We Will RAWK You event (February 2024)

Question

Nominations have been made, a team of 32 volunteers has been assembled, and 5 lucky WikiTree members have been randomly selected to have the team work on their branches.  In other words, get ready to RAWK!!!!

As part of our 15th Anniversary celebration in 2023, we introduced the We Will RAWK You event. It's a lot like the WikiTree Challenge except that this time our goal is to increase the CC7 for 5 fellow WikiTree members.

RAWK stands for Random Acts of WikiTreer Kindness.

We had our first We Will RAWK You event last March and held the event four more times in 2023.  Now we're ready to RAWK again in 2024, starting at the stroke of midnight EDT (5 am UTC) on February 1st.  Our goal is to increase the CC7 numbers for these lucky WikiTreers.

• Stephen Tomaszewicz
• Dave Stern
• Nikki Orvis
• Matthew Combs
• Monte Mccoy

How high can we take them?

Since this event is pure WikiTree Kindness, there are no points or bounties.  However, we'd like to collect links to interesting profiles or finds for the research done on each person's branches.  Our 5 WikiTree members who are getting RAWKED will each be listed below in their own answer to this post.  Let's collect our noteworthy discoveries in the comments to each of these answers.

If you're reading this early in the month of February you can still sign up for the RAWK team.  Please answer this post and we'll get you signed up.

Have fun, everyone!

Answer 1

Stephen Tomaszewicz-6

Stephen's lines are from:

• Canada
• United States (Midwest, NJ, Montana, Florida, Alaska and Hawaii)
• England (through Spencers, spouse of Howey-375)
• Germany
• Austria
• Poland
• Russia

Notes:

• If you're having trouble with Stephen's CC7 View, please try it HERE.
• Name changes: His family also used Tomasky at various points in time.
• There is confusion with Howey-375's husband, William A. Spencer.  Tread carefully!

Please comment below with your interesting finds for Stephen.

Comments

Working on Stephens line

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I thought I was signed up for working on Stephens line but see now I can't get in, so requested to be added to his trusted list.

See that is the case on all of them posted.

Answer 2

David Stern-1747

Dave's lines are from:

• Germany
• England
• Scotland (his biggest DNA percentage)
• Ireland
• Jewish ancestry
• Hungary
• United States (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois)
• Canada

Notes:

• If you're having trouble with Dave's CC7 View, please try it HERE.

Please comment below with your interesting finds for Dave.

Comments

Dave's great grandaunt Mary McElheran was married to Albert Kearns. His brother was Jeremiah T. Kearns.

Jeremiah, along with three other men, started a gold mine in Northern Ontario. Kearns, Ontario is named for him as well.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/939796968/?terms=%22jeremiah%20kearns%22%20&match=1&clipping_id=140941106

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-jt-kearns-estate-val/140942393/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._T._Kearns

Answer 3

Nikki Orvis-372

Nikki's lines are from:

• England (Herefordshire, Shropshire, Suffolk)
• Wales
• United States (Kansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania)
• Canada (see paternal grandmother's maternal line)

Please comment below with your interesting finds for Nikki.

Answer 4

Matthew Combs-1687

Matthew's lines are from Kentucky and Virginia.

He also has some brick walls:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Combs-1698

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sizemore-587

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowling-742

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eversole-197

Please comment below with your interesting finds for Matthew.

Answer 5

Monte Mccoy-3884

Monte's lines are from Kentucky and Ohio.  Please be very careful with Monte's Mccoy line.  There are several duplicates and false lines on Ancestry and FamilySearch.  Please contact the Appalachia Project if there are any Mccoy family questions.

Please comment below with your interesting finds for Monte.

Answer 6

Count me in

Comments

Fantastic; great to have you back, Alice.  I just forwarded you the February RAWK email.

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Betsy Thank you and yes I received the email.

Answer 7

I'd like to help, again

Comments

Thanks for signing up, Judith!  Please look for some organizational emails from me soon.

Cheers,

Betsy