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[edit] Digital LibraryHi Bill, The digital library is finally ready to try. Thank-you for offering to test it and give feedback! To see it, go to http://www.werelate.org/dlib . You log in by clicking on "My DSpace" in the lower left-hand corner. Enter your WeRelate user name and password. From "My DSpace" you can submit items: either to the "Sandbox" collection (a collection for testing - items submitted to the sandbox will eventually be deleted), or to your personal collection (items submitted to your personal collection won't be deleted). As can can see, there is still quite a bit to do:
Any feedback is appreciated. The Search/Add Source button should be added sometime this week, and a new skin sometime next week. I'd like to hold off on integrating with the wiki for a couple of months though while you and others get more experience using it and we can decide what the best integration points should be.
Thanks again!--Dallan 22:39, 18 March 2008 (EDT) [edit] Will of Thomas Scudder [31 March 2008]You could order the record from Essex County. Link here [1] --Beth 11:45, 21 March 2008 (EDT) Hi Bill, I am monitoring your post on the APG mailing list. Just curious as to why you cannot order a copy of the will? --Beth 10:17, 29 March 2008 (EDT)
Hi Beth. Thank you so much for taking the time to do that, but actually getting a copy of the will wasn't the issue. (Yes, I have ancestry, full up, world deluxe, though I'm dumping the later part....they aren't sufficiently data rich in Europe to justify the added cost, and my needs there are minimal anyway.) It really was a theoretical question I was asking---I just wanted to see how different folks in certain groups reacted to that particular question. (APG list wasn't the only place I asked the same thing.) The answers that came back were reasonable from the perspective of the lists in which the question was asked. Different lists had different perspectives, and that was part of what I was probing---looking for a range of viewpoints. Q 20:02, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
[edit] Google Books and Million Books Project [4 April 2008]Hi Q, Thanks for the tip about Google Books. I have used it but not often; but great idea; I could actually view the entry for Robert Coker so now I can site the book. I did not know about the Million Books Project, but my ISP is blocking my access. I have requested that they unblock the site. My ISP has filters, but hopefully they will unblock this site. --Beth 10:37, 4 April 2008 (EDT) [edit] Daniel Boone [22 April 2008]Hi, How are you related to Daniel Boone? I am a cousin at least 2 times and a niece 2 times. They intermarried alot. I am directly descended from his sister Mary and brother Samuel. See you around.--sq 14:44, 22 April 2008 (EDT)
[edit] James-1 Grover of Gravesend & Monmouth [28 April 2008]Bill: Thank you for your thank you :) I am not terribly Wiki-savvy yet but I was impressed by your Gravesend page and wanted to help out. I am a direct descendant of Thomas Spicer through the Lake & Griggs families of Gravesend. Anyway, the reason I noticed your Gravesend page was a Google search hit on your page for James Grover... http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Grover_%281%29 I am currently researching an article for The NYG&B Record which includes a reference to James Grover and I can provide more information via direct correspondence. Are you a direct descendant of James? Do you have any additional information on the first three or four generations of his descendants? Or know someone who would? Thanks for your help, Perry (perry@streeter.com)--Streeter 08:35, 28 April 2008 (EDT)
However, if you have additional data on James' personal history that you'd like to share, I wouldn't mind adding it now. You could, if you wish, place it directly on the Talk page for James Grover. Apart from proof of his parentage, one of the things I'm particularly interested in is information about his wife's family. I haven't seen anything that would suggest that the Cheeseman's were actually in Gravesend---or anywhere else for that matter. Q 08:58, 28 April 2008 (EDT) [edit] Thanks [4 May 2008]Hi Bill, Thanks for the reply on my Wiki mailing list. My list seems to be dead in the water. --Beth 18:48, 4 May 2008 (EDT) [edit] Coker in Georgia [21 May 2008]Hi Q, Regarding sources for marriages; I know the person who entered the marriage data. All of the families presently on the Coker in Georgia page will eventually have their family page and the marriages will be sourced there. Did you notice if you click on the families in blue you are taken directly to their family page with the marriage source? Just wondering if you think I need to show the source in both places or will the family page suffice? Thanks for entering the 1820 census data; I like it but not sure about having it on the talk page. Perhaps I should move this to the Coker in Georgia page. Tell me your thoughts; I am still pondering on the best method to encourage participation by other researchers. My youngest son is graduating from high school on Friday so I have not had much time to consider this topic but am interested. Thanks for your input; look forward to your comments. --Beth 21:38, 21 May 2008 (EDT) Hi Beth I put the census data on to the talk page simply because I didn't want to add such a big chunk onto your shared research page. I added it simply to show one approach to organizing this kind of information. If its useful, place it where you need it. If not, its just another experiment among many that I'm trying out. If the Shared Research page is intended to systematically capture data of this type, I would think you'd want it to be stand-alone, but perhaps that's just a personal preference on my part. The way it was presented, it wasn't obvious what information was coming from what source---it might have come from the marriage records cited at the top---or perhaps it came from another source. I just couldn't tell from what was there. My main interest on this is not A) Share Research Page, or B) Talk Page, or C) Notebook Page. Its potentially all of those, but its mainly in seeing what works for fostering collaboration. The layout I presented on the Patrick Porter Talk page as mostly an exploration of the kinds of things that might be needful in fostering a collaboration. The problem may be that its too complex for most folks to be comfortable. My experience in attemptng collaborations elsewhere is that
Dallan is doing a great job in making it "drop dead easy" ----far better than any of the other three sites---but its still going to be a challenge for many genealogists. The challenge for us is to figure out how to make collaboration "drop dead easy". And congratulations on your son's impending graduation! Q 22:32, 21 May 2008 (EDT) [edit] Designing research pages [3 June 2008]Transferred to Portal:Surname [edit] corrections [12 June 2008]I figured out that the doubles were there for a reason so I stopped removing them. I have to run to town but intend on re-inserting them when I get home. I don't mind making editing type corrections. Habit from finishing a book recently. I did change the wording in one sentence that seemed a bit clumsy. From now on, if there is a way to contact you when I find these, I can bring it up so you can decide to re-word. Great work on getting the stuff on the site. Mary Ann--Ole crone 12:22, 12 June 2008 (EDT)
[edit] Family Exchange pages [4 July 2008]Hi Bill, I agree with you regarding an easier format and Lauren has setup just such a page using tips from our page. Perhaps we should focus on her page. See Rumgay Family Exchange. --Beth 20:40, 21 June 2008 (EDT) Hi Beth. I think I said this before, but that's essential a surname page, with some "Exchange" stuff added on. For me it makes no difference at all which format you use, as its something I would not personally do i my own work. What I've done on this to date is simply to help you, following along with what you said you were looking for. If you wish to go in a different direction, that's fine. No tears here. Q 21:00, 21 June 2008 (EDT) Hi Bill, I am not planning to go in a different direction. I will use our format for additional exchange pages. There are only 2 other pages similar that I am aware of. Lauren's and Janie's. Lauren's is an article and Janie's is on the Jackson Surname page. You expressed an interest in making it drop dead easy and Lauren's is. I am referring to the tutorial and how best to convey the information to other interested users. You don't need to spend your time doing banners, etc. for other users. Just trying to make it easier for you. I defer to your decision; it is your time that I am concerned about. Thanks. --Beth 21:22, 21 June 2008 (EDT) My only objective here was to lend a hand where I thought I could help. If your personal needs have been met on this, and it appears from the above, that they have, then its time for me to drop away from the picture. I've really no interest in coming up with a scheme that will solve everybody's problems. It was an interesting exercize, I'm glad I could have been of some assistance to you, and it led to my learning several new tricks that have other applications. So I'm happy. Please do let me know if you need anything more with this or other problems. Thanks, Q 21:34, 21 June 2008 (EDT)
Super job on the help for the family exchange pages. I addded the text for the flying left and centered or whatever it is called. Other than that I made a few minor changes; grammar wise but if I am wrong please correct it. I have added a template section. Thought I would add links to the tables. Looks like you did all of the hard work. Thanks. Check my contributions for the last many days if you wonder what I have been doing. My trees are getting moldy for lack of attention. --Beth 19:03, 4 July 2008 (EDT) [edit] Text tutorials [5 July 2008]Hi Bill, Are you around? I am attempting to write a new tutorial with screen shots. Look at the text tutorials. I cannot figure out how to get the help removed from the tutorial title--Beth 20:11, 5 July 2008 (EDT).
