Estimated ethnicity (based on family tree as of 28th August 2022):
- English: 85.93%
- Manx: 6.25%
- Irish: 4.69%
- Scottish: 3.13%
Names and families of interest: Too many to name here.
Always happy to help out where I can. Please feel free to get in touch.
And finally. WikiTree is the best!
Born 1980s.
Ancestors 
Son of
[private father (1960s - unknown)]
and Nickki (Sykes) Lindley
Brother of
[private sister (1980s - unknown)] [half], [private sister (1980s - unknown)] [half], [private brother (1990s - unknown)] [half], [private brother (1990s - unknown)] [half] and [private brother (1990s - unknown)] [half]
Profile last modified
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Here, I primarily discuss my WikiTree activity, with a brief summary of my life. Those who I have provided access to my private, intimately detailed bio can read that here.
Brief biography
I was Born in 1988 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. I was officially registered Damien Craig Sykes [1] but then reregistered with the surname Pendleton. [2] I have a congenital condition called Optic Nerve Hypoplasia, rendering me totally blind and possibly contributing to my ADHD and high-functioning autism (borderline aspergers). Despite these, I live a relatively independent life.
I attended a mainstream school from 1992 to 1999 before transferring to a specialist school for the remainder of my education.
I moved to Pontefract in 2013, where I married my wife. Unfortunately the relationship ended in divorce in 2017, and I moved back to Halifax.
I have been playing keyboard instruments since 1992, and enjoy many styles of music. My other hobbies include computer programming and software development (since 2002), gaming (since 2003), genealogy (since 2005), radio broadcasting (since 2010) and change ringing (since 2016). My change ringing performances can be viewed here or here..
I have owned a range of musical instruments, including a guitar, an accordion, an autoharp, a recorder, a harmonica, a cheap set of handchimes, a drum set, two electronic drum machines, fifteen keyboards (not including toy ones), an electric organ, and an upright piano.
WikiTree
Day (Pendleton) Garwood has completed the England Project's Post 1700 Orphan Trail I.
Day (Pendleton) Garwood is a graduate of the Scotland Tartan Trail II.
Day has completed the Profile Improvement Project's Voyage
I joined WikiTree in March 2021, and am now involved with several projects. I coordinate the Garwood, Disney, and Hellier name studies. I have previously been a greeter, mentor, Ranger, connector and integrator, a guide for the Profile Improvements voyage, and a member of the Appreciation team, Accessibility Angels, and Apps projects. I have also been involved with the England, Scotland, and Ireland projects.
Alongside my own personal research, I have done research for others, and started creating some pages that may help other blind users of WikiTree and associated third party software.
Sources
- ↑ FreeBMD births: Database entry for Damien Craig Sykes, mother's maiden name Sykes, registered March 1988 in Halifax (4/1285)
- ↑ FreeBMD births: Database entry for Damien Craig Pendleton, mother's maiden name Sykes, registered March 1988 in Halifax (4/1285)
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Day's formal name
- full middle name (C.)
- nicknames
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (6)
- private siblings' names
- spouse's name and marriage information
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Day:
- Meet our Members: Day Garwood Feb 13, 2023.
- Day Garwood is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 22, 2021.
- Day Garwood is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 31, 2021.
- Day Garwood is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 29, 2021.
Rejected matches › Debi K. Hawkins
Featured National Park champion connections: Day is 22 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 21 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 23 degrees from George Catlin, 27 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 34 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 26 degrees from George Grinnell, 30 degrees from Anton Kröller, 27 degrees from Stephen Mather, 22 degrees from Kara McKean, 27 degrees from John Muir, 24 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 36 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
P > Pendleton | G > Garwood > Day (Pendleton) Garwood
Categories: Pendleton-2589 | Elland, Yorkshire | England, Musicians | New College, Worcester, Worcestershire | Music Producers | Descendants of John Garwood (1700-1747), Garwood Name Study | Researchers, Garwood Name Study | Researchers, Hellier Name Study | PIP Graduates
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Apologies for the delay, I have recently had a change of email address and I haven't logged into WikiTree for a while, so have only just noticed these. Yes I am more than happy to stay on the project, though I am not as active as I used to be. Hope that's still OK. Email address has now been changed so I can respond to emails as normal. Cheers.
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Great to see you so active already. How is the hunt for primary sources going?
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P.S. To find reliable sources for your profiles, go to the Family Tree & Tools tab; select Genealogy Research and scroll down near the bottom of that list and select Research with RootsSearch. There are over 20 websites to access from there.
