My name is Clare Spring, I was born in Canberra, Australia in 1987. My mother was born in Auckland, New Zealand and my father was born in Melbourne.[1]
I started researching my family history in February 2017 and Wikitree has been an extraordinarily helpful platform to do this, and to contain all my research.
I'm particularly keen to "grow branches", meet family members (please get in touch!), and to add information to the profiles of my ancestors. I'm also keen to learn more about my migrating ancestors, including:
The table below outlines my progress identifying direct ancestors.
Gen. | Relationship | Dates of birth | No. | No. identified | % identified |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Parents | 1940s to 1950s | 2 | 2 | 100 |
2 | Grandparents | 1910s to 1920s | 4 | 4 | 100 |
3 | Great grandparents | 1870s to 1890s | 8 | 8 | 100 |
4 | 2nd great grandparents | 1830s to 1860s | 16 | 13 | 81.25 |
5 | 3rd great grandparents | 1790s to 1830s | 32 | 23 | 71.875 |
6 | 4th great grandparents | TBD | 64 | 29 | 45.3125 |
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Clare is 24 degrees from June Cash, 25 degrees from Patsy Cline, 32 degrees from Mickey Guyton, 23 degrees from Naomi Judd, 22 degrees from Loretta Lynn, 27 degrees from Rita MacNeil, 23 degrees from Reba McEntire, 16 degrees from Joy Kirkpatrick, 22 degrees from Dolly Parton, 25 degrees from Minnie Pearl, 24 degrees from Kitty Wells and 23 degrees from Andrew Turvey on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Categories: Group 1, Spring Name Study | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | Weetangera, Australian Capital Territory | Narrabundah, Australian Capital Territory | Braddon, Australian Capital Territory | Griffith, Australian Capital Territory | Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capital Territory | University of Washington | Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland | Suggestions - Include Profile Completeness
Thanks for entry . Do you have the details of Alma Fox's brother ? Lewis Tulk ( son of Alma Fox and Claude Tulk )
I see you have edited several of my ancestors’ profiles, most recently Winifred Alumbagh Knight. Are you connected to the family or just correcting/adding information? Thanks, Lorraine
Thanks for your note. My genealogical connection is not terribly close - I'm 16 degrees from Isaac Knight, for example.
I've been doing my best to improve Victorian (Australian) profiles and came across these profiles that way.
Cheers, Clare
we wonder why you are involved with the family of Dunlop, Olivia Mary and Hughina Adelaide ? Olwyn my wife, is the daughter of Edna Agnes Isobel Dunlop, the missing family member of Walter and Mary Dunlop. We would be very interested to hear from you!! We could be helpful to give you further info of the family. Kind regards, Olwyn and Manfred Scharley
I'm sorry I didn't come back to you sooner, and thanks for your note! I am 18 degrees from Hughina, so my relationship is not close. I have been on a bit of a Wikitree mission, to add sources to Victorian profiles, and came across the Dunlop profiles in that mission.
Apologies again for my slow reply, and all the best in your family research!
Clare
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Spring-6360
Thanks!
I see you edited a number of Humphrey profiles, so I assume we may be related in some way, most of my work is in Ancestry however I did export an older tree into wikitree some years ago, my ggg Grandfather was John Humphrey and gg grandfather was Frederick, his brothers were Henry and Herbert and one sister Elizabeth. I see you seem to be connected to Henry's side and if so I look forward to seeing there profiles updated. I have some of pictures of his side including Frederick William whom lost his life in WW1. Happy to exchange information with you if you wish. ps I have done a dna test which is in wikitree and ancestry best regards Rod Humphrey
It would be great to get your pics on Wikitree - let me know if you need a hand, always happy to help!
Have a great festive season! Christine
I have just added some notes to the Profiles you have edited recently for a Marriage in 1936 between Ernest Arthur Little and Margaret Louisa Jane Rawlings. That particular marriage can NOT have ever taken place because THAT Ernest Little actually drowned aged 7 years during 1918. Thus he could never have married. We respectfully suggest that you continue searching for the correct Ernest Little and wish you all the best in your efforts. Regards Geof.
