User talk:Jbret1959

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The next thing to do is launch Family Tree Explorer, then select File in the Family Tree Explorer menu and give your family tree a name. You can either upload your GEDCOM or create person and family pages one at a time. To upload your GEDCOM, select File in the Family Tree Explorer menu and then click on Import and choose the GEDCOM file to import. The system will create an editable web page for each person and family in your GEDCOM. To create a page manually, select Add in the Family Tree Explorer menu and click on Add new person; enter the given (first name) and surname (last name), select Add, then fill in the blanks and save.

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You should always sign in when you are editing or adding pages. Use the signature button (second button from the right in the menu bar above the edit box) to sign your comments on discussion pages. That way others with similar interests can find you. If you click on the blue user name on any page, you will go to that person's home page. You can leave a message on his/her Discussion page. The Discussion page button is in the light green second level menu bar above.

Shared research pages

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Can you tell other people of this site?

--Kopuru 19:46, 11 May 2007 (MDT)

Descendants of Henry Litsinger.GED Imported Successfully

The pages from your GEDCOM, "Descendants of Henry Litsinger.GED" have been generated successfully. You may view them by launching the Family Tree Explorer and opening the family tree into which this GEDCOM was imported.

-WeRelate agent 19:54, 11 May 2007 (MDT)

St. Mary's Cemetery

Thanks for your contribution on the cemetery -- it's great to have people on here who are well acquainted with their area, not just researching it from outside. FYI I just tweaked one item in the listing, by adding Baltimore as the place in which the cemetery is located. When you're inputting a new place it's easy to add in the "located in" box because WeRelate is usually smart enough to complete the name of the place, or to offer a choice of possibilities. In this case of course it's pretty much a formality, but overall doing this with each place we add will help new people search and find places if they're fully nested in the listings from larger to smaller. ... Hmm -- Baltimore -- my tree has a Baltimore family in it (a son of Stephen Cooper and Nancy Harlan married my great-great-grandfather's sister) and my wife's has a Baltimore mystery in it (a guy named John Boren born ~1755, and the extant documentation on the Boring/Boren family there back then just won't quite locate him). Thanks again, and good luck with cataloging all those heirlooms! --Hh219 18:50, 21 May 2007 (MDT)

Judith Drayton [16 March 2010]

Her father, John Drayton,is recorded in the Virginia Land Grants. John is also named in the will of Roger Drayton of Hart Street, London of 1673 - as being in Virginia. I also believe that John Drayton may be the John Dreaton of PCC 1643 will (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) as "being on a voyage to the Barbathoes. I have a copy of the original wills of both John and Roger, and am in the process of transcribing them - not an easy job! Did you know that the poet Michael Drayton, of whom I am a descendant along with the Draytons of South Carolina, wrote a poem - "Ode to Virginia". My website is www.grimke.co.uk. You can contact me on grimke@hotmail.co.uk. All the best, Bill Drayton.--Grimke 20:48, 15 March 2010 (EDT)

Louisa Jane Peeples [2 July 2012]

Louisa Jane Peeples is buried at Mt. Gurr cemetery in Kernersville, NC. She married James Madison Ragland, a transplant from Granville County, NC. JMR came to Forsyth County after serving in the Civil War, both his parents dead, and looking for work to feed his siblings. He had a younger brother, Robert Ragland, who attended Oak Ridge Institute (now Oak Ridge Military Academy) and also married into the Peeples family, not once, but twice. I believe one Peeoples daughter died in child labor, and then Robert married another one.

The Peeples, as I recently discovered, married into the Bruce family, through Polly Bruce. Polly's dad was Charles Bruce, a local Guilford County Revolutionary War figure. All these families lived in the northwest section of Guilford/Forsyth, which borders the Kernersville area of Forsyth, and the Oak Ridge and Summerfield areas of Guilford. The Ragland's and some of the Peeples are well documented in the book, The Raglands: History of a British American Family (by Charles J. Ragland0.

Sam Cook (great, great grandson of Louisa Jane Peeples).--Chipcook 00:14, 2 July 2012 (EDT)