Northern Appalachia Team

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Welcome to the Appalachia Project - Northern Appalachia Team, a part of the Appalachia Project. If you're a member of the project and would like to join this team,

1. add your name, interest area(s), and what you're working to the Members list (below).
2. add the team category to your profile: [[Category: Northern Appalachia Team]] - you can also add [[Category: Appalachia Project]]
3. update your Member sticker (or add it): {{Member|Appalachia|team=[[Space: Northern Appalachia Team|Northern Appalachia Team]]}}
   

   ... ... ... is a member of the Appalachia Project (Northern Appalachia Team).
   or {{Member|Appalachia}}
   

   ... ... ... is a member of the Appalachia Project.
4. read through the project page, if you haven't already.
5. check out the To-Dos (below) - you can add to the list or sign on for a task that interests you.

Regional Team Leader: Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson
See Members (below).

State Team
Maryland Appalachians
New York Appalachians
Ohio Appalachians
Pennsylvania Appalachians
West Virginia Appalachians

Five Regions of Appalachia

If you see things that need done, you can add them to the Task list, below. If you have ideas for things that the Team could be doing, let me know! ~ Erin

The links in the table above are for the "landing level" categories (where people profiles should be categorized; project pages are categorized under Category: Appalachia Project).

Thirteen states have counties in Appalachia. The Northern Appalachia Team covers counties in five of them: Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, & West Virginia (the green area in the above map).

Maryland: Maryland's 3 Appalachia counties^[1] are all in the Northern Appalachia Region (see the Maryland table on the project's Counties of Appalachia page). The counties are Allegany, Garrett, and Washington.

New York: New York's 14 Appalachia counties^[1] are all in the Northern Appalachia Region. (see the New York table on the project's Counties of Appalachia page). The counties are Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tompkins.

Ohio: Ohio's 32 Appalachia counties^[1] are split between the North Central and Northern Appalachia Regions. (see the Ohio table on the project's Counties of Appalachia page). The Northern Appalachia counties are Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Holmes, Jefferson, Mahoning, Muskingum, Trumbull, and Tuscarawas.

Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania's 52 Appalachia counties^[1] are all in the Northern Appalachia Region. (see the Pennsylvania table on the project's Counties of Appalachia page). The counties are Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Cambria, Cameron, Carbon, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Luzerne, Lycoming, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Pike, Potter, Schuylkill, Snyder, Somerset, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Venango, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, and Wyoming.

West Virginia: West Virginia's 55 Appalachia counties^[1] are split between the North Central Central Appalachia and Northern Appalachia Regions. (see the West Virginia table on the project's Counties of Appalachia page). The Northern Appalachia counties are Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, and Ohio.

When adding the appropriate Appalachians category, add any appropriate county-level location categories too.

The Appalachia Project's Counties of Appalachia includes all 423 counties listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission,^[1] plus some, with links to the WikiTree category pages.

Contents 1 Member Details 2 Northern Appalachia Team To-dos 2.1 Tasks 2.1.1 Note About VA & WV Stickers

Member Details

See Appalachia Project Membership for the Project's membership.

Members can add details of their interest area(s) and what they're working on for the Northern Appalachia Team in this section.

• Member: Interest area(s)
  • Working on/intend to do/have an idea to do...

• Susan Anderson: Schoharie County and Allegany County, New York; Potter County and Erie County, Pennsylvania; Ashtabula County, Ohio.
  • Still lots to do documenting family members who settled in these counties after the Revolution.

• John Brion Jr.: I was born in Ridgway, Elk County, Pa. My ancestors go back into the 1700’s in Western Pa. Specifically Clarion, Clearfield, Westmoreland and Butler counties. I’m proud of my Appalachian roots and early upbringing, many great memories.

• J. J. (Wade) Becker: I have a lot of past generations that resided in eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania in that northern region.
  • Will add profiles to Guernsey County, OH and Beaver County, PA

• Mary Calvert: Greene Co. Pa, Wetzel, Monongalia, Ohio, and Marshall counties in WV

• Cheri Campbell: Northern PA on NY border; also lived in southwestern NYS

• John Carollo Jr.: My mother's line is mostly clustered in the 18th century Quaker settlements of Berkeley & Frederick Co. Va. More ancestors were scattered in Brooke County, Va. and SE Ohio. From there they migrated along the National Road and by the Civil War all settled in Central Illinois. Some cousins stayed behind. One served in the 4th West Virginia Calvary (union) in the Civil War.
  • I still have some genealogical brick walls to get through, especially the Garrett family in Washington County, Pa. in the early 19th century. It's possible the name was Anglicized from a German name like Gerret
  • I have a lot of love for Appalachian culture.

