Pip Sheppard

Pip.

Thank you for participating in the April Connect-a-Thon with the Southern Super Sweepers! We ended the Thon with 3177 profiles added! That's 473 more than in January. We couldn't have done it without you.

You can choose either of these stickers to put on your profile:

Hope to see you in July!

Dorothy and Nan, Co-Captains, Southern Super Sweepers

Pip,

Thanks for joining the Southern Super Sweepers for the April 2024 Connect-a-Thon! We start on Friday, April 12, at 8 a.m. Eastern; and go through Monday, April 15, at 8 a.m. Eastern.

Participation instructions are here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Connect-a-Thon#Participation_Instructions

Our team page is here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Southern_Super_Sweepers

Our G2G chat post: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1730209/southern-super-sweepers-team-chat-april-2024-connect-a-thon

The Southern Super Sweepers Discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/494893309152722955/856524100843208744

A link to the points tracker for this thon will also be posted on the team page, the chat page, and our discord channel as soon as it's active.

Schedule for the video hangouts during the Thon: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Challenge_Hangouts

Share a connecting selfie here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1730772/will-you-share-an-april-2024-connecting-selfie

Stickers:

See you there! Nan, Co-Captain, Southern Super Sweepers

Chat this Friday, 30th March - squirrels ate your truck?? Had you said "goats ate your truck" I'd credit it a lot more. Squirrels?? You have photos of the damage, yes? Insurance company may well collapse from laughing themselves silly.

Thank you Pip for welcoming me to WikiTree. I look forward to getting involved as I can regarding the Mason Singleton Jr tree as I have time. I have always been fascinated with learning more about my ancestors, and I do have quite a bit of information to share going forward on the Mason Singleton Jr tree...I am a 5th generation native Texan and Mason Singleton Jr is my great-great-great grandfather. Records I have go back to 1609 in London, England to Sir Robert Singleton and so far that is where we loose the trail on our ancestry. Thanks again for the welcome!

Good morning Pip, Thank you for the welcome.

I saw you have completed your y-DNA; maybe you can help me with getting my father into a surname project. My goal for project enrollment is to prove paternity of Dad's g-grandfather who was adopted, though not likely legally adopted. I am pretty sure who I am seeking, though cannot find any records of him prior to 1843 marriage record, and census saying b.1825 in PA. Can I use the y-37 test (least expensive) to complete my goal?

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Thanks for the welcome message. However, I tried adding a bunch of information about my background and my family tree and none of it is showing up. I don't understand how this works.

Thanks for message Pip happy to do Honour code. Possibly will need help. Regards Clive Barton

Hi Pip, the US Civil War Project is conducting a Check-in for 2024 to see if your still interested/active in the Project.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you. You can click the reply button or message me with your answer. Thank you. Pam Kreutzer, leader of the US Civil War Project

Pip,

Will you be able to join us for the Connect-a-Thon? Registration closes Wednesday night. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1674015/have-you-registered-for-the-january-2024-connect-a-thon-yet? If not, feel free to drop in on Discord every now & then for cheerleading duty!

Nan

Hi Pip,

Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023! Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!

I'd like to share our end-of-year 2023 Newsletter. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading about what we have achieved in 2023!

On behalf of all the England Project Leaders, we wish you a peaceful, productive and enjoyable 2024!

Best wishes,

Maddy, England Project Leader

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

If you are signed up for our Project's Google Group, look for an email with the easy instructions on how to join. 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.) Need to sign up for the Appalachia Project Google Group or Discord channel: Google Group and Discord Chat Channel Hope to “see” you there! Tabor

Pip,

Thank you for joining the Southern Super Sweepers for the 2023 Source-a-Thon! Dorothy will be starting a chat page on G2G when we get a little closer to the Thon. Our team page is here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Southern_Super_Sweepers. It has, among other info, the thon's video chat schedule, and a link to the Southern Super Sweepers discord channel.

See you then!

Nan

Co-Captain, Southern Super Sweepers

Hi Pip,

I sent you a message a couple of days ago, have you had a chance to have a look at it?

(Feel free to erase this message after reading it... I didn't find the auto-destroy (MI) tool for after reading, to include here)

Regards, Rui

Many thanks Pip for the Welcome to WikiTree; very much appreciated.

One of the reasons I wanted to join is because the surname I've been researching for approximately 40years, I'd previously undertaken as a One-Name Study, and indeed had been a member for several years of the UK "Guild of One-Name Studies", and whilst I have much of my research on my own website, in a book I had written, on my regularly updated program, and in 100s (literally) of files in my study, I feel that now is the time for me to share the fruit of my labours!

I'm sure that others have probably taken the same path as myself, inasmuch as when I first began researching my own Family History, there weren't such things as "Personal Computers", let alone anything else "electronic", and I still find it amazing that I had to go to Australia and New Zealand in 1992 in order to research the branches of the family who went there (voluntarily!) in the very early 1800s onwards - whereas nowadays I can "go" into the very vaults of where I went all those years ago, without having to fly, drive or stay anywhere!

