User talk:Srblac

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SRBLACJAN2008.GED Imported Successfully [24 January 2008]

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SRBLACJAN2008.GED Imported Successfully [27 January 2008]

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Doty, etc. [13 April 2008]

I'm not a Doty researcher either. My focus the last couple of weeks has been on merging early New England families.--Jrm03063 16:03, 13 April 2008 (EDT)

Samuel Vanstone [23 August 2008]

Hi,

I'm doing some genealogical research and have come to a dead end.

I'm wondering if you can refer or point me to some sites that may lead information to get my search going again.

Specifically, I'm interested in the Samuel Vanstone families. I know they had a mill there, and were active in the Darlington County community.

I'm trying to establish whether not there is father/son relationship between two people in my research. I've been using familysearch.org and haven't had any luck yet. I realize that often there are indeed children in a family, but they don't seem to be recorded.

The names are:

Samuel Vanstone

   born April 23 (or 3), 1829 in Torquay, Devon England
   married Dorothy Venning on March 27, 1851 in Clovelly, Devon, England
   died May 11, 1874 in Darlington Township, Ontario

I'm trying to verify if he is the son of

Samuel Vanstone

   born Feb 20, 1801 or 1803 in Devonshire, England
   married Mary Stevens June 26, 1820 in England

Any advice or help you can offer would be very gratefully appreciated.

Charlotte--Cgorley 17:55, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

I have posted a page for Samuel Van Stone and Mary Stevens and added cross-references to your text. They do have a son named Samuel but unfortunately his information does match the data you provide. There were numerous Van Stones in the area and they seemed awfully fond of the name Samuel. I looked through my data to see if I could find a match, but could not. Sorry.

If you do find that you are related to Samuel Vanstone, b 1801 there is an interesting surprise in store. His mother is Elizabeth Walter. She is descended from Richard Walter whose sister Lucy was a mistress to King Charles I. --Srblac 11:19, 23 August 2008 (EDT)

Sophia Polkow (2) [22 October 2008]

Hi, I am creating a WeRelate:Explore WeRelate page. I would like to highlight your page Person:Sophia Polkow (2). I think you have done a great job of documentation. Please let me know if you don't want your page highlighted in this way. Thanks,--sq 12:27, 20 October 2008 (EDT)

I'd be honored. Thanks!--Srblac 20:52, 21 October 2008 (EDT)

[10 March 2009]

Hi - In early February you updated pages in my family tree re: Israel Lewis, Susan Gaines, Susan Lewis, Solomon Lewis, etc. The Lewis' are ancestors of my maternal grandfather (Anthony Lewis Oswald). Anthony is the son of Myrtle Lewis, who is Israel Lewis's granddaughter and Solomon Lewis' daughter. How are you connected to this family?

I am new to WeRelate -- actually I uploaded my tree here just to give it a whirl and compare it to other wiki-based genealogy sites. I am an avid fan of wikis (and administer/support my employer's corporate wiki), so I really want to choose a wiki-based solution that works well. I've only dabbled in WeRelate thus far, but once my sister and I make our final choice of a wiki tool, then boy, do I have lots of updates to do!

So far I like WeRelate, although some of my family members may not want to learn MediaWiki markup techniques and thus I may have to do the editing myself.

How are you liking WeRelate? Have you worked with other wiki-based genealogy sites, like GENI?

Thanks! Betsy Walker--H259bws 21:01, 4 March 2009 (EST)

I'm not the Lewis descendant, my wife is. Her grandmother is Gertrude Watkins. Gertrude's great-grandmother is Sidney Lewis.

Sidney's father is James Lewis, her grandfather is Solomon Lewis, and her aunt and uncle are Family:Israel Lewis and Susan Gaines (2).

I like WeRelate so much, I have chosen to dedicate a great deal of effort to it. I'm still working my through my wife's family but I've done a lot with mine. Check my great-grandmother's page to give you an idea of what can be done. The reason I like WeRelate is number one, it is a wiki. There are things you can do with a wiki that don't work any other way. Also very important, is that it the folks who run it are totally dedicated to genealogy. They have done some great things to make this not just a wiki, but a genealogy wiki. I've used ancestry.com a lot and I've always wished we could splice it all together somehow. WeRelate is that somehow.

I hope you'll decide to stick around. There are great folks involved here.--Srblac 21:46, 9 March 2009 (EDT)

Butt Family Tree (Joseph Butt and Sarah (Arnold) Butt) [8 October 2009]

  Read your page on Charles Butt son of Joseph Butt and Ann (Trewin)Butt.I'm a decendant of the first marriage of Joseph Butt and Sarah (Arnold) Butt through their son Elam.The Aunt Hannah Taylor letter caught my eye,it was a letter my grandmother gave to me.The same letter Donna Johnson(I use to correspond to her)had.I too have some info on the second marriage,Joseph Butt and Ann (trewin) Butt.The info is very limited so if you have info we could maybe share with the info I have on the first marriage.

