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With 40 years of experience in genealogy and a database of over 130,000 persons, I am now focused on DNA-based research which I believe we can use to break down our ancestral brick walls and help other people locate unknown family members.
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Bill Vincent Ph.D. is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.
Bill Vincent Ph.D. is a Project Member of the Main and all subprojects of the Military and War Project.
Why Genealogy?
Bill began working on his own family tree after his mother passed away in 1984. He had been interested in her family research before, and picked up her efforts soon after she died. His first online genealogy experience was with using Compuserve and Mailing Lists, years before the Worldwide Web was created. (Yes, he's ancient.) His mother's ancestors traditionally valued their ancestry and passed on a rich tradition of oral family history.
Virginia and Southern Colonies
Early Southern & Kentucky Roots
Bill was born and raised in Kentucky, as have been all his ancestors for the past 190 years. Several ancestors came to Kentucky before statehood in 1792. Most of Bill's Kentucky ancestors came from Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland, plus some from Delaware, and South Carolina. Just a few were Yankees from Pennsylvania and New York. Bill's Virginia cousins include US Presidents, Governors, First Ladies, and Frontier Explorers. (See list below.)
Kentucky Counties
Bill and his immediate family were raised in Grayson and Edmonson Counties, for whom he is the KyGenWeb coordinator. Other family came from Adair, Barren, Green, Hardin, LaRue, Lincoln, Marion, Metcalfe, Nelson, Washington, and Wayne Counties. He has a large personal database of over 100,000 entries, especially of people linked to those areas.
Kentucky Counties of Principal Interest
Historic Roots
Thirty Patriot Ancestors of the American Revolution (see list below), plus three English Loyalists.
Most of Bill's Kentucky kinfolk fought for the Union during the Civil War, even slaveholders. One ancestor who didn't own slaves was a Confederate in the Kentucky Orphan Brigade.
Bill's Personal Hero is his Uncle, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Lane, who earned Engineering degrees at West Point, University of Kentucky and Harvard, and died tragically in Vietnam.
Professions
Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Scientist, Chemist, College Soccer Coach, and Genetic Genealogist.
Bill's father was a Haberdasher, Farmer, Agriculturalist, and Politician.
Bill's Kentucky ancestors were Farmers, Horse Traders, Hunters, Merchants, Physicians, Postmasters, Teachers, Soldiers, and Surveyors.
First-hand information. Entered by William Vincent.
DNA Confirmation
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the January 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added 238 connections.
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the January 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 200 connections.We added 10,237 connections & finished in 1st place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2022 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 319 previously unsourced profiles.
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and added 387 connections.We finished in 1st place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2021 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 251 previously unsourced profiles. We added 6,673 sources & finished in 1st place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and added 861 connections.We finished in 2nd place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2021! Clean-a-Thon.correcting 2,062 suggestions.We cleaned 16,737 suggestions & finished in 5th place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2020 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 406 previously unsourced profiles. We finished in 5th place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2020! Clean-a-Thon.correcting 2,186 suggestions.We cleaned 15,730 suggestions & finished in 3rd place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2019! Clean-a-Thon.correcting 2,065 suggestions.We cleaned 11,253 suggestions & finished in 3rd place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2018 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 300 previously unsourced profiles. We finished in 6th place!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2017 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 457 previously unsourced profiles. We finished in 3rd place!
Parental relationship is confirmed by a 2,781 cM match between Bill Vincent GEDmatch T827997 and his sister M. Vincent GEDmatch M811226.
Maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Matthew Patterson and Bill Vincent, first cousins once removed. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 1st to 2nd Cousins based on sharing 575 cM across 29 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Bill Vincent and Rick Ashley, his 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Reuben Vincent and Elizabeth Blanton, the great great grandparents of both Bill Vincent and Rick Ashley. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd to 3rd cousins, based on sharing 127 cM across 4 segments.
Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. Bill Vincent, FTDNA kit #91114, and his 4th cousin, B. G. Vincent, match at a Genetic Distance of 0 on 67 markers thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their MRCA Reuben Vincent. FTDNA indicates that the probability the two share a common ancestor within the last 5 generations is 94.23% and within the last 6 generations is 96.74%.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 126.4 cM match between Bill Vincent GEDmatch T827997 and his double third cousin Jerry Blankenship GEDmatch M283958.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 65.4 cM match between Bill Vincent GEDmatch T827997 and his third cousin Kathie (Ashley) Nelson GEDmatch A901375.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 325.8 cM match between Bill Vincent GEDmatch M143417 and his second Cousin Mary Wheat GEDmatch T661076.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a AncestryDNA test match between Bill Vincent and M. Kessinger, second cousins twice removed. Their most-recent common ancestor is Alexander Kessinger, the third-great grandfather of Bill Vincent and great grandfather of M. Kessinger. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Third Cousin, based on sharing 122 cM across 4 segments.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of Bill Vincent GEDmatch M143417, Brian Hightower GEDmatch A750742 and Harry Binkow GEDmatch T594819 sharing a 22.2 cM segment on chromosome 12 from 77579514 to 101235572.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch consisting of Barbara Lewis, T.P.Risley, Bill Vincent, and Trish B., who share a 15.4 cM segment on chromosome 5. The most-recent common ancestors shared by all three are William Salling and Molly Gage.
Paternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Bill Vincent and Ray Dennison, second cousins once removed. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 3rd Cousins based on sharing 145 cM across 9 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
Paternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Judi Corbin and Bill Vincent, first cousins once removed. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 1st to 2nd Cousins based on sharing 472 cM across 24 segments; Confidence: Extremely High
Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Bill Vincent and his third cousin once removed D J (Blanton) Stewart. Their most-recent common ancestors are George Asa Blanton and Margaret Saling. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 3rd Cousins, based on sharing 39 cM across 3 segments.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 25.3 cM segment on chromosome 5, consisting of Bill Vincent, GEDmatch kit # LU672653C1, and Kim (Phifer) Ashby, his 7th cousin, GEDmatch kit # A261764, and Debra (Strink) MIller, his 7th cousin, GEDmatch kit # MQ8429304. (Kim and Debra are 6th cousins.) Their most-recent common ancestors are Bradley Meredith and Dorothy Unknown, the 6x great grandparents of both Bill Vincent and Kim (Phifer) Ashby and 6x great grandparents of Debra (Strink) MIller. DNA test taker Bill Vincent is the 4x great grandson of Frederick Meredith, the son of Joseph Meredith, the son of the common ancestors Bradley Meredith & Dorothy Unknown.
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 20 cM segment on chromosome 5, consisting of Bill Vincent, GEDmatch kit # AY7541459, and Kim (Phifer) Ashby, his 7th cousin, GEDmatch kit # A261764, and James Cannon, his 5th cousin 1x removed, GEDmatch kit # LD6545313. (Kim and James are 6th cousins 1x removed.) Their most-recent common ancestors are Bradley Meredith and Dorothy Unknown, the 6x great grandparents of both Bill Vincent and Kim (Phifer) Ashby and 5x great grandparents of James Cannon.
Maternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Bill Vincent and his third cousin G. Crenshaw. Their most-recent common ancestors are their great, great grandparents, Morris Asbury and Louticia Froggett. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 3rd Cousins, based on sharing 109 cM across 6 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 40.3-cM X-Chromosome match between Bill Vincent GEDmatch A660845 and his 5th Cousin Barry W. Downs GEDmatch A063195. Their MCRA is Anna (Gordon) Sanders. (There is no automatic way to show this X-Chromosome relationship on WikiTree.)
Maternal relationship confirmed by William Vincent (M143417) and Summer Orman (A239508) 7.8 cM match on one segment, using Gedmatch with 7.4 generations to MRCA.
Maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Bill Vincent and June (Jeffries) Watts, third cousins. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 3rd Cousins based on sharing 158 cM across 9 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
Maternal relationship is confirmed by triangulated groups consisting of:
Bill Vincent GEDmatch M143417, Barton Music GEDmatch T951297 and Carlyla Kinder GEDmatch A792416 sharing a 28.4 cM segment on chromosome 7 from 79509297 to 109674796.
Bill Vincent GEDmatch M143417, Estelle Lindsey GEDmatch T018927, M. Vincent GEDmatch M811226, and Gerritt Heatherly GEDmatch A807915 sharing a 9.8 cM segment on chromosome 3 from 141667938 to 151244214, and
Bill Vincent GEDmatch M143417, Glenn Meredith GEDmatch T897682, M. Vincent GEDmatch M811226, and Gerritt Heatherly GEDmatch A807915 sharing a 3.7 cM segment on chromosome 10 from 45232777 to 52157730.
