I don't interact with Kathie Forbes all that often, but I "see her around" frequently and I admire what I see her doing. I think she deserves recognition as a Wonderful WikiTreer.
Kathie is a smart woman, is broadly knowledgable about genealogy, understands WikiTree, and shows up in G2G from time to time answering a diverse variety of questions and providing excellent advice. I appreciate her for that.
In addition to being a wonderful all-around WikiTree generalist, Kathie has taken on a very important and very difficult special assignment of being a "resident" expert on Native American genealogy matters -- and she does a fine job of it. It looks to me like advising newcomers on how to get going on researching Native Americans is the easy part of this assignment. The harder part is gently and firmly explaining to "white" WikiTreers that the family lore, book, or online genealogy that connects their ancestral line to a long-ago immigrant or frontier settler who married a Native American woman (such as an "Indian princess") is almost certainly not based in fact. This is a tough job because it angers other members -- many among us are enamored of the stories of Native ancestry, and I have to admit that some of the stories I've seen of relationships between white males and Native females are rather convincing. I appreciate Kathie's ability to point out and explain the flaws in these stories, and her willingness to continue doing this in the face of the disbelief and anger she encounters.
Kathie is truly a wonderful WikiTreer.