  Talk later
   Dan Butt--DButt 00:30, 7 October 2009 (EDT)

Hello again Dan! You and I have worked together before. I have worked with Donna and also gotten a lot of good stuff from B Ferster. It would be good to have some help here on WeRelate to make the Butt info better. I'll send you an e-mail tonight. Hopefully you are still at the same address.--Srblac 19:21, 8 October 2009 (EDT)

hyde family info [5 February 2010]

i am the great-great-grandson of thomas henry hyde and mary anne stickley. william john hyde is my great grandfather and charles hyde's brother. thomas was born 1840 in england. he was a corporal in the british army 16th regiment of rifles of foot (bedfordshire regiment). mary anne was born in newfoundland (irish). children:thomas henry hyde ?-1870 buried in montreal quebec...alice 1862 newfoundland...mary ann 1863 newfoundland...catherine 1866 ontario (note: the 16th regiment was in ontario defending against irish fenian raiders)..william john 1869-1910 newfoundland...charles 1871 quebec...thomas henry 1875-1875 windsor,ontario--Georgehyde 17:49, 31 January 2010 (EST)

Thanks you so much for the info! This is my mother's line and it has been extremely difficult to find any information. I will update the page with the information you've provided. I would be eager to hear any more that you know.--Srblac 20:16, 4 February 2010 (EST)

If you would like to correspond please e-mail me at srb.public1@verizon.net. My aunt is a Hyde and your third cousin if I counted right.--Srblac 20:22, 4 February 2010 (EST)

Added Info [5 February 2010]

  Thanks for the added and new info on your page.It is nice to know that "WERELATE" notifies and updates by e-mail of any new info out there.

  Thanks again
   Dan Butt--DButt 21:24, 4 February 2010 (EST)

Butt in Illinois [5 February 2010]

  How far back does the Butts in Illinois go and where do they originate from?--DButt 21:46, 4 February 2010 (EST)

Hey Dan. Nice to hear from you again. I believe our mutual ancestor is Joseph Butt who came from England to Huron County Ontario. His son Charles migrated to Bay County Michigan in 1890. His son Charles Jr moved to Chicago somewhere between 1900 and his marriage there in 1909. Many of his children stayed in the Chicago area. They are all deceased now. While there are third, fourth generation (and at least one fifth) descendants left in the area, between girls changing their names for marriage and boys either moving away or dying childless I don't think there are any more of our line in Chicago with the Butt name.--Srblac 17:20, 5 February 2010 (EST)

Next step: Review your GEDCOM [3 April 2010]

You're not done yet!

WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors.

Now that you have uploaded THOS HYDE ANCESTORS.GED, your next step is to review what your pages will look like, review any potential warnings, and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. You need to review your GEDCOM before it can finish importing.

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--WeRelate agent 12:13, 3 April 2010 (EDT)

Next step: Review your GEDCOM [3 April 2010]

You're not done yet!

WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors.

Now that you have uploaded THOS HYDE ANCESTORS.GED, your next step is to review what your pages will look like, review any potential warnings, and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. You need to review your GEDCOM before it can finish importing.

Click here to review your GEDCOM

Once you have finished your review and marked your GEDCOM Ready to import, one of our administrators will review your GEDCOM and finalize the import. This usually happens within 24 hours. You will receive a message here when the pages have been created.

--WeRelate agent 12:48, 3 April 2010 (EDT)

Next step: Review your GEDCOM [3 April 2010]

You're not done yet!

WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors.

Now that you have uploaded THOS HYDE ANCESTORS.GED, your next step is to review what your pages will look like, review any potential warnings, and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. You need to review your GEDCOM before it can finish importing.

Click here to review your GEDCOM

Once you have finished your review and marked your GEDCOM Ready to import, one of our administrators will review your GEDCOM and finalize the import. This usually happens within 24 hours. You will receive a message here when the pages have been created.

--WeRelate agent 13:04, 3 April 2010 (EDT)

THOS HYDE ANCESTORS.GED Imported Successfully [3 April 2010]

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mmm3m.ged appears to overlap a previously-imported GEDCOM [9 September 2010]

The pages from this GEDCOM have not yet been generated because they appear to match pages from a GEDCOM you have previously imported to WeRelate.

