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Family Tree of Willodene (Steffen) Adams
Willodene L. Adams formerly Steffen
Ancestors
Daughter of William Arthur Steffen and Leola (Hampton) Steffen
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of [private husband (1930s - 2020s)]
[children unknown]
Family Tree of Willodene (Steffen) Adams
Willodene
Willodene L. Adams formerly Steffen
Ancestors
Daughter of William Arthur Steffen and Leola (Hampton) Steffen
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of [private husband (1930s - 2020s)]
[children unknown]
Parents
12 Aug 1909 - 15 Apr 1953
St Mary's Township, McLean, North Dakota, United States
21 Nov 1908 - 15 Jan 2008
Hickory Grove, Lawrence, Alabama, United States
Grandparents
05 Dec 1864 - 03 Jan 1917
Brodersdorf, Plön, Schleswig-Holstein
26 Jul 1867 - 20 Dec 1959
Büsum, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein
26 Sep 1885 - 17 May 1967
Templeton, Lawrence, Alabama, United States
24 Nov 1889 - 31 May 1980
Holly Pond, Cullman, Alabama, United States
Great-Grandparents
19 Sep 1836 - 08 Jan 1916
Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
09 Nov 1839 - 22 Dec 1922
Ksp. Gikau, Plön, Schleswig-Holstein
24 Sep 1824 - 26 Jan 1908
Fedderingen, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein
28 Feb 1830 - 07 Oct 1904
Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein
15 Apr 1844 - 16 Mar 1932
Lawrence County, Alabama, United States
22 Nov 1845 - 07 Sep 1902
Lawrence County, Alabama, United States
18 Aug 1864 - 14 Feb 1947
Campbell County, Georgia, United States
01 Mar 1870 - 27 Jan 1954
Carrollton, Carroll, Georgia, United States
2nd-Great-Grandparents
bef 1819 -
bef 1819 -
abt 1812 -
abt 1807 -
16 Jul 1792 - 05 Apr 1866
abt 1798 - 22 Feb 1854
abt 1796 - aft 1864
28 Feb 1794 - aft 1880
12 Jan 1802 - 24 Jan 1862
1805 - 1847
abt 1814 - bef 1866
abt 1816 - aft 1866
abt 1837 - 16 Dec 1864
Dec 1841 - bef 1910
17 Feb 1807 - 22 Mar 1897
abt Dec 1832 - abt Nov 1916
Descendants of Willodene (Steffen) Adams
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Biography
Attended Valparaiso University, BA and MA at Univ of Alabama. Former Army wife, former Librarian, former Realtor, Mom of two, Grandma of three, step Grandma of four, and two greats. The summer of 1959 my wonderful paternal Grandma told me the names of her parents, her grandparents, and the name of the ship that brought her to Castle Garden. That started all the years of research, and I still love it.
Earliest Known Ancestors
Y-DNA - Direct Male Line
Starting with the father of Steffen:
- William Steffen b. 1909-08-12, St Mary's Township, McLean, North Dakota, United States [confident]
- Heinrich Steffen b. 1864-12-15, Brodersdorf, Plön, Schleswig-Holstein [confident]
- Jacob Marcius Steffen b. 1836-09-19, Plön, Schleswig-Holstein [confident]
- Joachim Steffen b. 1819-00-00, Plön, Schleswig-Holstein [confident]
View the Y-DNA descendants of Joachim Steffen.
mtDNA - Direct Female Line
Starting with the mother of Steffen:
- Leola Hampton b. 1908-11-21, Hickory Grove, Lawrence, Alabama, United States [confident]
- Lena Mattox b. 1889-11-24, Holly Pond, Cullman, Alabama, United States [confident]
- Ellen Daniell b. 1870-03-01, Carrollton, Carroll, Georgia, United States [confident]
- Mary Dennard b. 1832-12-00, Newton County, Georgia, United States [confident]
- Mary Almand b. 1803-08-12, Georgia, United States [confident]
- Nancy David b. 1785-08-09, Virginia, United States [confident]
- Mary White b. 1751-10-21, Orange, Virginia [confident]
- Celia Page b. 1731-09-18, Bedford, Virginia [confident]
View the mtDNA descendants of Celia Page.
Research Notes
I had limited adding my Hampton line back to my great grandfather Tandy Hooker Hampton and his siblings, who are all children of Ephraim S Hampton and Lemenda K Hampton, because of problems with the conflated Andrew Hamptons. However, I finally decided to add their correct links to their parents and sibings. Therefore they are now correctly linked to their great grandparents, Andrew Hampton who lived in Granville County, North Carolina and his wife Sarah.
If anyone has used cousin Connie Gilbreath Belcher's book on John Hampton of Lawrence County Alabama, please be aware that the two Andrew Hamptons are conflated there into the one known as Col Andrew Hampton of Rutherford County. Col Andrew Hampton is not the ancestor of this John Hampton family.
