Cheryl (Smith) Hess
Honor Code SignatorySigned 31 May 2018 | 97997 contributions | 12348 thank-yous
Signed 31 May 2018 | 97997 contributions | 12348 thank-yous
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Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of Harold Smith
and [private mother (1930s - unknown)]
Sister of
Diane (Smith) Billadeau and [private brother (1960s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Mother of
Michael McGowan Jr. and
[private daughter (1970s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 30 May 2018 | Last significant change: 1 May 2022
00:06: Admin WikiTree added the April 2022 Club 1000 badge for Cheryl (Smith) Hess. [Thank Admin for this]
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Cheryl was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!
This profile is part of the Hess Name Study.
Cheryl Hess worked on the best profile of the week during week 11 of The WikiTree Challenge
Contents |
Biography
Descendant of James Fountain Floyd, Confederate Soldier.
Cheryl Hess was a valued member of the Greeters Project who has moved to Emeritus status.
Cheryl (Smith) Hess was born in Illinois.
Cheryl Jean Smith was born in the early 1950's the daughter of Harold Smith and Janet Leinen.
4. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 13. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
My Story
- When I asked my grandmother, Minnie where our family came from, she replied: Germany - period. I didn't think much about it, until one Sunday after church, when she asked if I wanted to go for a ride. We drove out in the country, past a golf course, across winding roads, beautiful old trees everywhere and farms. I thought we were lost, until we came to this old church, with a cemetery on the left side of it. She told me this was where her family was buried. It was a small cemetery, crooked rows of very old headstones with names in a language I couldn't read. Grandma showed me her mother's headstone, and told me the language was German. We walked through the cemetery, and stopped at her brother's and sister's headstones and then I saw what could have been the oldest headstone in the entire cemetery. The carving was so faded it was hard to read, and we stood there a few seconds before Grandma told me it was her grandma's. I remember getting choked up and thinking, four generations of women were all within feet of each other, and I didn't know two of their names until that day. I had to know more. That was when I started my genealogy journey..
My Ancestors Research Statistics
| BY GENERATION | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen. No. | Relation to Cheryl J Hess | Total Possible Profiles | On Wikitree | Sourced | Biography | Genealogically Defined |
| 1 | Self | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Parent | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Grandparent | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 (50%) |
| 4 | Great Grandparent | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 (63%) |
| 5 | 2nd Great Grandparent | 16 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 7 (44%) |
| 6 | 3rd Great Grandparent | 32 | 12 | 12 | 12 (%) | 11 (%) |
| 7 | 4th Great Grandparent | 64 | 8 | 8 | 8 | (%) |
| 8 | 5th Great Grandparent | 128 | ||||
| 9 | 6th Great Grandparent | 256 | ||||
| 10 | 7th Great Grandparent | 512 | ||||
| 11 | 8th Great Grandparent | 960 (-64)* | 29 (3%) | 27 (93%) | 17 (67%) | 0 (0%) |
- Total number of possible ancestors reduced due to pedigree collapse.
Public Records
Cheryl was listed in a [1] public record in 1998.
Cheryl was listed in a [2] public record in 2000.
Sources
- ↑ Cheryl J Hess, United States Public Records, "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJWF-RHL3 : 22 April 2020), Cheryl J Hess, 1998.
- ↑ Cheryl J Smith, United States Public Records, "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KBLJ-RKV : 29 January 2020), C Hess, 2000.
My DNA
- 49% England, Northwestern Europe
Cheryl (Smith) Hess has English ancestors. - 27% Germanic Europe
- 9% Scotland
Cheryl (Smith) Hess has Scottish Ancestors. - 6% Wales
- 5% Sweden & Denmark
- 4% Ireland
Cheryl (Smith) Hess has Irish ancestors. - 2% Norway
Cheryl (Smith) Hess has Norwegian ancestors
Cheryl is a participant of the Integrators Challenges
Cheryl is a member of the Virginia Connectors Team for the Connect-a-Thon Challenge, January 2022
Cheryl (Smith) Hess participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and has added 123 connections.
... ... ... participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and has added 10 connections.
Cheryl (Smith) Hess participated with Team Virginia during the 2021 Clean-a-Thon.
Cheryl has participated in 52 out of 52 weeks during the 2020 52 Ancestors Challenge.
Cheryl has participated in 52 out of 52 weeks during the 2019 52 Ancestors Challenge.
Cheryl has participated in 52 out of 52 weeks during the 2018 52 Ancestors Challenge.
Cheryl has participated in 52 out of 52 weeks during the 2020 52 Weeks of Photos Challenge.
Cheryl has participated in 52 out of 52 weeks during the 2019 52 Weeks of Photos Challenge.
