2024 Connect-a-thon Nor'Easters

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Here we go once again. We are coming up on the January 2024 Connect-a-Thon. It will be from Friday, January 19, at 8 a.m. ET until Monday, January 22 at 8 a.m. ET.

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Nor'easters Connect-a-Thon Sign-up Thread

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Answer 1

Hark, did someone call for a co-captain? Some of my earliest ancestors were in New England (mostly Cape Cod), but I think my skills in the region are somewhat lacking. Maybe I can do some good work here, or just cheer us on while we work wherever the connections take us!

Answer 2

I started out with POPE profiles, grabbing orphaned and others unconnected, in the region, to start. Now to figure the best way to achieve connectedness!

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And did the same with SHAW surnames

Answer 3

Hi! I attempted to sign up on the sign up thread but I think I was overlooked because of my excess verbiage about trying to complete my PIP Voyage and using this 'thon as inspiration to finish. Well, I DID finish so please sign me up!

Things have changed since I was a newbie doing the Source-A-Thon challenge this past fall.  I'm now a badged Data Doctor and a member of the Profile Improvement Project on "Team Bio"!

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You weren't overlooked Joy. You just happened to sign up right after I looked at it last time. You are now added to the homepage roster. Hopefully Karen is getting the email to check the roster to make sure everyone got added.

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Thank you, Steven! I figured that I'd made it hard to understand. I should have just said only that rather than "overlooked" since I didn't really think anyone was being careless. Just Joy being wordy & hard to comprehend.

Answer 4

So.... what makes you a Nor'easter? 

Did you land here courtesy of our marvelous Connect-a-Thon general volunteers like Betsy, Azure, and Debi?

Are you an old salt like Captain Steven and Nanette of the Seven Seas? A new and able seaman like Top Bunker Mason? Or even a remote islander like Joy, hoping for a route to the mainland and a connection to our global tree?

I suppose I'm a wandering seafarer, as I couldn't quite choose from the Appalachians, Roses, or Tree Nuts, and happily accepted Eowyn's promotion to acting co-captain. Here's wishing us a happy voyage filled with new connections.

p.s. Are nautical metaphors even a thing on our team, or did I just decide they were? Any team traditions for us new members to learn?

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I became a Nor'Easter in 2019 for the Scan-a-Thon. I wasn't too good at WikiTree then. I came back to WT determined to practice sourcing and becoming unafraid of citations by joining the 2023 Source-a-Thon with this verbiage:  "Sign me up!  I have been taking an intensive Source Citations course and will be trying to repair my own little WikiTree over time, but would love to officially help and have fun reinforcing what I have learned!  I might be a good fit for Nor'Easters because my own genealogy roots are Massachusetts through Quebec, even though I was raised in Ohio.  Put me where I am needed with whoever wants to deal with a newbie!"   My parents are both from Somerville, Massachusetts, right there in the Boston area and considered themselves "Boston Irish." 

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Karen, I've sent you at least 2 messages but gotten no response yet. You might want to check our team listing. I think Eowyn might have decided a little more than "Co".

As far as why a Nor'Easter, I blame Chris Whitten for drafting me as co-captain back when I didn't have a clue what I was doing. Now many things I came up with has been standardized as the norm. But since I live in Downeast Maine where we have nor'easters, it seemed a pretty good fit.

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Oh dear! Thank you so much for this extra prompt.

I've just found Steven's messages and replied by email. 

For myself, I come from much closer to the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Michigan. I was born in Northwest Indiana, where many of our parents were steelworkers, pipefitters, and oil refiners in the ring of industry stretching from Milwaukee through Illinois and Indiana to Michigan. I'm 1/16 Québécoise, but my ancestors had migrated to Vincennes, Indiana, by the 1740s in an attempt to hold back the tide of settlers streaming into Haute Louisiane (Michigan, Indiana, Illinois) from the British Colonies. That went about as well as, well, holding back the tide, and my ancestor's oath of allegiance admits me to the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The Nor'easters faced by my ancestors would be way, way back in Pilgrim and Puritan times in the mid-Cape (I think?) areas of Sandwich and Barnstable, MA. Otherwise, they were busy forming the aforementioned tide of English- and German-speaking pioneers coming over the Appalachians in spite of their government's instruction.