Thanks Dallan. --Beth 20:59, 5 July 2008 (EDT) [edit] George / John Teater [11 August 2008]Hi, I moved some comments about George that User:Parris had made on my talk page onto George's talk page. Also I noticed that George's name is listed as John. Do you want to make John an alternate name for George and keep George as his primary name? Currently if you do a search for someone with a given name of George and a Surname of Teater you don't get any results because he's indexed only under John.--Dallan 13:11, 11 August 2008 (EDT) [edit] Thanks for map [14 August 2008]Thanks for giving me links to the map with Carlock name on it. I have forwarded it on to a Carlock researcher who had contacted me. Also told him where it came from so he would know about WeRelate. --Janiejac 12:53, 14 August 2008 (EDT) [edit] Thanks for the inspiration [29 December 2008]Q, Because of the sample pages you list (the "full-up"? ones), i got inspired to add photos to some of my family pages. In the meantime, I think you're right: until this gets easier to use, the wiki will be limited to those who are willing to muck around in wiki-land. I still believe there is something good to grow here, otherwise I'd be out of here. it's ironic: what brought me back was the merge feature. go figure. to each his own, I suppose. jillaine 20:43, 29 December 2008 (EST) [edit] Addington, R.M. History of Scott County, Virginia [9 February 2009]Hello, I like what you've done with the Source:Addington, R.M. History of Scott County, Virginia page. I like the idea of having the citation and electronic info right up front. I wanted to let you know that I'm going to merge WR's other Sources for this book with yours. If you disagree with anything - feel free to change it!--Jennifer (JBS66) 17:49, 9 February 2009 (EST)
[edit] John Edmiston (5) [10 February 2009]Hi, I am a little confused. I deleted Person:John Edmiston (5) because it was in the speedy delete category. Then I got a message to restore it. I did. It is still in the speedy delete category. Do you want me to delete it? :-) --sq 22:14, 9 February 2009 (EST) Hi Solveig. Sorry for the confusion. Yes, its ultimately intended for speedy delete. I just want to give Dlbradley1 the opportunity to have a say in how it was handled. I've asked him directly about the point, he hasn't responded to that, so go ahead and delete the item. Q 10:05, 10 February 2009 (EST) [edit] Addington, Hugh. Charles Kilgore of King's Mountain [12 February 2009]Hello, I see you've done a lot of work on this source! I'm working to merge the sources that are prefaced with Ancestry.com with the already existing FHLC source. I noticed there are three pages for this source:
Can you tell me if they are all the same book, just with different reprint dates? I would like to merge them all into one page, most likely Source:Addington, Hugh. Charles Kilgore of King's Mountain. I was also thinking of putting the original publisher, pub date, and pub location in the Source Information field. Let me know what you think.--Jennifer (JBS66) 06:42, 10 February 2009 (EST)
All of this tends to leave people very confused about authorship and title. When this work is cited, it is usually given as "Addington, 1935" and the title typically truncated to "Charles Kilgoreof Kings' Mountain." I suspect that when they cite this work they are actually referring to The Little Green Book, and not Addington's 1935 original. But still cite it as "Addington 1935." I think the Little Green Book should be cited as "Addington and Robertson, 1980". However, in the WeRelate Style that comes out to "Addington, Hugh M. Charles Kilgore of King's Mountain" (second author elided, along with the works subtitle. Which is exactly the same as the WeRelate version for "Addington 1935". So you can't tell the two works apart. More complications. I don't know this for sure, since I've not examined subsequent editions of the Little Green Book, but I believe those editions contain substantitive differences from the 198- edition, but have the same title and authorship as the 1980 version. So, it makes a difference whether you are using Addington 1935, Addington and Robertson, 1980, or say Addington and Robertson, 2007. In any case, the WeRelate style for this gives no useful alternatives to solve the problem. The style guide does note that "If two sources end up with the same title under these rules, you can add disambiguating information in parentheses to the end of the title." I sort of split the difference with the third version above by adding the subtitle to the Addington and Robertson Little Green Book Version. This at least allows someone to dinstinguish betwen the versions, but no solution seems good. In my own work, the problem goes away as I use the "Addington and Robertson 1980" style for inline citation. But that's contrary to preferred practice on this site, and I doubt that anyone here other than myself would routinely use that workaround. I'd suggest that you ask Dallan what he would recommend. In anycase, there's a need to have at least two entries for this work. One referring to the 1935 edition, and the other referring to the 1980 edition. If subsequent editions are substantively different from 1980, then there's a need to have separate entries for those versions as well. On place of publication, publisher etc. The Addington 1935 has a different publisher and place of publication than Addington and Robertson 1980. They shouldn't be combined. As for the first entryyou listed "Ancestry.com. Charles Kilgore of King's Mountain" That is a style that I think is very very ill-considered. Ancestry has nothing to do with this work. They just made it available online. This is like citing the specific library you got a book from. Q 09:55, 10 February 2009 (EST)
So, the only things to do, really, is to merge the Ancestry source and then decide how to rename item #3 above.--Jennifer (JBS66) 10:47, 10 February 2009 (EST) I agree with having two separate source pages in cases where the reprint differs significantly from the original. To distinguish the reprint from the original, how about Source:Addington, Hugh. Charles Kilgore of King's Mountain (1980) or maybe Source:Addington, Hugh. Charles Kilgore of King's Mountain, 1980? And yes, the source titles are generally terrible. They were created when the website first launched in 2006 and we hadn't really "gotten" how sources should be handled. (Some might believe we still haven't gotten it, but I think we're a lot closer than when we started.) Renaming the old Source page titles is a project for this Summer. Merging duplicate sources is not, so it will be really helpful to have at least some of those merged. Thank-you Jennifer!--Dallan 18:50, 11 February 2009 (EST)
Q 19:06, 11 February 2009 (EST) Works for me.--Dallan 22:29, 12 February 2009 (EST) [edit] Would appreciate your guidance [16 February 2009]Hi Bill, (I just learned your first name-- didn't take much-- just reading the other posts here.) The more I meander around WeRelate and get involved with various projects as well as working on my own, the more I stumble across your work and how you use WeRelate. [edit] First thing [16 February 2009]I notice you do something I haven't seen others do. You create what looks like other types of namespaces; i.e., some word followed by a colon. Notebook:Dan_Welch_Research is one. Disambiguation:William_Russell is another. So I'm curious what leads you to create and use such spaces. What "formula" or strategy are you following for such choices. Answer: Its an organizational device. While they have the same format as a "Namespace" they aren't. They are just articles with a colon after the first word. Possibly "Disambiguation" should be a namespace (it is in Wikia), but it doesn't really matter. In a formal sense, this site probably does not need additional name space. People get confused enough as it is. "Notebooks" are another matter, and are still evolving. Don't know if the concept has any broad general use or not. Their purpose is definitely different from how most people use this site. Notebooks are, however, becoming integral with my work here. What I'm doing, and the uses I'm putting the site to, so seem quite different from what others are doing and how they are using the site. Q 22:06, 16 February 2009 (EST) [edit] Second thing [5 March 2009]How do you decide what goes into User:Quolla6 space and what goes into the "main" article space? This has been particularly vexing for me to figure out for myself. The criteria I reached for myself includes:
But then I periodically see a page you've posted that I would normally think would fall under #2 above (like Notebook:Dan_Welch_Research ) and again, I get curious about what your strategy is. You've clearly been at this longer than I have, and you're quite an active contributor.
