Lin Wright
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Lin R. Wright
Born 1950s.
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Biography

England Orphan Team
Lin Wright has completed the England Project's Post 1700 Orphan Trail I.
England Orphan Trailblazer
Lin Wright is an England Orphan Trailblazer
Lin Wright is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger John Alden.
Lin Wright is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger Isaac Allerton.
Lin Wright is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger Francis Cooke.
Lin Wright is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger George Soule.
Descendant
Descendant of PGM migrant Nicholas Baker.

Lin is the third daughter and third of six children of Calvin Wright and Betty Heath.

The family genealogist, Lin earned an A.A. in Pre-professional studies from Bristol County Community College in Fall River Massachusetts; a B.S. in Biochemistry with a minor in History and a concentration in Microbiology from the University of New Hampshire; and a M.A. in American and New England Studies from the University from the University of Southern Maine (USM-one of the few such programs, ANES was a wonderful program which was recently discontinued. She successfully completed the genealogy certificate through Boston University.

Recently retired as administrative specialist at USM, she is actively serving as historian for her local church, teaches genealogy as part of the Senior College at USM's Lewiston-Auburn College and sometimes for Lewiston Adult Education, is Registrar of the Mary Dillingham-Burnt Meadow Chapter of the DAR, and served on the Board of Directors of the Androscoggin Historical Society. She is currentlyPresident of the Asbury Grove Historical Society.

Lin has presented talks including: "'Death to him was sudden': David Green of Minot, ME, and the 1840 Lexington steamboat disaster" and "A few bad days in Lisbon Falls: April 6-8, 1901."

Lin teachs at Lewiston Auburn Senior College.

My WikiTree Philosophy

Now that I have been on here long enough to know what I am doing my plan is to enter all my known ancestors. On the profile for at least one parent I intend to list all known children rather than creating a profile for each child (which is what I did when I first started). I am working to add sources (I still have a few unsourced profiles, but the number is dropping).

The next step after entering ancestors, listing their children, and sourcing profiles will be to add census details for my ancestors.

I will add anyone who asks onto the trusted list for any profile I manage, add you as a manager or, if it isn't my direct ancestor, transfer a profile to you upon request. Send me a message and it would be good to include how you are related to the person whose profile it is.

Current Project

I took a long break from WikiTree, but I think I am back. I am starting a new challenge for myself to review and update the page for each ancestor up to the level of my 5th great grandparents. Because I get distracted and forgetful sometimes I decided to take the 255 people and use a random number generator to pick who I do in what order. So here it the list by random ahnentafel number (excluding unidentified):

64, 98, 197, 15, 117, 211, 156, 241, 29, 48, 58, 185, 200, 70, 245, 159, 56, 158, 219, 40, 60, 85, 49, 31, 174, 10, 33, 71, 52, 157, 181, 96, 228, 55, 13, 47, 75, 229, 94, 147, 18, 126, 12, 121, 73, 7, 178, 145, 42, 227, 87, 199, 146, 234, 17, 243, 50, 92, 225, 68, 217, 14, 90, 114, 78, 231, 65, 194, 188, 122, 237, 63, 43, 198, 130, 253, 99, 184, 104, 102, 236, 230, 168, 34, 37, 135, 149, 119, 171, 105, 1, 24, 67, 11, 151, 20, 180, 97, 187, 72, 66, 84, 116, 53, 175, 210, 54, 35, 115, 172, 189, 51, 129, 128, 89, 232, 226, 131, 112, 3, 252, 57, 44, 144, 108, 233, 195, 150, 113, 136, 118, 191, 216, 41, 38, 120, 127, 123, 137, 9, 88, 26, 101, 25, 173, 182, 59, 8, 32, 177, 45, 28, 27, 19, 95, 246, 242, 69, 201, 39, 190, 100, 74, 6, 30, 86, 2, 22, 169, 247, 196, 235, 107, 134, 109, 148, 183, 239, 61, 224, 36, 4, 186, 91, 192, 5, 21, 93, 103, 240, 16, 218, 23, 106, 170, 244, 176, 62, 254, 238, 255, 79, 179, 46

