Lin Wright
Honor Code SignatorySigned 18 Sep 2015 | 13,610 contributions | 422 thank-yous | 803 connections
Signed 18 Sep 2015 | 13,610 contributions | 422 thank-yous | 803 connections
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Lin R. Wright
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of Calvin Thayer Wright
and Betty Lou (Heath) Wright
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| Created 18 Sep 2015 | Last significant change: 30 May 2023
18:43: Maddy Hardman posted a comment on the page for Lin Wright [Thank Maddy for this]
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Biography
Lin Wright has completed the England Project's Post 1700 Orphan Trail I.
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 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
- Parents of Eleanor Parkin 138-139 - Yorkshire, England
- Parents of Robert Fielder 140-141 - Yorkshire, England
- Parents/Ancestors of Peter Walsh and his wife Sarah: 80-83, 160-167 - England, near London
- Parents/Ancestors of George Shipstone aka Ship, Shipston et al 132-133 - Yorkshire, England
- Parents of Elizabeth Chatterton 142-143 - Yorkshire, England
Scotland
- Parents of John Aitken: 208-209 - Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Parents of Adam Johnston and his wife Margaret Keay of Key: 212-215 - West Lothian, Scotland
- Parents/Ancestors of Ann Gilroy: 110-111, 220-223 - Midlothian, Scotland
Ireland
- Parents of William Williamson and his wife Elizabeth Wilson: 204-207 - emigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland to Megantic County, Quebec
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:
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:
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Lin Wright:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A821113 [compare], Ancestry member ethelindw
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Lin:
Lin is 16 degrees from Victor Castro, 21 degrees from Loretto Coronado, 20 degrees from Sebastian Constantino de Arce, 26 degrees from Sor Juana De La Cruz, 28 degrees from Enrique Gómez Carrillo, 25 degrees from Desiderio Gonzales, 23 degrees from Ramon Lopez, 24 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda, 23 degrees from Frank Rodriguez, 36 degrees from Francisco Villa and 29 degrees from Oliver Stegen on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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.
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Kind regards,
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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.
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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.
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Best wishes,
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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
edited by Janet (Langridge) Wild
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
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.
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Many thanks!
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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
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,
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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.
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
edited by Janet (Langridge) Wild
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.
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We look forward to hearing from you soon!
SJ - 1776 Project Leader
edited by SJ Baty
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
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
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
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
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
Bob
Thanks for all your work. Bob
Bob
Bob Keniston, Team Massachusetts Captain
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
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
Bob
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