I am twice a Hampton descendant. My 3rd great-grandfather was John David Hampton of Lawrence County, Alabama, via his son Ephraim S Hampton. My other 3rd great-grandfather was David Hampton of Rowan County NC and Oldham County KY, through his daughter Lemenda K Hampton. She married her cousin Ephraim S Hampton.
Though it has been stated that John David Hampton was a son of Ephraim Hampton and Lemender Harris, I have not seen reliable proof that he was. David Hampton was named as Ephraim's son in his will in Rowan County. Ephraim's will was also witnessed by a John Hampton, but this does not prove he was a son, or that he is the same person as John David Hampton. In addition, Ephraim also gave land to a John Hampton, who he named as a nephew.
This Ephraim Hampton was the son of Andrew Hampton of Virginia, and Granville County NC and his wife Sarah, who has NOT been proven to be a Kuykendall. The other known children of Andrew and Sarah were a daughter Hampton who married Joseph King, Ezekiel Hampton Sr 1737–1811, John Hampton the Loyalist Lieut Col 1745–1843, Joseph Hampton 1746–1803, and Zachariah Hampton 1750–1781.
Yes, there were TWO Andrew Hamptons. The other Andrew, known as Colonel Andrew of Rutherford County NC, was the one who married Catherine Hyder.
There has been much speculation as to the possible ancestral lines of these two Andrews back to the immigrant John Hampton, from Scotland to New Jersey. In addition, there are multiple Ephraims, Davids, and Johns as descendants, and multiple Lemander, Lemenda, Lamender, etc wives and daughters.
Maternal surnames of 4th, 5th, and 6th great grandparents are: Hampton, Harris, Wilson? or Norton?, Smith, Flood, Finch, Jordan, Rawlings, Isham, Collier, Vines, Hill, Templeton, Dearmond, Hogan, Kelso, Carpenter, Mattox, Loving (Lovvorn), Wilkes, Shoemaker, Daniell, Wainwright, Raven, Melton, Keen, Dennard, Byrd, Almand, David, Morrisett, White, Page.
Paternal surnames of 4th, 5th, and 6th great grandparents are: Steffen, Mash, Lamp, Rohde (Rode), Asmus, Junge, Rickerts (Richerts), Detleffs, Eggers, Reiher (Reyer), Rejer, Johannsen, Claussen, Franssen, Carstens, Meves (Mewes), Koch, Köster, Grauertz, Pahlen (Pahl), Lüdemann, Schaumann, Pinings, Peters, Reimers, Claus, Egge, Claußen.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Willodene Steffen at registration.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Willodene's formal name
- full middle name (L.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- spouse's name and marriage information
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DNA Connections for Willodene: 6
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Willodene:- 100.00% 100.00% Willodene (Steffen) Adams: AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Stefhamp
- ~25.00% ~25.00% Spurgeon Hampton : AncestryDNA
- ~1.56% Jane (Dutton) Maxwell : AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jtrichardson280 + Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch TM7287212, FTDNA kit #835177
- ~0.78% Plunner (Gilbreath) Brown : Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #MK59591
- ~0.78% ~1.56% Estelle (Hunter) Smith : Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch ER8940848, FTDNA kit #427830
- ~0.39% Rhonda (Pitchers) Bennett : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch NB9807613, Ancestry member RhondaPitchers
G2G Forum
- New Pilot: 111,000 G2G Points! Willodene Adams Sep 29, 2024
- Willodene Adams is a Wonderful WikiTreer Nov 19, 2022
- How to add a personal category Aug 10, 2021
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Comments on Willodene (Steffen) Adams: 26
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It is thon time again! The October Source-a-Thon. Come and have fun with the Cornbread Catchers! I am the Co-Captain with Debi Hoag. We would love your help!
The event starts Friday, October 4th, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC) and runs until Monday, October 7th, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC). Will you join us? Please either click the registration link here [1] or go to the G2G page on our team page here [2] to sign up under Cornbread Catchers. The teams listed are in alphabetical order. Scroll down and comment by adding that you are interested in joining our fun team. I will be checking a couple of times a day to verify that you signed up.
Best,
Kelly Popp Kley
This is only one of the many men named Roland Hampton on Ancestry or Family Search. I am adding this comment to my profile also, to remind me to add them to Wikitree.
Roland Hampton Profiles On WikiTree or to Add to WikiTree:
This one which is this profile. Roland Hampton Roland Hampton (abt.1807-) married Mary Norwood. Son of John David Hampton John David Hampton (abt.1767-bef.1827) and Elizabeth Ann Smith.