Some of my ancestors beginning in the 6th generation are unidentified, so I removed them from that list and moved them to this list of roots to identify:

United States

  • Parents of Abigail Grey 202-203 - Vermont, possibly Rhode Island
  • Parents/Ancestors of Joshua Brooks: 76-77, 152-155 - New York near Albany
  • Parents/Ancestors of Abraham "Abram" Davis 124-125, 248-251 - Maine, USA
  • Prove/Disprove Mary "Polly" Tobine, wife of James Heath, who married James Heath in 1781 is the mother of David Heath, son of James, born in 1780. 193 - Grafton County, New Hampshire

England

Scotland

Ireland

2022 Year of Connections

Since this is the year to learn about and honor our connections on Wikitree, I have created a space page where I have highlighted some of my WikiTree connections.

Lists

Link to Space:Lin_Wright_Bibliography_List

Sources

  • First-hand information. Entered by Ethelind Wright at registration.

Only the Trusted List can access the following:
  • Lin's formal name
  • full middle name (R.)
  • e-mail address
  • exact birthdate
  • birth location
  • images (1)
  • private siblings' names
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Lin or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lin:
  • 100.00% X DNA 100.00% Lin Wright: AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A821113 [compare], Ancestry member ethelindw

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Hi Lin,

Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023. Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!

I'd like to share our end-of-year 2023 Newsletter. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading about what we have achieved in 2023.

On behalf of all the England Project Leaders, we wish you a peaceful, productive and enjoyable 2024!

Best wishes,

Steve, England Project Leader

posted by Steven Whitfield
Hi Lin , We would love to have you join the Mighty Oaks for the Source-A-Thon. The event starts Friday, September 29 at 8AM EDT (Noon UTC) and runs until Monday, October 2 at 8AM EDT (Noon UTC)

If you are interested in joining us then please answer the G2G post https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1628429/register-now-for-the-2023-source-a-thon? here Source-A-Thon Registration] Remember to mention you would like to join the Mighty Oaks. Registration close at Midnight this Wednesday 27th September that is this Wednesday.

Look forward to working with you again

Joan, Janet, Maddy & Fran Co-Captains for the Mighty Oaks

posted by Janet (Langridge) Wild
Hi again Lin,

Thank you for all the work that you have done for the England Project. I do not seem to have had a response from you from the recent England Project check in.

If I do not hear from you within the next 2 weeks I will presume that you wish to leave the project. If you leave us, I hope that you will want to re-join us sometime in the future. You can do this by responding to our G2G post. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1516540/is-2023-your-year-to-join-the-england-project

Best regards Maddy,

England Project Leaders

posted by Maddy Hardman
Hi Lin,

It’s that time of year again! On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for your commitment to the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!

The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members periodically to make sure everything is going well. This is our formal annual check-in with you.

Are you happy with your current project team choices? Would you like to join any other teams?

Also, we would really like to hear which team is currently your highest priority. If you are a member of more than one team, could you please rank them from highest priority to lowest? Thank you! If you don’t see yourself as being part of a team, please let us know.

We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.

I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.

On behalf of all the Leaders, thank you again for all you do and we look forward to you continuing to be a part of our collaborative and fun Project!

Kind regards,

Maddy, England Project Leader

posted by Maddy Hardman
It's time for the One Place Studies Project Check-In!

We've put together a survey for you to fill out to check in with you, it will only take a moment as there are only a few questions. Filling out the survey lets us know you are still interested in coordinating your study and provides an opportunity for you to share any suggestions you may have for the project.

If you have decided to step away from your study, please reply to this comment to that effect.

posted by Azure Robinson
Hi, Our common ancestor is the Shaw family from Weymouth, MA. Alice Shaw married George Tirrell/Terrell.
posted by Molly Shorter
Wiki shows we are 9th cousins once removed. Hello and God Bless. Jane
Dear Lin,

On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!

