Ian Hunter

It is once again time for our annual Ireland Project check-in. Please respond within the next three weeks to let us know:

1. If you would like to continue as an Ireland Project member. If your answer is yes, please tell us if you are happy with your current team, or if you would prefer to join a different one. If you are currently participating in more than one team we would appreciate you ranking them in their order of importance to you, from highest priority to lowest. This information will be helpful as we consider possible future changes to our team structure.
2. In the past, the project has had a very minimal membership requirement (one contribution per year) for badged members to meet. Do you believe this is adequate, or should this requirement be increased? What do you believe would be a reasonable commitment to expect from all project members?
3. How active have you been in the Ireland Project over the past year? Please choose one of the following options: a) I normally spend 1-5 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. b) I normally spend 6-10 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. c) I spend over 10 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. d) I am not able to contribute every month but have spent approximately ________ hours during the past year improving Irish profiles.
4. Please provide feedback on any things you’d like to see the project do more of in the future.

You can respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. If we don’t hear from you within the next three weeks we’ll assume your interests have changed or you no longer are able to participate in the Ireland Project at this time, and your badge will be removed. If your circumstances change later you will be welcome to reapply for membership.

Many thanks for all that so many of you have contributed to the project in the past year, and very special thanks to those who answered the project’s call and gave generously of their time to be part of Team Seanchaithe during the most recent connect-a-thon. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

le dea-mhéin, Jen Hutton, Ireland Project co-leader

Hi Ian. Some profiles have a person born in 'Galway', Ireland or Galway, County Galway, Ireland.

How are the two different categories used?

Also, sometimes wikitree is a bit clunky, when opening up a box/field to begin typing Galway or County Galway as a category, sometimes it comes up with and sometimes with .

Sometimes the option for .

I saw your note to Jamie regarding access to the database dumps. Great stuff! I hope we hear more from you someday soon.

Chris

It’s time for our annual Ireland Project check-in! Please respond within the next two weeks to let me know:

If you are happy with the team you’re on or if you’d like to make a change. It is now required that all members with an Ireland project badge work on at least one of the project’s team(s), so if you’ve not yet signed up please do so in your reply to this check-in.

• What you think the project is doing well, and what (if any) changes you would like to see us make? Are there any teams you would like to become more active in?

• Would you be interested in helping to work on an Ireland Project newsletter?

• Please give us some feedback on the use of google group and discord. Do you use one or both of these? If you don’t use either of them, what is the best way for us to ensure you receive project communications? If you would like to join us on either one, just let us know in your response and we will get you signed up.

Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. If we don’t hear from you within two weeks, we will assume you are no longer interested in participating in the Ireland Project, and your badge will be removed. If you wish to reapply for membership later, we will be happy to have you back. Many thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Jen Hutton, on behalf of the Ireland Project

While adding information to you branch of Acheson family I found the link to the document 'ACHESON of Graddum, .........'. I found this document to be very interesting. My GG-grandmother Jane Acheson married in the Church of Ireland at Kildrumferton in 1850. I haven't found any clear link between the families but there were a lot of Acheson living in close proximity. Are you still in contact with author of the 'ACHESON.....' document? I would like to contact him and see if he can make any sense of the names I have identified. Cheers, Steve

As mentioned before I've been contacted by a descendant of a different Acheson family Georgina Boyd (Lockhart-4883). She contacted me to see if my branch of Acheson families was connected with hers. I've just noticed that she has taken an Autosomal DNA test and registered in Wikitree. I don't how the DNA comparisons work but it might be worthwhile to contact her and compare DNA tests. Steve.

My attention has been brought back to the possible connections between Acheson families in the Ulster Province. I've been prompted by a query regarding Acheson family in Co. Antrim. I've made a new Wikitree page to collect information. https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Acheson_Name_Study_-1&public=1

Steve.

You should be able to bring them back out of archive. Click the green "Archived comments" button at the bottom of the profile, then use the "Un-archive" link on the comment to bring it back to the profile page. I am not sure why WikiTree-1 would have done any archiving. It may have been a glitch with the roll out of the new comments system-we apologize for that.

Abby The WikiTree Team

I'd like to explore a possible family connection via Jane Jones (nee Acheson, 1827-1899). I'll send more detail via private message.

Kind regards, Steve Thomas.

The Ireland Project (previously the Irish Roots Project) has now changed its structure into Teams. We require everyone with the Ireland Badge to be a member of at least one Team or Sub-Team and our google group. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Ireland for details. The Teams are :-

1. Categories Team

2. Counties Team

3. Managed Profiles Team

4. Membership Team

5. Profile Improvement Team

6. Topics Team

7. Diaspora

? Can you let me know if you’d like to stay on in the new project and which team(s) you’d like to join. Please also let me know your e-mail address so that I can get you added to the project’s Google Group or confirm you are already a member of the google group.

Many thanks,

Maria

I wish there was a way to reply to your comment so I can still see your comment as a thread like gmail back and forth. Anyway, I agree on all accounts - I changed my spelling of Attwood based on 1851 Census and also his birth year on mine to 1853 based on same. Lets merge 619 and 2494. How do we do that as that choice does not exist on my gedmatch. Thanks Ian Jamie

C

See this G2G discussion for an explanation about the One Name Studies profile management.

Julie