Chris Brady

Hi Chris,

I am interested in joining the Edwards ONS, but there is only one Team listed and it doesn't link with my own Edwards Family.

Mine appears to begin in Wicklow, Ireland with William Edwards (Edwards-10000), who then moved to Gravesend, Kent, England. I can't move beyond that one William Edwards (my most annoying brick wall!) and would like to make a start adding him and his descendants (including me!) to the Edwards ONS.

Please advise what I should do next.

Many thanks,

Laura Franks (nee Edwards)

Hi Chris

I see you are a leader of the Edwards Project. My Edwards line is in Canada and directly connects to Edwards in Suffolk England.

My mother was Wahnieta Edwards 1938-2012 her father was John McCurdy Edwards 1915-1955. His father was Thomas Lewis Edwards 1885-1928. All were born in Eastern Ontario. Thomas' father was Frederick Lewis Edwards 1826-1895, he was born in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, and died in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. His father was Frederick Edwards 1793-1877, born in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; his father was George Edwards 1753-1836 of Dennington, Suffolk, England. George's father was John Edwards 1714-179 born in Kenton, Suffolk, England. John was named after his father who was born in 1692 and died in 1748. He was named after his father born in 1654 and died in 1729. My information ends with his father Rubin Edwards born in 1605 in Suffolk, he married Ann.

This is my dead end. So, my question is, does anyone know this family line? I was told they held a few major properties.

But where did this line come from? Are they of Welsh descent?

Is this outside of your Projects Interest? Should a new project be set up?

John Mack

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Sandy

So nice to see you back on the Dillard lines!

Thank you for all your research.

Mary

Chris -

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to a 15th Place finish with 2,295 profiles added. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added 95,575 new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Nancy Thomas ~ Team Virginia

Hello Chris,

This is the time for the 2023 annual check in with members of the US Southern Colonies Project. Have you been active during the last six months in this Project? Note that it is a Wikitree requirement to respond to the US Southern Colonies Check-ins. Please reply to this message by clicking the reply button below this message, to post your answer. I look forward to hearing from you..

Many thanks,

Mary~ Project Coordinator, Membership, US Southern Colonies

Chris -

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to the First Place finish with over 7500 profiles added. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 76,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

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Join us for our online Appalachia Project Meetup on Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 at 7pm (EST). If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, an email was sent this morning with all the details. If you are on our Project's Discord Chat Channel, all details were posted under Announcements.

Please make sure to check your Spam folder as many have mentioned the Monthly Newsletter and other communication is landing in their spam.

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Sandy

Hi Chris!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the January 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to a Historical Finish with over 10k profiles added and an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 95,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in April (tbd)

Hi Chris!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the 2022 Source-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members sourced over 63,000k Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

WikiTree Symposium and Day on November 4-5, 2022

If you're online right now, Chris, head over to the g2g and claim your prize! It has to be claimed before midnight Friday night. Congratulations!

Chris -

We just started a new project on WikiTree: the Appalachia Project and we would love to have you join us. Since you are already working on profiles in Appalachia it wouldn't add to your WT work. Just a sticker and a category, here and there. To join, review the Project page, pick a regional team (or teams) and answer the G2G Membership post.

Join Today!

Hi Chris!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 87,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Next Thon: Source-A-Thon in the Fall (tbd) and WikiTree Day on November 5, 2022

Dear Chris

You created the profile for my grandfather Fiske Isler (Isler-145).

Thank you! I've been adding to his tree lately.

Best Joe

Mary Gresham was posted on the WikiTree profile of William Dillard https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dillard-8:

"Do you mind contacting Chris Brady for the research done on William d. 1782 to see why she feels he is not the son of Winnifred and William?"