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--WeRelate agent 12:47, 9 September 2010 (EDT)

Van Stone's [22 October 2010]

I have a lot of information on the Van Stone's. I am one of them and appear to be of close relation to you. I am descended from John & Urssla via their son William and his son William II and his son Alberto. I can trace our family back another 3 generations and have circumstantial evidence that would go back further. Brad Van Stone Cave Creek, AZ vanstone4@excite.com--Vanstone4 19:46, 22 October 2010 (EDT)

WeRelate Featured Page - week of January 2, 2012 [11 January 2012]

Hello, just wanted to let you know that your Person Page, Lottie Webb has been nominated and selected by the WeRelate Administrators as this week's WeRelate Featured Page! Congratulations on the selection and keep up the good work!

Best regards,

Jim Co-Administrator on WeRelate.org--Delijim 14:01, 3 January 2012 (EST)

Thanks! It's an honor--srblac 18:24, 11 January 2012 (EST)

Renaming Family pages [5 February 2012]

Hello Srblac, I noticed that you are renaming Person pages to include the word Unknown. You may already know this, but I wanted to note that you will need to rename the Family pages as well. For example, you renamed Person:Catherine Unknown (811), but the Family:John Burkhart and Catherine Burkhart (2) will need to be renamed to match. You can easily locate the pages you have renamed by clicking here. If you have any questions, just let me know. Thank you, --Jennifer (JBS66) 08:45, 5 February 2012 (EST)

I noticed that too, just about the time I was almost finished. Sigh. I'm going back through the list to fix them now. Thanks.--srblac 08:48, 5 February 2012 (EST)

Joseph Nelson Hicks [24 July 2013]

I've tried to upload a jpg of the marriage certificate for Joseph Nelson Hicks and Eliza Jane Graham but it is too difficult to put all the required info, so, to let you know they married on 11 Jan 1872 in Olney, Richland Co, IL.

Linda Reed--LindaReed 17:22, 24 July 2013 (EDT)

Margaret (Mary) Hagerty [24 October 2016]

Hi Srblac,

I am interested in your Person, Margaret (Mary) Hagerty. I am a Hagerty myself, and have recently begun a Hagerty tree - though I have little time available at present.

My Dad told me that the Hagertys were an Irish clan - quite a wealthy clan. They continued, he said, to live by Irish clan law, in which all homes and farms were owned by the clan and allocated as appropriate: until one man rebelled, determined to own his home, and impoverished the clan by fighting a very lengthy legal battle. The legal outcome was that English law had to prevail. I don't know the time of this sad event.

It is very likely that all Hagerty (and Hegarty, Haggerty etc people) throughout the World are related. It also follows that the Clan would have been Roman Catholic, but of course people do convert. In the Westmeath neighbourhood where my grandparents grew up, Catholics and Protestants socialized freely, and my grandparents' marriage was a mixed one. It was a mixed one in which the children were brought up Anglican by their staunchly Protestant Wilson mother.

If you could find your Margaret in the 1911 census, you might discover where in Ireland she was born: in England, at least, Irish born respondents began to state the district of birth with this census.

There is a feature called 'Hagerty's Peak' in Antarctica! - See Wikipedia.

Best Wishes, --Helen-HWMT 07:22, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

WeRelate does not allow pages for living individuals [20 March 2020]

Hi

My condolences on the loss of your father. I just updated his page to add his dates.

Please note that WeRelate policy does not allow pages for living individuals, even without dates. I note that you have pages for yourself, your wife and your in-laws, all of whom appear to be living. I will need to delete these pages, or have you delete them. I didn't want to go ahead with that before giving you a chance to move the charts to another place - maybe your user page, although I note you have similar info there.

Please make whatever updates you would like, and then delete the pages for living individuals. (Delete function is under "more" in the left-hand menu.)

Note that we can't make exceptions for people who choose to have their pages on WeRelate, as this makes administration of the site too difficult.

If you need more than a month to make the changes, please let me know, so that I can delay follow up. Thanks.--DataAnalyst 21:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Ambrose Allen [21 May 2022]

I was wondering if I missed something. You mention a Cooper genealogy. Do you have that? I'm looking for an Ambrose Allen and coincidentally the record that mentions him is in Culpeper Co., VA.

Any help appreciated.

Michaelangelina--Michaelangelina 18:23, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Haven't been on here for a very long time. Just saw your query. If you contact me at scott.r.black@gmail.com I will send a PDF file of the "Our Cooper Family" book.--srblac 18:48, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Pages without dates [17 December 2021]

Hi

WeRelate is becoming more rigorous about enforcing its policy on living people. As a result, it no longer allows trees without dates. If you have dates for any of the people below, please enter them. Otherwise, their pages will be deleted in about a month. Or you can delete them yourself. If you need more time, please let me know. Thanks--DataAnalyst 16:37, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Person:Betsy Feaster (1)
Person:Catherine Weir (3)
Person:George Groves (5)
Person:George Seiler (2)
Person:James Cunningham (44)
Person:William Copper (1)