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Contents 1 Appalachia Project 1.1 Leadership Roles 1.2 Teams 1.3 Projects Related to Appalachia 1.4 OPS/ONS Sub-Projects

Appalachia Project

This page gives an overview of the project's organization, which can also be seen by navigating the project's categorization of People, Places, and Things.

Profiles of Appalachians should be categorized by state under one or more of the Appalachians categories and, if appropriate, the Appalachia, Notables category. They should also be categorized under the appropriate location categories - Category: Appalachia Counties (under Category: Appalachia) collects all category pages for counties in Appalachia (see also the project's Counties of Appalachia page, which has by-state tables with links to the county categories for today's Appalachia). There are 423 counties across 13 states in today's Appalachia.^[1] Category: Appalachia Counties has more than 423 category pages, since the same county, in the same location, existed in different states or in a colony through the years (and people should be categorized under the location category appropriate for the time that they lived there).^[2] The project's Regional Team pages are under "Things" and One Place Studies are under Regional Team pages.

Leadership Roles

Project Leaders (PLs): Lead the project, oversee day-to-day operations, and provide guidance to the Team Leaders. See Help: Project Leaders. Appalachia Project's leader is Sandy Patak.

Team Leaders (TLs): Oversee a specific area (five regions of Appalachia, Profile Improvement, and Membership) within the framework of the project, coordinating work and providing support and guidance to members of their respective teams. Participate in the Project Challenges and Thons, as well as Discord. Answer each new member posted to your regional team page by responding on the new member's profile (sample welcome text available from the PL). See Help: Team Leaders. Appalachia Project's Team Leaders currently are Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson, Karen Stewart, Tabor Fisher, and Paula Franklin. The other Regional Teams are led by Sandy. They are listed with their teams, below.

Teams

The project has a leadership team (comprising the PLs and TLs), five regional teams and a Membership Team. The Team pages have details about each team and its members.

Regional Teams

1. Northern Appalachia Team / category
   Team Leader: Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson
2. North Central Appalachia Team / category
   Team Leader: Karen Stewart
3. Central Appalachia Team / category
   Team Leader: Sandy Patak
4. South Central Appalachia Team / category
   Team Leader: Tabor Fisher
5. Southern Appalachia Team / category
   Team Leader: Paula (Brewer) Franklin

Profile Improvement Team

Not active at this time
Team Leader: N/A

Membership Team -
Team Leader: Sandy Patak

• Membership Manager: Sandy
  (G2G Welcome Post, Welcoming New Members, maintaining the Appalachia Project Membership page, conducting 6-month checkins, etc.)
• G2G Monitoring: Sandy & Team Leaders
• Discord: Sandy & Team Leaders
• Google Group Managers: Sandy & Liz Shifflett
• Newsletter: Mark Lemen, TBD

Projects Related to Appalachia

Several projects (including free-space projects and those with a project-namespace page as well as mini-projects, with a narrow focus) have come under the Appalachia Project since its creation, including the Hatfields and McCoys, which was marked for dissolution when the Black Sheep Project was dissolved; the Melungeon Roots Project, which had never taken off because of its wide reach (farther than Appalachia, but Melungeons are strongly associated with Appalachia); and the relatively new mini-project about "Kanawha Valley Salt Makers".

For convenience, they are listed here with the person (or persons) spearheading the endeavor, but they are categorized and supported by the appropriate regional team(s) and/or the project in general (see Category: Projects Related to Appalachia - note that not all of the following are included in that category).

