Ellen Smith
Ellen Smith
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
and Sister of
Nancy Smith
[children unknown]
Account confirmed 27 Apr 2014 | Ellen's 94112 contributions
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Profile last modified 29 May 2020
| Created 27 Apr 2014 | Last significant change: 7 May 2020
09:13: Dave Rutherford answered a question about Ellen Smith [Thank Dave for this]
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Biography
Born, grew up, and still living in the United States of America.
Some of my current WikiTree activities that may not be obvious from my badges:
- Project Leader for New Netherland Settlers Project
- Project Leader for US History Project
- Project Co-Leader for Palatine Migration Project
- Leader supporting Massachusetts Project
Status of Ancestry Information
The table (table format at Space:Table of Known Ancestors) below summarizes the extent of the information on my ancestry that is included in Wikitree. For the ten generations previous to mine, it shows the number of possible ancestors, the number of these ancestors who are currently identified/documented included in WikiTree, and the percentage of the possible ancestors who are identified here. Cumulative (overall) totals are also provided. Generations 9 and 10 are not up to date.
"Identified" ancestors include some with unknown last names at birth. It also includes some questionable identifications and people that I have not researched.
| ANCESTORS BY GENERATION | OVERALL ANCESTORS (CUMULATIVE) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen. # | Direct Relation to Self | Dates of Birth | Matches | # | # Identified in WikiTree | % Identified in WikiTree | Total # | Total # Identified | Total % Identified |
| 1 | Parent | 1920s | siblings | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% |
| 2 | grandparent | 1890s | 1st Cousins | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 6 | 6 | 100.0% |
| 3 | great grandparent | 1850s to 1870s | 2nd Cousins | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 14 | 14 | 100.0% |
| 4 | 2nd great grandparent | 1810s to 1850s | 3rd Cousins | 16 | 16 | 100.0% | 30 | 30 | 100.0% |
| 5 | 3rd great grandparent | 1770s to 1820s | 4th Cousins | 32 | 32 | 100.0% | 62 | 62 | 100.0% |
| 6 | 4th great grandparent | 1740s to 1790s | 5th Cousins | 64 | 52 | 81.2% | 126 | 114 | 90.5% |
| 7 | 5th great grandparent | 1700s to 1760s | 6th Cousins | 128 | 89 | 69.5% | 254 | 203 | 79.9% |
| 8 | 6th great grandparent | 1670s to 1740s | 7th Cousins | 256 | 141* | 55.1% | 510 | 344 | 67.5% |
| 9 | 7th great grandparent | 1650s to 1700s | 8th Cousins | 512 | 250* | 48.8% | 1022 | 594 | 58.1% |
| 10 | 8th great grandparent | 1590s to 1670s | 9th Cousins | 1024 | 401* | 39.2% | 2046 | 981 | 47.9% |
*There are several duplicates (people who appear on multiple branches of the tree) in these generations (see "Endogamy" section below for a list). These people are counted more than once in the numbers for both possible ancestors and identified ancestors. Cumulative numbers of distinct individuals in my WikiTree-documented ancestry are: 343 at generation 8, 570 at generation 9, and 934 at generation 10.
Presidential Relatives
See this page.
Endogamy
Autosomal DNA matching with me may be complicated by the number of ancestors who are represented in my lineage more than once. These distant ancestors' DNA may be somewhat amplified in my DNA. Also, if the same ancestor appears on different branches of my family tree, that may reduce the chance of triangulating a particular DNA segment to a particular common ancestor.
Identified ancestors appearing in multiple lines of my ancestry include (this list is not yet complete):
Generation 8
- Maternal
- Paternal
Generation 9
- Maternal
- Teunis Terpenning
- Gretzen DeGraff
- Pieter Van Aken
- Rutsjen Damen
- Henry Stevens Jr.
- Elizabeth Fellows
- Jacob Jacobse Schermerhorn
- Geertjie Hendrickse Van Buren
- Paternal
- Samuel Smith
- Mary Marvin
- Robert Stetson
- Mary Collamore
- Benjamin Thayer
- Margaret Curtis
- Samuel Fuller
- Elizabeth Thacher
- Josiah Richmond[1]
- Mehitable Deane[1]
- Edward Richmond[2]
- Mercy (Unknown) Richmond[2]
- Benjamin Deane[2]
- Sarah Williams[2]
Generation 10
- Maternal
- Marinus Van Aken
- Pieternelle Du Pre
- Jan Corneliszen Damen
- Sofia "Fytie" Martens
- Gerrit Lammertsen
- Annetie Hoogland
- Moses de Graaff
- Hester Delamater
- Anna Cross
- Elizabeth Gallup
- Henry Stephens Sr.