Looking forward to being part of WikiTree, and to hopefully providing many new names, connections etc that will help achieve this site's ambitious aim!

Thanks again

(Whoops, almost forgot to say; my own ONS is Powditch)

Hi Pip,

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

Pip, thank you!

Last name is misspelled. Should be Jett not Hett. I apologize for any error on my part.

OK Pip I marked you as "will be more active" Thanks for checking in. Mary

Hi Pip,

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

Hello. I got a general message from you. I am trying to fill in immediate family and work on connections first. If you have any knowledge about Haliburton links, please let me know.

Dear Pip,

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

The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members periodically to make sure everything is going well. This is our formal annual check-in with you.

Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Would you like to join any other teams?

Also, we would really like to hear which team is currently your highest priority. If you are a member of more than one team, could you please rank them from highest priority to lowest? Thank you! If you don’t see yourself as being part of a team, please let us know.

We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.

I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.

On behalf of all the Leaders, thank you again for all you do and we look forward to you continuing to be a part of our collaborative and fun Project!

Kind regards,

Elizabeth, England Project Leader

Dear Germany Project member,

it's annual check-in time 2023. If you still wish to remain a member of the Germany Project, please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. In this case please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help, with researching your German ancestors, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with Germany in order for knowledgeable people to see them.

If you wish to remain a member, we would like to learn more about your perception of the Germany Project in order to achieve a future development according to our members needs and wishes. For this, we created a survey, which we kindly ask you to fill-in.

In case you want to communicate, discuss and receive help about WikiTree in German, you might want to check out the WikiTree category at Compgen’s Discourse as well as the German Discord server Ahnenforschung.

Of course there’s still the official WikiTree Discord server, where we usually talk English. Feel free to learn more about Discord and the server at Help:Discord.

Kind regards from Black Forest

Flo (Project Coordinator Research/Resources)

Hello from the Appalachia Project!

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.

Appalachia Project Google Group and Discord Chat Channel

Sandy

ok Sir Pip I have some other life things to do. yes they exist, I was trying to correct my name to what it really is, I was being sly but It will not let me fix it ?

Please help. I like things neat. I was able to put the link in the fb. page i put the pic on and the link no prob. the problem was the old f,b I was trying to revive to keep it just for this but why have twenty of them. Im getting that look I have to go

OK Pip, I'm new and green, but I was hoping there was some way to populate a tree in a free app back 10 to 12 generations without having to copy and paste it all all over again. Is that possible any where of which you know??? I have uploaded a small test tree GEDCOM into Wiki, but I get just a spread sheet and don't see anyway to populate a tree. Thanks in advance for anyone's thoughts?? :) I looking for a fee program to put locally on my laptop, I find what I am trying to ask for is a way to LOAD A GEDCOM INTO A PEDIGREE STYLE TREE WITHOUT having to copy and past each name all over again. Sorry I'm so new I don't know the correct terminology to use in my requests. Thanks for your patience. :)

Thank you, Pip, for being so welcoming. i am bound to make many mistakes, so thank you for the kind offer to help.

Cheers, janet

thank you for accepting me! i hope that i can find out some information that is missing from my family tree...

sherry kirby

Thanks for the note about adding pre-1700 profiles. I got just to the edge of it during the Connect-A-Thon and didn't want to go further without having some insight into the expectations. Currently I'm working closer to home since there are hundreds of profiles that I can easily add with full documentation. When I get back to the precipice again I'll review and reach out. The certification self test was really instructive on how to complete a profile properly and what is considered appropriate proof standards. Thank you!

Thanks for the welcome Pip! I've delayed signing on to WikiTree because it's seemed to have so many moving parts, so I appreciate your reaching out.

Hi Pip!

On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!

I'd also like to share our annual Newsletter with you. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading a bit about what has gone on in 2022 and what our Project has achieved.

The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members every 6 months just to make sure everything is going well. There's no need to reply to this message unless you have something you'd like to let us know about (e.g. if you would like to change your team choices or provide other feedback). We will be in touch with you again in the middle of next year when we do our annual check-in with project members.

On behalf of all the Leaders, I wish you a peaceful and productive 2023.

Best wishes,

Ian, England Project Leader

Thanks for reaching out!! I hope this site allows me to stitch together my family tree! I have a particular relationship I am looking to validate but open to other learning and how to navigate the site!

Hey Pip, Am I confused or did I see your name as a manager on some Hipp profiles. I have John N and Anna Mathis Hipp (grandparents) 1820-1890's SC--I believe Newberry before they moved to Gilmer Ga. Looking to connect to a Stephen Hipp Sr 1749- Mecklenburg Co NC As always, many thanks

Hi Pip

Many thanks for your suggestions - Will try working my way through them.

Lynette

Hi Pip! Thanks so much for joining the South Central Appalachia Team of the Appalachia Project. I look forward to working with you.

I just posted a comment to the Team page - if you're looking for details about work being done/needing to be done, please take a look (and I apologize in advance for its length).