• Marie (Christy) Carpenter: I have many ancestors from Western Pennsylvania

• Derek Clutter: My family settled the Washington and Greene County, PA area in 1780 and have been there ever since.
  • My main area of focus is SW Pennsylvania, Washington and Greene Counties specifically along with some work in Monongalia and Hampshire County West Virginia with focus on the many German immigrants that came during the Palatine migration in 1709 and would eventually settle in these areas in the late 18th century.

• Bill Crews:
  • (Bill to add)

• Lisa DeCarpio: (Lisa to add)
  • (Lisa to add)

• George DeFrieze: Many eastern Ohio ancestors.

• Sarah Edwards:
  • I was born in West Virginia and moved to

western Maryland. I have ancestors all through Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. I'm currently adding profiles.

• Sven Elbert: I am adding lots of emigrants from Northwestern Germany to Wikitree that have moved to (Northern) Appalachia (and other places). I can help to tie emigrant roots back to Germany. My area of interest is the area around Osnabrück.
  • Hollenkamp Name Study
  • Wallenhorst, Niedersachsen One Place Study

• S Esper: I have an Abundant family from the Region who came from Pennsylvania and settled along the Ohio River from Pittsburg to the Virginia/West Virginia border. They came to the area in the early 1700's and settled in Ohio Territory.

• Sissy Ewald
  • I’ve been working Washington and Frederick Counties in Maryland recently, but have interests in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Missouri. I plan to work on Western Maryland.

• Mary Lou (Guinn) Finley: Pennsylvania
  • Adding and researching ancestors of the Edmonds and Bell families in and around Munhall and Pittsburgh, Alleghany County.

• Anne Fiordalisi: Ohio
  • (Anne to Add)

• Pam (Dale) Fraley: Working on creating Free Space pages for the counties in my region.
  • Brooke, Hancock, and Ohio Counties in West Virginia.
  • Look toward picking up an idle county page to adopt.

• Dan Gilbert: Most of my Pennsylvania ancestors were from the eastern counties, however two branches, the Froniker and Stoolfire families were from Stewart, Licking and Washington counties.

• Heidi (Tucker) Glover: I have ancestors in the Northern Appalachia area.

• Amy (Golder) Golder-Cooper: New Jersey Dutch and Palatine Swiss/German ancestors moved into Central Pennsylvania and scattered further afield.
  • Original Northumberland County, now also Union, Montour, Columbia, Sullivan, Schuylkill, Snyder, Clinton, Lycoming, Centre, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Huntingdon, and beyond.
  • Blue relatives also early settlers in Berkley, Virginia/West Virginia

• Nicci (Flint) Hartland: MD/PA/NY
  • Adding and Researching

• Cathryn (Hallett) Hondros: Ohio Counties for Category:105th_Regiment,_Ohio_Infantry,_United_States_Civil_War
  • Researching both the families and the lives of soldiers of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 105th OVI) of the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was recruited from five northeastern Ohio counties, including the three Appalachian counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning.

• Tabitha (Daellenbach) Howell: Many of my family lines run through Appalachia, especially western Pennsylvania.

• Donna (Smith) Hughes: I grew up and now live in the Half Moon Valley below the Bald Eagle Ridge of the Allegheny Mountains in central Pa. I am in interested in studying the early settlers of Huntingdon, Centre, and Clearfield Counties.

• Dusti (Brown) Ide:
  • (Dusti to Add)

• Janine Isleman: Ohio and West Virginia
  • adding profiles people from Jefferson, Ohio and Marshall, West Virginia

• Mark Lemen: Ohio
  • Adding ancestors from Tuscarawas, Coshocton, and Muskingum Counties in Ohio

• Jodi Linderman: Southwestern Pennsylvania (primarily Fayette and Somerset counties
  • (Jodi to Add)

• James Little: James to Add
  • (James to Add)

• Reta McCollum:
  • Created profiles of ancestors from Pennsylvania and Ohio.

• Kim McKnight: Ancestors who emigrated to Western PA and upstate New York
  • Created or involved in profiles of ancestors in Allegheny County in Pennsylvania.

• Celia Marsh:
  • (Celia to Add):

• Gail (Pickens) Martin: Heavy on ancestors in SW PA and SE Ohio.
  • Areas of focus: PA: Fayette, Allegheny, Venango, Westmoreland and Huntingdon counties. Ohio: Washington and Trumbull counties.

• Hilary Mason: Many of my ancestors are from eastern central Ohio and western Pennsylvania as far back as 1790. My first goal will be to flesh out their profiles and join in the project's activities.

• Rebecca (Tucker) Morris: Allegheny, Fulton, Juniata, Huntingdon, Schuylkill, Counties.

• Kathy (Urbach) Nava: Pennsylvania and New York areas
  • Updating ancestors from Pennsylvania and New York.

• Bob Nevin: Many of my ancestors settled in Western PA and around Youngstown Ohio, including my Grandparents and great-grandparents on my father's side; The Halls and Nevin lines.

