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The WikiTree Challenge 2022 Challenge 15

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Date: 4 Aug 2022 to 11 Aug 2022
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WikiTree Challenge Week 0

Focus: Tom (Mapother) Cruise

Scores

Needs Work

Photograph Requests

This is for listing profiles you have requested a tombstone or other picture of for an ancestor. Photographs are great way to enhance the profiles and the presentation, so thank you for helping out!!
Note: Please check with your captain, Cheryl Hess, if there are any questions about the images being protected by copyright.
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FamilySearch Image Look-ups

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week
  1. Tom's great-grandfather Joseph Charles Ramser had a brother-in-law Henry that owned a saloon. Henry had a daughter-in-law named Margaret Lionfeeder. Silva-1055
  2. Tom's second great grandmother, Elvira Eva (Tompkins) Batman (1854-1910) died as the result of injuries when the horse she was driving was frightened by a motorcycle and ran away, throwing her against a tree. This happened in 1910 when horses and motorcycles had to share the road.Cox-27529
  3. Tom's second great grandmother, Elvira Eva (Tompkins) Batman (1854-1910) was said to have been related to Edgar Allen Poe and a Vice-President of the USA. Ulmer-538 Note: I didn't use this as the connection finder doesn't currently show a blood relationship, just a marital one.
  4. Tom's second great grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Batman (1853-1933) owned a distilling business. He entered into the distilling business with T H Sherley & Co as an office boy and 10 years later was a junior partner. He named his son, Sherley, was in all likelihood named for T H. (His name is often transcribed as "Shirley.") When T H Sherley died, T J Batman started his own distillery, the Frishe Distillery Company. T J Batman and T J Batman, Jr each owned 10 shares and A S Batman owned 5. He retired in 1919, just before Prohibition! Ulmer-538
  5. Tom's great-grandfather William Reibert (1877-1957) was caught in the 1910 census at the Kentucky State Fair. At the time he was working as a carver of coffins. Aaron Gullison
  6. Tom's 2nd great-grand-uncle, Dennis Shea J, was a glass blower and molder. At the age of 43 he was an inmate at the insane asylum in Louisville, Kentucky. Nancy (Cox) Wilson
  7. Tom's first cousin (3x removed) Wright McCormick (abt.1893-abt.1922) was an English Professor at the University of Texas. He died tragically at the age of 29, climbing a dormant volcano outside of Mexico City. Menchaca-94
  8. in 1931, Tom's Great grandmother, Anna Stewart (Batman) Mapother (1877-1968) was elected the first President of the newly formed Epsilon Chapter of the Pi Omicron Sorority, which was a non-collegiate sorority that promoted education for adult women. Tucker-11084
  9. The sister-in-law of Tom's great-grandfather, Thomas Cruise Mapother (1876-1939), died of swallowing strychnine tablets at her home, leading to an investigation into her death. It was believed by the family to be accidental when she mistook the tablets for aspirin. Lisa McKinnis
  10. Brothers Karl Pfeiffer and John Pfeiffer married Sisters Julia Gould and Johanna Gould. Karl Pfeiffer was Tom's Great Great Grandfather. Heather Jenkinson
  11. Maybe Tom gets his theatre arts by heredity.... his Great-grandfather Thomas Cruise Mapother (1876-1939) the first was said to be a riveting speaker and there are numerous articles of him speaking to groups and even performing Shakespeare at his college get together later in life. On his mother's side, his Great grandfather, Joseph Charles Ramser (1870-1938), may have been a baritone soloist and choir singer that "has made quite a name for himself in local music".Tucker-11084
  12. Barbe Merckel (1795 - 1866) married Jean Michel Ennesser Jean Michel Ennesser (1784 - 1854) on 14 Dec 1813 in Kutzenhausen (Alsace, France). Her father Jean Merckel (1757 - 1813) died two days after the marriage and her mother Marie Anne Ennesser (1760 - 1813) died four days after the marriage.
  13. An auction in 1923 for Ramser Hardware with Thomas Mapother as the attorney.... Mapother is from Tom's paternal side and Ramser is from his maternal side....2 generations before their descendants married each other! Tucker-11084
Ramser's Hardware Auction

Free Space Pages

List of Free Space Pages created for or linked to members of this family.

Military Profiles

Media Outreach

Social Media Posts

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8/5Started yesterday!LinkLinkLink
8/8Halfway markLinkLinkLink
8/10Winding downLinkLinkLink
8/11Zoom Wrap-upLinkLinkLink
8/11HighlightsLinkLinkLink

Ancestors

  • Current Scores This includes total ancestors added, plus nuclear family and other relatives within 7 degrees

Discovery

Stats

Note: There are a total of 80 points available for each section.
  • Wednesday (Before the week started)
    • 28 ancestors within 8 generations.
  • Thursday
    • 50 ancestors within 20 generations
  • Friday:
    • All of the 2nd great-grandparents have been added to his branches
    • 77 ancestors within 20 generations
    • There are now 70 relatives within 6 degrees of Tom, and 107 relatives within 7 degrees!
    • More than 22 WikiTreers have contributed to his branches so far
    • 30 bounty points for connections have now been awarded.

Ancestors

Brick Walls

These links will be added mid-week by Mindy and the Cheryl Hess. Remember to claim any brick wall bounties in the G2G!

Paternal Brick Walls

  1. Andrew Cruise (abt.1736-1780) Ireland
  2. William John Dean (abt.1788-) Kentucky?
  3. Georg Reibert (abt.1810-1883) Germany
  4. Christina Magdalena Charlotte (Kuch) Wagner (1719-1784) Germany

Maternal Brick Walls

  1. Anna Barbara (Schmid) Hartdorn (-aft.1830) Germany
  2. Dennis Shea (1835-) Ireland
  3. Julienne (Grossell) Acker (1764-) France
  4. Bridget (Welsh) Mackey (1838-1898) Ireland

Resources

Please list any resources that you have. We all gain knowledge from eachother!

General WT Resources

  • Editing Tips This page shows basic markup that can be used on WikiTree profiles and Space pages. Please remember not to use tables on Challenge profiles.
  • Example Challenge Profiles This is a guideline on how the profiles can look.
  • WikiTree AGC This addon is to clean up gedcom 'clutter' once we've connected to existing profiles. It is awesome at cleaning up the gedcoms and putting the source information together.
  • WikiTree BEE This addon is great for a lot of things, but the main help for the Challenge is the 'auto-bio' button that it puts on the profiles. This will give you basic narrative you can add to.There is a WikiTree BEE extension available for Chrome and Firefox users.
  • The Background Images Category contains pages that you can find a large variety of background images on. Most of them are tiled (repeatable) images.

Specific Location Resources

England
  • English Roots Sticker {{England Sticker}} (See their sticker page for more specific locations)
France
Germany
  • German Roots Sticker {{German Roots Sticker}}
Ireland
  • Tip: The census records are a good start, and you should be able to find images of all the birth records for each child on irishgenealogy. They have exact birth date, places, fathers Occupation, and mother’s maiden names. Once you get that, you can search for the marriage of the parents, and that gives their fathers names. The civil records are great, but only go back to 1864 for births, a bit earlier for marriages.
Scotland
  • Scottish Roots Sticker {{Scotland Sticker}}
United States




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Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise in 2008
Tom Cruise in 2008
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