His own son, Roland Jefferson Hampton (Family Search ID KCHN-7KY) (Not on WikiTree yet?) Born Mar 1835 Lawrence County, Alabama, USA, and grandson of John David Hampton John David Hampton (abt.1767-bef.1827) and Elizabeth Ann Smith.
Roland Hampton (Family Search ID KDQS-1MD or K69C-ZQ3) (Not on WikiTree yet?) Born Abt. 1837 Alabama. Son of Hardy Hampton Hardy Hampton (abt.1798-) and Sarah May, and grandson of John David Hampton John David Hampton (abt.1767-bef.1827) and Elizabeth Ann Smith.
Rowland Hampton 1795– Rowland Hampton (1794-1877) , son of Ephraim Harris Hampton Ephraim Harris Hampton (1774-1821) and Elizabeth Enochs, grandson of Ephraim Hampton Ephraim Hampton (abt.1735-aft.1813) and Lemender Harris. This Rowland married Sarah Sparks.
Roland Thomas Hampton, (Family Search ID K8DN-97Q) Birth: 23 Jun 1822, Kentucky, United States, Death: 19 October 1890 Oklahoma, United States. Son of Rowland Hampton 1795– Rowland Hampton (1794-1877) and Sarah Sparks.
Roland Hampton, B:26 Mar 1835 Oldham County, Kentucky, USA, D: 8 Jun 1922 Moultrie County, Illinois, USA. Son of Thomas Hampton and Mariah Ida Campbell, grandson of Ephraim Harris Hampton and Elizabeth Enochs, great grandson of Ephraim Hampton Ephraim Hampton (abt.1735-aft.1813) and Lemender Harris.
It is thon time again! The July Connect-a-Thon. Come and have fun with the Cornbread Catchers! I am the Co-Captain with Debi. We would love your help!
The event starts Friday, July 19, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC) and runs until Monday, July 22, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC). Will you join us? Please either click the link or go to the G2G page to sign up under Cornbread Catchers. The teams listed are in alphabetical order. Scroll down and comment by adding that you are interested in joining our fun team. I will be checking a couple of times a day to verify that you signed up.
The registration link: [1]
Best,
Kelly Popp Kley
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Name_Fields
Thanks, Joseph
It's Thon time again, this time the Source-a-Thon! It will be from September 29 - October 2, 2023. Do you want to participate with Team Cornbread Catchers in this Thon? Use this link to get to the G2G sign up post! Click the "answer" link at the bottom of the post and, when the Answer box pops up, mention that you want to be on the Cornbread Catchers team!
Debi & Kelly
I have not done the DNA confirmation process on WikiTree, so the DNA lists there are not "matches" but just the possibility that the percentage would apply to those generations. Without doing DNA painting, which I don't do, my match with Mary Jane is on our Hampton lines. The Smith lines are very far back and I have two of them, both tying into the Hampton lines, but not connected so far. None in England, as they were in the colonies in the early 1700s. I have not done deep research on them. Looking at your tree, I don't see any Smith connections. If you look at the DNA list under her father's profile, a large number of the people shown there are related to me, as cousins, aunts or uncles of some sort, etc. Spurgeon was my uncle, Ida Estelle Hunter and Plunner Gilbreath were my 3rd cousins. I never met Estelle, but I knew Plunner, and the others you see are probably thru the Dutton, Gilbreath or Hogan marriages into the Hampton family.
So the question is how do you match Mary Jane Dutton?? Have you done a DNA test that matches her? Very curious!!
posted by Joe Malcom
Great to have you on the team again! Looking forward to another fun weekend. I am helping out Debi since she is still on her RV trip. I updated the team page and added a new G2G chat.
Our team page link https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Cornbread_Catchers
The new July G2G post is https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1606954/come-join-the-cornbread-catchers-july-2023-connect-thon-chat
The Discord Channel help. Discord: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Discord Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/cornbread-catchers?pli=1
Best,
Kelly Kley
I'm helping to lead the Cornbread Catchers for the upcoming April Connect-a-Thon. I'm new at this so I'm learning as I go. I just wanted to officially welcome you and make sure you are on our Discord channel so the whole team can chat during the Thon and cheer each other on -- and help each other out!
Looking forward to a great weekend and making lots of great connections!
Tabor
Peg
Thank you for adding so much to the family of Elijah Ether "Eff" Nixon. ("Eff" would have been my 5th cousin twice removed.)
Thank you for joining us! I wanted to check in with you to see how things are going. How do you like WikiTree so far? Have the tips in the New Member How To Pages been helpful or have they left you with questions?
Please let me know if you have any questions about WikiTree. To contact me, log in to WikiTree and go to your profile. Use the ‘Reply’ link below my comment to be sure that I will be notified. You can also click my name to send a private message, or post a comment on my profile page. It's really great to have you on board.