• Sharon Oldaker: Ancestors from Pennsylvania and Ohio
  • Updating ancestors from Pennsylvania and Ohio.

• Michelle (Wyatt) Oviatt: Ancestors from Northern Appalacia
  • My 4th great grandmother (Allshouse-39) was born in Westmoreland County, PA and died in Armstrong County, PA. I will be starting with her.

• Monica (Rienerth) Palmer: I'll be focusing mostly on the Southern Tier region of New York and Mahoning County, Ohio. Possibly some PA sprinkled in there too.
  • I've moved a little pet project to WikiTree (from a blog) to work on cemeteries in the Southern Tier region of New York, which include Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Delaware, Steuben, and Tioga counties. This project fits under what the Appalachian project is already doing. I also have ancestors in Mahoning County, Ohio and in Pennsylvania, so I'm consistently working on those too.

• Sandy (Craig) Patak: Actively involved in Maryland and West Virginia and some Trumball, Ohio Profiles.
  • Slowly Adding Profiles for Northeast United States Mining Disasters Team
  • Always Sourcing Unsourced WV Counties

• Sarah Palmer: I have ancestors from Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

• Charles Peterson: Southwest Pennsylvania to Western New York Ancestors

• Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson: Ancestors from Western Maryland and southwestern PA
  • Brick Walls in Maryland/West Virginia

• Ronald Robinson: Ancestors from Western Pennsylvania (Fayette and Westmoreland counties)
  • Paternal ancestors (Wilson, Robinson, Taylor, Pike, Beard, Richter) 1800's to mid 1900's in Fayette, Westmoreland, and Allegheny areas of Pennsylvania.

• Ann (Atkinson) Sawusch: Following the trails of Atkinson and variant surnames for the Atkinson Name Study.

• Cynthia Shank: I'm in interested in 2 families that settled in Western Pennsylvania, most of them within about 50 or so miles of Pittsburgh.
  • Surnames Shank and Ream

• Liz (Noland) Shifflett: My 1st husband was born in Washington County, Maryland, but my main interest is on Virginia (e.g., VA counties before they became WV, in this region, those are Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, & Ohio counties).
  • Space: Washington County, Maryland
  • Back-burner: VA counties (pre-WV) - Marshall County (since Pam doesn't list it), Ohio County (Van Meter-8 lived there)

• Dave Stern: Dave to add
  • (Dave to Add)

• Karen Stewart
  • I will be stickering in the 4 northern counties of West Virginia

• Becky (Thames) Thames-Simmons: Pennsylvania and New York areas

• Alice Thomsen: Pennsylvania to Oregon

• Gurney Thompson Jr: Pittsburgh region
  • Expanding family line to Pittsburgh and beyond

• John Tyner: Williams family from Wales to Pennsylvania.
  • Resident researcher on Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales

• B (McFeaters) U: I am a native Pennsylvanian, 9th generation, and have many contributions I could make to several counties--including Indiana, Huntingdon, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Armstrong, Centre, and Clinton--ancestors.
  • Working on adding/updating my Pennsylvania ancestor profiles and my Indiana County, Pennsylvania OPSs.

• Mark VanHaelst: I have deep roots in Snyder county and the surrounding areas

• Eric Weddington:
  • Weddington Name Study includes Weddington families in eastern Kentucky and surrounding areas (OH, WV). These Weddington families originated in south west Virginia. Knowledgeable of other associated family names in eastern Kentucky. The North Carolina Weddington families migrated to Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. I have other family lines in Tennessee. Some knowledge of central Pennsylvania. Cemeterist. Multiple ONS coordinator. I work on the Hatfield & McCoy sub-project. Interest in the Melungeon Roots sub-project.

• Sharon (Shockey) Wetzel: West Virginia Eastern Panhandle, Virginia, Pennsylvania
  • Currently working on Swiss Reformation and the Anabaptist immigration to American through Philadelphia (Bowman/Bauman/Myers/Shockey/Saville/Landis/Arnold/Shoemaker)
    • SURNAMES : Shockey (Hampshire/Hardy), Shoemaker (Hardy), Keplinger/Caplinger (Grant), Goldizen (Grant, Bowman (Hampshire), Saville (Hampshire), Myers (Hardy), Strawderman (Hardy), Dayton (Hampshire/Hardy), Liller (Hampshire), Stewart, (Hardy), Hogbin (Hardy), Feaster (Grant), Watts (Grant), Davis (Pendleton), Hill (Wetzel), Stalnaker (Randolph), Truby (Randolph), Townsend (Hampshire), Roby (Hampshire/Braxton), Shanholtz(er) (Hampshire), Pultz (Hampshire), Asbury (Hampshire), Bethel (Hampshire), Purgett (Hampshire), Sager (Hardy), Heishman (Hardy), Barb (Hardy), Ziegler (Hardy), Bolinger (Hardy), Kidner (Hardy), Chrisman (Hardy), McDonald (Hardy), Baker (Hardy), Hough (Hardy), Elswick (Hardy), Chilcott (Hardy), Payne (Hampshire), Cooper (Hardy), Dispanet (Hardy), Taylor (Hardy), Roberts (Hardy), Parks (Hardy), Siever (Grant), Bland (Pendleton), Hoover (Pendleton), Waldron (Pendleton), Dunkle (Pendleton), Mueller (Pendleton), Thompson (Pendleton), Moore (Hardy), Kanester (Hardy), Sites (Grant), Rohrbaugh (Grant), Lough (Pendleton), Riggleman (Hardy), Landis (Hardy), Hirschman (Hampshire), Cunningham (Hampshire/Mineral)