You performed the following on the post without adding any sources that applied to William:

11:07: Chris Brady edited the Biography for William Dillard (abt.1750-bef.1782). (Research notes. ) [Thank Chris for this | 1 thank-you received] 11:02: Chris Brady removed William Dillard (abt.1750-bef.1782) as child of Winifred (Nalle) Dillard (1705-bef.1774). [Thank Chris for this | 1 thank-you received] 11:01: Chris Brady removed Thomas Dillard Sr. (bef.1704-bef.1774) as father of William Dillard (abt.1750-bef.1782). [Thank Chris for this | 1 thank-you received]

Hello Chris,

This is the time for the semi-annual check in with members of the US Southern Colonies Project. Have you been active during the last six months? Note that it is a requirement to respond to the US Southern Colonies Check-ins. Please respond to this message by clicking the reply button below this message, to post your answer. I look forward to hearing from you..

Many thanks,

Mary~ Project Coordinator, Membership, US Southern Colonies

Hi Chris!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 84,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! WOW! You did an amazing amount of additions.

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in July (tbd)

Hi Chris!

Thank you for your participation with Team Virginia in the January 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 85,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

P.S. Our Discord Channel is also active all year, not only during Thons. Drop in and say hi!

Chris,

This is the semi-annual polling for the US Southern Colonies Project check-in with members to see if you have been active in the last six months in this project?

Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the US Southern Colonies Project that you respond to these check-ins. Types of activity vary, as I mentioned in the June check-in.

I look forward to hearing from you.. Many thanks,

Mary, Membership Coordinator, US Southern Colonies Project

Chris -

Registration for the 1st 2022 Connect-A-Thon is open. Can't have a Team Virginia Thon without ya!

Hi Chris, George Fitzgerald 1739 Virginia is my husband's direct ancestor. Our family information has that he was not married to Sarah Bolling Gay. This is what a cousin wrote several years ago when I asked about the marriage.

"I found an email from 2016 where the cousin Helen Thibodeaux wrote abt Sally Bolling Gay. This is what Helen said, "I do know George Fitzgerald's first wife was not Sally bolling Gay. My Mother's lineage went back to include the Gay family & there was no Sally Bolling Gay that was born and could have fit into the life of George Fitzgerald. One Sally Bolling Gay never married & the other married another man, not George.Her Mother's family was "Totty". I hope we can straighten out the wives of George." We are very interested in finding out the truth about the marriage & would like to correspond. Thank you for your help, Carolyn Fitzgarrald

Hi Chris,

Thank you for working on the profiles of William Holloway/Holladay of Spotsylvania, Virginia.

I see the merge of Holloway-2922 and Holladay-162 has approval, but hasn't yet been completed. Do you have any thoughts about which LNAB and parents we should choose when completing the merge? I posted a comment on the profiles about this, but Liz Shifflett wasn't sure of the best way forward.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

Ian

Hi Chris!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2021 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 74,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Hope you got through the John Wick Binge while "Thon'ing".

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Save the Date: October 1st through 4th, Source-A-Thon (with amazing prizes!)

Hi Chris,

Thanks for taking responsibility for more Orphaned Profiles. This After Adopting Orphans FAQ explains the special attention adopted profiles will sometimes need from their profile managers. One quick way to find the profiles you adopted is by searching your Contributions List for the word "adopted" and "manager." You can find a quick link to your Contributions List in the My WikiTree dropdown menu.

If you will be working with any profiles needing GEDCOM cleanup, the AGC tool can help with formatting so that you can concentrate on the research. You can read more about it in the WikiTree AGC FAQ.

Let me know if you have any questions on how to find and record sources; find or merge duplicates; clean up GEDCOM or merged biographies; or interpret the Suggestions report. I'm here to help!

Debi

Thanks Chris for the wonderful research on the Chancy Court Records for Capt. James Dillard d. 1794. Such a great contribution to this profile and the confusion around the James Dillards in early Virginia.

Thanks for joining US Southern Colonies Project Chris!

I've added you to the Colony of Virginia Team page & to the members list on that page. When you get a chance, please replace "About me..." on that page with your interest areas.

The project's "News Page" serves as our newsletter.

Give a holler if you have any questions - to me, to the Discussion Group, or G2G southern_colonies

Cheers, Liz

P.S. The category for project members is Category:US Southern Colonies Project - you can add it to your profile with double brackets without the colon in front of Category - [[Category:US Southern Colonies Project] plus a second ] at the end.

The curiosity is it is such an uncommon name, there may be a link to President Lyndon Johnson which may be researchable.

Anyway, I like research clues like that and would have fun looking it up if I had time. Maybe . . . . sometime.

Hello Chris,

Thank you for entering Lyndon Johnson Whitlock to wikitree. I'm a Whitlock from the early SC group but was rather surprised at your ancestor's first name and how he got it. Do you know? That would be a challenge to learn!!! Very interesting, thanks for sharing.  ;-)) Barb

Hi again!

Do you know of a source for the statement that Peter Jones - Jones-8753 - "was a Sheriff by 1765"? And Sheriff where?

The profile for Jones-44639 has his name as "Peter Sheriff" and similar birth information but died 1793 in Kentucky.

Thanks! Liz

P.S. I couldn't find Peter born 1735 in Bristol Parish Register.

so... should the merge go through or not?

I was in the process of merging Jones-1543 & Jones-86410 - https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:MergePerson&user1_name=Jones-1543&user2_name=Jones-86410&action=compare - but then realized you had edited Jones-86410 to appear to be a separate person. Is he? If so, they need to be set as rejected, not "unmerged match".

<snip> sorry - I'd meant to delete the first draft info (now deleted)

Thanks for reaching out about the Walker family! Looks like you've done a lot of great work.

Welcome to Project Virginia!

You were amazingly quiet on the G2 discussion about James Stephen Dillard? Didn't you get this whole thing started with your suggested merge? Mary

Hi

Wish you a Happy New Year. May 2018 bring you all you need to be happy.

Congratulation for adding your contributions in December. Whatever the quantity of your contributions, they all count. As we always say "Quality is better than quantity" to make a great family tree.

Thank you for being a Wikitreer,

Guy Constantineau - Wikitree leader

Hi!

Congratulations, you've been a WikiTree member for a month! We're glad you're here. A few tips to help you dive in even deeper:

Check out Beyond the Basics of WikiTree for a guide on some of our more advanced features such as Projects, Categories, and Merging.

We're very active on our social sites and we have an excellent blog where you'll find our monthly newsletter as well as tips, interviews with our members and guest posts from others in the genealogy community.

As always, I'm here to help if you have any questions!

Guy - Mentors Leader

Hello,

Thank you for signing the Honor code. Collaboration, accurate information and good sources are the basis for a great WikiTree.

Guy - Wikitree Ranger / Leader

Hi Chris, You are now a member of the WikiTree Community - We are building One Collaborative Tree, with just one profile per person, so it is important to ensure no duplicates are entered as you add Profiles to WikiTree.

"Sources are critically important for genealogy. Some even say that genealogy without sources is mythology. Even if you're just a casual family historian recording modern family history, you will be helping future genealogists by listing where the information you've added came from."

If you have pre-1700's ancestors to add, please read our Pre-1700 profiles info. Please, be sure to include a list of the sources used, on each profile you add.

If you need any help getting started check out the Help Index or the G2G forum - Good luck growing your branches, Patt

I look forward to contributing the many years of research done by my family.

Hello Chris,

Welcome to WikiTree as a guest! We're growing a FREE worldwide family tree, striving for ONE collaborative profile for every person.

A couple suggestions to get you started:

1. Feel free to ask a question at our G2G forum .

2. Our help pages, top right, have all sorts of useful information.

If you would like to contribute, click the volunteer button and leave a comment here on your profile to let our greeters know. You should include a little bit about how you plan to contribute to the tree.

Good luck growing your branches, and thanks for offering to help with our shared tree :)

Hope you'll join us and Happy Researching.

Sally