Hope you're willing to share your strategies. Thanks. -- jillaine 21:31, 16 February 2009 (EST) Thanks. Interesting. I'll keep watching, and certainly will pick up some tips. jillaine 22:02, 16 February 2009 (EST) [edit] In the multitude of counsel [22 February 2009]In the multitude of counsel there is wisdom. Nice. What's the source for this? I'd like to use it elsewhere in my life. Thanks! -- jillaine 17:27, 21 February 2009 (EST)
It is taken from:
Word of King Solomon I miss quoted it by saying wisdom instead of safety--Dlbradley1 22:09, 21 February 2009 (EST)
[edit] David Edmiston info [6 March 2009]Hi Q, the page looks good:) Wish I was as artistic as you are! I'll have to check the DOD for David, in my earlier years I wasn't quite as careful in adding the source information to dates as I am now.... I'm thinking about entering the TURK family from my database in the next few days (I don't see them on this site), so maybe you can check it out after I enter them. Are there any other families that you have a particular interest in besides the Edmondsons/Edmistons? in Virginia. I have lots and lots of data compiled on many prominent Southern Families (especially the Augusta County, VA bunch), so perhaps we can compare notes. I also still have other Edmondson/Edmiston families to enter and compare with the information on this site. Have you entered most of the prominent ones already? Best regards, Jim--Delijim 11:45, 3 March 2009 (EST)
Very Good! I appreciate the compliment, though I'm not sure how much "art" there is on that particular page. I'd be happy to take a look at anything you add, Turk or otherwise. I've assumed that David's nickname name "Turk" was a By-name attached to him by genealogists. Presumably it denotes a connection to the "Turk" family, but I've had no real reason to explore that so far. Yes, there are quite a few families that I'm interested in, but the only ones I'm really concentrating on are those that touch Southwest Virginia---particularly during the early settlement period, through the end of Indian hostilities. Go to Explorers, Settlers, and Militia of Southwest Virginia and you'll see links to various groupings of persons that I'm interested in. The main link is the one labeled "Register", which gives you a listing of early settlers in the area, as they appear in various lists. The idea is that eventually, there will be an article for each of them, similar in scope and scale to the David Edmiston piece. You'll see a number of Edmondsons (and variants) on that list, though the links have not been made "live" just yet. But if you see anyone on that list that's of interest to you, let's talk, and see what we can do with it. Q 12:15, 3 March 2009 (EST) Sounds good, I'll check it out after you are done. I'll change the "Mary Anderson" to "Mary Unknown". I've also added Charles Kilgore's "unknown father" and probably siblings (based upon what was in my files), so if you'd review it I'd appreciate it. I haven't worked this line for several years, so you might have updated information that I am not aware of. Best regards, Jim:)--Delijim 17:12, 6 March 2009 (EST) [edit] David Rumsey Collection [4 March 2009]I came across the Repository:David Rumsey Collection page that you created. I see there is a Source:David Rumsey Historical Map Collection as well. I believe that this is more a repository than a source, so I wanted to combine the two. I think the source would be the actual map, and the repository would be where the map was found (David Rumsey). I was also thinking of renaming the repository page to David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, since that is the title of the website. Thoughts?--Jennifer (JBS66) 10:36, 4 March 2009 (EST)
Darn - we were trying to save the page at the same time - editing conflict - gotta love it! No, you didn't create the Source page, but since you did create the Repository page, I wanted to check with you first before I proceeded. I did change the titles via redirects, so your preferred title will work. One small note, you can redirect from a source to a repository (true, that doesn't work for other namespaces). I believe that was put into place for the Source Review project. BTW, I wanted to clean this up because I was looking for repositories to feature on the new Portal:Repository page, and I wanted to feature this one. Thank you for your assistance. --Jennifer (JBS66) 11:25, 4 March 2009 (EST) Since you want to feature this page, I've made some changes to improve appearance. Image selected was what came first to hand. There are probably better choices. Be sure to click the "Click for Presentation" link in the thumbnail. Q 12:11, 4 March 2009 (EST) Very nice job - thank you for your additions. The repository is now featured on our new Repository Portal page.--Jennifer (JBS66) 12:23, 4 March 2009 (EST) [edit] Walker line [5 March 2009]Q, if you don't mind, I'd like to put the Walker family thru John Walker IV in on the links you have established for them on the SWV listings. I have the family pretty-well documented down to that point. If that's OK, please let me know. I've preliminarily tied the pages together through John I, II, III and IV, and will add my file information pending your approval in the next few days. Best regards, Jim:)--Delijim 17:29, 4 March 2009 (EST) Ah, so you're a Wigton Walker? Or maybe your just lending a helping hand? In anycase, I'm always glad to receive help. Be careful about who you have as John IV. Lots of people think that John IV is John Walker of Greene County TN aka Meadow Creek John Walker. YDNA has pretty much disproven that connection. The most likely candidate for John IV is the man known locally as "Indian Killer", who lived in Blount County. There's some decent documentation for that conclusion, but its not proven. MCJW, however, is now well documented from many different lines of YDNA. Q 18:43, 4 March 2009 (EST) Crap! JohnIV (John Walker and Mary Anderson) is my ancestor......! I descend through Daniel Walker and Martha Kilgore to John.... Based on your information, I think the sound I'm hearing is a "branch that just fell off my tree".... :( I'd like to compare notes with you, once I get to my computer at home in the next day or two. Do you have anything past John "Meadow Creek John" for his parents? Jim--Delijim 18:50, 4 March 2009 (EST) What I think you just heard the sound of brand new roots taking hold! There's a whole 'nother line out their waiting to be discovered and attached. MCJW's roots don't go back as far as John IV (no nice Rutherford connection, for instance) but then there's an awful lot of stuff in the John IV line that is highly suspect---including the bit about being related to Rev. Samuel Rutherford). We do know MCJW is closely related to the Joseph Walker who witnessed his will. In fact that was one of the first cues that all was not right with the identification of him as John IV. No one could find a suitable Joseph Walker in the White Descendancy to match up with a Joseph closely related to John IV. There's also an Isaiah Walker who appears in Washington County after the end of the Revolution, and soon moves down to Blount County---along with the person we think is his father---Joseph Walker who witnessed the will. Both match YDNA for MCJW. In anycase, you may want to join the WalkerShortList, a private mailing list concerned with the Walkers in NW NC, SW VA, and NE TN. There's perhaps a half dozen + separate lines being looked at by members of that list. One way or another, you'll find lots of cousins. Q 19:07, 4 March 2009 (EST) Always good to know how the connection is made. Since you descend through Martha, daughter of Charles Kilgore, that makes us cousin's anyway---I descend through Charles brother, Robert Kilgore who was killed by Indians at the mouth of the Pound. Robert's son, the Rev. Robin Robert Kilgore married Jane Porter Green, daughter of Patrick Porter. Patrick married Susannah Walker, daughter of John III of the Wigton line. its that coincidence of Charles Kilgore living in close proximity with MCJW that fooled us for many years into thing MCJW was MCJW. But alas, it appears to be just coincidence. I'm not actually the most knowledgable person concerning MCJW. There are a number of folks on the ShortList who've looked at his history in detail. However, I don't believe any of them have been able to find a connection for MCJW other than for the person we presume is a brother, Joseph. We're sort of hoping that eventually YDNA results will tumble some other earlier line to his, and we'll make the connection that way. We know Isaiah was in Washington County for a while, but beyond that I don't think we have much. Q 19:28, 4 March 2009 (EST) Q, I've added a page for "Meadow Creek" John Walker citing the site that you referenced: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Walker_%28193%29 I'll be adding additional information from my files later in the week (can't access by genealogy files from work), and also I'll add my Charles Kilgore information, since I don't see that family either. Thanks for the information on the two different John Walker's.... :) I've also made a couple of revisions to "Indian Killer" John Walker's page (also referencing the , and added a warning on BOTH John Walker pages advising of the confusion between the two, which will hopefully prevent other researchers from making revisions without knowing about the discrepancy. Best regards, Jim--Delijim 14:18, 5 March 2009 (EST)