• Nancy (Cox) Wilson: NY and PA ancestors
  • Currently working on monthly challenge unconnected notable, Mike Trbovich. Also, found out i have roots in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Cox-27529 17:04, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

• Lyn Young: I have ancestors from New York, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania

• Kathy (Stuewe) Zipperer: ancestors in Ohio, ancestors in Pennsylvania, relatives in Kentucky
  • Currently correcting locations for Data doctors suggestions in Ohio, will try to add appropriate categories. Creating CC7 profiles in Ohio/Kentucky/Pennsylvania.

• Jeff Ikeler: My paternal side is almost entirely early Pennsylvania settlers with many lines going back to pre-Revolutionary. My focus area is the Susquehanna Valley, primarily in Columbia/Montour/Northumberland counties with some spillage into Luzerne/Schuylkill counties. Currently working on:
  • Converting all profiles with DBE 853, Warning: GEDCOM Junk. Progress: [Entire state of PA] Thousands down, ~500 to go.
  • Fixing all DBE 616, Abbreviated Birth Location Country Not Recommended, Death Location, and Marriage Location errors. Progress: [Columbia co. PA] 7x DBE 616's (green locked) remain. All DBE 646 and 676 completed. [Entire state of PA] Not started.
  • Adding missing cemeteries from the WT+ WikiTree and FindAGrave Cemetery Reports. Progress: [Columbia co. & Montour co. PA] 99%. [Entire state of PA] Not started.
  • Adding cemetery categories for all profiles identified in the WT+ Cemetery Reports. Progress: [Columbia co. & Montour co. PA] 99%. [Entire state of PA] Not started.

Northern Appalachia Team To-dos

Profile Maintenance: Project members are asked to help work on profiles in the project's Maintenance Categories. Note that if you add a maintenance category, you should generally also add details of why you added it to the profile's Research Notes.

Needs categories can be added to a profile using the project sticker (see this template page), including Appalachia, Needs More Records for a profile that has at least one source but needs additional sources.

Profiles for Appalachians with no sources should have {{Unsourced|Appalachia}} added to the profile, which will put the profile in the project's Unsourced Profiles category: Appalachia, Unsourced Profiles.

Tasks

Team members - if you're working on a listed task, please "sign" it by adding ~~~~

• Research county formation history to establish a timeline people can use to properly categorize profiles.
• Check location categories for profiles of people who were born in, who lived in or who were associated with this region.
  • Add the appropriate Appalachians category + Sticker.
  • If the person is associated with Appalachia, check the qualifications posted by the Notables Project to see if [[Category: Appalachia, Notables]] should be added to the person's profile (whether or not they're associated with the North Central region of Appalachia).

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Note About VA & WV Stickers

When using the Appalachia Project's stickers, please keep in mind that West Virginia was NOT a State until June 20, 1863. Please use the appropriate stickers for those that were born in Virginia, now West Virginia:

Virginia and West Virginia Specific Stickers Sticker Sticker Code Native Virginian (Born in Virginia, Now West Virginia as of June 20, 1863) {{Nonmigrating Ancestor |addinfo=Native Virginian (Born in Virginia, Now West Virginia as of June 20, 1863) |flag=US_State_Flag_Images-49.png |tooltip=Flag of Virginia }} ... ... ... was born in Appalachia, in Virginia (now West Virginia). {{Appalachia Sticker |born |state= VA-WV }} - IF the person stayed in what is now West Virginia ... ... ... was an Appalachian. {{Appalachia Sticker|state=Virginia}} - IF the person stayed in what is now Virginia NOTE: Also check the Profile's Location of Birth. If it states West Virginia and it is before June 20, 1863, please correct it to Virginia.

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Regional Team Space Pages

Northern Appalachia Team | North Central Appalachia Team | Central Appalachia Team | South Central Appalachia Team | Southern Appalachia Team

Regional Team Categories

Northern Appalachia Team | North Central Appalachia Team | Central Appalachia Team | South Central Appalachia Team | Southern Appalachia Team

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