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Archived Messages for 2018

Reuben Hall [2 January 2018]

Hello, I'd like to correspond with you on Reuben Hall. I've been researching the Halls of Smith Co. TN for years and believe Reuben is related to my Claiborne and his brother Nathan. suspected cousins. I had no idea Reuben went to West Virginia but see that. Finding it interesting that he lists SC as his birthplace in the 1850 census. I believe Charlton Hall was his father and he is first in Sumner (Smith) Co. in 1798 so they had to have moved when Reuben was an infant. Do you know if there has been on DNA testing by any of the Reuben Hall descendants? If there are male descendants who bear surname Hall, it would be great to get them into the Hall DNA Group and see if they match my Claiborne's line. If no male Hall, the autosomal DNA would also be helpful.

Glad to have found this today.

Thanks,

Rick Allen--Rick1547 22:48, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi Rick. I apologize for my delayed response due to the holidays. I am glad that you found the site. I am also interested in the surname Hall and in differentiating between the family lines as they migrated through the mid-West and South, so I tend to enter information on them as I come across it. I think there are quite a few Reuben Halls in the WeRelate database now, so I am not sure exactly which one caught your eye. I see that a page for the son of Charlton Hall of Smith County, TN has been started (see Person:Reuben Hall (9)), so there might be a duplicate to clean up or it could be a different person to which you refer. See what you think.

I do not have any information on the state of the DNA testing of any of these lines. I agree that it would be helpful to connect the work done on this site to the DNA databases that are becoming more popular every day. There are some users here who have developed some creative ways to connect that information, but I am behind the curve in that area. If you are interested in pursuing the idea further, we could see how other family lines have handled it. Regards, --cos1776 22:56, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Hall Family [11 March 2018]

Hello, I noticed you were a watcher on the Seland Hall page. Are you part of his family? Also, I am new at this and trying to add more info to it also and not really succeeding--Jshall1015 15:26, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi. Please see Person talk:Seland Hall (1). I know that WeRelate can be a little confusing at first, but if you stick with it, it does get easier. If you have a specific question about how to do something, feel free to post it on the Support page. There are nice volunteers here willing to help. --cos1776 13:39, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

sakers genealogy [19 March 2018]

Hello my name is brenda sakers ober and i wrote to you before about william saker and asked you about him and your tree. well i have some great news to tell you i have a document that says william's real name was adam saker and the date of his death was feb 13 1828 in anne arundel county. i am sorry but i dont know how to send the documents to you (which i have 5) if by chance you can tell me on how to send them to you i will. thank you brenda sakers ober--Ober24 14:26, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi Brenda - I will contact you privately. Thanks.--cos1776 21:37, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Joseph Anderson [30 March 2018]

Thank You, My sister and I are new members to the site and are still finding our way around. Than you for creating the Family Name Page for us.--History1800 19:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

No problem. Happy to help. --cos1776 19:59, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

DFree User - Marshall family update [13 May 2018]

Hello Thanks for keeping watch over the Gregory & Marshall family pages. I appreciate it. I have just located the Boyd Marshall & Nancy J McCormick marriage information and an unsourced date of death for him which I added to the page. If you need to please feel free to edit etc. He has been one of my HUGE brick walls. Thank You for all the hard work to you and everyone on WeRelate. Take Care. DFree (Debbie Freeman)--DFree 17:31, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Nathan Bangs (2) [18 May 2018]

Hi Cos,

I've placed a brief bio for Nathan Bangs (2) on his page which seems to contradict the wikipedia Nathan Bangs, and certainly seem like two different men. But both Methodist preachers, both born in Stratford 1778, both with a bro (Herman or Heman)

The bio I added was taken by someone from "A History of Stamford (NY)" by Charles D. Griffin found on a Delaware County site (many years ago) without page #s, but referenced as "Chapters 11 - 14"

If you feel this bio doesn't apply, please just delete. Regards, Neal Gardner--SkippyG 20:12, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Re: Nathan Bangs: [1]; Re: John Bangs: Find A Grave. Poor excerpt apparently applying death of John to Nathan. --Jrich 21:58, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Augustus Greme Smith Jr [18 May 2018]

My husband Paul J. Young is the great grandson of Augustus Greme Smith Jr. His mother Rose Mary Young is the daughter of Marguerite Frances Smith. I would love to know any oral history you have about the family, as we always thought Augustus' middle name was Graham.--JRene1980 22:25, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

David Christopher 2 unknown Cobb [22 July 2018]

Thank you for the edits. The Cobb wife is a wild guess. In 1818 David, John Davis and James Cobb posted $2000 bond for Davids sons in Abbeville SC, William and Buckner Griffin Christopher. I have talked to a descendant of James Cobb and she has no Christopher’s in her research, but she does verify his signature. I assume he had to be related in some way to David’s first wife. So for now, I use Cobb. William Christopher died in 1849 in Abbeville, SC, leaving a wife and several children who I will get around to documenting soon. Buckner Christopher had a living descendant who has been Y DNA tested and matches me and the other men from the Nicholas line. His name was BobbyChristopher, he passed at 71 last April.

I am working all the other lines onto WeRelate before I work my personal line in and David is my 3rd G grandfather as well as 4 other men who have Y tested to my haplogroup. Davids father Ambrose Sr had many sons and their descendants are abundant, so I take one son at a time.

Once I get to my line I have tons of records. I did put my direct line back to Ambrose Sr, but I have not documented all of Aunts, Uncles and cousins in my direct line on WeRelate yet.--Chrstdvd 19:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

GedCom isn't being imported [28 November 2018]

I received this reply to a question I had about not being able to import a Gedcom to your site here. I had followed all of the steps in terms of checking the "match" boxes etc. but that was not an option for the Hugh Thornton and Eliza Long marriage and family pages.No match box appeared. So, I attempted to fill that in and then it became a "merge" and now I am being kept from importing it.

 The reply below suggests I contact you. There are an inordinate amount of hoops to jump through simply to have my family tree on your site.

I appreciate any help you might be able to offer. Greg Thornton

Hi, Greg.

I can see what happened, and can offer a workaround.

I am pretty sure that what happened is that you loaded your GEDCOM when the existing page was called 'Hugh Thornton and Unknown'. WeRelate recognized a potential match. Then you renamed the existing page to 'Hugh Thornton and Eliza Long'. A rename keeps the original page and redirects it to the new page, which is exactly the same as what a merge does with the page not being kept. So WeRelate still has your GEDCOM family matched to the original page ('Hugh Thornton and Unknown'), and it treats 'Hugh Thornton and Unknown' as if it had already been merged with another page and won't allow you to merge with it. That makes sense in a normal context, but has put you in a bind for your GEDCOM upload.

The workaround is to deselect this couple from the GEDCOM upload. I think it should work - that is, allow you to upload the rest of the file. If you do this, you will have to reconnect the children to the parents after the upload is complete, and make any other updates that got left behind (e.g., sources, dates or places).

Does that work for you? If not, I would suggest contacting Cos1776, who might know more than I do about the GEDCOM upload process.

Good luck!--DataAnalyst 23:55, 27 November 2018 (UTC)--Gregthornton 16:38, 28 November 2018 (UTC)