Hi Jim Actually, what's needed is a detailed presentation of what is known about MCJW, how we know it, and what we don't know. An analysis of the YDNA results is also needed. That kind of detail wasn't attempted in the Genealogy article, (put off to another day, as it were). Its a complicated enough problem; not only is MCJW confused with John IV of the Wigton line, but also with his alter ego (I think) "Indian Killer". I should probably lay out the whole nine yards on all three. Its only by understanding what the conclusions are based on that someone can accept or reject a particular interpretation. As an example, we know MCJW's wife was "Mary", because we have her will, and her will and his will cross correlate with the children. What we don't know is that her maiden name was "Anderson". People say that probably because they named a child "Anderson", but he might or might not be named such after her side of the family. There's no evidence that "Mary" was an Anderson. But its only when you look for the evidence for conclusions, and fail to find it, that you realize there's no good basis for identifying her as an "Anderson". While this is a bit out of place in the SW VA project, MCJW's various confusions are things that need to be addressed. I'll work to add the additional information I have as time allows. Q 15:07, 5 March 2009 (EST) [edit] Elizabeth and Thomas Kilgore [7 March 2009]Q, can you look at the Elizabeth Kilgore, below. I think she MAY be a sister of our Charles Kilgore, but there is much conflicting information. Do you have any info on her? It appears that the Yates and Kilgore families may have intermarried twice. http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:John_Yates_and_Elizabeth_Kilgore_%281%29 Thanks, Jim--Delijim 10:56, 7 March 2009 (EST) [edit] Benjamin Borden family [8 March 2009]If you see any discrepancies on info. just let me know. I'm slowly in the process of adding the key Augusta County, VA families, many of which married into my Augusta County families. Funny how many pages with incorrect info. I've already merged into mine, unfortunately a sign of the times with all of the flawed info on familysearch, rootsweb and ancestry. Enjoy your Sunday, Jim:)----Delijim 16:07, 8 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] Page for Germanna Colony [11 March 2009]Hi Q, could you check this page out that I created today for the Germanna Colony? I'm not quite sure where to place it, so maybe you can advise. I tried to create a "place page" for Germanna, but for some reason it wouldn't let me. I'm in the process of beginning to link the Germanna families on WeRelate to that page, to help future researchers. Thanks and best regards, Jim:)--Delijim 18:56, 11 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] Germanna Page [12 March 2009]Q said "Recommend either placing this in Portal namespace, or just in article namespace." Either is fine with me, since this is the first page I've "created", I'm not familiar with all of the nuances of the different type of pages. If you would be so kind to copy the information over to the other page (Portal or Article) and let me know where it is, that would be fine. Thanks and best regards, Jim:)--Delijim 15:57, 12 March 2009 (EDT) Go to Germanna Colony Q 16:29, 12 March 2009 (EDT) Thanks Q, looks great! I appreciate the assistance:) Check out another page I've started working on today:) http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Augusta_County%2C_Virginia I plan to link the families listed to their WeRelate links in the next several weeks, I'm sure some of the families are familiar. I still have to get the early landowners and add them.--Delijim 19:53, 12 March 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Deed: John Edmondson of Cecil Co. [16 March 2009]Here it is - The misspelled words are true to the original! I am hoping to get some time between quarters (on spring break) to look closer at what documents you have and if I can fill in some more that I have collected along the way. If I can get the time I WILL learn to use the digital archives but we will see how it goes. Anne
Cecil Co. Maryland Deed Book 7 p. 8 This Indenture made this Sixth day of August One Thousand Seven hundred and forty Eight between John Edmondson & Issabella his Wife of the province of Maryland & County of Cecil of the one part & Michael Wallace of the same place of the other part. WITNESSETH that the said John Edmondson for and in Consideration of the Sum of Seventy Eight pounds Currant money of Pennsylvania by him in hand Rec'd of & from the afs'd Michael Wallace the Receipt whereof he the said John doth hereby acknowledge and himself therewith fully Satisfied & paid hath givin Granted Bargained & Sold unto the afors'd Michael Wallace his heirs Exors. Admrs. and Assigns for ever To have and to hold part of Two tracts or parcels of Land situate in the said County of Cecil being part of a tract of Land called Lidias Jointure And also part of another Tract Called the good Will which Tract called the Good Will was Pattened to a Certain Martin Cartmell in the Year Seventeen and Sixteen as will appear by the Records of the Land Office of the Province of Maryland and the above said Lidias Jointure was confirmed unto the said Martin Cartmell by a Deed of Sale bearing Date the Twentieth day of May Seventeen hundred and Twenty Seven as will appear by the Records of the Land Office of Cecil County & the afs'd Martin Cartmell by his Deed of Sale bearing Date of the Sixteenth Day of November Seventeen 1738 as will appear by the Records of Cecile County in Lib. WK No. 2 fol. 398 & 399 did Convey unto John Edmondson all the Two Tracts as they are Butted & Bounded both together & laying on the North Side of the said John Edmondson's Plantation that he now lives on (Viz) Beginning at the North West Corner of Lidia's Jointure at a Marked Black Oak & Bounded on the North with a line drawn East two hundred and forty six ps thence by a Line drawn South Sixty five ps untill it Intersects a Line Drawn West being the North side of John McCullach Plantation Thence West Two hundred and fifty six ps & bounded on ye West by part of the said Tract belonging to Joseph Thompson & by Line drawn North Sixty five perches to the first bounded Black Oak tree Clossing in one one hundred Acres of Land being Sixty Nine Acres of Land & thirty Six perches of that Tract called Lidias Jointure & Thirty Acres of one hundred and twenty four acres of that Tract called ye Good Will more or less & the said John Edmondson with Issabella his Wife doth hereby for themselves their heirs Executors & admrs. or Assigns doth bargain Covenant and agree to and with the said Michael Wallace his heirs Executors Admrs. and Assigs to have hold & possess ye abovesaid Hundred Acres together with all the appurtenances profitts and Emulloments (?) whatsover Therein... (unreadable) unidisturbed Indefeasable Estate of Inheritence in fee Simple forever free and Clear & freely and Clearly acquitted Exonerated and DIscharged of and from all former Rents or Arrears of Rents Gifts Grants Sales and Mortgages or Conveyances whatsoever had made suffered or done before the date of these presents the Quit Rents becoming due only excepted & the said John Edmondson with Issabella his (wife) their heirs Exrs. and Admrs. shall and will at all times when thereunto Required by the said Michael Wallace his heirs Exrs. Admrs. or Assigns his their Counsel Learned in the Law Sign Seal any further Actor Acts Deed or Deeds Conveyance or Conveyances for the more sure having holding of the above said Land & Premises in Witness of the Truth of what is above written according to the true intent and meaning thereof the abovesaid John Edmondson & Issabella his Wife have hereunto Sett Their hands & Affixed their Seals the Day and Year above written. (signed) John Edmondson Issabella (O) (her mark) Edmondson Signed sealed and delivered in Presence of A. Barry, James (his mark) Baxter of Cecil County. Then Came John Edmondson and Issabella his Wife the within Grantors before us the Subscribers two of his Lordships Justices of the Peace in & for said County & acknowledge the within Deed to be their Act and Deed & the Land & Premises Therein & there by Granted To be the Real Estate of Michael Wallace and his Heirs & assigns forever & the afs'd Isabella being Examined as the Law Directs acknowledge She did the same freely and willingly without any fear Threats or Ill usage of her said Husband As Witness our hands the Sixth Day of Augst 1748. A. Barry James Baxter Received 10th August 1748 the sum of four shillings Stirling the Alienation fine on the within one hundred acres of land. Recorded 10 Aug 1748 - Francis Lee [Clerk].--MizLiv 16:23, 16 March 2009 (EDT)
This is a very useful item to have available. Since its dated to 1748 we KNOW this person is not one of the Edmiston's who show up in Augusta County c 1740. I suspect this is also related to the early deed to William and John Edmonstone, that's already in the Notebook:Edmondson Family of Cecil County Maryland. Now, do we have TWO separate Edmondson families in this area, or is it one with several lines doing different things?.. Q 18:42, 16 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] John & Isabella Edmondson [17 March 2009]Thank you for giving it a home! I think I may have some more interesting bits and pieces so I appreciate your finding a place to put them till I can figure out how it is done. I think the use of Isabella is interesting too. The Logans that I work on marry with at Robinson family out of Washington Co. VA that is tight with the Edmondsons and they all use Isabella. You are right - it is not that common a name and I think it has to be a bit of a bread crumb for these families with their long term ties and their little girls they keep naming Isabella. I will try to figure out what else I have from Cecil Co. MD. The possibility of that migration really interests me. Anne--MizLiv 22:53, 16 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] Hildebrand Map dates [17 March 2009]Hi Jim Just a bit of info, FYI: The dates on the Hildebrand map are the dates title was transferred to the landowner. ALL of the parcels shown on Hildebrand were acquired by them prior to Borden's death in 1743. Q 21:30, 16 March 2009 (EDT) (Retrieved from "http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Talk:Early_Settlers_of_Augusta_County%2C_Virginia")
