User:JeffreyRLehrer

Welcome,

I am putting my family tree information on this site because the wiki style of family tree makes good sense to me and I am hopeful that this format will be useful for all my family regardless of how distant they are. I want the information to be available to other family members when they want it, without incurring a cost.

Please feel free to add to and edit the information on any pages I have added which are relevant to yourself and your family.

Regards Jeffrey

Acknowledgements

The information, stories and photos which I have added to WeRelate pages would not have been possible without the help and sharing from relatives both near and far, in both distance and relationship. I have had contact with many relatives who have shared information for the families and their descendants. There are also others who have shared their family information and photos on genealogical websites. You are welcome to copy and share this information with other members of the family as long as you continue to acknowledge the family members who have contributed and be mindful of individuals privacy. Some deceased people I would like to thank for their contributions to my research are;

Descendants of my Ancestors

My Seventh Generation Project

I decided to produce a book for my family and so I started family articles to go into a book. That project is focused on the families of my ancestors and their descendants. I have used the Onto the Seventh Generation principle as a guide to where I should put my efforts. If we have people that we are both researching then it is possible that we are related and there is a relevant family booklet. Have a look at the families in my Seventh Generation Project and if there is a connection, have a look below at my Articles and Booklets, or you can contact me by the messaging system here on WeRelate. If there is not a clear connection then the level of information I have is likely to be limited to what you can find here on WeRelate. If you would also like to write up and share your family history there is a lot of good information on WeRelate that will help you in Writing your family history.

Genealogy wiki for the living

I have descendant trees for many of my ancestors and therefore a lot of information on living people. If you are a descendant of my direct ancestors then it is highly likely that I will have information to share with you in relation to the living descendants which is far beyond what you will find on WeRelate. There is at least one other good genealogy wiki in WikiTree, where I have a basic copy of this tree with privacy controls set for the living. I have learnt a lot about privacy concerns and I want my extended family to feel comfortable with what they share that is why WeRelate, a site that only has the deceased is where I am sharing my family articles and if you find yourself on Wikitree then you can own and manage your own profile and those of your close family members.

For comparisons of WeRelate and Wikitree you should read this article found on Wikitree or my thoughts on the Combined use of WeRelate and Wikitree and there is also a good discussion from Chris Orme saying why he chose Wikitree and there is A Review of WeRelate from Pamela Pollard. Another site that is excellent and can include the living with significant privacy controls is FamilySearch.

This page contains links to the PDF articles and booklets I have compiled for families of some of my direct ancestors. These are stored on a Google drive because the information is already here on WeRelate.org and the documents have a large file size which is preferable not to store on WeRelate.

Sixth Generation Booklets

These booklets use my great, great, great grandparents as the focus. They were initially smaller articles but thanks to sharing from distant cousins there is a lot more information and so I have tried to repay their efforts and present a more complete family story. The current versions are compiled from a collection of articles and they are slowly being edited to eliminate some repetition and to place all sources at the end of the booklet. There are booklets for most families without a linked booklet, however they require a lot further work and so I have not made them available yet.

The families in the following articles are beyond the seventh generation in my pedigree.

Sharing and Copyright

I would not have been able to produce any of these articles or booklets if it had not been for many people freely sharing photographs and information or the many volunteers who make information on births, deaths, marriages and other records freely available on genealogy websites.

Personally I appreciate the idea of Copyleft and Creative Commons which is the type of copyright licence which is used for all information on WeRelate. The licence for my articles and booklets is a Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike. Attribution must also go to every person who is listed as a source because they also contributed to the content. In some instances they have provided or corrected relevant dates, some have shared stories, photos and other family information, some have created their own articles and given permission for this to be included within the bigger booklet.

Free Family History

WeRelate has proven so far to be a great free resource that has high standards and looks to remain free.

The free program that I am using to track everyone in my tree, including the living is ScionPCand I highly recommend it even though it doesn't entirely fit into the category of Portable, Open Source, Freeware for Genealogy.

I intended to provide information on the good free resources I have found useful in my research. There are however, research guides compiled by multiple people here on WeRelate and they contain good information. I should start one for Alsace in France, yet current ones which are relevant to my research are;

• Writing your family history Research Guide
• Australia Research Guide
• England research guide
• Poland Research Guide

Old Dabo Families

Following my own Lehrer family line which comes from Dabo, France, there are a number of families which intertwine and some of the couples appear multiple times in my pedigree chart between the tenth and fourteenth generations. I am slowly putting all the intertwined families on WeRelate by using a combination of family trees on Geneanet.org and the Dabo historical records.

One Name Studies

Sometimes a useful way to learn more about your family and make the connections which you have been unable to find is to stop looking at the known family and focus instead on all people with that surname during a certain time or from a specific place.

Lehrer Families

In trying to establish an answer for some of the disputed information in my own Lehrer linage I have undertaken a sporadic, Lehrer One-Name-Study, details of which you can find on the Lehrer Families page.

Scherno Families

The Scherno family does not have a lot of people in the available records worldwide, so tracing family lines should be easy. For details of the Scherno one-name-study go to the Scherno surname page.

Hubach Families

While trying to confirm the snippets of information which had been passed down through the generations I considered all early recordings of the Hubach surname and some information can be found on the Hubach Families page.

Borrill Families

Hopefully looking at some of the early families may establish some later connections so I have started reviewing the early Burwell, Burrell, Borrill and variations in Lincolnshire, England.

Collins Families

While the Collins surname is reasonably popular, my one-name study focuses on the Collins families located in New South Wales, Australia from 1788 to 1838. This is the first 50 years of English colonisation in Australia and ends just prior to the birth of the children in 2 separate Collins families in my family tree. It appears that the children of these 2 families are cousins but at the moment I cannot determine if that relationship is via the Collins line and whether their parents were immigrants or born in Australia.

WeRelate pages I searched for many times

• Assertions for possible connections
• Guidelines for use of Wikipedia