Cheryl has participated in 52 out of 52 weeks during the 2018 52 Weeks of Photos Challenge.
Cheryl (Smith) Hess participated with Team Virginia during the 2019 Source-a-Thon, adding some sources to profiles.
Cheryl (Smith) Hess participated with The Great Lakes Region team during the 2018 Source-a-Thon, adding 365 sources to profiles.
Cheryl (Smith) Hess participated with The Great Lakes Region team during the 2019 Source-a-Thon, adding 391 sources to profiles.
Cheryl (Smith) Hess is participating with Team Tennessee Volunteers during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon, and has added 216 connections.
WHEN I'M RESTING
The time will inevitably come for my rest and relief from life's hectic cycle. It may be, though I do hope not, that I will one day merely be unable through physical or mental illness to continue my research and recording into my family and other profiles of interest.
At that time, I place the profiles that I manage into the caring hands of the Mindy Silva. If any member/s of my family (Cassidy Cornwell) have the desire to continue what has been started, I ask that they be allowed to manage those profiles whether or not they are currently on the Trusted Lists for those profiles and be shown the guidance to continue in the proper manner.
I also manage many profiles of people unrelated to me. Those profiles that are locked for privacy reasons I would desire to see transferred to someone with an interest in those projects or sub-projects.
- Cheryl J Smith Hess 2 Aug 2019.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Cheryl's formal name
- full middle name (J.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- personal memories about Cheryl (1)
- images (11)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (2)
- spouse's name and marriage information
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Cheryl or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cheryl:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Cheryl or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cheryl:
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100.00%
100.00%
Cheryl (Smith) Hess:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member oldsoul1968
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~25.00%
~25.00%
Cassidy Cornwell
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member cassidy653
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~1.56%
Betty Davis :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bettyjbarnes1946
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Carol Whelan :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member CarolWhelanT
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Teresa Triplett :
23andMe
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Cheryl:
- Cheryl Hess is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 20, 2021.
- Cheryl Hess is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jun 13, 2021.
- Cheryl Hess is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 1, 2021.
- Cheryl Hess is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 12, 2021.
- Cheryl Hess is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 25, 2021.
- Cheryl Hess is a welcoming person and I thank herfor her encouragement. Mar 17, 2021.
Cheryl is 18 degrees from June Cash, 20 degrees from Patsy Cline, 27 degrees from Mickey Guyton, 18 degrees from Naomi Judd, 16 degrees from Loretta Lynn, 37 degrees from Rita MacNeil, 20 degrees from Reba McEntire, 25 degrees from Joy Kirkpatrick, 21 degrees from Dolly Parton, 19 degrees from Minnie Pearl, 21 degrees from Kitty Wells and 28 degrees from Andrew Turvey on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Categories: Illinois, Hess Name Study | En-3 | Smith-159364 | German Roots | Integrators Challenge Participants | Virginia Challenge Teams
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 84,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in July (tbd)
It’s Germany Project check-in time again! Please respond within the next 2 weeks and let me know if you’re still interested in participating with the Project. Remember, the only requirements for membership in the Germany Project are (1) that you work on at least one German profile every 6 months and (2) that you respond to this check-in.
Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. In your response, we welcome any feedback you may want to give on the project (what you like about it, what you’d like to see us do, what we could change, etc.)
If you ever have any questions, please ask. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
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Sue Tharp Guerra
Thank you for your participation with Team Virginia in the January 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 85,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Your help in learning to use wikitree is very much appreciated. Your help contributed directly to adding a new member.
On behalf of the G2G Integrators Project Leaders, we are doing a first of the year check-in with members. Please let us know if you are still active.
If you are active, please let us know in which ways you most enjoy contributing to the project. All of us would like to thank you for your contributions and hope that you are enjoying exploring your roots.
Please reply as we look forward to hearing from you soon.
David, Pip and Dorothy ~ G2G Integrators Project Leaders and PC
Terry Keller
We couldn't do it without you & look forward to you joining us on the 2022 Clean-A-Thon!
Mindy & Sandy - Team Virginia Co Captains
Just 'thanked you" for a sweet comment you posted in g2g many moons ago that I only, just now, saw.
Again, thank you!
Kindest regards, Mary
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2021 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 74,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! It is always great having you work on Team Virginia. :)
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Save the Date: October 1st through 4th, Source-A-Thon (with amazing prizes!)
You asked me a question, How do you like WikiTree so far? Well I have 4 months worth and I like it very much, where I can share my tree with many others. Plus it will expands my tree as well. Sorry it took so long to answer your question but I like to Thank you once again.
