Cue the drumroll ... our five WikiTree members who will be the focus of our April "We Will RAWK You" event have been selected through a random lottery. The lucky five are:
Jeremy Stone
Mags Gaulden
Eric Stamper
Anne Massey
Rick San Soucie
RAWK stands for Random Acts of WikiTreer Kindness.
Our goal for the month of April is to help each of these five members increase their CC7. Here's a little more about their lines.
Jeremy says "On my paternal (Stone) side, there is a heavy presence in Kentucky. I believe that they came from North Carolina via Virginia before that. My paternal grandmother's line also includes the Carters of Country Music Legend. June Carter Cash is my 2nd Cousin 2xR and Johnny Cash is my 16th Cousin 2xR. My maternal side is largely Nordic (Norway and Sweden). That line migrated west across the U.S. and consisted of many preachers and farmers. A large portion of the Emerson group ended up settling in Washington State. The Kenoyer line on my maternal side came through PA via The German Empire but I have only made it to my 6th GGF there."
Mags says "My lines run from around Manchester, England, the Welsh borderlands and down to Somerset, that spelling is Gaulding, Gauldin and Gaulden - this determined by Y700 testers. Also lines from Ireland and Scotland across to New Kent County, Virginia, Bedford Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Some in my families followed the southern route west, to Louisiana, some out to Missouri,and Texas. My specific line stayed fairly close to SC, NC and Georgia. On my Profile page I have a list of surnames with links to EKAs for those specific lines. I'll get that updated. So excited!!!"
Eric's lines are from Quebec, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, the United States, and Germany. He also has a brick wall on his Bulgarian line due to difficulty accessing records. Please do NOT work on the line of his great-grandfather Edward Stamper-1310 since Eric is pursuing that research on his own with DNA.
Anne's family is for the most part from Virginia, aside from her paternal grandmother who was from Kentucky. Her brick walls are the Massey family after Richard Massey (1765-1839) and Thompson Hall (1785-1872). One of her paternal great-grandmothers is from Wales.
Rick's lines are from Quebec (paternal) and Bavaria (maternal).
Can you help us? It's not too late to sign up for this month long challenge and every contribution will help. Please click ANSWER to this G2G post by March 31, 2024 if you'd like to be part of the RAWKERS team for April.
