Margaret (Robe) Summitt
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Margaret (Robe) Summitt

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Margaret A. Summitt formerly Robe
Born 1950s.
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Sister of [private brother (1950s - unknown)]
Mother of [private daughter (1990s - unknown)] and [private son (1990s - unknown)]
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Margaret (Robe) Summitt is a member of the Appalachia Project (North Central Appalachia Team).
Margaret (Robe) Summitt participated with Western Red Cedars during the 2021 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 61 previously unsourced profiles.
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Margaret (Robe) Summitt participated with Western Red Cedars during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and added 102 connections.
Margaret (Robe) Summitt participated with Western Red Cedars during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and added 125 connections.
Margaret was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!
USBH Connecting Challenge
Margaret has participated in the USBH Connecting Challenge.

Biography

educated in Los Angeles public schools; B. A., English, UCLA, 1976; M. A., English and Creative Writing, Syracuse University, 1978; Ph.D., English Literature, UCLA, 1988

My interest in genealogy began with annual trips to Oregon to visit grandparents, aunts and uncles. The stories told around my uncles' fireside in Eugene, Oregon, with my great-grandfather's mantel clock ticking away the minutes, were heard over and over until I began to check them out for myself. Once it was discovered that I had an interest in family history, I was given an incredible legacy of heirlooms and photos.

In graduate school I used research skills to track down ancestors on microfilm and in rare books.

Connections to other Wikitree researchers: Baty-260 Common ancestors Beals-61 and Clayton-159

Crane-1143 Common ancestor Nosler-19

Ford-12624 Common ancestors Frame-345 and Donnard-1 also Thompson-16096 and Downard-26 and due to pedigree collapse Downard-27 and O'Neal-473

Johnson-43462 Common ancestors Cowgill-28 and Baker-6430

Kelley-4120 Common ancestors Schilling-812 and Koerth-18

Mason-4486 Common ancestors Kirk-2060 and Rose-11599

McIntosh-3288 Common ancestors Kirk-2060 and Rose-11599

Robe-316 Common ancestors Robe-52 and Blair-4947

Senger-132 Common ancestors Michael-71 and Kelso-658

Vincent-18 Common ancestors Kessinger-87 and Fischerin-2

Worley-2560 Common ancestors Michael-71 and Kelso-658

Advance Directive

In the event of my death, I desire that the Wikitree team assume management of the profiles for which I may be manager at the time. It is my desire that the profiles of living people should not be deleted.

Sources

  • First-hand information. Entered by Margaret Robe at registration.


52 Ancestors 52 Weeks 2019 A different ancestral surname each week.

  • Week 1: First: Elijah Embree Smith
  • Week 2: Challenge: William Robe
  • Week 3: Unusual Name: Banner Shields
  • Week 4: I'd Like to Meet: Margaret Sweeten
  • Week 5: At the Library: Anna Louise Nickoley
  • Week 6: Surprise: Marie Dorothee Hourve
  • Week 7: Love: William Walker
  • Week 8: Family Photo: Schilling Family
  • Week 9: At the Courthouse: William Downard
  • Week 10: Bachelor Uncle: Andrew Stern
  • Week 11: Large Family: John Kirk
  • Week 12: Twelve: George Mason I
  • Week 13: In the Paper: Edward Otto Mueller
  • Week 14: Brick Wall: Sebastian "Boston" Nosler
  • Week 15: DNA: Anna Christina Winkler
  • Week 16: Out of Place: Mathias Kessinger and Andreas Kissinger
  • Week 17: At Worship: David Frame
  • Week 18: Road Trip: Jared Michael
  • Week 19: Nurture: Margaret "Peggy" Weir
  • Week 20: Nature: Anne Dorothee Rätz
  • Week 21: Military: Johann Daniel Koerth
  • Week 22: At the Cemetery: Mary Kelso

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Where did you get birth and death dates on Wright-862?
posted by Barbara Smith
Thank you for helping with the USBH 1880 census project in Oregon. The state of Oregon has now been marked as complete! Emma
Thank you for participating in the December 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6214 profiles. We created a total of 46,036 profiles for the year. We met our 2023 goal of 250k profiles and finished out the year with 168,195!

You can see your personal 2023 total and your all time 2021-2023 total on the 2023 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

Check out our new 1880 Census Project. We’d love everyone’s help in 2024.

Hello from the Appalachia Project!

Join us for our online Appalachia Project Party on Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at 2pm (EST)/7pm (UTC).