Sem
Thank you for your contributions to my tree during the WikiTree Challenge this week! Yvette Hoitink
I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the goals of the England Project during the past six months. We've achieved a huge amount during this period and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
As the England Project Leaders, we are completing our six monthly check-in with all project members.
How are you going with the Orphan Trail? Which other team/s are you interested in becoming active in once you finish the Trail? Also, do you have any feedback on what the project is doing well and anything we could do better in the future?
Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks!
Ian, England Project Leader
Thanks for reaching out. I am loving WikiTree! There's so much information and so many "helps" here. I'm discovering new things each day. Actually, I have a large tree on Ancestry which I'm planning to work on moving to WikiTree but it will take me a long time. I'll be sure to contact you when I have questions. And, I know there will be many! Thanks again, Jan (Breault) Cartmill (Breault-188).
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Thank You for your work on Week 11 of the WikiTree Challenge, especially for the work you did on our profile of the week Eleanor Martha (Hobbs) Welty (1836-1918). Here is a special sticker that you can add to your profile.
Janet and Joan.
The majority of my work was with the LDS library locally. So much easier now.
Wiki Tree helps a lot.
Thanks again Tom
I used the RootsSearch function a bit last week. The other help features have been a great reference. I blew it in the 1st 10 minutes by putting in my Grandfather and Grandmother and not seeing the duplicate warning pop up. I learned quickly how to look for that. It was not exactly where I expected it. The owner has not seen the merge request yet. It should only take me two or three months to enter the info I have already. And in the process just the last couple weeks I have discovered probably 40 bits of detail, like extra wives! that I had not known about. Thank you again, I will stop being so windy. Mel
Thank you very much.
Don
Just looked over your page and realized we are very similar in age and have both been researching our family tree for 30 years or more. You are so lucky to have been able to find out so much about your family. I, too, know a lot about my mother's line (Herrings and Horn(e)s) but my Dad's grandfather is my brick wall with steel and concrete reinforcements! Can't get beyond his marriage to my great grandmother on October 31, 1889, in Fort Smith, AR. Her family are Freeds and, again, I know a lot about them and have corresponded with a number of cousins, but that Davidson wall is really thick!
Hope to learn a lot from you that will help me chisel through to information on William Bell Davidson, 1849/54 Scotland and died in Indian Territory in July 1906.
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and that we all have a happy and healthy New Year!
Barbara Davidson Norkus
I am new here. I am wondering how to source myself. For example, I am not going to upload my own personally identifying documents such as birth certificate, etc. Also, the only sources I have were downloaded from Ancestry.com. Do those sources travel with a GEDCOM file? Thank you< LE
It's that time of the year again: check-in time! As England Project Leaders, we like to check in with you every six months or so to see how things are progressing. Back in May, we didn't ask for a response due to the rapid emergence of Covid-19 because we understood that people's lives were changing rapidly. While we are still living in a Covid world, we do need to hear back from you this time around.
First of all, how are you doing? What are you currently working on?
Secondly, we're looking for some feedback on the Google Group and our Discord server. Do you use either or both of these? If you don't use either, why not? Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve participation and collaboration, either generally or for you personally?
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Amy, Joan & Lizzie.
I have been busy, thank you for asking. I live in Illinois, and we have just been moved back to Stage 2. It seems like I am on WikiTree 24/7 since Covid started and I am jumping around everywhere, since I was promoted to PC, and it takes a lot of time. I have my computer set to open discord as soon as it turns on, so yes, I love keeping up with everything on the Discord server, and I also have notifications on, so if I am working on something else, the notification pops out the side. I love it.
I don't have any suggestions to improve participation, but know that once I started to actively participate, I can't imagine not having it on. Such interesting facts and useful information pop out, and I will glance at it , and then have to pop into the server to see what everyone is talking about. It is unbelievable to describe the amount of new information I have gained by just being on the server, and talking to everyone daily almost seems to make Covid disappear for awhile.
Thanks for checking in with me, and please stay safe.
Cheryl
It's good to hear that you're staying safe in Illinois! I have a friend of mine who works in an emergency service who also lives there, so it's good to hear that you're keeping well amongst it all. Here in New Zealand we haven't had it as bad, thankfully, but I do come from an immunocompromised household so constant vigilance (to quote Harry Potter) has been a must.
I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying using Discord! I completely understand where you're coming from, haha.
Stay safe, and let me know if there's anything I can do for you in the future!
Regards, Amy
Thank you for the welcome. It's all new to me so I will contact you again if I need some help.
Kind regards, Steve.
Edwin
Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.
Keep up the great work!
Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Sarah
Thank you for your message about my DNA relationship confirmations. I'm quite new to this field, so will hasten slowly and hope to do more in the near future. Thanks again, Barbara