Jim--Delijim 14:16, 17 March 2009 (EDT) Doubt that it makes much difference. They hold the title, they own the land. The point is that the only thing the dates tell you on Hildebrand's map is when the paperwork was finalized.---in some cases that's as much as 30 years after they cut a deal with Borden Sr. Borden Sr. was not so good at paperwork, and his death in 1743, coupled with the death of his heir and administrator son in 1753, pretty much destroyed any traces of the corporate memory. So something didn't happen very fast. If its important to you when the title transfer was made official, than that's a useful date. Q 17:51, 17 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] John Edmiston and Mary Buchanan [19 March 2009]Hi Q, could you check out the two pages below: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:John_Edmiston_and_Mary_Buchanan_%282%29 http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:John_Edmiston_and_Mary_Buchanan_%281%29 I don't believe the first page has correct information. The Andrew Edmiston listed does seem to agree with my files of John Edmiston and Mary Buchanan. I'm inclined to correct it, but not sure where to place the children on the first page..... Your thoughts? Jim:)--Delijim 11:58, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
at anyrate, my advise on this is "sit tight for the moment, I'll probably have more to say on this shortly." Q 12:59, 19 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] E-mail list [19 March 2009]Hi Q, my e-mail address is: Delijim@aol.com (it's also listed on my profile page). Best regards, Jim--Delijim 19:56, 19 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] New Pages for Early Augusta County, VA settlers [25 March 2009]Bill, I've decided to revise the format of my "Early Augusta County, VA Settlers" endeavor. Due to the many errors on the Hildebrand Map (wrong dates, acreage versus Chalkley's) and other lists put together by others, I've decided to re-format this into alphabetical order, but since the number of entries is so volumunous (too many on one page), I have to break it down into separate pages (see below), that I'll move them into in the next couple of weeks. Since I don't know how to create templates, I've "borrowed" yours (hope you don't mind). Let me know if you think this approach might work better and easier to manage. This is turning out to be quite a project..... Jim:) [[2]] [[3]] [[4]] [[5]] [[6]]--Delijim 19:45, 25 March 2009 (EDT) JIm You're entirely welcome to use any of the templates I've created. However, creating a template is not at all difficult. All you need to do is create a page in the "template" namespace. Then whatever you put on that page can be brought up and displayed by using the double curly braces around the article name. I'm not sure why you think Hildebrand's data is inaccurate. Can you point to a specific instance? And yes, that's going to be quite a project. The only thing that makes the SWVP at all do-able is that the focus has been kept deliberately tight. Very narrow timeframe being worked, and I primarily focus even there on people who appear on specific lists of folks (like the Ebbing springs Call of 1773---even so, I've probably got close to 1000 people and their families to do. Even if you keep the timeframe narrow for Old Augusta, the number of folks flooding in there was huge. You might want to consider focusing on just Beverly's Manor, or perhaps Borden's Grant. That will eliminate at least two thirds of the folks to deal with---at least initially. But do-ability will probably improve if you narrow the focus. Q 19:52, 25 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] Matthew Edmiston [29 March 2009]Hi Bill, I checked your Edmiston page and didn't see one of the Augusta County Edmiston's listed there. I've added Matthew Edmiston, maybe you could review it and see if it matches your information. I have him listed as a possible son of James Edmiston and Jane Thompson, but I'm not totally confident of that source. http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Matthew_Edmiston_and_Margaret_Patterson_%281%29 I have an old Edmondson Family Assoc. post in my notes on Matthew: From: Joan Wheeler La Grone <met2000@frii.com> Subject: [EDM] Matthew Edmiston Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:01:56 -0700
I look forward to hearing from you. Joan Wheeler La Grone
Regards, Jim Also, let me know what you think about the Augusta County Settlers pages, it's coming along.....--Delijim 09:17, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
Also, on the your Early Settlers Project, Yes, that's coming along nicely. I appreciate getting the link to the listing of Beverly's Manor settlers. The early settlement in Old Augusta occurred in the northern end, above what became Beverly's Manor. Beverly's Manor and Borden's grants are pretty much set pieces, but that northern third does not seem to be described very well in anything that I've had occassion to look at---a discussion of that area would be most welcome. Creating an overall map of the area, showing the location of the various settlement areas, as well as the future county boundaries would be in order as well, though the mechanics of doing that might be something of a challenge. An article on early exploration of the entire area would also be useful. Q 09:29, 29 March 2009 (EDT) [edit] my tree David Jackson and Jane Carlock [26 April 2009]Thanks for working on my Virginia Jackson page. But what was I thinking? I saw the d/o/d and birth date I posted for her and realized I've got some folks in that tree that may be living! After all your work, I see that Virginia and her two brothers should be deleted. So I went back to my data base and see that I put 'unknown' date of death that I shouldn't have. So I've made a list of several persons and will see if I can mark them for speedy delete.
But I see another problem in that I use a different cutoff date than WeRelate. I use 100 year, that is if a person is born 1908 or earlier, I assume they are deceased. I think I remember WeRelate uses a different cutoff date, but right now, I can't find that info on the site. If you'll confirm to me what the date is, I'll go put it in the Help section where I tried to find it (because that seemed to me to be the logical place for it)!
That tree was one of the first I uploaded just for the experience. I see that it probably needs some more review! Thanks for bringing it my attention and any clean up you do is very welcome! --Janiejac 14:26, 26 April 2009 (EDT)
Hi Janie, okay, but don't stress over it. --Beth 00:33, 27 April 2009 (EDT) [edit] Deleting pages [27 April 2009]Hi, Did you know you can delete any page for which you are the only contributor? The delete function is under the more menu. If the page has more than one contributor, you still need to put it in the Speedy delete category. :)--sq 09:30, 27 April 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Re: Andrew Buchanan [29 April 2009]You wrote: Elizabeth Duncan [29 April 2009] Jim, re person:Andrew Buchanan (21), Court Records show that Andrews wife at the time of his death was Joanna. also spelled Johanna. Most genealogists identify her as Johannah Hays/Hayes. cf. person:Andrew Buchanan (20). What is the supporting evidence for Andrew's wife being Elizabeth Duncan. Q 16:00, 29 April 2009 (EDT) Retrieved from "http://www.werelate.org/wiki/User_talk:Delijim" Hi Bill, I do not have a wife listed for Andrew Buchanan (21). Elizabeth Duncan was his MOTHER, according to what I looked at. Let me know if you see something else. Thanks and best regards, Jim Also, thanks again for the assistance on the Augusta County Settlers project. I'm still "plugging away" on getting it going. I keep finding more information that I can keep up with.... :)--Delijim 16:33, 29 April 2009 (EDT) [edit] Email [4 May 2009]Thanks Bill, I will return on Thursday. The list is not active presently, but never can tell what will happen when you leave one unattended. Wonder why the email bounced. Try and send me another one. --Beth 20:01, 4 May 2009 (EDT) Actually, I sent two. Both bounced. Q 20:07, 4 May 2009 (EDT) Now or yesterday. --Beth 20:15, 4 May 2009 (EDT) I sent one that was unrelated, oneday, and the other related to the list, the next. Q 20:16, 4 May 2009 (EDT) Bill, I just sent you another email. Try and respond, if it bounces would you forward the bounce message to apidts001@yahoo.com subject-Ticket #196267. Thanks, Beth. [edit] Message [13 May 2009]Bill, I just responded on my page to keep the flow. Where one responds on talk page messages is still a confusing issue; with new users I usually go back and forth. --Beth 20:36, 13 May 2009 (EDT) [edit] Sources [15 May 2009]Thanks for pointing out my deficiencies in sourcing and helping me know what it is I have to do. Unfortunately, for James Latta Rowan, I have nothing other than LDS information and Boltwood. I have later census, and possibly some land records. I'll try to add everything i have and then would appreciate it if you would look at it and tell me if I succeeded. Also, I got Boltwood from Heritage Quest. Just downloaded it bit by bit. Thanks again. Ellen Rowan Taylor--Ellen 21:29, 14 May 2009 (EDT)
I'll try to add some to James, and write more about some of my other people, as well as add sources. Thanks. I really appreciate your comments. They are very helpful, but they don't keep me from being really lazy.....:-)