Thanks for your note.
It's sad to hear that Ernest drowned at just the age of 7.
I did want to point out, though, that I did not edit for a marriage in 1936 between Ernest Arthur Little and Margaret Louisa Jane Rawlings.
I reviewed the edits I made to these to profiles and there are only two: 1. Added location and maintenance tags to Ernest's profile, including a 'Needs Marriage Record' tag, which flags that no records are provided for a marriage recorded in the profile. 2. Added an 'unsourced' and maintenance tags to Margaret's profile, including a 'Needs Marriage Record' as described in pt 1. above.
Best for all your future family history research, and thanks for correcting mistakes on Wikitree (although this time I wasn't the culprit of the mistake :) )
Clare
Thanks for clarifying your role in this situation, I hope that my comments were not construed as being accusatory. Hopefully the person [culprit] who "connected" these two people will see the notes and subsequently "disconnect" Ernest from Margaret. It was presumptuous of me to think that you had "connected" them. I thought Margaret may have been a relative of yours and that you would be seeking to expand on your trees. I appreciate your courteous response. I admit to having a giggle over this situation. Best Wishes, Geof
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Very impressed, you have done a beaut job in editing Ernest's profile, the newspaper excepts top it off. Much Appreciated. Geof
Thank you for your help and, interest in my tree. It was very much appreciated. Kind Regards, Anne 🙏
I actually only changed the LNAB for James Mitchell - not his parents. Changing a LNAB shows in the change logs as "creating" and then "merging", but it's nothing more than changing LNAB.
If you look at the change log for James Mitchell (1895-1896) you will see that he had Gertrude Lily (Mitchell) Atkinson and James William Atkinson set as his parents since May 2014 (not Ciara Humphries and Unknown Mitchell your refer to).
The information I discovered was his birth record, which I did add to his profile at the time of changing last name at birth.
Let me know if you need anything further on this,
Clare
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Barb
Hope you're well, Clare
I can't see a profile there for Charles and Susan Eastwood. Let me know if you run into any issues creating them.
Good stuff going through the photos! I too have a Tipperary connection, my second great-grandfather William Spring, who came to Australia 1861 (aged 18 years and traveling with his sister) was from Tipperary.
I love how your bushranger connection has become an education connection, hehe!
Clare
If you are having any trouble with Wikitree, including with editing the profile for Hannah Jane (Eastwood) Fogarty, or with uploading photos, please feel free to email me and I will assist putting photos online.
Best regards,
Clare
I haven't been able to find a reference to Arthur Henry Spring in the tree I have on MyHeritage? My research is all on Wikitree, MyHeritage is just a blip that I haven't invested much into..
I did find Arthur on Wikitree, though: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Spring-3051, sorry no information beyond the birth record.
Good luck, and if you do find anything I'd be happy to assist adding it to Wikitree!
Best, Clare
https://my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au/efamily-history/5f5d57c51e980e23d5bdb9b1
If I click on that, there is an error message "Sorry - our system is experiencing a technical problem. Please try again later. (Error code: { {errorCode} })". This error message is not well expressed! But it arises because the 5f5d57c51e980e23d5bdb9b1 code was specific to your temporary session, and will not work for anyone else (or probably even for you after an hour or two expiry time).
They have accidentally or deliberately designed their system so that there is no ongoing way to link to search results. This is confirmed at this link which says "It is not possible to link to the search results page."
Kind regards—Jim
edited by Jim Richardson
Thank you for your participation in October’s 2020 Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.
Keep up the great work!
Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Since you manage, or have contributed to, a number of Prentice profiles I invite you to check-out the new One Name Study for the Prentice surname. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Prentice_Name_Study
Best - RP
The Prentice profiles I manage are cousins, I haven't (yet?) come across the name in my ancestral lines.
Thanks for your note and good luck with your study, I have had a good go at it with the Spring study and have found it to be a lot of work but worthwhile!
Best,
Clare
You have done so much work that I can piggy back on.
Murray Wigg.