The WikiTree Challenge 2022 Challenge 24

Date: 15 Dec 2022 to 22 Dec 2022

Contents 1 WikiTree Challenge Week 24 1.1 Needs Work 1.2 Photographs 1.3 FamilySearch Image Look-ups 2 Tell Us What You Found!! 2.1 Interesting Finds 2.2 Free Space Pages 2.3 Military Profiles 3 Media Outreach 3.1 WikiTree Posts: 3.2 Participant Posts: 4 Ancestors 4.1 Brick Walls 4.1.1 Paternal Brick Walls 4.1.2 Maternal Brick Walls 5 Resources 5.1 General WT Resources 5.2 Specific Country Resources 5.2.1 Ireland 5.2.2 United States 5.2.3 Venezuela 5.3 Project Specific Resources 5.3.1 US Black Heritage Project

WikiTree Challenge Week 24

Focus: Mariah Carey

Needs Work

Photographs

Note: Please check with your captain, Cheryl Hess, if there are any questions about the images being protected by copyright.

• add image link here

FamilySearch Image Look-ups

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:61903/1:124CB-6Z7

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week

1. William Coogan, Mariah's 2nd cousin 1x removed, was a casualty of WWI. One has him dying in a hospital in France after a serious illness the other has him dying in a hospital in England after being wounded in France.
2. James Vincent Hickey, Mariah's 1st cousin 2x removed, died of burns he received in an explosion. He was preparing his son Joseph's, house for his daughter-in-law to return with his infant granddaughter. He was pouring kerosene in the stove when fumes from the oil ignited and caused an explosion. His clothing caught fire and he was badly burned. His wife saw the fire from a 1/4 mile away. She rushed to help him. He was taken to St. Clara's hospital. People tried to form a bucket brigade but the building was lost.
3. John Henry Burns, Mariah's great grandmother's sister's second husband's son was a noted civil rights leader in Detroit. He helped organize the 1963 Walk to Freedom in that city, which drew 125,000 marchers.Thiel-559
4. Esau Cannon (1914-2001), Nick Cannon's great grandfather, had a twin brother named Jacob, like the Biblical twins with the same names.Melick-229
5. Daniel J Cannon (abt.1879-1960) was Nick Cannon's great great grandfather. His chimney was struck by lightning in 1915. He was badly shocked and his 10 year old daughter Irene Cannon (1905-1915), who had been sleeping near the chimney was killed.Melick-229
6. Nicola Mottola, Tommy Mottola's 2nd ggrandfather, was a musician in Avellino, Campania. Bongiovanni-111
7. Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon (1950-2018), Nick Cannon's great aunt, was a pioneering Woman theologian and the first Black woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) denomination.Melick-229
8. Marian (Howard) Goeke was Mariah's 3rd cousin 3 times removed. Marian, her son Edward Goeke, and his two-year-old son Joseph Goeke were killed in a head-on collision in June 1954. Edward's wife and three other children survived the crash.Thiel-559
9. Anna Lucille (Bonetti) Garabo (1911-1993), Tommy Mottola's maternal aunt, co-owned Sandy's Luncheonette in Mahopac, New York. Robinson-27225
10. Costantino Michele Leopoldo Maria Crmelo Giuseppe Preziosi (1905-1977), Tommy Mottola's, 2nd cousin 1 time removed, was a senator in Campania, Italy. Bongiovanni-111
11. James Thomas Hickey, Mariah's 4th cousin, was a Staff Sergeant in the Army Air Corps' 3rd Photo Mapping Squadron. They were tasked with doing aerial photography and creating maps as part of the war effort. After the war he became one of the country's leading experts on Abraham Lincoln and was curator of the Lincoln Collection for the Illinois Historical Library in Springfield.Thiel-559
12. William Bernard Convery, Mariah's 2nd cousin twice removed worked as a Linotype operator for the Illinois State Register newspaper. The Linotype operator used a 90-character keyboard to assemble blocks of text that were then cast into slugs which were used to print newspapers. This was a much faster method than to hand-set type.Thiel-559
13. Mariah's 2nd cousin once removed Virginia M. Brosamer served in the United States Navy during World War II as a WAVE, as a Storekeeper 3rd Class. After the war she would become Vice-President of the World Book Encyclopedia Company.Thiel-559
14. Mariah's relative, a cousin out on the Egan/Holdreith line, had eight children. This included two sets of twins. Hiram O'Bryan (1835-bef.1877) is 8 degrees from Mariah. Silva-1055
15. Mariah's relative, a cousin on the Carey line, Jeremiah Ray (1848-), had fifteen children, which included a set of fraternal twins. Only ten of the children were living in 1900. Silva-1055
16. Mariah's second great grandparents, John Hickey and Ellen Hickey, donated the stained glass windows when St. Patrick's Church was being built in Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois. It was a Catholic church founded by Irish immigrants in 1905. Doherty-2064
17. Henry Lee Sanchez aka Leonard died when a Gas Barrel exploded at its place of employment, a Salvage Yard .Nick Cannon and Henry are first cousins three times removed. Jenkinson-562
18. Mariah's 2nd great grandmother Eliza (Taylor)(McQueen)Reynolds was the mother of 19 children between 1869 and 1898.Thiel-559
19. Headman Blanco lived to be 107. Nick is the second great grandnephew of Headman Jenkinson-562

Free Space Pages

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

Military Profiles

CIVIL WAR

1. John Blanchfield, Mariah's 3rd great grandfather enlisted as a Private in Company E and of the 36th Iowa Infantry in August 1862. He died in the regimental hospital in November 1862 from rubeola (measles) and pneumonia.