- Ephraim Fellows
- Jacob Janse Schermerhorn
- Jannetje Van Egmont
- Hendrick Cornelissen Van Buren
- Elizabeth Van Slyck
- Pieter Winne
- Tannatje Adams
- Paternal
- John Smith
- Mary Huntley
- William Durkee
- Martha Cross
- Joseph Stetson
- Prudence (Unknown) Stetson
- Anthony Collamore
- Sarah Chittenden
- Richard Thayer
- Rebecca Mycall
- Theophilus Curtis
- Hannah Payne
- Samuel Fuller
- Mary (Unknown) Fuller
- Rodolphus Thacher
- Ruth Partridge
- John Richmond Jr.
- Abigail Rogers
- Edward Richmond[2]
- Mercy (Unknown) Richmond[2]
- Benjamin Deane[2]
- Sarah Williams[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Occurs once in Generation 8 and once in Generation 9
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Occurs once in Generation 9 and once in Generation 10
Notes on DNA Matches
See my Notes on DNA Matches page for information on DNA confirmation of maternal and paternal relationships.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Ellen's formal name
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (1)
- private siblings' names
Sponsored Search
Followed Tags
Ellen is a Wiki Genealogy Volunteer following these tags:
Ellen is a Wiki Genealogy Volunteer following these tags:
- AFRICAN-AMERICAN
- I want to help advance this project.
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
- So I won't miss G2G announcements of new features or changes in policy.
- CATEGORIZATION
- Categorization of profiles is an important topic.
- DATA_DOCTORS
- Following activity on robot-detected data issues.
- DNA
- A 23andMe DNA test got me hooked into tracking more ancestors than I ever thought I'd care to know about.
- DUTCH_ROOTS
- I've enjoyed discovering the Netherlands roots of some of my New Netherland ancestors
- G2G
- As a G2G moderator, I need to follow the tag.
- GEDCOMPARE
- I want to ensure that GEDCOMpare 2.0 is as good as it can possibly be.
- GERMAN_ROOTS
- I have German roots (Palatine immigrants) and I read German.
- IMPROVEMENTS
- Who doesn't like to see improvements?
- MASSACHUSETTS
- Massachusetts was the home of many of my ancestors, and I support the Massachusetts Project as a Project Leader.
- MERGES
- Merging of duplicate profiles -- and protecting profiles that look alike but aren't duplicates -- is an important topic for discussion in G2G.
- NEW_NETHERLAND
- Nearly 1/4 of my ancestry derives from New Netherland. I've learned a lot from other Wikitreers about the history & genealogy of this unique place and time. I'm serving as Project Leader..
- PALATINE_MIGRATION
- I have Palatine immigrant ancestors in New York and Pennsylvania, and I'm currently a Project Leader for the Palatine Migration Project.
- PGM
- A wee bit more than half of my ancestral lines trace through colonial New England, and many of the "immigrant ancestors" arrived in the Puritan Great Migration from 1621 to 1640. I'm an NEHGS member and I've enjoyed researching this population.
- PRE-1500
- I can help fix errors or resolve other problems with early profiles.
- PRE-1700
- Research on early ancestors can be both richly rewarding and severely challenging.
- PROJECT_LEADERS
- As a Project Leader, I need to be aware of G2G activity tagged for Project Leaders. The tag "Leaders" is no longer in use.
- UNITED_STATES
- This is now the standard tag for the United States Project.
- US_HISTORY
- I'm currently Project Leader for the United States project, formerly known as the US History project.
DNA Tested
Ellen Smith's DNA has been tested for genealogical purposes. It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Ellen or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
Ellen Smith's DNA has been tested for genealogical purposes. It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Ellen or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Ellen Smith: Mitochondrial DNA Test Other, haplogroup H1e
- Ellen Smith: 23andMe , GEDmatch M162952 [compare] + Autosomal DNA Test , GEDmatch EP9026105 [compare]
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Ellen:
- Ellen Smith is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 7, 2020.
- Ellen Smith is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 6, 2020.
- Ellen Smith is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 4, 2020.
- Ellen Smith is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 4, 2020.
- Ellen Smith is a Wonderful WikiTreer Nov 23, 2019.
- Houston, time to get a bigger spaceship: Ellen Smith is our 13th Astronaut surpassing 1,000,000+ G2G points! Nov 6, 2019.
Ellen is 21 degrees from Donald Howard, 15 degrees from Julia Howe and 19 degrees from Henry VIII of England on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Have a happy Monday:)
The standard format for a Sources list starts out with the tag <references />. That does look like it might be a hidden instruction to guide editing, but in fact it is a mandatory element that should not be removed. That tag generates a list of numbered footnotes when the profile is formatted to use footnotes (the preferred approach for citing sources, by the way).