Bill Vincent, GEDmatch M143417, M. Vincent, Gedmatch 811226, Crystal Locke, GEDmatch A087761, and Jack Renfro Lesley, Jr., GEDmatch A027989, sharing a 3.0 cM segment on chromosome 7 from 115300633 to 121226255.
Bill Vincent and Jason Minton, his 5C1R, and Zeppelin Sims, his 5C2R who share on 23andMe a 23.48 cM segment on chromosome 4 (four.) (Jason and Zeppelin are 6C1R.) Their most-recent common ancestors are James Jones and Jemima Duncan, the 4x great grandparents of Bill Vincent and 5x great grandparents of Jason Minton and 6x great grandparents of Zeppelin Sims.
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Bill's formal name
e-mail address
exact birthdate
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private siblings' names
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships.
Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
Bill Vincent:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup I-FTA19401, FTDNA kit #91114 +
Y-Chromosome Test 111 markers, haplogroup I-Z63
~12.50% 50.00%Hack Lane :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T902594[compare][compare x], FTDNA kit #87474
+
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch LN2716607[compare][compare x]
Bill - Thank you for joining Team Virginia for the 2024 Source-a-Thon and for being one of our top five contributors!
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Hello! We are some kind of DNA kin over on GEDMatch, but I have no clue who the common ancestor may be. I did lower the cM to 3, even though I know it's supposed to not be accurate at that level, but the total cM is 23+. My kit is SM675440.
Cherie, I don't think that you have inherited any DNA in common with either me or most of my established cousins. I used the Gedmatch tool People who match both kits, or 1 of 2 kits to check this. Any match we have at a 3-cM level is surely useless.
There is a good reason for the usual 7-cM DNA cutoff. Even for matches between 8 cM to 10 cM, about half of them will be IBC (Identical By Chance) rather than IBD (Identical by Descent), and basically meaningless. Below are two good references outing IBC and IBD DNA matches for you to use as a reference.
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to a 15th Place finish with 2,295 profiles added. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added 95,575 new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 181 connections.
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the 2022 Source-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members sourced over 63,000k Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with Team Virginia during the 2022 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 319 previously unsourced profiles. We added 7,350 sources & finished in 1st place!
Dr - I have 1 day of experience with this, so I'm really struggling. What a pleasant surprise to get your suggested merge. I do realize that it means i made an error in creating it, the confirmation on that specific profile is a huge deal to me. Catharina Natsin is my GGGM. I have had nothing but frustrations for years in trying to expand upon my few leads on the Slovak branch of my family. I may have not discovered yet how to figure this out for myself, but could you tell me where you got the info from for that profile? Thank you again.
We just started a new project on WikiTree: the Appalachia Project and we would love to have you join us. Since you are already working on profiles in Appalachia it wouldn't add to your WT work. Just a sticker and a category, here and there. To join, review the Project page, pick a regional team (or teams) and answer the G2G Membership post.
Ten thousand connections within seven degrees! What an amazing accomplishment! Only 10 other WikiTreers have a CC7 of 10,000. Congratulations!
By the way, I happened to notice that you indent a lot of paragraphs with colons. Our preferred style is only to indent paragraphs that should be set apart from other paragraphs. If you want to propose to the community that there be wider margins on text, this could be done with one change and every profile on WikiTree would change to the new style instantly. But then profiles that use colons for every paragraph would look especially odd.
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 87,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information. Thanks for keeping us company on Discord.
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and added 376 connections.
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 84,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! We all missed you on Discord this time around.
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and added 387 connections.
Hi Bill, I have found several more Sandidges that were married around the same time as David and Larkin in Mason county KY: Mary Sandridge to Robert Lurty 25 April 1809 bondsman Joseph Eubanks; Philadelphia Sandridge to James Teeples 20 Apr 1813, bondsman Joseph Eubanks; Martha Sandridge to John Artis 24 march 1812, bondsman Robert Lurtey. These might be other children of Patsy and James. Should we make these into the family of Patsy and James with a strong warning that we do not have any primary evidence and this associated is based on circumstantial evidence? I have not seen a tree with any reasonable references with Patsy and James' children. Robert Lurty is probably the son of John Lurty, Revolutionary soldier, so there may be a reasonable amount of research on that line, and perhaps it can be traced back to James Sandidge through his daughter Mary.