WORLD WAR I

1. Alto McQueen, Maria's great grandmother's brother served in Company G of the 810th Pioneer Infantry for a few months in 1918. The Pioneer Infantry was an all African-American unit during the time the US military was racially segregated.
2. William Coogan, Mariah's 2nd cousin 1x removed was a casualty of WWI. One has him dying in a hospital in France after a serious illness the other has him dying in a hospital in England after being wounded in France.
3. William Emmet Hickey, Mariah's 3rd cousin once removed, served in the Army during World War I.
4. Frank Blanchfield, Mariah's grandmother's brother served as a Private in Company B[?] of the 9th Infantry during World War I. He returned to the United States on the transport ship Antigone with other sick and wounded soldiers.

WORLD WAR II

1. James Thomas Hickey, Mariah's 4th cousin, was a Staff Sergeant in the Army Air Corps 3rd Photo Mapping Squadron. They were tasked with doing aerial photography and creating maps as part of the war effort.
2. James McQueen, Mariah's first cousin twice removed, served in the US Army from 1943–1946. More details are needed.
3. Mariah's 2nd cousin once removed Virginia M. Brosamer served in the United States Navy during World War II as a WAVE, as a Storekeeper 3rd Class.

Media Outreach

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WikiTree Posts:

Hashtags: #WTChallenge #CollaborativeGenealogy #YearOfFamilyConnections

Day	Subject	@WikiTreeOfficial @MariahCarey	@WTChallenge @MariahCarey	@WikiTree	@WikiTreers @MariahCarey	@WikiTreers
12/13	About to start!	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/15	Zoom Kick-off AM	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/15	Zoom Kick-off PM	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/17	Zoom Weekend Chat	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/18	Halfway	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/20	Winding down	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/22	Zoom Wrap-Up AM	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/22	Zoom Wrap-Up PM	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/23	Challenge Highlights	Link	Link	Link	Link

Participant Posts:

Member	Date	Subject	Facebook	Twitter	Mastodon	Instagram
Mindy	12/15		Link	Link	N/A	N/A
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	12/17	Image of Mottola-13 family tree	Link	Link	Link	Link
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Ancestors

Brick Walls

These links will be added mid-week by Mindy and the Cheryl.

Paternal Brick Walls

1. Alfred Carey (abt.1880-) Ireland
2. Margaret Colon (abt.1880-) Venezuela
3. William Cole (bef.1886-) North Carolina, US
4. Eliza (Taylor) Reynolds (abt.1855-aft.1910) Alabama, US

Maternal Brick Walls

1. Helen (Cantwell) Hickey (bef.1800-) Ireland
2. William Mowen (1834-1905) Ireland
3. Bridget (Graly) Egan (abt.1805-) Ireland
4. Mary A (Ryan) Blanchfield (1864-1923) 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.
• The WikiTree Browser Extension now includes functions from prior individual extensions.
  • 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. (Tutorial)
  • 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. (Tutorial)
• The WikiTree Sourcer help you easily create narrative and complete source citations for any public or open profile. (Tutorial)
• 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 Country Resources

Ireland

• Census Records of Ireland NationalArchives.ie
• Ellis Island Passenger Database on Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit.com
• Genealogy Records on Genealogy.NationalArchives.ie
• GENUKI on GenUki.org.uk - This has links to records, maps, and research tips
• Ireland Church Records Where to find church records with various links
• Ireland Marriages on FamilySearch
• Ireland Census Substitutes What census records are available, with where to find them
• Ireland Emigration Video on FamilySearch on finding the origins of Irish Immigrants
• Ireland Online Genealogy Record Links.
• Irish Ancestors This maps out where surnames are located, as well as locations in general
• Irish Genealogy on IrishGenealogy.ie
• Irish Records Civil and Church record database
• National Archives of Ireland Try their census search
• National Library of Ireland a new database holding images of the Library's Roman Catholic parish registers
• PRONI the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
• Tracing Irish Roman Catholic Ancestry An overview of how to approach Roman Catholic research
• WikiTree Ireland Project Check for resources and stickers

• 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.

United States

• African American Records FamilySearch list of resources
• DAR Ancestor Search
• United States Reliable Sources

Illinois :

• 1824-1940 Births FamilySearch
• Illinois County Creation Dates FamilySearch
• Geneva Republican Public Library newspaper holdings
• Illinois Church Marriages FamilySearch

New York :

• New York City Historical Vital Records Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificates for Kings (Brooklyn), Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Richmond

Venezuela

Project Specific Resources

US Black Heritage Project

• Black Genealogy Basics
• US Black Heritage Profile Examples
• Project Page for USBH
• Heritage Exchange Portal for instructions on how to document enslaved ancestors
• US Black Heritage Project Resources
• Category: Please use this for ancestors that were enslaved. [[Category: USBH Heritage Exchange, Status Unknown]]

• Sticker: To honor the heritage of African American family, please use the African-American Sticker. This may help to differentiate between people of the same name who live in the same location. This sticker is for profiles of people who lived in the USA only. To add this sticker to a profile, enter
  {{African-American Sticker}} somewhere below the heading "Biography." That will give you this: