Thanks for adding Samuel Stevenson 1789-1850 (Stevenson-2594) to the Stevenson - Stephenson Y-DNA Project wikitree page!

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We will continue the 1880 Census Project in 2025

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Hi S:

Thanks for the suggesting of the merge of Wheeler-18824! It was easy to review and approve.

The merge has been completed. Please let me know if you find any other merges that need to be done on this line.

Kind regards,

Jeff G.

Hi S.,

Thanks for recommending the profile of Mother-149 for deletion; I concur. She is linked to a daughter on the profile creator's Ancestry tree. I found a new source for that daughter but it didn't include a mother's name.

Profiles in the "For the WikiTree Team" section need to be placed there by a second reviewer (usually me). I've added a section for you in the "Need Final Review" section so you'll have some place to put the profiles you find.

We really appreciate your help.

Debi

Thank you for participating in the April 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5226 profiles. We’re zeroing in on our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

P.S. Some of your profiles were marked with the wrong Wiki-ID on the tracker. You might want to double check you have the right ID entered. I was able to combine the two IDs.

Thank you for participating in the March 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4936 profiles. We’re getting oh so close to our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

Thank you for helping with the USBH 1880 census project in Washington. The state of Washington has now been marked as complete! Emma

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Just connected Laban S. Withers-2939, Jr. to his "Pop."

I was of the same mind thought, seeing he was probably Laban S., not S. Laban.

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Another huge thank you for all the connection work you've doing! Connecting that 1350 branch has pushed USBH to its highest connection rate so far! Emma

Thanks for suggesting the merger of Edward Fry 772 and Edward Fry 5679, they are one and the same. 5679 was possibly my 2nd G. Grandfather.

Hi I am Irene snoddons grandaughter. Daughter of her only son and I also have a brother. My father is still living. I took a DNA test and just waiting for the results. We all lived in the same city Sudbury Ontario. My grandfather was Frederick Gratwicke. If you have any questions or comments please message me I'd be happy to help. Many pictures as well.

Thank you for your recommended mergers on the Ott-Harshberger lines. The previous entries were all made as personal information from N. Ott. My father was Norman Ott but he passed away in 2008. When I looked up N. Ott that person did not appear to have any connection to these families. Can you comment on this?

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Emma

Hi S,

I was prompted by a question on G2G to have a look see whether Santa's elves had made any progress on your brick wall great-grandmother, and discovered your DNA connection to Walter and Susannah Gowenlock, whose eldest son married my 2g-grandfather's sister, Caroline Davison.

So I had a look at the work I've done on Gowenlocks, and I'm wondering whether you're aware that Sarah Ann Doyle (Page) was not, as it says on the 1871 census, the daughter of James and Ann Doyle, but their biological granddaughter? Her birth registration has no mother's maiden name and her baptism names her mother as Sarah.

I'm hoping that Sarah Ann being a (?half) sister of the children of William Gowenlock and Sarah Doyle will make sense of your DNA matches with these families. Does it also raise the possibility that your great-grandmother was born a biological daughter of William and Sarah?

You may, of course, have been down this route before and found a dead end, in which case just ignore me. :) Either way, I wish you luck in finding your way to the truth,

LP

Thank you so much for proposing a merge of Mote-377 and Mote-406. That was a righteous merge. CS

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Emma

S Stevenson: You added bio info on Monroe Cornish Mayo (1894-1981), my granduncle. I added his two daughters thru marriage with Bertha Irene Kelsay (1889-1961).

Also note from his Find A Grave # 63423912, his death 20 October 1981 at Modesto, Stanislaus County, CA and burial at Mission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara, CA. If you have added info please share - Thank you

Hi S,

You added Matilda Kelley (1843 - 1937) (Kelley-373), and she's listed as the wife of James H. Kelley. I'm listed as the creator of his listing, but it's been 11 years, and I don't recall the source. Are you sure she married someone with the same last name, or is it possible that the link I found was actually through Matilda, and not her husband James H., whose last name might not be Kelley? Thanks

Thank you for joining the September USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2978 new profiles! Our new total is 140,351. We have less than 10,000 to our 2022 goal!

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Emma

Thanks for catching the duplicate of James Gibson! Pip and I are putting the two together.

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion and approval to merge Webster-11371 into Webster-6747. They were indeed the same individual. We now need to merge the two wives (Meade-1176 and Mead-5198), and any attached descendants. I started this process last week but needed approval from somebody in the Meade-1176 permission list to complete the merge. I am assuming you are on the list since you approved the merge of the husband. Could you let me move forward with this wife merge? Thanks. John Kuoni.

Thanks for your help!!! I very much appreciate it!

Hi, You seem to be having a lot of activity in and around my tree and from what I can tell by stalking your comments you seem to be a honorable person. I haven't had the time to devote to my tree since the pandemic started and I'd like to give you the go ahead to make any changes or merges that you would like. How do I do that again? Thanks, Terry Reinheimer

I'll update the Niagara Movement WikIPedia Page about Smith. Thanks for finding that error! Emma

Please explain to me why you added Absalom C Gillilan as a son of John Gilleylen. There is no evidence to support this whatsoever. According to the Familysearch tree which is linked on Absalom's page his parents were John Gillilan and Rachel Cook. John Gilleylen and his wife Rebecca Cook were never in Ohio. John Gilleylen has a probate file in Monroe County, Mississippi where he has a will and the heirs of his estate are named and there is not any Absalom. This is the Ancestry link to the page. [1]

Dear S. Stevenson,

Adrian George Iselin is noted (in his biography) as being a primary ancestor of the ISELIN family in the USA, and yet I am having difficulty finding sources linking my family roots to him. My lines appear to end in FRANCE. Would you have time to help with this, or know someone who can? I really appreciate all your work! S. Browning

Hi, S. Stevenson,

I should have replied to you awhile back about Charlotte Fryer Hankel. She's my great grandmother and I have more info about her that I can send to you. However I'm leaving tomorrow on a road trip so can't respond until the end of the month. I'm guessing that you're descended from one of her three sons who moved to Canada. [email address removed]

Thanks for helping straighten out the tree. I appreciate a recent merge you proposed and all you do to better things. Cheers!

For your recent work on Samuel Snell-25, could you show a source for connecting THIS Samuel Snell to the parents you link him to? I would love to know what you know! Jane

Thank you for joining these two profiles. It is a first for me.

Thank you for merging these 2 profiles on the Bigger's Family!

Thank you for finding an existing profile for the Biggers. Beggers family. I've given the okay for the merge.

G Christiansen

Hello, S!

Thank you for looking into the profile for Joshua Miller. I have certainly seen reference to the Millard parents you have added to the profile. However, I am yet to see any sourced evidence. Please add sources to link these parents. I have noted in the research notes that this parentage is to be questioned until evidence is supplied.

Hello, S!

Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree. You have every right to be pleased with your efforts!

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

I received the notice concerning the merge of Ratliff-1621 and Ratcliff-614. The info that I entered for John Moses Ratliff came from research my brother did via Ancestry.com. There are some differences in dates but overall there is much that is comparable and therefore I have no objection to the merge. If you have some documentation concerning the dates, etc. I would very much appreciate knowing about them. The Ratliff branch of my ancestry had been "missing" until recently and I look forward to confirmation. Thank you!

Hi S,

Since you manage, or have contributed to, a number of Prentiss profiles I invite you to check-out the new One Name Study for the Prentice/Prentiss surname. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Prentice_Name_Study

Best - RP

Hi there, S!

Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared (over 200!) made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!

Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Thank you for suggesting the merge for Emory Lott’s, DDS. Done. Didn’t know he was a dentist. Thanks.