Pat Miller
Honor Code SignatorySigned 21 May 2018 | 11,592 contributions | 2,125 thank-yous | 2,329 connections
Signed 21 May 2018 | 11,592 contributions | 2,125 thank-yous | 2,329 connections
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I am interested in communicating 
with
anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
Here is my family tree.
Miller from Dutchess County, New York to Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. Hardy from York, England area to Toronto, Canada. Prichard from Liverpool, England to Canada. Loyalist families to New Brunswick (Holly, Bartlett, Hutchinson, Stymest) from old families in 1600s Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York. Pomerania, Prussia families in 1800s to Renfrew County in Ontario (Stielow, Loock, Speaker, Strike). If any of this interests you, drop me a line. If not, I wish you good luck in tracing your branches.
with
anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
Here is my family tree.
Miller from Dutchess County, New York to Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. Hardy from York, England area to Toronto, Canada. Prichard from Liverpool, England to Canada. Loyalist families to New Brunswick (Holly, Bartlett, Hutchinson, Stymest) from old families in 1600s Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York. Pomerania, Prussia families in 1800s to Renfrew County in Ontario (Stielow, Loock, Speaker, Strike). If any of this interests you, drop me a line. If not, I wish you good luck in tracing your branches.
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Pat A. Miller
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Russell Miller
and Evelyn Alberta (Stielow) Miller
[sibling(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Apr 2018
This page has been accessed 5,171 times.
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Biography
Only child. Child of the wild 1960's. Art College. Photographer. Writer. Worked in retail and vintage retail. Happily retired. High School Photo
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| High School |
My parents John Russell Miller and Evelyn Alberta Stielow
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| Happy Couple 1943 |
Family Photos by Amateur Photographer
Family life in 1950s to early 1960s as photographed in Black and White by my father John Russell Miller. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:John%20Miller's%20Black%20&%20White%20Photos
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| Easter Blues |
Genealogy
I began searching for my roots around 1980, which at that time featured a lot of letter writing, microfilm reading and inter-library loans. My cousin Gloria Miller was also searching and we began combining our efforts. As the years passed and we got computers we were in touch daily by email. She lived in Florida and I lived in Montreal. The emails made the distance between us disappear. Gloria died in 2009 and I put the computer away. In 2016 my best friend's daughter, who I've known for 20 years, gave me a DNA test on Ancestry as a Christmas gift. After that I started a tree on Ancestry. I found WikiTree in 2018 and understanding your different mission than Ancestry, I began moving the tree over, one person at a time with proof. No person goes in without a record. I try to give them a biography when I can. In the meantime I'm improving the Ancestry tree, always learning. I love this stuff. It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle. It's detective work. It's history.
My Genealogy Buddy, my much-missed Cousin Gloria Miller
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| Portrait of Gloria Miller |
I Like to Walk
I walk everyday in winter, bundled up against the snarling wind with a long black and white scarf, 40 years old. I walk in the drenching rain of spring under the shelter of a scarlet umbrella, given to me by a friend dying of cancer who said I had enough panache to use it. I walk in the steady heat of summer, straw hat barely hiding my ruddy face, always listening for the drilling sound of woodpeckers probing the deep-grooved bark of tall trees. I walk among the yellows, oranges and reds of autumn with their maple leaves spreading across lawns as if to hide the incorrect color of grass. The high-flying geese come and go, never silently. The lake glistens with a thousand sparkles or hurls its foamy waves against the shoreline rocks. I like to walk.
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| Lakeshore |
The lake near where I live, photographed on one of my walks.
My Photos
Places: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Patpics
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| Fairfax, Vermont |
My Garden: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:FlowerPat
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| Daylily Quilt |
Memories
I have to thank Eowyn Walker for her Question of the Week: Any ghost stories in your family tree? (Oct. 2021) I had a memory of breaking into a spooky, abandoned house that was supposed to be haunted when I was barely ten years old. The experience with three close friends lingered in my mind some 60 years later. A better place for memories like this and on other subjects was a free space page. I need to do this before I'm a ghost myself. I am including photos and illustrations with the memories. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Memories
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| Halloween Decoration |
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by P. Miller at registration.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Pat's formal name
- full middle name (A.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Pat or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Pat or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Pat Miller: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup N1b1a5, FTDNA kit #IN59162
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100.00%
100.00%
Pat Miller:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member p_a_miller28
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #IN59162
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~0.39%
Faith (Horton) Stilts
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch QK7538175 [compare], Ancestry member horton_stilts
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~0.39%
Vivian (Horton) Mitchell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YP8231339 [compare]
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Pat:
- 200,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Pat Miller, and thank you from all of us! Feb 10, 2024.
- Why does my Honor Code Signatory line on my profile page light up ? Oct 5, 2023.
- Pat Miller is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 19, 2023.
- Faulty Merge-what did I do wrong? Mar 29, 2023.
- How do I remove my exact birthdate from my family tree which is public? Feb 8, 2023.
- We have a new pilot: 100,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Pat Miller, and thank you from all of us! Sep 29, 2022.
Featured National Park champion connections: Pat is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 23 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 14 degrees from George Catlin, 17 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 23 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 16 degrees from George Grinnell, 27 degrees from Anton Kröller, 14 degrees from Stephen Mather, 21 degrees from Kara McKean, 17 degrees from John Muir, 18 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 29 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
I hope you don't mind that I have added a child to Robert's profile.