Julie, I think we can reasonably do something about adding and connecting these Sandidge people in Mason County. I need to find good sources for James Sandidge and Patsy Bronaugh before adding them. Back in 1997 made note of an old Bible entry for James and Patsy that gave their DOB and marriage information, but I need to track that down first, if I can. The Bible might also contain information about their children. After James and Patsy are added to WikiTree, with a source or two, we can then add probable children and grandchildren for them. That has been my plan and I'll be happy to work with you on doing that.
Thank you for your participation (awake and asleep!) with Team Virginia in the January 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 85,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and added 298 connections.
Thank you, Sandy. Team Virginia is always #1 in my opinion. We have great members and the best captains. Thanks for your contributions and for all that you do.
Thanks for your persistence in cleaning up the early Skaggs ancestors. So much junk gets posted by “helpful” folks. Your efforts to point out myths, legends and outright error are greatly appreciated.
It looks like you may have some outstanding merges that need attention. You can find them by following the link at the top of this page under >My Wikitree>Watchlist, then hit the button that says Pending Merges. If you need help, just ask.
Thanks for helping with Wikitree
I merged 2 profiles after you posted this reminder. (Thank you.)
I am waiting on one merge for opinions on the correct LNAB.
There are 10 merges which are waiting for approval by a profile manager who has not yet responded. These will be merged within days or weeks.
There are 22 merges which cannot proceed because one profile is either Private or Protected and the profile managers are either inactive or just unresponsive. This includes the Southern_Pioneers Project, whose managers seem to be in a permanent state of hibernation or else simply choose to ignore proposed merges. (I am a member of Southern Pioneers.) I would be really happy to merge these profiles, if I only could.
I noticed that Patty. I think we have a tremendous number of Goodnight cousins in the US. I have recently been in contact with a Gutknecht man in Germany who believes we have a common ancestor. I need to follow up with him more.
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2021 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 74,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Thanks for the Shaker Pie Recipe via Discord... it is a keeper. :)
Bill Vincent Ph.D. participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and added 861 connections.
Thanks for your message, Sue. I have found a few DNA matches which appear to stem from the Dameron family, but naturally are difficult to prove considering the large genetic distance. The DNA of my great uncle Hack Lane (Gedmatch LN2716607) is two generations closer to our common ancestors, but still quite distant.
Hey Bill, my family doesn't match to you on AncestryDNA (in 12 or tests on our side), but we probably match to many people that you do. Sometimes it seems like we're related to about half of the people whose ancestors ever lived in Hart Co KY. Our top lines there were Wright, Peebles, Wilson, Butler, and Hodges.
I'm slowly building up my WikiTree, but I have a large tree on Ancestry under username KevinMIreland.
Kevin, thanks for reaching out to me. Looking at your extensive tree on Ancestry I can honestly see no common ancestors between us. That doesn't mean there are none, but certainly none in Kentucky. Nonetheless, if you need any assistance with WikiTree, please let me know and I'll help if I can. Please remember to add good, primary sources to your WikiTree profiles, especially those which will be helpful to other researchers. I hope your experience on WikiTree is both rewarding and enlightening. - Bill
I'm working through multiple stages in my WikiTree profiles:
First, enter the connections back from my family to existing profiles (some connections via GEDcom imports).
Second, add primary sources when available, otherwise secondary sources. Clean up biographies generated by GEDcom imports.
Third, add photos and additional biographical material provided as family lore (but specifying which is which).
Finally, request that my many DNA-tested family members create a WikiTree account and connect to their ancestral profiles that I set up.
I'm in the process of establishing three one-name studies: Ireland-surname (hard to do on WikiTree due to conflicting genealogy tags), McCool, and Sollenberger. I've been building these studies for years, but it's time to make them available to the community.
I agree that we don't have common ancestors, but I'd be surprised if we don't have matches in common. I'm currently working with more than 110 AncestryDNA tests and about 10 Y-DNA tests (from multiple lines).
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
PS: DNA relationship to Arlo Guthrie? That's pretty cool!
Thanks for correcting the lack of information for my great-grandmother Laura Bell Milburn-Cundiff. More information is better. I would rather provide total transparency than lack of transparency to those who are also researching.
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!
Thanks, Pip. Every time I sign up for a Thon, I swear that I won't let it distract me or deprive me of sleep. And then... I get started and can't stop. I could have added more if I hadn't been so concerned about adding extra sources. When I have the additional sources at my fingertips, it's hard not to make the extra effort. I love the people in Team Virginia who are all so generous with their time.
