Cathryn (Hallett) Hondros

Hi Cathryn, the February Challenge had 33 members who connected 415 soldiers, with a combined total of 2,594 profiles created. Thank you joining the February Challenge and making it such a success.

Here is the link to the March/April Vicksburg National Cemetery Challenge, in case your interested: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1710470/civil-war-2024-march-april-vicksburg-natl-cemetery-challenge

Thanks for joining Appalachia Roots on the Connect-A-Thon.  Our Team finished in 1st place by connecting over 16,000 Profiles! 

That is an amazing job!!  Check out the Scoreboard

We couldn't do it without you. We have awesome team members! - Can't wait to do it again at the next Thon in April 2024!

Sandy & Patty - Appalachia Roots Co Captains

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Sticker code for your personal profile can be found here

Hello from the Appalachia Project!

Join us for our online Appalachia Project Party on Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at 2pm (EST)/7pm (UTC).

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Hi Cathryn, our November Challenge went really well, all of the Notable Officers have been connected to the One World Tree, and 69 of the Officers had their CC7 numbers increased. Thank you for taking on one of our Officers.

Thank for mentioning Benjamin Loxley-his wife, Jane Watkins Loxley, was my 5th great-grandfather's sister. Benjamin was apprenticed to their father, Joseph Watkins Sr. who was a carpenter by trade.

Cyrus Richmond, his marriage to Eliza Tinan, and the names of his children are recorded in Joshua Bailey Richmond's 1897 The Richmond Family, a highly reliable source. In that book he's number 1844, pages 276-277. Like me, he descends from John Richmond of Taunton MA around 1650. I can give you more information if you reply. My email is rsrichmond on gmail

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 Cathryn, I want to congratulate you on your excellent profile work. Yours is delightful. And the people you have profiled , my goodness, what a tremendous amount of research!!! I enjoyed them all and the one of Dr. Fosdick beats anything I have read since I have been citing good profiles and maybe before. You do an admirable job...keep up the good work. Fabulous!!!! Was also pleased to note that you are a sister DAR.

By the way, we are 10th cousins, both descending from a Doolittle great grandmother, New Haven CT. All good wishes, Lula Tuttle Sinnott WT#Tuttle2196. Treehugger

Hi Cathryn, Thank you for participating in the March-April POW’s who Died in Andersonville Prison Challenge, there were 25 members who contributed to the Challenge. At the beginning of the challenge there were 137 Profiles created, we are now at 1,629 profiles.

In case you’d like to continue creating profiles for these soldiers we have a new space page https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:POW%27s_Who_Died_in_Andersonville_Prison whose purpose is to steadily create profiles for the 12,681 soldiers buried in Andersonville National Cemetery.

Thank you again for joining the Challenge.

Cathryn -

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.

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Sandy

Hi Cathryn, just wanted to let you know we have been given permission to use the Memorial images from Find-a-Grave on the Soldier's we're creating.

Credit: Kevin Frye Andersonville Historian has given permission for us to use the images on Find-a-Grave

Cathryn,

You are now badged for the War between the States (Civil War) Project. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:US_Civil_War:_War_Between_the_States Pam Kreutzer is your leader. Be sure to add your space page to the list of WikiTree Space pages on the project page and save.. The Ciivil War jas a goggle group for discussion- https://groups.google.com/g/wikitree-us-civil-war-war-between-the-states It helps there to submit your full name as well as your WikiTree number.

There is a lot to read on the project page including stickers for yourself, and stickers for your profiles.

Mary Richardson, Project Coordinator

Hello Cathryn,

I have just been running back through old messages and came across your mention of a Hannah Leadley in the U.S.A.. I only have knowledge of my great great Grandmother Hannah and she was born in Lincolnshire, England and she died in 1866 in Yorkshire, England. Sorry I am unable to assist you with your quest. I apologise for taking so long to reply to your question. Rae Wilson (nee Leadley)

Hi Cathryn,

Sorry I wasn't there to support you real time, but I had a look at your presentation afterward, and it was very interesting! Thanks for the shout-out for HHC, even though, as I complained, I don't appear to have gotten any DNA from him, just his wife. Not sure I told you this, but in planning my French Canadian mother's funeral, I decided to embrace the fact that all of my 8% of Scottish blood came from her, and had a graveside bagpiper dirge out Scotland the Brave as he marched off and up the hill out of the cemetery, the music fading into the distance. The fifty people gathered stayed reverently silent as the music faded off into the distance, until I broke the silence and declared "The Queen should have no better than my mommy!" People seemed to welcome the moment of levity. As an accomplished businesswoman, you might find her unusual path interesting to read about > Jolicoeur-62 . Best Regards, Bernard

OH GADS!!! ROTF

I Love you,,,,,

You have done just what I have done only you are in Ohio...I am in Colorado.... and I have talked a friend into helping with the Colorado 3rd 1164 total and I have a SPACE

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:3rd_Regiment%2C_Colorado_Cavalry%2C_United_States_Civil_War

we don't call it "stubbed" she started calling it "SQUIRREL" SAME thing.........