I do this to connect unllinked profiles to the main tree
In this case I believe that I have the correct list of links, but one is worrying me, so I am doing further research
I remove myself as PM for the profiles I create as they are not related to me
Regards
Jules H - Connectors Team
edited by Jules Harris
Thank you for your thank you.
You speak of genealogy as a "giant jigsaw puzzle" - a good example is that according to WT's relationship finder you and Margaret (Robinson) Lapham (1787-1858) are first cousins five times removed while she and I are fifth cousins five times removed through my father's family. At the same time you and I are 10th cousins twice removed through my mother's family.
Stay well, Jennifer
I want to thank you for the kind comments about my Free Space page, "Old Cars." You had said," I currently don't know how to do what has been done but I can learn, I hope." As a special 'thank you,' I put together the following step-by-step instructions on how to do it. If you don't have the time or it's not a priority for you, don't worry, You won't hurt my feelings. If you have any questions, you know where to find me. Thank you again, - Bryan
http://beetle63.com/books/A%20Special%20Thanks.pdf
However, I do not find this nearly as interesting as our connection by way of Cohoes or by way of making jam. The fun of Wikitree is that we can find and enjoy such connections.
Wikitree also has a relationship finder, but of course it only works if all the connecting relations are in the tree. It does, however, allow me to find the relationship between any two people, not just "relationship to me." I've used that feature, too. The Familysearch relationship finder showed me that I am related to the creator of the Smiley Face. So "Have a Nice Day."
The beauty of WikiTree is you can go into your father's profile, add and change what you want. The down side on both Wiki and FamilySearch is others can put in erroneous information. I haven't had problems with people on WikiTree doing weird things to my closer family members but on FamilySearch....yikes. So I fix what I can. I spend most of my time on WikiTree and Ancestry for records and DNA matches then do occasional dives into FamilySearch, which I do admire. Bye for now. Pat Miller
I added you as trusted on the space page for Shipping Disasters. https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Space:Shipping_Disasters
And put in blue near the sources for you to add the Designer's name and anything you need to add. Click edit to do that. <Be sure to Save>
Thanks for your interest in the Disasters space page.
Mary Project Coordinator.
edited by Pat Miller
Like you, I love solving family puzzles. I've added a DOD and a grad photo to C. Muriel Birnie Miller's profile.
Laurie
https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/McGee-1611-Photos-4
That's the one to create a link in G2G posts.
And a quick question. I found images of Eliphalet's probate at Ancestry and have created a citation for it. Had you found a transcript of the will and proving? If so, would you share the URL in a comment on my page. I'll see if I can create a citation for that one. Then you can use the citations as examples for future citations.
Debi
Thank you for self-certifying for the Pre-1700 badge! Participation in a Pre-1700 Project is strongly encouraged for those wishing to edit Pre-1700 profiles. You made a great start with your G2G post.
It looks like the US History Project would be a good fit based your family tree. Review the project page to learn about resources and special guidelines as well as how to collaborate with the project members.
Do you have any questions? Let me know. I'm happy to help! :-)
Debi ~ Pre-1700 Greeter
PS Links sometimes do not work in email; if that happens, use the link in the public comments on your profile
There is a way to create a link to Frances' profile on John's profile. Take a look at way I created the links to Frances' mother and father in her bio. The same thing can be done in John's bio. Inside the double square brackets use the Frances' WikiTree ID and the name that you want to appear.
Debi
1. I fixed the URL for the space page at the very bottom. There was a space after the semi-colon, and spaces between the three words. The space after the semi-colon was deleted, and underscores substituted for the other spaces.
2. I turned the words you had used just before the URL into a clickable link using that special code I told you about. It consists of two open square brackets, the name of the space page, a pipe symbol "|", the words that you want to be linked, and two close square brackets.
3. I used that same coding in the body of the biography to create a link to the space page.
4. I used the same kind of code to create links to her parents profiles.
Take a look and let me know what you think,
Debi
For the tags to be of best use, they should contain fewer words. I would suggest just the surname, the state, and "summer_camp" though I doubt that one will get much use.
It may not be showing up in the search yet because of a log time between when the page was created on WikiTree and when Google indexes it. I'd give it at least 24 hours and then try the free-space search again.
I've added a link on the page which will tell you which profiles have a link back to it ... once we get them working. The coding to make that link work is a little different from a standard URL link. Would you give an example of a profile where you have included the link that isn't working. I'll fix it so that you can see how it needs to be done.
Debi
The link for your new free-space page is:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sidney_Lanier_Camp
The fastest way that I have found to see all my free-space pages is using the My WikiTree menu, then click Wathclist. At the top of the Watchlist page, there are two tabs. Click the one that says Free-Space pages.
For the ones that I use frequently, I add a link to the Scratch Pad on my Navigation Home Page. Learning to use that made navigation around WikiTree so much easier for me.
Hope this helps,
Debi
I usually add to what they provide; my rule of thumb is to provide the kind of event, place and date of event, person's name(s) as they appear on the record, and where I found the record. For instance (totally fictional):
Ancestry, "Florida Death Certificates 1917-1939," John Jacob Jones (father) in the record for Thomas James Jones, Pinellas County, 8 Jan 1926.
With that anyone (usually me LOL) can find the record again.
Sorry, I got carried away. I look forward to seeing you in the branches!
Debi
This is just a courtesy e-mail to see how things are going. Are you enjoying WikiTree so far? Any questions? Any issues?
Feel free to contact me via my profile page. I am happy to help!