I forget that you are part of 'those' Musicks that moved to Kentucky. Not a bad thing, cuz 😊 Ironically, my husband's family is from Kentucky but you are related much further out: Bill and Len are 16th cousins once removed. It may actually be closer as he hasn't added all of his ancestors yet.
I was active in the Musick Family Association a few years ago. I was surprised to find that Musick families from different branches had moved to Kentucky, at least for some time. There are two main branches there today, one from Edmonson County (my family) and the other from around Floyd and Johnson Counties.
Very cool! I say "those" Musicks as my Trusty and Musick lines were some of my first to discover. They have a special place in my heart. And - my mother-in-law always remembers that they had lines that came to Kentucky (even if she doesn't remember my other lines lol). Mine were all in Virginia. Their descendants were in North Carolina, Illinois and Iowa.
I signed up. Not sure how available I will be, but I'll do what I can. I've never done the Connect-a-Thon before.
It's annoying to me that the Categories list is far below all of the comments on my profile. I have voiced that opinion before on G2G, but to deaf ears.
As a member of the Scotland Project, we'd love to have you join the Twisted Thistles
in the upcoming Connect-a-thon the weekend of July 17 - July 20. If you'd like to join us and help to develop our ever-expanding Scottish tree, please register on the G2G post here
and be sure to mention you'd like to be on the Twisted Thistles team for Scotland.
Every now and then when I am up late until the wee hours of the morning I just troll through some of the more well known Wikitreers' profile pages and I just ran across yours as well. I think you have a beautiful profile page. As a native son of Kentucky, I just wanted to say you have made me so happy that I can look at another native son and be so proud to be from a state that is so rich in history such as our old Kentucky home.
How kind of you to say so, John. You have a nice profile page as well. I see that we are distantly related several different ways, including through the Nathaniel Davis family. It's great that we have found common ancestors through WikiTree. Thanks for being one of my Kentucky cousins.
As you may have seen, we have been doing some restructuring in the US Southern Colonies Project and are now organising ourselves into different teams. We have also changed the criteria for membership. Please have a look at the new project pages, and let me know whether you would like to remain in the project and, if so, which team(s) you would like to be in.
Please can you also send me your e-mail address. I can then make sure you are introduced to your Team Leaders and are in the Google Group.
Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the US Southern Colonies Project that you respond to these check-ins. We’re really excited for the future of the project and hope that you decide to be a part of it with us moving forwards.
Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared (over 2000!) made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!
Pip Sheppard
WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
PS: I kept running into your corrections the whole weekend!
Thanks. I appreciate being appreciated. LOL. That was an epic weekend, Pip. Our team finished 3rd for the 2nd year in a row, which makes me quite proud and satisfied. Congratulations to the Super Sweepers who did well, also. I ended up 9th overall last year with just under 2070 points, and beat that considerably this year finishing 13th over all. I think the bad weather and the pandemic worked to keep people inside and focused. You and I were working on Gender suggestions at the same time, from different starting points. When I ran into your work, I knew we were of like minds. Most of my False Suggestions came from Gender and from Nicknames, both of which can be a little different in the South. LOL. Names also change with time. My grandfather's given name, Hillary, was strictly a man's name years ago, as was the given name Meredith.
My name is Sarah and I’m the Project Coordinator for the Scotland Project. As you may have heard, we have merged the Scottish Clans project into the Scotland Project. I am contacting you today to find out if you are interested in continuing with us under this new format. If you would like to go forward on the Scottish Clans Team, please reply and let me know which clans you have been working on or would like to work on. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sarah, I am intermittently rather than continuously involved in the project. If it's no trouble, I would like to continue to be associate with the Scottish Clans Team as well as the Scotland Project. Thanks... Bill
You don't need to ask. I recorded that it was "Cleanup after Merge". That implies that the profile contained duplicate items from the result of a merge, which needed to be consolidated or removed, as was the case.
Thank you for confirming https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pickering-2819 appreciate that your message included link to the how to pages. If you would be interested in the greeter project just let the project lead know
lol Bill your DNA match list always astounds me! How wonderful it is. Unfortunately, you missed the sign up for the Thon. We would love to have you in an unofficial manner if you're interested, and can add you to the chat and page
Thank you, Bill, for every one of your more than one thousand contributions to our Shared Tree during the month of September. The Appreciation Team honors you for all of your efforts.