If you have any questions or suggestions, post them to the team page or send me a private message. See the Membership page for info about a Member sticker (let me know if you have questions about stickers too).

Welcome to the project & the team!

Cheers, Liz Team Leader, South Central Appalachia Team

Hi Pip,

I’m conducting the 6-month check in for the US Black Heritage Project. Because we are growing so fast, it’s not always possible for me to see what everyone’s working on.

I’d love to hear what you’ve been working on and if you are still happy being a part of the Profile Improvement team. Members can change teams at any time.

Emma

Hi Pip! I created a my space page for a cemetery called Stewart Cemetery, located near New Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa. It contains a large amount of my ancestors. I created it when I could not find it as a cemetery on wikitree. I wanted to give someone who is in the Cemeterists the link. Here it is.

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Stewart_Cemetery%2C_New_Sharon%2C_Iowa&public=1

Chris

Good evening Pip,

Before I asked the question I was going to submit to you. And I know you get this time after time,the day after day. But I'm sure it never gets old. I'm going to start by thanking you and your staff for all of your hard work, y'all have put fourth in the past. I cannot imagine what it takes to make what y'all have engineered such a complex but user friendly site. You must know that more people than not when giving a chance would love nothing more to hear where they came from and how they got there. But at times it can be so serious it wears you out.. young people need a break. And when they're ready to research again they go back to the same platform and their money has run out. But any information obtained by that platform still remains. This is a dagger and most people's motivation. And it leaves such a hollow feeling almost like someone stole something from you. This is your true climb to fame that your site is free. And if I can't get back to researching in a week or two, I no longer need to worry or feel pressed for time on something that should be exciting for everyone. And so I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and and hope and pray for your success and the future. ... I do have a simple question My Hope you can answer. When the user puts in their name at the beginning. It is only first and last. I was wondering is there a way to edit it worse to see the full person's name. My full name is George Nugent Monro V. Not to big at first until one finds out how many their are in the world. Plus I'm proud of being the fifth due to actually symbolizing on the fifth generation American.. and before I started researching the family tree. No one in my family including my grandparents knew that. And Nugent being my middle name for so many years not knowing where it came from or who it came from. And finding out that My father grandfather and great grandfather never asked that question. They were called the name for 80 years and I don't want them ever trying to find out it's original origin. Those particular examples I believe will be enough for most people to at least check out a book from the library. I don't know, maybe it's just me.. well that was my question and once again I want to thank you for providing such a quality and outstanding service and I will definitely get back into where I left off. Ps sorry I'm so long.

Hello Pip,

It is time for the semi-annual check in for June, 2022 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..

Thanks,

Mary~ Project Coordinator, Membership, US Southern Colonies

Hi Pip,

On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals over the past year. Every English profile we improve helps!

The England Project Leaders are currently doing our six-monthly check-in with all project members.

Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?

We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.

I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.

Many thanks!

Ian, England Project Leader

Thank you for the quick, warm welcome! <3

Thank you Pip for your kind greeting:-)

I'm working on a tree for a friend and he doesn't have any more information other than back to his grandparents. His recent DNA shows that he is 25% Naive American. I can go back to his 2nd, great grandfather who married a 100% Cherokee woman, but that is all I can find. That doesn't come close to what the DNA shows. He thinks his grandmother was Native American and that is where I am stuck in a corner. Any advice? Thanks.

Hi Pip, I appreciate you working on US Civil War Soldiers for the Challenge. Again thank you.

Hey, Pip, we're 7th cousins once removed! Jane Harris Underwood is our common ancestress. I love finding new cousins, especially since ancestry dna led me to find my birth families.

Congrats on being WikiTreer of the week! Kris Kreiner

Hello PIp,

Congratulations on being the WikiTreer of the Week. It appears that we share some North Carolina ancestors. "Pip and Sue are 8th cousins twice removed"

Hi Pip,

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, here's a link to a US Civil War Project Challenge you might be interested in: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392544/us-civil-war-between-the-states-project-april-2022-challenge

Dear Pip Sheppard,

Thank You very much for your highly appreciated contribution to our Family Tree.. GBU..

Hi Pip

Changed https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Olsen-11570 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Haagensdatter-113 as we discussed. Please look them both over and make any corrections needed (or flag things I need to look at).

If these folks are your direct ancestors, I'll try to push that line back a bit further in time.

Thanks & Best Wishes - Jim

Hi Pip, I want to thank you for your message when I joined. I never expected to received welcome message here on WikiTree but it was Very Nice and made me feel happy to not only Find this site by accident but to be able to join as well. I'm a bit overwhelmed with how powerful this site is and haven't had much time to explore, I'm a bit anxious to get my tree uploaded but am sure I'll it all figured out. The relief is I see that there is a Huge group of people who love being family historians. Thank you again for your kindness and offer of help, I appreciate it very much. Heather

Hi Pip, I think its your turn for February's monthly Integrator challenge...... let me know if I am wrong;