Valerie Kerr

Hello Valerie,

We recently left a message on your profile to check in with the Profile Improvement Project (PIP). You indicated that you would like to continue with the Unknowns Team. To date the Unknowns Team lead has not heard from you. Please let us know how you would like to proceed.

We would like to hear from you with any ideas or suggestions. If you do not wish to participate in the Project, please let us know. If we don’t hear from you within 14 days we will remove you from the Project, but we will welcome you back at any time. Upon your return we will ask you to join the Fast Track Voyage program.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Kay Knight, Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Robin Shaules, Project Coordinator, Profile Improvement Project

Dear Valerie,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing a check-in with project members. Please review the following and respond to let us know that you are content with your current team or if you would like to be more involved.

The Project operates in a team structure. There are currently three participant PIP Teams -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team which guides new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.

There are currently three different Biography Teams - The Biography Team, the Abandoned Team, and the Popular Team.

You're currently identified as a member of the Biography Team. The Biography Team works on profiles from their watchlist and other profiles that interest them. Are you happy with the Team you are on? If you are interested in working with a different Team, please let us know.

If you have not already done so, we invite you to join the email GoogleGroup and text chat Discord channel for our project. (You will need your Wiki ID for both). Neither is required; we also use the Profile_Improvement tag in G2G for Project announcements.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project meet its goals. We would like to hear about the successes you’ve had and would also appreciate any feedback you have to help improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or via private message to one of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Kay Knight, Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project Robin Shaules, Project Coordinator, Profile Improvement Project

Hi Valerie,

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

•If you would like to continue as a project member •If you are happy with your current teams or would you like to join a different team •How much time per month (on average) you spend working on Scottish profiles •Anything you’d like the Scotland Project to 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 are no longer able to participate in the Scotland Project at this time, and your badge will be removed. If your circumstances change later you will be welcome to reapply for membership.

On behalf of the Scotland Project, I would like to thank you for your commitment to the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve Scottish profiles!

Sheena - Scotland Project Membership Coordinator

Hi Valerie,

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

Thank you for replying to the Great War Project July 2022 check in (subproject of the Military and War Project), Valerie. I have marked you as active, at least within the last year.

Good luck with your recent contacts on the profiles. Maybe you will make connections.

Mary, Project Coordinator, Military and War Project

Dear Valerie,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing its first annual check-in with our project members. Please review the following and let us know if you are content where we have placed you or would like to be more involved.

We are in the process of transitioning to a team structure. There will be three participant PIP Teams to start -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team which guides new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.

You're currently identified as a member of the Biography Team Level 1, working on profiles from your own watchlist, from projects in which you are involved, and whatever else you find. Biography Teams Levels 2 and 3 will work on designated profiles for notables (Level 3) and everyday people (Level 2). Please let us know if you would like to help with a higher-level Bio Team or one of the other Teams. We saw that at one time you were interested in the Unknowns team. Would you like to continue in that team?

You joined the Project before the Voyage started in late 2018. We would like to invite you to consider a "fast track" Voyage, especially if you would like to work at a higher level on the Biography Team. If you’re interested, choose a profile from your own watchlist that you have completed to the best of your ability and compare it to the Voyage Biography Standards. If your profile is at Level 2 or better, include a link to the profile in your response to this check-in for a “fast track” review.

We would also like to invite you to join the email GoogleGroup and text chat Discord channel for our project. If you request to join our GoogleGroup, please be sure to include your Wiki ID. Neither is required; we also use the Profile_Improvement tag in G2G for Project announcements.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project and WikiTree. The Project’s mission is to:

Make profiles beautiful! We clean up messy biography sections and sources, and try to set standards for attractive, useful, and well-written biographies, starting with those we manage.

We know you’re working on profiles *smile* We would like to hear about successes you’ve had toward the Project’s goals. We would also appreciate any feedback you might have to help us improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or privately via private message to either of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Robin Shaules Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Hi Valerie,

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

Hi Valerie.

Not sure if you're still frequenting this site. You added a marriage and death certificate for Andrew Dunbar (N. Ireland). I'm wondering if you have a connection to this family. I believe the person named in the certificates might be the brother of my great-grandfather.

Hello Valerie, will you open Propper_de_Callejó-2 please, so his ancestry can be added? Thank you.

Hello

It’s time for a Project check-in!

Scotland Project Leaders check in with you at least once a year to see how you are doing. With the changes happening around the world, we understand that life is hectic right now.

What are you planning to work on for the Scotland Project this year? Are you happy with the team(s) you part of, or would you like to make some changes?

This time round, we’re also looking for 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 to ensure you receive Project communications? If you would like to join us on Google Group or Discord, let us know in your response.