Anyway if I didn't have so many projects going and my ADD gets me off and running onto another... My maternal grandparents were Ohioans for generations. the Puntenney Family Cemetery in Rome and our name is still on a road Puntenney Run road

I visited Ohio for a week genealogy trip in 2003.

If it is ok? I will do the Osborn profile research and add all I can find. In response to this 8 Sep 2022 comment by Carole Taylor:

It would help to know where he was born, OHIO? who are his parents? thank you

Cathryn replied: Thanks for the observation, Carole! I am slowly but surely working my way thru the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and trying to research families for all the men who served. 1099 men served in total. Profiles are completed as best I can for 584 soldiers. 133 are what I call stubbed up and 382 have not been started at all.

Lieut. William H. Osborn is currently in the “stubbed up” status category. Unfortunately his profile is lacking a great deal of information that a completed profile might have. Here’s how it happens — When I’m working on soldier A, but come across great information for soldier B. I don’t want to lose that information but I don’t want to abandon soldier A, so I quickly create a very simple profile for soldier B and store the information. Then I keep soldier B on the “to do” list and get back to working on soldier A.

I expect to be back to William in early December. For more information about the 105th OVI project, please see: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:105th_Ohio_Volunteer_Infantry_Project If you’re seeking a project to be part of, I would ❤️ the help!

Hi

Could you change the last name at birth for Jeanette Eliza (Unknown) Tolles (abt.1834-1913) from unknown to Fisk.

thanks Mickey Bazley

Cathryn, we are 19th cousins! I was reading your profile and decided to do the connections at the bottom. Our connection is 4 degrees of course, but then I decided to check our relationship. We share the same 18th great grandmother!

I'm trying to find out how Rex Ora Darby is related to me thru my grandpa Frank Vern Derby and how Viola Johnston Darby is related to me. It gets confusing...

Hi Cathryn

One of your profiles - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Meharg-108 has a strange Prefix, which I cannot work out, it causes an error report to be made. I have tried searching for the prefix as it stands and cannot find a match. Could I impose on you to have a look, if it is as it should be then let me know and I will mark it up as such. it is the punctuation which causes the report to be made.

Thanks for your attention Jules Harris Data Doctors

Can't find where to go to find your merge and thank you for that! Hopefully, I'll be able to do some more work on my pages soon, but I really appreciate your added sources as well. Thanks again.

Cathryn, every contribution to WikiTree improves the quality of our Shared Tree. The Appreciation Team thanks you for all your efforts by making more than 1,000 contributions during the month of September.

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Cathryn, the Appreciation Team thanks for you for efforts toward making our Shared Tree the best it can be with your 1000+ contributions during August 2019. You are an important part of what we are all about!

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Hi Cathryn!

The Appreciation Team thanks you for all for your hard work for reaching 1000+ (actually, over 2900!) contributions for the month July 2019. Onward and upward!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

I suppose that I should respond here rather than E-Mail so that others know. Thank you for the correspondence. Yesterday I scanned the family tree from Hugh McIlrath and saw Jabez and Jane listed. My older brother is the genealogist and I'm sure he can provide me with more details. I've been scanning over 300 envelopes from 1886 to 1930s, 100 newspaper, photos, letters, and probably another 200-300 personal items that my Great-grandfather and grandfather saved. My grandfather collected stamps so he saved envelopes, but why my Great-grandfather saved I can only guess.

I found your postings just now. I just got hold of a family tree dated back to Hugh McIlrath, 179?

At the moment I only have bad pictures of it that I took and need to actually scan it to read it better. I'll have to check the names you've given but if they are from East Cleveland and possibly New Jersey, or BalleyClose Ireland, I'm sure we're related

Hello, Cathryn

Thank you so much for the link to the death certificate. I do believe that Martha Alice Clark is the daughter of William and Delila CiterlyClark. I have a photo of Julia and a sister and I believe her name was Martha.

Thanks again Julia Hogston

Hello, Cathryn!

Very well done on your making 1,000 or more contributions to WikiTree in June 2019! We commend and appreciate all of your time and effort in helping to grow and perfect our Shared Tree. Keep up the great work!

Pip Sheppard ~ WikiTree Appreciation Team

Hi Cathryn!

Congratulations on making more than 1,000 contributions to WikiTree for the Month of May. We all appreciate your efforts to make our Shared Tree the best it can be. Keep up the great work and THANK YOU!

Pip Sheppard WikiTree Appreciation Team

Yes thats where she is from. Morenci sherman and Rhoda ann dewitt are her parents.

Thank you for all of your thank you's! I almost wish it didn't detail every little addition or change at such a high level--I don't want anyone to think I'm bowling for badges! Give my regards to the Garden State.