Ellen--Ellen 12:12, 15 May 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Leonard Coker page [18 May 2009]Hi Bill, Thank you for acknowledging my page; it is a mess but it is sourced. As I have agreed to work on merging the duplicate pages and am only on the letter B, it may be 2 years before I ever return to improve my pages. I have been mulling over page design. Leonard Coker definitely needs a proof article as there is no direct evidence proving that Leonard Coker was a son of Robert Coker. I would like to write a narrative lineage but not certain about how on WeRelate. I assume one would use the NGSQ system for the oldest known ancestor and create hyperlinks with the descendants' narratives on their person page. Also I think we need a method to link to the images from the person/family page and place the source images on another page. Pictures etc. could be incorporated within the narrative. Also skins are supposed to be available but they are not available yet that I can find. --Beth 20:53, 16 May 2009 (EDT) Hi Beth. Your Welcome. I was just taking a different approach to the problem we'd been discussing. Trying some things out. As you may have noticed, I'm always experimenting to see what works, and what doesn't. In the case of the "acknowledgements", I thought that perhaps one way to go would be to highlight the featured articles since they are likely to be better done than most. Then you have something you can point to to say "this is the way to do it". It also gives the opportunity to point out how even somthing well done could be better done. As for adding narrative---I believe I saw where you were interested in improving your writing skills. Haven't noticed any deficiencies there, but its always good to try to get better. I've always found that the best way to get improvement in something (writing or anything else for that matter) is to actually do it. So I would think that if you wanted to try and improve your writing, writing a Narrative for the leonard Coker article, would be of great benefit. Usually a linear article works best when talking about an individual. "He was born very young, grew up, married and died very old, leaving many children" usually works best---filled out, of course, with the details of his life. You usually want to put in some of the family history, but only very sketchy---as you can get bogged down with the minutiae of ancestoral detail, and obscure the story you are trying to tell. As of late I've been writing companion articles about the family as a whole in a given area. That way I can put a lot of the information about the family history in a separate article where the interested reader can see it, if that's what they are interested in. Q 13:05, 18 May 2009 (EDT) [edit] First draft of article on Mary Fitch and William Bradford [20 May 2009]Hi Bill, How about editing my article on above family in the sandbox. I can't get my italics to go where they should in the will; and feel free to edit and/or express opinions. This is the first article; the second will address the widow Wiswall versus Griswold. Thanks. --Beth 21:59, 20 May 2009 (EDT) Happy to. Probably not til tomorrow, but I'll check it out. Q 22:13, 20 May 2009 (EDT) I did a quick look, and will pay this more attention tomorrow. The problem with the italics is being caused by embedded line breaks. You can't see these on WeRelate, but if you expand the width of the window, and the text does not realign, (and it didn't) its probably because of these line breaks. For all practical purposes they force the line to end where-ever they have been inserted. They were probably embedded in your original source. A side effect f these breaks is that they are effectively "end of paragraph" marks---which kills any formating like italics. I got rid of these using a combination of text editor, and manual fiddling. (I use something for a Mac called "Text Wrangler" which is either free, or perhaps cheap shareware. Meets most of my needs for things like this). I think you were also trying to bold some passages---you should now be able to go back in and insert three ' marks on either side of the passage, and it will work fine---in combination with the italics at the beginning of each paragraph, that will give you bold italics. Note that each paragraph has to start off with the italics command, or it will show as plain text. Q 22:41, 20 May 2009 (EDT) Thanks so much Bill and I am not afraid of the red ink so feel free to express opinions. --Beth 22:51, 20 May 2009 (EDT) [edit] Questionable banner [26 May 2009]Hi Bill, How about adjusting the width to fix it so it doesn't push your ads off the page; it works fine on mine so I don't know what the adjustment needs to be. It took me a while to find how to adjust the width; but I finally found it. --Beth 20:20, 26 May 2009 (EDT)
[edit] William King of Saltville [25 June 2009]I see you are starting a page on William King of Saltville. Because of a persistent but ultimately incorrect family legend that an ancestor named William King was from Virginia, I have looked into him a little. You are not interested in William King of Stewart County, TN, but there is a section of the following posting that gives some info on the salt magnate in the process of differentiating my ancestor from him: genforum posting. If you happen to read it, and see anything that is wrong, could you let me know? The summary of the Supreme Court case involving William King of Virginia's will, that is linked to in this posting, is interesting, if you haven't seen it. --Jrich 16:40, 27 May 2009 (EDT)
Hi, I wanted to request that you put the excerpts from the Supreme Court case back on the page, until such time as the genealogy described has been instantiated in sourced pages. The reasons are:
However, until that fix is made, and there's a legitimate area for items like this, MySource is a good choice. While it has its own share of relatively worthless "MySources" where folks have basically cited themselves, the SWVP is making use of this to house transcriptions and the like. Here I'm taking a cue from Dallan, who is using it for similar things (e.g., images of bible records, etc.). While I'll restore the original note. (Its really too long and unwieldly for the space, particular when the article gets fleshed out), I'll keep the MySource link, as its what I need to document the information.Q 14:05, 25 June 2009 (EDT)
Thanks,--Jrich 13:02, 25 June 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Under construction image [2 June 2009]Hi Bill, Thanks for fixing the image; I removed the image from the Image section so now there are not 2 images on the page. I thought about adding the under construction as a template but too hard to figure out how and this works for me. I also added 2 new categories, but not sure if other users would be interested. Perhaps one could add newly added categories to the home page or one of the portals. Gone to Texas is worthy of a site on Wikipedia. [7] --Beth 19:59, 2 June 2009 (EDT) [edit] Ancestry group [15 June 2009]Hi Bill,in Memphis please accept the new member application on the Ancestry group if it is a reasonable request. Will return Wednesday evening. Thanks, --Beth 08:20, 15 June 2009 (EDT) [edit] Merge William Edmondsons? [16 June 2009]Hi Bill, since you're the resident Edmiston expert, I thought I'd check with you... Are William Edmiston (6) ( http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Edmiston_%286%29 ) and Willaim Edmiston (16) ( http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Edmiston_%2816%29 ) the same person? In reading through some of the Edmiston information, it seems to indicate that the William Edmiston that married Elizabeth Stuart was a son of Col. William Edmiston ( http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Edmiston_%285%29 ) If they are the same person, someone should probably merge them.... Let me know. Thanks:) Jim--Delijim 18:43, 15 June 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Category intersection [24 June 2009]There are a few MediaWiki extensions that provide the ability to generate information based on category overlap or lack thereof. Sadly, they all have similar names and it can be confusing as to which one is which. — MrDolomite • Talk 11:50, 24 June 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Maps for Beverley Patent and Borden Tract pages [26 June 2009]Bill, I went down and had the Beverley Patent and Borden Tract maps scanned, for the pages you're working on: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Image:BordenSmall.JPG http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Image:BeverleyFullMapsm1.GIF I sized them to about what I felt would be useful, but feel free to adjust them if needed. thanks and best regards, Jim:)--Delijim 18:02, 24 June 2009 (EDT) This is terrific! We can use these very effecitvely as locator maps (the "gradicule" I once referred to. I'll work on this a bit and show you what I'm thinking. Somewhat flooded at the moment on Walkers and Porters. I'm getting a lot of good information at the moment on both lines, more than I can deal with quickly I'm afraid. However, I did play with t he visual menu for Old Augusta---the part that would appear on each page as a standard navigation aid. As Old Augusta grows, getting around will become a chore. Learned that from SWVP, but its a major chore to retrofit that. With Old Augusta just getting started I can set the seen better for future development. 18:14, 24 June 2009 (EDT) Sounds good, I'll also e-mail you the larger full-sized maps, in case you want to re-size them...
[edit] Duplicate? [25 June 2009]Hi Bill, I think I found a duplicate family: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:John_McSpadden_and_Esther_Thompson_%281%29 http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:John_McShadden_and_Esther_Thompson_%281%29 I was looking at the article you are working on, and thought these could be the same family..... I'm sure "McShadden" was mis-spelled for McSpadden, what do you think?--Delijim 15:02, 25 June 2009 (EDT) [edit] Southwest VA Project [26 June 2009]Hi, I have two questions. First,do you know how I can add a Methodist circuit rider to the page?
My 3rd great granduncle,Rev.Isaac Quinn,was a circuit riding Methodist minister who lived in Tazewell,VA between 1816-1828.I have documentation for many marriages he performed there including that of my 3rd great grandfather William M.P.Quinn and Cynthia Witten. Also,you cleaned up my information for Susannah (Porter) Quinn.Thank you. She was the stepmother of Isaac Quinn and the mother of William.I have court records from Ohio Co.,VA showing that she was rather troublesome, but I'm not certain that Susan Quinn was Susan Porter since I have no census or marriage record for her marriage to John Quinn. Do you have any information about Susannah Porter?