If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, look for an email with the easy instructions on how to join. If you are on our Project's Discord Chat Channel, all details were posted under Announcements.

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Karen Stewart

posted by Karen Stewart
It's time for the One Place Studies Project Check-In!

We've put together a survey for you to fill out to check in with you, it will only take a moment as there are only a few questions. Filling out the survey lets us know you are still interested in coordinating your study and provides an opportunity for you to share any suggestions you may have for the project.

If you have decided to step away from your study, please reply to this comment to that effect.


🤓🤗

posted by Azure Robinson
Hello from the Appalachia Project!

Join us for our online Appalachia Project Meetup on Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 at 7pm (EST). If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, an email was sent this morning with all the details. If you are on our Project's Discord Chat Channel, all details were posted under Announcements.

Please make sure to check your Spam folder as many have mentioned the Monthly Newsletter and other communication is landing in their spam.

Appalachia Project Google Group and Discord Chat Channel

Sandy

posted by Sandy (Craig) Patak
Thank you for participating in the January 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6960 profiles. It was one of our biggest months of all time! Our new total is 174,667.

All first-time participants in 2023 can add the 2023 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

We’ve started the February challenge here: February Connecting Challenge.


Emma

I just connected a large branch from Eva Baker to Samuel Latta These African-Americans lived mostly in Rapides Parish, Louisiana and Fannin County, Texas.
Thank you for participating in the 2022 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us reach 161,603 profiles! We’re going for 250,000 profiles in 2023!

We’ve started the January challenge here: January Connecting Challenge.

You can see your 2022 total and your all time 2021-2022 total on our tracking spreadsheet.

Emma

Hello Cousin Margaret,

It's interesting that we were both at UCLA in 1979 working on our Ph.D.s How did we miss each other?

Happy New Year, Cousin Marion

posted by Marion Ceruti Ph.D.
Margaret, it's fun that you added Andrew McLandsborough a few years back. He's actually quite close to WikiTree Challenge focus Robbie Coltrane. See you back at the US Black Heritage Project - thanks for all that you do. - Karen
posted by Karen Lowe
Hi, Margaret!

Source-a-Thon time is here, but registration will be closing soon! Answer the question with your WikiTree ID and your team! Hopefully, you will be joining Western Red Cedars!

  • G2G 2022 Source-a-Thon Chat Post for Western Red Cedars

#western-red-cedars channel on channel on the WikiTree Main Server on Discord is open even if you can't participate this time, hop in during the thon to cheer on your team mates!

This event has over $4k in door prizes so be sure to tune in to the Hangouts to see if you or another team member is a winner!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Azure Rae

posted by Azure Robinson
Hi Margaret. Your input on this G2G discussion thread would be appreciated, if you would like to contribute. Regards—Jim
posted by Jim Richardson
Jim, I replied to your comment on the thread.
Margaret, welcome to the Appalachia Project - North Central Appalachia Team!

When you have the chance, please add your North Central Appalachia interests next to your name on this page.  Also, please review our Reliable (and Unreliable) Sources for the Appalachia Project ( LINK ) to help with sourcing our Profiles as you add or come across them.  WikiTree requires valid sources on all Profiles and our Project has certain requirements for sources.  Check the Appalachia Stickers Page for tips on adding stickers to profiles.

I am always available for any questions or help.  Thanks for joining the team.

Karen, North Central Team Lead - Appalachia Project

posted by Karen Stewart
edited by Karen Stewart
Hi, Margaret!

The July 2022 Connect-a-Thon registration is still open! If you're interested in participating it is July 15-18.

We hope you can join us!

Azure Rae

Team Captain for Western Red Cedars

posted by Azure Robinson
Hello Margaret!

I’m conducting the 6-month check in for the US Black Heritage Project. Because we are growing so fast, it’s not always possible for me to see what everyone’s working on.

I’d love to hear what you’ve been working on and if you are still happy being a part of the Profile Improvement team. Members can change teams at any time.

Emma

Dear Emma, At present I am trying to discovered what happened to the slaves of Hugh Kelso Kelso-853 after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that he was of sound mind when he wrote his will, which provided for their emancipation. His wife did die before 1855, and, as provided in the will, at that time they were all to have been emancipated. He also said that if circumstances prevented their remaining in the United States, that they should be sent to Africa, which the expenses paid out of the estate.

I have not got hold of more than abstracts and reports of the case, and not the original records. If anyone can help with this I would appreciate it.