I'd also like to share our annual Newsletter with you. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading a bit about what has gone on in 2022 and what our Project has achieved.

The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members every 6 months just to make sure everything is going well. There's no need to reply to this message unless you have something you'd like to let us know about (e.g. if you would like to change your team choices or provide other feedback). We will be in touch with you again in the middle of next year when we do our annual check-in with project members.

On behalf of all the Leaders, I wish you a peaceful and productive 2023.

Best wishes,

Joan, England Project Leader

Hi Lin

We all did a great job this weekend, thank you for participating. The grand total for the event was 57,577 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks contributed 7,693 of those.

See: https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourceAThon/2022/TeamAndUser.htm to open up your contribution list so you can review your work and possibly some tidying up.

Thanks again for this weekend, we look forward to working with you again.

Joan, Janet, Maddy and Fran

posted by Janet (Langridge) Wild
edited by Janet (Langridge) Wild
Hi Lin,

I wrote to you recently as part of the England Project's six-monthly check-in with our project members. I haven't heard back from you. I hope you are well.

If you could please drop me a quick note to confirm whether you are still interested in the project and wish to remain an active member, that would be very helpful.

If we do not hear from you within the next 2 weeks, we will assume you are no longer active in the England Project and remove you from our list of project members. You would be most welcome to re-apply to join the project at a later time by signing-up on the project’s G2G welcome post.

Many thanks!

Ian, England Project Leader

posted by I. Speed
Hi Lin,

On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals over the past year. Every English profile we improve helps!

The England Project Leaders are currently doing our six-monthly check-in with all project members.

Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?

We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.

I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.

Many thanks!

Ian, England Project Leader

posted by I. Speed
I’ve not heard back from you regarding the 1776 Project check-in so have gone ahead and removed you from the project for now.

If you’d like to rejoin at any stage you would be most welcome to do so by answering the G2G sign-up post here

Many thanks,

Betty -- 1776 Project Leader

posted by Betty (Skelton) Norman
Hi,

I sent you a check-in message several days ago about the 1776 Project to ask you about your past and continued involvement but have not yet heard back from you. Do you still want to be in the project?

If I don’t hear from you in a week or so, I’ll assume that you’ve moved on to other things, but you’re most welcome to re-join the project at any time.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Best wishes,

Betty -- 1776 Project Leader

posted by Betty (Skelton) Norman
Greetings from the 1776 Project

We're doing our semi-annual check-in to ask whether you have made contributions to the project in the last six months?

Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the 1776 Project that you respond to this check-in. Please post your response as a reply to this message on your page, for convenience of record keeping.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Betty -- 1776 Project Leader

posted by Betty (Skelton) Norman
Hi Lin

Well, the Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and have fully recovered. Thank you for joining us The combined score of 13,284 - is 113 more than the last CAT so well done. The total overall figure was 85,839 profiles connected.

Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for next event)

We are a bit late with out thanks, but we appreciate all your help and we look forward to working with you again.

Joan and Maddy.

Hi Lin

Well, it was a fun weekend, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering from your hard work. Thank you for joining us. It is appreciated. The combined score for our teams was a fab 9,296 up 419 on last year, well done. The total overall figure was 56,972 profiles sourced.

Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourceaThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for next year’s event )

Thanks again for this weekend, you rock

Janet & Fran

posted by Janet (Langridge) Wild
edited by Janet (Langridge) Wild
Hello,

I am checking in on behalf of the 1776 Project to announce the new project membership requirements and to verify that you are still interested in being a member of the project. All project members are being asked to join one of the project teams and also to make at least one project contribution every 6 months. We are also asking all project members to join the project's Google Group for project communications.

If you are interested in remaining with the Project, please reply to this comment or send me a message, request to join the Google Group, and let us know what team you would like to participate on.

We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all your hard work. If you have any questions, please ask. We would also love to hear any feedback you may have for the project.