Each item in the Sources list should be preceded by an asterisk (*) to create an indented bullet. When we create a new profile, the first item automatically gets preceded by an asterisk, but we have to enter the asterisks for the other items manually. Please don't use colons to create sources lists.
If I have failed to adequately explain a detail about formatting a Sources list, you can always look under the Edit tab on a properly formatted profile to see what the coding looks like.
Happy hunting!
He is interested in two Counties in Texas and space pages for those counties, along the lines of Texas History.
Thanks
For some reason (I cannot recall why -- probably related to something that somebody contacted me about), I looked at three supposedly-Cherokee profiles that were listed as PPP without a project box, specifically Cherokee-124, Moytoy-1, and Moytoy-161. All clearly deserve to have project protection; only one of three had a Native American sticker and none had a project box. A nonexistent person needs a project box in order to be PPP. I guess I concluded that the Native American project did not want to claim them due to their questionable status; I cannot say why I failed to notice that all three had the Native American project account as a profile manager (I thought that they were on a list for lacking both a project box and project account). However, seeing that they were all in the geographic scope of Tennessee, I quick-added that project box so they would no longer be PPP without a project. PLEASE replace those Tennessee project boxes with an appropriate Native American box!
As for the death location on Moytoy-161, what I did was change the strangely abbreviated entry "Cherokee NationEast, TN" to "Cherokee Nation East, Tennessee."
The message we exchanged before didn't sit 100% well with me, so I thought I'd just check in a day later. First off, I wanted to make clear I do plan on G2G-ing whenever parents' profiles will need to be added. I think it is good to let everyone have a final say! Secondly, I really try to update the profiles of the people who lived in the early Dutch colonies now and then. I noticed that a lot of these -fairly often important (with regards to number of descendants)- profiles are not using primary sourcing, and can be hard to edit because you often need a bit of knowledge about Dutch history and culture too. Because of this, I decided to contribute every now and then :-).
Because I want to contribute, I wonder when you think a G2G is necessary, as our opinions seem to differ on what would require such a post. Personally, I think it is only needed whenever difficult source discussion is taking place, or different theories can be supported through all primary sources.
When primary sources show that more common attributions of parentage (mostly due to copying of trees on Ancestry etc.) are dead wrong I personally do not think it is necessary or ethical to keep the theory as a possibly accepted theory on WikiTree. In my opinion, it would be best to show that the theory exists and why it is wrong - disproving research should not require a G2G post.
I would love to know when you would want me to post to G2G and the logic behind posting such posts in those cases :-) I also wonder what you would change to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Corszen-5 right now, to better be able to update profiles in the future!
Have a nice day / evening (Dutch time),
Willem
P.S. Thanks for your earlier notice anyway, as it did point me towards the fact that I should round of the conclusions a bit better instead of leaving them open.
You and I have a lot of ancestors in common. We map out as 5th cousins via a Townsend connection, but we are also 7th cousins, 8th cousins, etc., via other shared ancestors. I see that you tested on FTDNA, and I've posted my data there, so I looked for you on my report there. You aren't listed as a DNA match (that's not surprising, as there's a low chance of an autosomal match at 5 generations on a line where we would not have received X chromosome DNA).
I expect that I'll continue to see you around, cousin!
Where and when did the two Zoller daughters of the Etcbach Zollers arrive and live in New York. One was 13 and the other 15.
And how about this for a coincidence: Jones writes the 15 year old daughter when she arrived in New York, had an illegitimate daughter with a Negro in New York. Then he writes that Johannes Schaeffer's wife also had an illegitimate child. These two are supposedly daughters of the Etzbach Zoller family.
How can you managers ignore the only documentation and believe the made up Jones info?
thank you for your reply. I had just left a message on DeBevoise-2 because he is my 6th great grandfather. So----in my line Christine & Joost married and had Maria Carelsz - Birth 15 AUG 1660 Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA - Death 1686. she married Jacobus DeBeauvois * Birth 1651 Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands Death 1710 Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA who is DeBevoise-2 grandfather. if that all makes sense, hahaha. Suzanne
Current FSP Project Page - United States Census Transcription Project
Look forward to hearing from you
I noticed your connection to DeGraff and Delamater in New Netherlands and would appreciate constructive criticism of my tree. Im trying to figure out which Moses DeGraff that I descend from and think I may have found some land records of Dutchess County that might shed some light.
I currently believe that I descend from Cornelius Delamater and Blandina Dicanten DeGraff.
Please let me know what suggestions you have for sharing information.
Thanks, Jason Wallace
Antje Covenhoven (Hendrickson-707) and Privacy Level 60 Annetje Couwenhoven (Hendrickson-245) Both are PPP. Please adjust.
is PPP, a merge with an unknown waiting.
I have today detached a husband named Boon which was attached in Feb by another Wikitreer.
There must be two Mary Van Kirks....