Hi Margaret. You can post the information on g2g or in the project Google group to get more eyes on the question. Emma
Thank you for joining the January USBH Connecting Challenge, Margaret, and helping us create 8294 new profiles. Our new total is 82166

We’ve started the February challenge here: February Connecting Challenge.

100 Profiles
Margaret (Robe) Summitt created 100 new profiles during the January 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
posted by Debi (McGee) Hoag
Margaret, Thank you for joining the December USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 10523 new profiles. We met our goal of creating 50,000 new profiles in 2021!

We’ve started the January challenge here: January Connecting Challenge. We are working toward a goal of 150,000 total profiles in 2022.

100 Profiles
Margaret (Robe) Summitt created 226 new profiles during the December 2021 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Margaret, Thank you for joining the November Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3780 new profiles. Our 2021 total is now 33352 for the challenge, but 42,000 for new profiles on WikiTree!
25 Profiles
Margaret (Robe) Summitt created 31 new profiles during the November 2021 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Margaret, Thank you for joining the October Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3346 new profiles. Our 2021 total is now 29,572!

We’ve started the November challenge here: November Connecting Challenge

50 Profiles
Margaret (Robe) Summitt created 74 new profiles during the October 2021 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Hi, Margaret!

Source-a-Thon time is here! Please go to the G2G Registration Post and Answer the question with your WikiTree ID and your team! Hopefully, you will be joining Western Red Cedars!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Azure Rae

posted by Azure Robinson
Margaret,

Thank you for joining the June Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2299 new profiles!

50 Profiles
Margaret (Robe) Summitt created 57 new profiles during the June 2021 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Margaret,

Thank you for joining the May Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3726 new profiles!

We’ve started the June challenge here: June Connecting Challenge

25 Profiles
Margaret created 33 new profiles during the May 2021 USBH Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Hi Margaret. I saw you left me a thank you for creating Margaret Robe (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Robe-336). To be honest - I haven't found much of anything on the Robe family in Early Upper Canada. There are two Robes I am aware of in Upper Canada, but haven't been able to determine parentage or relation. One was Margaret Robe who married Christopher Ward. The other was an Eliza Robe who married Norton Ward. Christopher's line appears lost but Norton's line has living descendants. We haven't been able to determine if Norton remarried or not, but his wife was buried as "Hannah Ward" and the family believes Eliza Robe is the same person (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107265524/hannah-ward). Anyways - one of her descendants is Lacey Ward who has his Kit up on GEDMatch. If you are on there - you could check for relation .. his GEDMatch kit is QU5764344
posted by Daniel Ward
Daniel, to be honest, I don't remember thanking you, so I do now, and I am looking at Hannah Ward's profile with very fresh eyes. I don't know anything about Robes in Upper Canada during any time period; however, since Hannah died in New York State she might have some connection with the Robe family of that area who came from Simsbury, Connecticut. Sad experience, also, has taught me to check the original surname to see whether it was Robe at all.
I've looked at the original documents and it is definitely Robe . Its been transcribed wrong all over the place - but all the originals say Robe.

Most of the people that came to the Kingston area in this time period came from either Revolutionary Loyalists displaced by the revolution or New York / Vermont residents that came for the free land (after the revolutionary war the economy was really bad).

I looked at the GEDMatch and compared it to some other GEDMatch kits .. there were a few matching segments - not enough to be conclusive - but enough to give things another look.

I'll create a profile for both women and put what I have for them. So many of the early records did not survive .. so it can be hard to pinpoint the family's origins .. So many brick walls ...

posted by Daniel Ward
Delilah Fetty Morris' brother Marcus is my great great grandfather
posted by Sarah (Parker) Stahler
How sweet! Marcus is Fetty-132 and is available for adoption.
Margaret.

The profile for Mary Catherine Stout has been edited and corrected. She was not the wife of Daniel J Shaver, son of Polser and Elizabeth Gillespie Shaver. I contacted Findagrave creators with sources for the change. It was the 1880 census that had Daniel J, Mary E and two children #205, and the fact that just below #207 Mary E, daugher of Daniel and Catherine Wilson Stout, was living with them and named all of their children. Just letting you know Sharon Hardman-759

Thank you for this, Sharon. The C. and E. confused me too.
My penmanship teacher taught us to make the C that way and my grade school principle signed his last name with that kind of see. Never thought it would help me in genealogy.

Sharon

Margaret,

Thank you for joining the April Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4886 new profiles!

300 Profiles
Margaret created 312 new profiles during the April 2021 USBH Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Margaret,

Thank you for adding your 178 profiles for the March Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4025 new profiles!