Multi-region projects

• Hatfields and McCoys, Janine Isleman
• Melungeon Roots Project, Eric Weddington
• The Overmountain Men and their Descendants, Emily Holmberg & Janie Kimble (Appalachia Project contact: Liz Shifflett)
• Kanawha Valley Salt Makers, Liz Shifflett
• Great Wagon Road Points and Parts, Liz Shifflett

Single-region projects

• 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Project, Cathryn (Hallett) Hondros
• The Blue People Of Kentucky, Pam Fraley
• Frontier Nursing Service, Karen Stewart, Sandy (Craig) Patak
• Southern Airways Flight 932, Marshall University Southern Airways #932 (Largest US Sports Air Crash), Mike Patak
• West Virginia Coal Wars, Sandy (Craig) Patak
• Neighbors of Washington County, Maryland, neighbors in Washington County's 1850 Census

"Not quite Appalachia" projects

• Cumberland Compact & Signers, Kari Lemons - signers include folks important to the area bordering today's Appalachia, but only some of them could also be considered Appalachian; the settlement by the Cumberland River that gives the compact its name was also east of today's Appalachia (Appalachia Project contact: Liz Shifflett). See also this G2G post.

OPS/ONS Sub-Projects

One Place Studies are sub-projects under the One Place Studies Project but those for a place in Appalachia can be categorized under the appropriate regional team. In addition, some One Name Studies (which fall under the One Name Studies Project) have significant Appalachian roots and might also be categorized under a Regional Team category. OPS/ONS sub-projects are included under Regional Team category pages at the discretion of the Team Leader and the manager of the OPS/ONS sub-project. The following are OPS/ONS sub-projects that a member of the Appalachia Project manages or that the Regional Team Leader has chosen to add here (note that additional OPS/ONS sub-projects may be found under the Team category pages).

North Central Appalachia

• Nuttallburg, West Virginia One Place Study
• Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia One Place Study
• Point Mountain Cemetery, Webster Springs, West Virginia

South Central Appalachia

• Everett Rowland Sawmill (Tennessee), Janine Isleman
• Hamricks in North Carolina in the Early 1800s, Lynn Hemrick

One Place Studies Alabama Place Studies Georgia Place Studies Kentucky Place Studies Maryland Place Studies Mississippi Place Studies New York Place Studies North Carolina Place Studies Ohio Place Studies Pennsylvania Place Studies South Carolina Studies Tennessee Place Studies Virginia Place Studies West Virginia Place Studies 13 States 423 Counties

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Footnotes

1. ↑ As listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (here) as of 30 June 2022. These are the counties listed in the project's Counties of Appalachia tables.
2. ↑ Of the 13 states with counties in today's Appalachia, 7 pre-date the United States (which began on 4 July 1776 for WikiTree purposes, such as categorization). Location categories and space pages are primarily the purview of the corresponding state-level sub-project of the United States Project. Generally, only post-colonial categories are included under Category: Appalachia Counties. The project is working on timelines that document which counties not currently among the 423 in today's Appalachia once covered the same land. In addition, not all of the state-level projects categorize pre-USA profiles separately. The following list is not comprehensive (since the timeline work and research into how the state-level project categorize by location is still needed).
   • The Georgia Project...
   • The Maryland Project has pre-USA county categories for people profiles. Maryland today has three counties in Appalachia, none of which existed prior to 1776. See the space page for Washington County for a pre-USA timeline (Washington County was the first of the three - the other two were created from it).
   • The New York Project...
   • The North Carolina Project has a single county category for both before and after 4 July 1776, but categorizes the county under Category: North Carolina and/or Category: Province of North Carolina, as appropriate. The Appalachia Project's Workspace for North Carolina has some information; contact the North Carolina Project for details/clarification.
   • The Pennsylvania Project...
   • The South Carolina Project...
   • The Virginia Project categorizes Virginians under pre-USA and post-colonial location categories (see Category: Virginia Colony and Category: Virginia). If you encounter a situation where a location category does not exist for a pre-USA Virginia county, or an extinct Virginia county, contact Liz Shifflett (a member of the Virginia Project). In addition to being listed under the Virginia Colony or Virginia category, links to Virginia category pages can be found on the Virginia Project's Counties and Parishes page (see the Counties table). Note that both Virginia Colony and Virginia are top-level categories, meaning no people profiles. See also the Appalachia Project's Workspace for Virginia (in progress as of 13 August 2022).

   Category: Appalachians, Category: Appalachia Project, and the category pages for the Regional Teams are also a top-level categories - no people profiles should be under the main Appalachians category and project members' profiles are the only people profiles allowed under the others.