If we don't hear back from you we will assume that you no longer wish to participate in the project and if so, you could rejoin at any time as is convenient for you.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

SJ - 1776 Project Leader

posted by SJ Baty
edited by SJ Baty
Hello! Our DNA tests show that we are 1st cousins 4x removed! I'm currently working on digging through the Aldrich genealogies when I discovered this.
posted by Krystle Calderwood
Hello Lin,

I believe we may be 6th cousins once removed on your father's side. I would love to exchange research on our common ancestors. Your 3rd great-grandfather George Wright married Martha Shipstone, and one of her uncles on her mother's side is my 5th great-grandfather; Robert Longthorp.

Hope to hear from you, Kind regards,

Katherine Longthorp

posted by Katherine Longthorp
Hello, Lin!

Thanks for your participation during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree over the weekend. I hope you’ll join us for the Source-a-thon this fall.

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
Hi there, Lin!

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

Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

posted by Pip Sheppard
Lin,

Our Team Massachusetts Chat page is up and running at:https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1023588/team-massachusetts-2020-c-a-t-chat . Included are links to Watchlist errors and WT errors. Have fun this weekend, and stay safe. Bob

posted by Bob Keniston Jr.
Lin,

The Spring 2020 Clean-a-Thon is taking registration now at this [1]. If you want to participate as a member of Team Massachusetts, go to the post and answer indicating the team name. You need to answer the question so Eowyn can officially add you to the Team. We did a good job last year. Let's see what we can do this time around. Bob

posted by Bob Keniston Jr.
The Spring 2019 Clean-a-Thon is taking registration now at this [1]. If you want to participate as a member of Massachusetts 600 Team, go to the post and answer indicating the team name. You need to answer the question so Eowyn can officially add you to the Team. We did a good job last year. Let's see what we can do this time around.

Bob

posted by Bob Keniston Jr.
Hi Lin- We're 7th cousins through our Holbrook lines... not what I expected! I have a lot of Haskells and Harrises who were in Androscoggin County. I think Barron Harris was the first baby born in Lewiston
posted by Peggy (Haskell) Moss
Thank you for participating in the 2018 Source-a-Thon as a member of Team Massachusetts. Together we sourced over 1000 profiles. Great job. Next team effort will be the 2019 Spring Clean-a-Thon. See you then.

Thanks for all your work. Bob

posted by Bob Keniston Jr.
Check out the Team page for Sourcing Selfies.

Bob

posted by Bob Keniston Jr.
Ichadbob Holbrook Is my 9th Great Grandfather I would like to help you out if you want it since I have more information to be added to them but if not its ok ill just make my own
posted by Karen McKeown
The 2018 Source-a-Thon is upon us. The S-a-T will run from Friday, September 28, 8AM EDT to Monday, October 1, 8AM EDT. Check the G2G feed for the signup post. When you sign up, mention that you want to be on Team Massachusetts.

Bob Keniston, Team Massachusetts Captain

posted by Bob Keniston Jr.
Hello Lin,

I have discovered that we are 10th cousins once removed. Edmond Hobart and Margaret Dewey are your ninth, my tenth great grandparents.

I loved reading your profile. I have long admired intelligent, educated women. I am very pleased to meet another cousin.

Sincerely,

Sharon

posted by Sharon Richardson
Thanks for submitting the pre-1700 form.

I'm the Coordinator of WikiTree's Massachusetts Project inside of which some of your research falls.

It looks like the sources you are using are good ones. If you'd like to learn more about the project, visit:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Massachusetts

There's information there, too, about the types of sources we use (and what we avoid). A good source of Massachusetts information is ma-vitalrecords.org

Consider yourself having communicated with a project-- you don't need to fill out the form again for Massachusetts-related profiles you're working on.

Bob

posted by Bob Keniston Jr.
Lin,

The Spring 2018 Clean-a-Thon is taking registration now at this G2G post. If you want to participate as a member of Massachusetts 600 Team, go to the post and answer indicating the team name. We did a good job last year. Let's see what we can do this time around. Bob

posted by Bob Keniston Jr.