Hi Valerie my family connection and name searches span Co Antrim and Co Down I am looking at the surname Finney, Acheson and Baillie so far I have had some success by currently I have had a brick wall moment looking for my grandmother's great great great Grandfathers birth and marriage. I have children's marriages for this gentleman but am struggling to find his birth and marriage. A cousin of my f late father's took up researching and their was a question mark around Lindsay FINNEYs wife possibly being Janet Ferguson. I feel Ferguson is right as pattern of naming children is traditional Presbyterian carrying surnames on in male and female children. My grandmother was named after her great grand mother Margaret Anne Acheson Finney. My FINNEYs hail from either Co Antrim or Co Down dunadry Templepatrick and Grange in Co Antrim and Downpatrick and Killyleagh. Seem to be most prevelent areas and a town land called BALLYgraigy or maybe craigy is mentioned for Lindsay I wonder what you know of the Area and do record exist for mid to late 1700s for births and marriages

Hello Valeria my mum name was Annie McMillan her mum was Margaret Glass her mum was Elizabeth Kerr married to George Glass all from Belfast do you think we could have a connection .Or maybe Kerr is your married name .regards Bea

Hi Valerie,

As a member of the Scotland Project, we'd love to have you join the Twisted Thistles in the upcoming Connect-a-thon the weekend of July 17 - July 20. If you'd like to join us and help to develop our ever-expanding Scottish tree, please register on the G2G post here and be sure to mention you'd like to be on the Twisted Thistles team for Scotland.

We also have our team Chat page posted here.

Hope to see you there!

Bobbie & Sarah

Twisted Thistles Co-captains

  

Hi Valerie

We would love to have you join us in the newly formed England Team (Sandringham Strollers & Windsor Warriors) = Mighty Oaks  for the Connect-A-Thon

If you are interested in joining the new English team then sign up here Connect-A-Thon

Here is our chat page which just opened - Mighty Oaks Chat We will also be on Discord for live chatting.

This link is for the help page for the event  Help page

Look forward to working with you again

 Joan & Janet

You added a James Craig born Belfast c. 1840 with a daughter Ellen. I wonder if you know, did your James have a brother Samuel Craig (daughter Margaret Ann)?

Hello Valerie, My name is Lewis Bailie and I have been searching the family for years on and off. I have hit a dead-end at my GGG grand patents John Bailie/ Bailey and Mary Tompkins. What I can tell they were in the maybe Down Patrick area. I know their son John and wife MaryCarr had what I can find 7 children in Dublin. From my late aunt, I understand they may have been descendants of Baillie of Dochfour in Scotland. There was an indiscretion with 3 brothers doing harm to a clergy person. One went to Ireland in I believe the mid-1300's starting Ringdufferin and Inishargy. Do you have anything in your tree making any connection? Thank you.

Hello Valerie,

You added information re Georgina Brines. Is she related to you? She is my grandmother.

Hi Valerie,

As you have offered me some real help with my ancestral page and research, I thought you might be interested in a research project I had completed by a Dr. Tyrone Bowes. It is about the Hawthorne migration from Scotland to Ireland, Co. Down during the plantation of 1610. The report is truly interesting and informative. Now all I have to do is fill in the ancestral information from 1610 to 1800's; only a couple of hundred years! Anyway, thanks for your help in the past, hope you can open and like the file, if no let me know and we can try another way? Cheers Manny P.s. the file is attached to my Wikitree page.

Hi Valerie

As you may have heard, we have merged the Scottish Clans project into the Scotland Project. I am contacting you today to find out if you are interested in continuing with us under this new format. If you would like to go forward on the Scottish Clans Team, please reply and let me know which clans you have been working on or would like to work on. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely

Amy Gilpin, Scotland Project Co-Leader

  

Hi Valerie, 

Wondered as the Windsor Warriors are not participating if you would like to join the Sandringham Strollers for the Scan-A-Thon on the January 10, at 8 AM (ET) and runs until Monday, January 13, 2020

If you would like to join us please register Here 

Look forward to working with you during this fun event.

Janet & Gillian

Re: Samuel M'skimin

His great-granddaughter, Elizabeth M'crum, re-issued his 'History of Carrickfergus'. She included a bio in which she speculates that SM was an only child (due to lack of death records of siblings). But I wonder, I've seen a news item about an Andrew M'skimin born in Ballyclare within 10 years of him...

Hi Valerie,

On behalf of the Connectors Project Leaders, we are doing a six-month check-in with members. Please let us know if you are still active. If you are active, please let us know in which ways you are currently contributing to the project.

All of us at WikiTree would like to thank you for your contributions and hope that you are enjoying exploring your roots.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Michelle ~ Volunteer Coordinator

Hello, Valerie,

We are sorry to lose you as a member of the Worldwide Disasters Project, but we understand that life gets busy and interests shift. Please know that you will always be welcome to rejoin the project in the future if you wish.

Thank you so much for your participation; we genuinely appreciate it.

Deb ~ Volunteer Coordinator

Valerie, could you do me a favour please and update your Irish Roots template to Irish_Clans or Irish Native please? IR is being restricted to project use. Many thanks!

Valerie, thank you for your information on Elizabeth J. Jebb. Kathy McKennon-Landi

Valerie,

Thanks for offering to help with the Unknowns Project. We really appreciate it. I suggest you check out a couple of pages for information on what we do and how to help – Unknowns Project Home Page; Unknowns Project Space Page.

Shirley

Hello ,Valerie I just learned we are 18th cousins through John Glen ,while matching profiles of my GEDCOM..Quite interesting.

Hi Valerie:

Thank you for taking the time to help me out on this line in my tree. You helped to solve a riddle that had my mother’s family stumped for years. Her brother always thought that there was a brother to my grandfather Squires named Hyder. Now I see that Isabella Cockburn married a man whose surname was Hyder! One riddle solved. There must be other Cockburn siblings because of the big gap in birth years – that will be the next job! Thanks for all the additional information!

Rick Heaslip