Cheryl ~ WikiTree Messenger *¨*•☆♥☆♥•*¨*
P.S. To find reliable sources for your profiles, go to the Family Tree & Tools tab; select Genealogy Research and scroll down near the bottom of that list and select Research with RootsSearch. There are over 20 websites to access from there.
Thanks for checking in with me. WikiTree has been keeping me busy. My old brain is having to learn a whole new way of entering sources. I have posted a few questions on G2G (once I found it) and that has really helped. I am still struggling with getting all of my Ancestry sources to work right. They may not look pretty, and I haven't transferred many, so I have a learning curve there. I got great help with the Find A Grave template, which is a life saver. I have used Find a Grave extensively on Ancestry, as a "placeholder" for the children of distant cousins or DNA matches.
I still have a ton of people to get onto WikiTree, but so far I have been able to connect some of my lines. That helps, but then I go down those rabbit holes adding in children and sources. I have most of my lines back many generations, so for years I've been doing descendant research. Way too many ancestors with 20 children!
The profile managers that I have contacted have been helpful and welcoming. There have been a couple that I haven't heard from yet, but the profiles are open, so I can add sources where they don't have any.
One great success has gotten me really happy! Finally, after years of trying, WikiTree gave me a way to separate two men who have been conflated into one Composite Andrew for more than 50 years! Hooray! Now I have been able to do the same with the two of them on Family Search Family Tree.
You asked about the How To Pages. They are helpful to some extent, but they seem to give instructions to do something, without showing a step-by-step process. I have seen references on the G2G about other tools and templates, but it's hard to find them. I really need an "Idiot's Guide" link to click to go to the "how-to." I will try the RootsSearch again. I've tried it, and it wants me sign in, but then nothing happens.
Long reply, but thanks again! Willodene
I am very pleased to welcome you to the WikiTree family, your contributions will go a long way to joining the world together.
It is best to start with the New Member How-To pages, they will save you a lot of time and frustration.
Thank you for adding your DNA to WikiTree. Getting the Best from DNA will tell you more about how DNA kits are used on WikiTree.
I am here to answer any question you have, no matter how trivial you may think it is. There is no such thing as a silly question. Please add as much information as you can, it all helps to turn a “name” back into a person. I hope you enjoy the site as much as I do.
Happy tree climbing
Pam ~ WikiTree Greeter
PS Did you know that Tags become clickable links to others researching those names, or places, that you are interested in. They also control what is included in the family activity emails from WikiTree.
This is just a note to say hi and to let you know that I'm available to answer questions about WikiTree.
To contact me, please log in to WikiTree and go to your profile. Use the ‘Reply’ link below my comment to be sure I will be notified. You can also click my name to send a private message, or post a comment, on my profile page.
Pam ~ WikiTree Greeter
(AF | CS | DK | DE | ES | FI | FR | IT | NL | PT | RU | SV | UK | ZH)
Wikitree looks a little daunting in the way one enters data. Boggles the mind trying to move it all from Ancestry to Family Search to My Heritage. I may never finish, but I like the Wikitree attitude.
Willodene
I know exactly what you mean, and that's why people like you are awesome here at WikiTree. We need people who take accuracy seriously hence why sources are so important. People also copy our trees which means these errors get duplicated, and before you know it people are saying things like.."well everyone else says..."
You can "move" your Ancestry and MyHeritage trees over in what's called a GEDcom, but I usually enjoy the idea of slowly checking my research manually. A GEDcom is exported from Ancestry or MyHeritage and uploaded here at WikiTree, where you will need to compare your GEDcom to other profiles already on WikiTree. GEDcom's have a size limit - it's usually around 5000 people, which is a very large tree and I would suggest that you split your GEDcom into smaller chunks (here's an Ancestry page about splitting a GEDcom). I did a GEDcom the other day with 20 people and it took me half a day to work through them properly. GEDcom's however are really great at finding duplicates, which can be very helpful for someone like me where spellings of some surnames can vary quite a bit. A lot of people get stuck in the GEDcompare at the part where they need to compare ALL suggested matches (either reject or match) before the system will add the "add" button.
Here's some pages from MyHeritage that you might find helpful:
- Can I export a gedcom file of my family tree from my family site
- How do I export a GEDCOM file from the Family Tree Builder?
WikiTree is known for having a bit of a learning curve, but that's why we have greeters, just ask one of us any question and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. WikiTree is unlike any other genealogy website...just wait until you learn how much you can change the bio's! There's so much to do here at WikiTree that I'm still learning something all the time and I've been here 7 years.
To contact a profile manager you could leave a public comment in the comment box on the ancestor's profile, the manager will recieve a notification about the comment via email, or click the profile manager's name - this will take you to their profile page where you can click "send private message" next to their name where you usually find a profile manager. This will send them a private message via email.
I hope this helps. Please don't be shy to let me know anytime you have questions.
Kindest regards, Pam
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