A combination of help documents and WikiTree greeters have me on the straight and narrow, though I must admit there's a lot to take in, and even then I think some of the help pages could be improved or expanded upon. Primary sources are, and always will be an issue for me, as a result of those ornaments on my face that I call eyes. Of course I can rely on transcriptions, but those aren't exactly primary and can actually be a hindrance. One mistranscription and my family tree goes completely out the window, as I found out to my cost about a year ago when I had to delete about 15 years of work. That's why I'm glad I found WikiTree - I no longer have to work alone. Collaboration is awesome. Someone else also recommended the roots search feature to me. My biggest problem with that is most of it links to either US repositories which don't apply to me, or paid resources which I don't feel comfortable using as sources. I believe information should be available to everyone and so people should be able to view the sources for free as well as the information they attempt to verify. I do have a few useful free resources that I can access, but again, I have to rely on transcriptions. Hopefully that's where collaboration comes in - if someone can look at profiles I create and/or manage and verify the sources, they can hopefully look at the original scans and modify the sources to point to those instead. Thanks for your encouragement. I've seen a lot of community spirit here, and that fills me with a lot of confidence. I've already had a great time on here so far and I'm sure I'll continue to do so. All the best, Damien.
I fully agree, sources should be open data and free to use. My own country has great resources for that fortunately, but not all areas as as lucky. We all work with transcriptions I think. The quality really will depend on the area/age, but in general are well accepted.
Taking a brief look at your own ancestor list, then I can assume that England has your interest?
The England project has some help pages on free online primary (but transcribed) sources. They are on the Reliable sources page. The England project also has a training, free and online, to collaborate on English project. They are a friendly group of people and most find it worth while to follow the Orphan Trail.
I also agree that the help pages could be improved in locations. We are all volunteers and trying to do our best. If you have specific input, that would be really helpful. Many help pages have evolved over time and may contain old information that needs updating. Keeping information up to date is always rather time consuming.
Keep up the good work!
Michel
I would love to help improve the help pages, but there doesn't seem to be an edit facility on those. I have made some minor edits to those help pages that show up as profiles (I must admit that gave me a giggle). Yes, all my close family are English, but further back it seems I have Scottish and Irish ancestry as well. If anything is hard to find, it's those. I didn't realise everyone used transcriptions - that is helpful to know. But it does still need verifying - all it takes is for a transcription to say "James" where the original says "John" and you'll be searching for a "James" and likely tracing an incorrect line from there. I'm still trying to get my head around projects - I have only recently grasped the concept of sources. I am also just getting my head around G2G - the help pages on WT are very vague about that, presumably because there's already a help page on G2G...that I have only just found! Haha. Anyways, I still have goodness knows how many sources to find for profiles, so I'm sure I'll be here for a good while and will learn a lot in the process. Again, thanks a lot for your help and encouragement.
No, help pages are not for public editing, as they are official. You can post comments on most of them. If you want to propose changes of have other questions, the G2G forum is a great place to go. The link to it is in the menu under help (maybe a bit strange place, but it is what it is).
Yours, Michel
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edited by Pam (Cormac) Cormac Smith
Excellent to hear that WT has an accessibility project! That can come in very handy. Thank you very much for notifying me of its existence. The most difficult aspect so far is citing sources - I've never quite understood how that works, but as the help files say, it is important. I have a fifteen-year-old family tree with barely any references in, so now as I manually import information I'm struggling to find out where it came from! Of course a lot of it is transcriptions - hired genealogists reports which unfortunately most of which I lost in a crash, transcriptions of records and of course other family trees, either sent to me or retrieved online, some don't even exist any more. WT is thus forcing me to examine my information, and I love it. Just wish I knew how to utilise it more, because as you can probably see in my tree all my sources are muddled up and probably don't even make sense at the moment. Anyways, off to look at Accessibility Angels, add more profiles and try and get my head around the vast mountain of information in the docs. And again, huge thanks for your help.
I know, there is so much here that it'll keep you busy for years! I still learn something new everyday.
Here's a great page to tell you more about sources. The easiest way to add sources would be to list them at the bottom in a bullet list.
Did you know that we have a research tool that makes finding reliable sources easier? I use it all the time and it helps me remember different places to check. To give it a try, go to the Family Tree & Tools tab; select Genealogy Research, scroll down near the bottom of that list, and select Research with RootsSearch (use your WikiTree email & password). There are over 20 websites to access from there. You can read more about the tool in the RootSearch FAQ. You can also find the RootsSearch Tool on your ancestors profile, at the very bottom of the right hand column under the heading "Research".
Anytime you have questions don't be shy to let me know and I'll get back to you as soon as I can, although we are in different time zones so sometimes I might appear a little slow in my responses.
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Kindest regards, Pam
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