User:Jillaine

Current Genealogy / Family History Work

I have a number of GEDCOMs on WorldConnect.Rootsweb.com where I upload my most recent work. My GEDCOMs include:

• My Own Line (predominantly German-originated, emigrating in the 1840s and 1860s to Buffalo and Cincinnati).
• My Husband's Line (a Heinz-57 conglomeration of almost everything BUT German)
• An evolving documentation of entire town genealogy -- Schwenningen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

I maintain a Freepages web site at Rootsweb, with a variety of additional family history links and resources.

Colonial Ancestors

I am particularly interested in and have done a fair amount of documentation of my husband's colonial New England ancestors. This has resulted in some interesting and challenging projects:

• Category:Taylor_in_Massachusetts attempts to distinguish the earliest TAYLORs of Massachusetts, one of which is my husband's ancestor, Richard Taylor of Sudbury.

• Spiritual Wife-ism in Late Colonial Massachusetts summarizes a manuscript I've drafted about my husband's ancestress's forays into a "sexual revolution" during 1778.

• Jillaine's Transcriptions of certain colonial documents.

• And I'm now working on a Puritan Great Migration Portal Page (with help from knarrows and jennifer)

Volunteer Projects at WeRelate

• I'm trying to step up to Dallan's challenge to categorize Article pages. ABANDONED
• I periodically work on merging first my own then other duplicates.
• Amelia Gerlicher and I follow each other around our mutual pages of colonial interest, sweeping up after each other (she's more likely to be sweeping up crums I leave). Ditto with Jennifer.
• I've recently taken on Creating and Organizing Research Guides

Templates I like to Use

• Template:Conjectured
• Template:Help Wanted
• Template:Incomplete
• Template:Merged page
• Template:Missing_Source (rarely)
• Template:Person maybe
• Template:PersonData
• Template:Sources_needed
• Template:Work_In_Progress

Pages I Use

• User:Jlanoux/Cheat_sheet
• Help:Advanced_Editing_Commands
• Help:Formatting