Bill, thank you for each of your more than 1000 contributions to our Shared Tree for the month of August 2019. All of your work makes our Tree all that much better.
Bill, your comments are well noted, and I agree. The problem arises with multiple spouses and perhaps children with each one - when it becomes an issue to deliniate when one marriage might have started and / or ended. And as long as there is a field to document the end of a marriage - for any reason, sometimes the date of a death will have to serve.
Thank you for your time and energy in creating over 1000 actually, over 1200!) contributions to WikiTree for the month of July 2019. Your efforts are appreciated!
Pip Sheppard
WikiTree Appreciation Team
PS: My wife remains a Kentuckian at heart, too! Mercer County.
This week's connection theme is Christmas Albums.
Bill is
16 degrees from Donald Osmond, 24 degrees from Paul Anka, 18 degrees from Irving Berlin, 19 degrees from Karen Carpenter, 16 degrees from Nat King Cole, 16 degrees from Perry Como, 16 degrees from Burl Ives, 23 degrees from Eartha Kitt, 26 degrees from Kylie Minogue, 15 degrees from Willie Nelson, 19 degrees from Olivia Newton-John and 15 degrees from Dolly Parton
on our single family tree.
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Thanks again! Liz
Congratulations on breaking 100!
Cheers, Liz
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1756104/have-you-registered-for-our-july-2024-connect-a-thon-yet?show=1756141#a1756141
Hope you'll be joining us again!
Cheers, Liz
There is a good reason for the usual 7-cM DNA cutoff. Even for matches between 8 cM to 10 cM, about half of them will be IBC (Identical By Chance) rather than IBD (Identical by Descent), and basically meaningless. Below are two good references outing IBC and IBD DNA matches for you to use as a reference.
When is a DNA segment match a real match? IBD or IBS or IBC?, by Kitty Cooper
Identical by descent by the International Society of Genetic Genealogy
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
If you'd like to add a sticker to your profile, check out https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Virginia_2024_-_Connect-a-Thon#Stickers
See you next Connect-a-Thon!
Cheers, Liz
Thanks for joining Team Virginia for this weekend's Connect-a-Thon!
Cheers, Liz
Cheers, Liz
Nancy Thomas ~ Team Virginia
I owe you a very long Appalachian email. It's complicated. A Zoom would be easier to talk it out. :)
As always, I appreciate your thoughts and conversations... and book recommendations.
I saved it to down 4/5 way as the image is large. (I have it sized as 700). Thanks for sending it.
Mary
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the 2022 Source-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members sourced over 63,000k Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
WikiTree Symposium and Day on November 4-5, 2022
We just started a new project on WikiTree: the Appalachia Project and we would love to have you join us. Since you are already working on profiles in Appalachia it wouldn't add to your WT work. Just a sticker and a category, here and there. To join, review the Project page, pick a regional team (or teams) and answer the G2G Membership post.
Ten thousand connections within seven degrees! What an amazing accomplishment! Only 10 other WikiTreers have a CC7 of 10,000. Congratulations!
By the way, I happened to notice that you indent a lot of paragraphs with colons. Our preferred style is only to indent paragraphs that should be set apart from other paragraphs. If you want to propose to the community that there be wider margins on text, this could be done with one change and every profile on WikiTree would change to the new style instantly. But then profiles that use colons for every paragraph would look especially odd.
Chris
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 87,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information. Thanks for keeping us company on Discord.
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Next Thon: Source-A-Thon in the Fall (tbd) and WikiTree Day on November 5, 2022
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 84,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! We all missed you on Discord this time around.
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in July (tbd)
I just noticed that we are fourth cousins once removed. Thank you for all your work.
Thank you for your participation (awake and asleep!) with Team Virginia in the January 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 85,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
P.S. Our Discord Channel is also active all year, not only during Thons. Drop in and say hi!
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
It looks like you may have some outstanding merges that need attention. You can find them by following the link at the top of this page under >My Wikitree>Watchlist, then hit the button that says Pending Merges. If you need help, just ask. Thanks for helping with Wikitree
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
(Bill and Patty are 7th cousins once removed)
Thanks for joining Team Virginia on the 2021 Source-A-Thon. Our Team finished in 1st place by sourcing over 6,600 Profiles! That is an amazing job!!
We couldn't do it without you & look forward to you joining us on the 2022 Clean-A-Thon!
Mindy & Sandy - Team Virginia Co Captains
P.S. Thanks for sharing the recipes, books & conversation on Discord! Always look forward to your finds that you share.
Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2021 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 74,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Thanks for the Shaker Pie Recipe via Discord... it is a keeper. :)
Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia
Save the Date: October 1st through 4th, Source-A-Thon (with amazing prizes!)
Bill Vincent Ph.D. and Sue (Bateman) Matthews are both descendants of George Dameron, behind my 2nd DDF Thomas Turpin Thomas.
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
I'm slowly building up my WikiTree, but I have a large tree on Ancestry under username KevinMIreland.
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
I'm in the process of establishing three one-name studies: Ireland-surname (hard to do on WikiTree due to conflicting genealogy tags), McCool, and Sollenberger. I've been building these studies for years, but it's time to make them available to the community.
I agree that we don't have common ancestors, but I'd be surprised if we don't have matches in common. I'm currently working with more than 110 AncestryDNA tests and about 10 Y-DNA tests (from multiple lines).
edited by Kevin Ireland
We now have a large membership for Province of Carolina Team. As previously discussed in the leadership Team, I have split the Province of Carolina Team https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Southern_Colonies_Province_of_Carolina_Team into the following :
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Southern_Colonies_Province_of_North_Carolina_%281712-1776%29_Team
And
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Southern_Colonies_Province_of_South_Carolina_%281712-1776%29_Team
Please reply to me with your answer of which team you want to work on (this may be multiples)
A) All three teams
B) This Province of Carolina Team https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Southern_Colonies_Province_of_Carolina_Team
C) This Province of North Carolina Team https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Southern_Colonies_Province_of_North_Carolina_%281712-1776%29_Team
D) this Province of South Carolina Team https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Southern_Colonies_Province_of_South_Carolina_%281712-1776%29_Team
Of note there is A Quality Assurance subteam listed on the Province of Carolina Team page which you may be interested in also.
Be sure you fill in your strong points and interests next to your name on the Carolina team page
(I will continue as Team Leader of all three)
Mary ~ Team Leader
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
PS: DNA relationship to Arlo Guthrie? That's pretty cool!
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've been watching for your name on the 2020 Connect-a-Thon post. It just won't be the same without you!
Mindy
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It's annoying to me that the Categories list is far below all of the comments on my profile. I have voiced that opinion before on G2G, but to deaf ears.
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
As a member of the Scotland Project, we'd love to have you join the Twisted Thistles in the upcoming Connect-a-thon the weekend of July 17 - July 20. If you'd like to join us and help to develop our ever-expanding Scottish tree, please register on the G2G post here and be sure to mention you'd like to be on the Twisted Thistles team for Scotland.
We also have our team Chat page posted here.
John
As you may have seen, we have been doing some restructuring in the US Southern Colonies Project and are now organising ourselves into different teams. We have also changed the criteria for membership. Please have a look at the new project pages, and let me know whether you would like to remain in the project and, if so, which team(s) you would like to be in.
Please can you also send me your e-mail address. I can then make sure you are introduced to your Team Leaders and are in the Google Group.
Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the US Southern Colonies Project that you respond to these check-ins. We’re really excited for the future of the project and hope that you decide to be a part of it with us moving forwards.
Many thanks,
Susie, US Southern Colonies Project Co-Leader
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared (over 2000!) made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!
Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
PS: I kept running into your corrections the whole weekend!
My name is Sarah and I’m the Project Coordinator for the Scotland Project. As you may have heard, we have merged the Scottish Clans project into the Scotland Project. I am contacting you today to find out if you are interested in continuing with us under this new format. If you would like to go forward on the Scottish Clans Team, please reply and let me know which clans you have been working on or would like to work on. I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
Sarah Mason, Scotland PC
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
Thank you for confirming https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pickering-2819 appreciate that your message included link to the how to pages. If you would be interested in the greeter project just let the project lead know
Here is the link to the project https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Greeters
Pip and Mindy are both greeters while there are a number of us, new members are always welcome. Take a look, join us and have some fun
All the Best
Janet - Wikitree Greeter
Mindy
Pippin Sheppard
WikiTrees Appreciation Team
Pippin Sheppard
WikiTrees Appreciation Team
Thank you for your time and energy in creating over 1000 actually, over 1200!) contributions to WikiTree for the month of July 2019. Your efforts are appreciated!
Pip Sheppard
WikiTree Appreciation Team
PS: My wife remains a Kentuckian at heart, too! Mercer County.