You can add the participation sticker to your profile if you’d like. Connecting Challenge Stickers

100 Profiles
Margaret created 178 new profiles during the March 2021 USBH Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Hi, again, Margaret ;-)  !

Source-a-Thon time is here! Please go to the G2G Registration Post and Answer the question with your WikiTree ID and your team! Hopefully, you will be joining Western Red Cedars!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Azure Rae

posted by Azure Robinson
Hi, Margaret

The Ambassadors project has been reorganizing and is looking for those who have a membership at a genealogical society, to help in spreading the word about WikiTree.

We're working on ways to improve how WikiTree connects and interacts with genealogical and local history societies. This is the kind of thing we want to do:

  • Liaise with societies: set up your local society with a free-space page and some WikiTree materials as part of a package.
  • Use social media to promote what societies are offering on WikiTree.
  • Encourage bloggers to blog about societies and the resources available to them on WikiTree.

Are you interested in participating in some way? Do you have some ideas to share?

Azure Rae ~ co-Leader of Ambassadors Project

posted by Azure Robinson
Azure, my local society has not met since January and I could share a link on a free-space page. The volunteer staff no longer have the time to keep the society's web page updated; however, they are gathering material for an update as soon as time becomes available. I have written some research articles that will appear on the web page when that happens.

I suppose I could put the Sno-Isle Genealogical Society link on the Snohomish County page on Wikitree. We'll see what happens.

Azure, I have been trying to put the link to the Sno-Isle Genealogical Society <https:snoislegen.org> on the Snohomish County Project page and I keep getting a 404 error. I get a 404 error too when I click on the link to the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society. There's something in the address coding that I don't understand.
Hello, Margaret my favorite quilter!

Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree. You have every right to be pleased with your efforts!

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
[deleted]
Thanks for your help on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coulombe-399

I am totally computer inept.

posted by [deleted]
Nice to meet you, niece of husband of 6th cousin 2x removed.
posted by Scott Hutchins
Hello. My name is Ivania J. Townsend/Morrill. I want to thank you for finding the degrees from you, Fredrerick Douglass and Henry VIII of England. It is astonishing to find that on my mothers side, that the Christensen that marrried Julia Osborne, also goes back to Henry VIII of England and his second wife. So now, the person that would be the 27th degrees, would be my brother Derald D. Townsend. Ivan's son. Thank you again. I can't wait to share this with my brother.
posted by Ivania Townsend
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Connection&action=connect&person1Name=Robe-79&person2Name=Pennie-22 Closer than what I typically see in the connections sent out weekly. Thought you might find it of interest!
posted by Laura (Pennie) Bozzay
Margaret, every contribution to WikiTree improves the quality of our Shared Tree. The Appreciation Team thanks you for all your efforts by making more than 1,000 contributions during the month of September.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
Margaret, you busy bee, every one of your more than 1000 contributions for the month of August 2009 adds to the improvement of our Shared Tree. Thanks so much for all of your efforts.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
Margaret, I don't have info on Dennis MT Brassfield's death. Sorry. I'm pleased to see you added Susan but I don't think she is Aunt Susie, right? Regards, Steve.
posted by Steve Broyles
Hi Margaret!

In July 2019, you made 1000+ (actually, over 1200!) contributions to our Shared Tree! I commend for your time and effort. (I don't know how you find the time with all of the other wonderful things you do!) Keep up the great work!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
Margaret,

Thank you for the note. I will try to find my documentation on the Carmichael family and verify the birth location of John. I do know his brother James was born in Scotland but need to doublecheck when the family actually migrated to the U.S.

posted by Wiley Wells
Hello, Margaret!

Very well done on your making 1,000 or more contributions to WikiTree in June 2019! We commend and appreciate all of your time and effort in helping to grow and perfect our Shared Tree. Keep up the great work!

Pip Sheppard ~ WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
Hi Margaret!

Congratulations on making more than 1,000 contributions to WikiTree for the Month of May. We all appreciate your efforts to make our Shared Tree the best it can be. Keep up the great work and THANK YOU!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
Hello cousin! I just realized that my 6x great was named after your 5x great!
posted by SJ Baty
Regarding your comment about Betsey Woodard on the page for John Woodard. Betsey is short for Elizabeth, and there is, in fact, an Elizabeth Woodard listed on the 1850 Census.
posted by Kevin Nowaczyk
Sarah dresser was born in Sherriff Hutton in Yorkshire England and married George Cook on 11 May 1790. Their son Christopher Cook( b1792) was my great great grandfather who married Ellen (b1805)

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