Thanks, Sue Geiger sueaew@sbcglobal.net--Sgeiger 17:13, 26 June 2009 (EDT) Sue: While your period of interest (post 1800) is a little late for my own studies, I would probably have encountered Susannah Porter (3) if there was mention of her in my primary sources (e.g., Summers, 1903, 1929, and the Kegleys "Western Waters" series. I've nothing on her in those sources. Nor any mention of Isaac Quinn. I'd be happy to insert any information you have on this couple, whereever appropriate, Q 19:03, 26 June 2009 (EDT) [edit] Digital Library [27 June 2009]Bill, maybe I could send you the image and you may use it to create a tutorial for adding images connected to WeRelate pages; or I can just hold the image until Dallan activates whatever you said he would eventually activate. --Beth 22:57, 26 June 2009 (EDT) Probably best to send me the image and I'll insert. I think Dallan has far more pressing things to deal with at the moment than the DL, The DL needs a fair bit of tweaking to get it to the point of being user friendly. While its functional, I suspect that there will be some substantive changes to its basic operation. Its not likely to come fully online anytime soon. Also, while its about the only place that you can currently put something like this (other than MySource), I think Dallan's intent is to use this as an organizational repository. Once "document" space has been created, the DL will probably serve very different purposes. No one but me (and the Africana project people) have made much use of the DL anyway. Also, not much point in writing a tutorial for something that will change drastically sometime in the future. Q 08:06, 27 June 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Tazewell County,Virginia Church Records Methodist Churches [27 June 2009]Here's a link to a page of Rootsweb.com that lists Methodist pastors who served in Tazewell co,VA between 1815-1826 including Rev.Isaac Quinn.Also listed is a James Porter. Any relation to aforementioned Susannah Porter? The Abraham Still mentioned was a medical doctor also and the father of A.T.Still,founder of osteopathic medicine.There are other pages to different denominations as well.I haven't yet learned to use this site,so I'd appreciate it if you'd post the link where appropriate. Thanks,Sue http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vatazewe/MethodistChurches.htm--Sgeiger 10:22, 27 June 2009 (EDT) Hi Sue, Thanks for the link. I've added it to Belief, Folkway, and Ritual within the Southwest Virginia Project. As I think I indicated, this is a bit outsideof the timeframe where I do research, though I'm happy to add most anything in if it relates to Southwest Virginia. As to the relationship between Susannah Porter and Isaac Quinn, I've really nothing about either person. I've looked briefly at the Porters in the New River and Upper Holston/Clinch, (ie, includes portions of Tazewell). These particular porters came to the area after the Revolution, as I recall, from Prince Edward County in VA. Prior to that they are said to have been in Old Chester Co. PA (e.g., Chester County, Lancaster Co, Cecil MD, County, etc. in SE corner of PA and norther MD/Del.) As it happens I'm currently working on various articles related to the Porters of SW VA. I've a notebook where I've captured a few points about the Porters in the Upper Clinch/Holston area: Notebook:Misc. Porters in Upper Southwest Virginia. You can look at what's been said about them there. Also, there are various links to Porters in other areas of interest for the SW VA project. There may eventually be more about the Porters of the Upper Southwest, and about their line in Prince Edward Co., but it will be sometime before any significant work is done on them. In the meantime, you may find something of interest in the above pages. Q 11:35, 27 June 2009 (EDT) [edit] Hatfield family in SW Virginia [31 October 2009]Quolla, I finally took the time to browse in depth through the SW Virginia Project (been meaning to do that), and I note your list of families includes "George Hatfield." Or, rather, a George Hatfield. There were several of them around there in the mid & late 18th century. You might want to take a look at the page I did on Joseph Hatfield, who is one of my more interesting ancestors and the son of (probably) one of the Georges. He's also presently the earliest Virginia Hatfield from whom an unbroken, unquestionable descent can be demonstrated. Leslie Collier has been making most of the important discoveries in this lineage for the past decade, and I've included a link to a collection of the emails she irregularly sends out to all her correspondents. Jerry Hatfield's website is the unofficial clearinghouse and there are lots of documents noted there. (Unfortunately, I just discovered that he's had to close the site temporarily because his host site folded. . . .) Between the Hatfields, the Kentons, the Ashcrafts, and the Carrs (and a couple of Boones-by-marriage), I have an awful lot of ancestral history in early southwest Virginia, early Kentucky, and very early southwest Pennsylvania (which, of course, was claimed by Virginia). As I get farther into what you've been doing, I expect I'll begin to get an idea of what kind of materials you're looking for, and what I might have in my own files. Almost forgot: I know there are a great many biographies of Daniel Boone (beginning even before his own death), but there's a new one out that I found to be well above average -- Meredith Mason Brown, Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Louisiana State University Press, 2008). The bibliography is especially good because it's so current. --Mike (mksmith) 02:42, 29 June 2009 (EDT)
By the way, it took me awhile to find your definition of "Southwest Virginia," via the table of maps of the various counties. It's buried several layers down under "Places." You might want to push it higher in the stack, or at least feature a link to it on the top SWVA project page. Also, here's a link to a series of maps showing the creation of counties in SWVA, which you may not have seen. Not pretty, but informative. --Mike (mksmith) 11:20, 29 June 2009 (EDT) Q, just FYI -- I got a note from Jerry Hatfield that he found a new host and his site is back up. The top page is here and the beginning of the Hatfield genealogy section is here. Note that he makes a careful distinction between the SW VA family and all those others. There's been a tendency among some of the wishful thinkers in the family -- and those who take WFT as gospel -- to descend the family in Russell & Washington Counties from the line in Massachusetts that married into the Mellyns of Staten Island. (Which would qualify them as "Lords of the Manor.") --Mike 09:00, 31 October 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Migration bibliography [4 July 2009]Q, you might wish to take a look at an extensive bibliography I did a few years ago (well, 15 years ago, but updated regularly) on the subject of internal migration in the U.S. The Trans-Appalachian section in particular might suggest some sources that would be useful in SWVA. A couple of friends/colleagues on the faculties at UT and Univ of Houston have used it in their "History of the Frontier" courses. --Mike (mksmith) 11:14, 4 July 2009 (EDT) [edit] Ericus Smith [7 July 2009]Hi--- FYI: I've added a number of items to the Person:Ericus Smith (1) page and linked the page to the listing in the SWVA register. There's his father and several brothers to be expanded, too. These were close associates of the Hatfields, and Ericus's sister, Rachel, was Joseph Hatfield's 2nd wife. --Mike (mksmith) 15:40, 6 July 2009 (EDT)
[edit] "New River Notes" [7 July 2009]I came across the following while looking for something else entirely (David Musick, actually). The Historical Society of Southwest Virginia, as I'm sure you're aware, published a series of annual volumes (80-150pp. each) between 1964 & 1989. Many of these are now available at this site. They cover up through the 19th century, of course, but there are quite a few articles for the period you're interested in. --Mike (mksmith) 14:01, 7 July 2009 (EDT)
Q 14:37, 7 July 2009 (EDT) [edit] Great Philadelphia Wagon Road [19 July 2009]Hi Bill, got your note on the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road... great idea. I found another pic of it that can probably be downsized to fit on the page (doesn't seem to have any copywright issues) http://www.ncgenweb.us/guilford/greatwagonroad.html Also, we should add some "history" to the article, to explain how important it was in helping settlers to migrate into the ares.... There are several good articles I "googled" that would be candidates: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/wagon_road.htm (good info and history). If you'd like to include it in the "history" tab of the Early Augusta Settlers Project, I have no problem, it would be a nice addition.... Take care and best regards, Jim:)--Delijim 14:18, 10 July 2009 (EDT) The link is to a nice map of the Great Road. Its interesting that they display it even though they don't know who created the image. And that alone means there's a copyright issue of some description. Even if they had the right to display the image (which they apparently have NOT receives) we'd have to go through the process of identifying the originator, and who held the copyright. Its probably someone who'd be happy for us to use the image, but we don't know that up front. that's why I try to stick with antique images as the base, and then doctor them up to show what's needed. But the one you pointed to IS a lot cleaner, and shows the extension of the Great Road into South Carolina. Be nice to have, but there's clearly a copyright issue to be resolved (even if the web site you pointed to doesn't see it that way---for them, all they seem concerned about is plagerism. ("Will someone please tell us who did this so we can credit them?") No hint in their description that they are even aware that they might be infringing on copyright. And I agree that a good history add would be very very good. There are probably some things out of copyright which could be added whole cloth. Otherwise you have to spend a great deal of time rewiting and "unique-ifying" text so as to avoid infringement. Its my hope that one day we'll have a whole system of these "local projects", all tied together in some way, sharing common reseources, each tended by its own set of folks interested in that particular area. That's one of the reasons I was really pleased to see you take up both Old Augusta and Germanna. I think others will eventually come to realize the significance of these projects, and take one up in an area of interest. Recently Ajcrow has started one up, though he's focused on a military unit, rather than a specific place. Same concept. Identify the people, link them together, add history, culture, and background. Note that I'm working on a template to cross link these projects. (under links!). That way people can get from Old Chester to SWVP, to Old Augusta relatively easily. Q 17:40, 10 July 2009 (EDT) By the way, did you know there are actually portions of the Great Road that survive and haven't been paved over? There's one spot north of Danville where the Great Road passed down into a small swell. When it came time to make "a real road" the highway was diverted out of the swell to pass higher on the bank of a hill. The original portion of the great Road still survives as a farm road, still diving down into the swell as it probably did 250 years ago. At least that's what I think I was seeing when I passed through the area about 15 years ago. Q 17:40, 10 July 2009 (EDT)
--Beth 18:25, 10 July 2009 (EDT)
Link to a modern map. [9] --Beth 22:51, 19 July 2009 (EDT) [edit] Kerr's Creek Massacres [12 July 2009]Try it now, it opens for me... http://www.werelate.org/wiki/The_Kerr%27s_Creek_Massacres_%281759-1763%29 [edit] Nominate pages [13 July 2009]Hi, If you run across some really nice pages that have multiple authors, or some well documented pages (not word connect or ancestry), would you please nominate them under the first subheading. Thanks, --sq 09:56, 13 July 2009 (EDT) [edit] Mary Jones [14 July 2009]Take a look at that page again, not only did it have the long list of numbers, whatever they were but the data is irrelevant and/or impossible.--Scot 14:54, 14 July 2009 (EDT) [edit] Joshua Wynne [16 July 2009]Bill, I happened on the Mary Jones page because it was proposed as a match for Person:Mary Jones (57). My Virginia data is quite sketchy as I find it difficult to research there from Californis. If you can enhance this line from Col. Robert Wynne I woud love to see it.--Scot 15:04, 16 July 2009 (EDT)
[edit] John Davidson of Borden Tract [4 August 2009]Hi Bill, I noticed you were working in John Davidson of the Borden Tract, so I added his information and map: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Davidson_%2896%29 Best regards, also I like the format of the Borden Settlers page, looks much better and cleaner! Jim:)--Delijim 13:56, 31 July 2009 (EDT)
Hi Bill, just a reminder that we need to merge these at your earliest convenience... Thanks:) I'll do it if you want, and then you can clean it up later, just let me know. J.--Delijim 11:50, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
[edit] COLONAL HENRY WILLIS [4 August 2009]Henry willis was my # 6 great-grandfather. His second wife mildred howell brown and Henry Willis had a son john willis born 1728 in Fredericksburg,Virginia. I am in this line. Col. Henry willis born 14 sep 1691 in richmond,virginia and died 14 Sep 1740 in fredericksburg,virginia is my # 6 great-grandfather. His secondth wife Mildred Howell Brown and he were the parents of my # 5 great-grandfather John Willis. I have lots of family names - dates - information - any help you can share will be appreciated.--connie roper 23:21, 1 august 2009 (edt) Hi Connie, I'd be happy to help---if I knew what you were looking for. My guess is you probably have more information on the family than I've explored Col. Henry a bit, but haven't seriously looked at him for some time. I notice that you have specific DOB's and DOD's. Can you tell me your source for them? Also, you indicate his second wife was Mildred Howell Brown. Others give her name as Mildred Lewis. As I recall there are many different identifications of Henry's various wives, some well documented, some not. Some of them are probably right, but obviously not all are right. What basis do you have for identifying his second wife as MHB? Q 08:07, 2 August 2009 (EDT) Hello! I have been searching my roots since i was a child. I can actually recall at ten years of age taking notes when my parents, aunts & uncles, grandparents and great-aunts & great-uncles were talking. I have talked to "living" people from all over the usa. I have had people call me out of the blue because they heard i had information they need. The willis' family is complicated because they all named their children the same names - they would be in the same areas - so confusing!!! now on mildred howell brown willis - alot of my info came from other researchers [i like to call them "cousins"] - alot of researching and hair pulling! As a matter of fact, all 3 wives of henry willis' were first cousins! To actually straighten out these wives - i had to do research into their families. Ann alexander smith willis [henry willis' 1st wife] was first married to john smith's grandson[we all know the story of john smith & pocahontas - which never happened according to the american natives]. The 2nd wife of henry willis - my #6g-gm - mildred howell brown willis was first married to john brown[a doctor]. The 3rd wife of henry willis - mildred washington gregory willis was first married to roger gregory[this mildred was also aunt to george washington and she was "godmother" to george washington]. To make matters even more complicated - henry willis was also "cousin" to all 3 of his wives! This relation is from henry willis' mother - sarah lewis willis[who married francis willis]. now you get to all the francis willis' and henry willis' - that was a real hair puller - ha! I have them all the way back to the 1400's.--connie roper 12:14, 2 august 2009 (edt) Hi Connie Why do you think Mildred Howell Brown Willis was Henry second wife? Q 19:58, 2 August 2009 (EDT) OH, I AM SO SORRY - HENRY WILLIS' 2ND WIFE WAS MILDRED LEWIS - SHE HAD BEEN MARRIED TWICE BEFORE MARRYING MY#6G-GF - SO HER NAME WAS MILDRED LEWIS HOWELL BROWN WILLIS. HER FIRST HUSBAND WAS JOHN HOWELL - HER SECOND HUSBAND WAS JOHN BROWN AND HER THIRD HUSBAND WAS HENRY WILLIS. I STAND CORRECRED!--CONNIE ROPER 04:56, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
Henry apparently married at least three times, often it seems, to widows. So there is lots of confusion as to the surnames of his wives; Sometimes people identify them with their maiden name (the convention on WeRelate is to use their maiden name), and sometimes they identify them by the first or second husbands surname. So that leads to a lot of confusion. A way that can be sorted through is to be fairly explicit about the underlying sources that are being used to identify the wife in question. For example, if the marriage record says she's "Mildred Brown" then that might be the reason to give her the name "Mildred Brown"---but if another record shows her to be the widow of someone named Howell, then you can cite that to show that Brown was her married name. Where there are multiple wives on each side, then there's a need to be very careful with the documentation. The way Werelate is set up, there's an emphasis on recording that documentation, so that problems like this can be sorted out. I've not worked that much on Henry Willis, so the documentaiton for him is fairly limited. So, when I asked "how do you know that his wife was....", what I was asking for was the underlying documentation that supports your statements. If that documentation is simply "I got this from someone", then your documentation is in about the same state as mine---that is, at this point, neither you nor I know the supporting documentation. Q 11:12, 4 August 2009 (EDT) Th [edit] Looney's Mill [4 August 2009]Hi Bill, I have another Mill to add to your "Mills of Southwest Virginia" page, Looney's Mill, built abt. 1739-1740: info on link below, also ties in with the settlers on Looney's Creek page I just added to the Augusta project. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rebalee/Looney/index.htm Best regards, Jim:)--Delijim 10:29, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Salvage operation [4 August 2009]We have several gedcoms that are scheduled for delete tomorrow. Are you still interested in loading any of them? List is here--Judy (jlanoux) 20:41, 4 August 2009 (EDT) [edit] Disambiguation [7 August 2009]Hi Bill, Need help once again; this time I will post your answer on my tips and reminders. Can't find the page where you explained all this to me. I need to find all pages for Samuel Canterbury. In particular interested in #1; is that one being used? --Beth 19:27, 7 August 2009 (EDT)
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