Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson

Hi Erin, I am also a descendant of Isaac Jackson and was excited to find your info. If you are not aware of it, a friend of mine who is a Civil War researcher found a letter written by the captain of Isaac's company to Isaac's brother Samuel relating the circumstances of his death at Shiloh - it is incredibly moving: https://dan-masters-civil-war.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-sad-duty-indeed-federal-captain.html. I visited Shiloh in 2018 and with the help of a battlefield guide was able to locate to very near the exact spot Isaac must have been killed.

Your Jackson tree has a lot of info that mine is missing, I would love to do a merge some day but need to learn more about it first.

My Jackson tree: Wm (Sr) > Wm (Jr) > Oscar > Truverton James > Blanche Pauline (Goodwin) > Miriam Fern (Goodwin) > Richard Wood (me)

Hi Erin, Thank you for joining the March/April Vicksburg National Cemetery Challenge. We had thirteen members who created 1,583 Profiles, which is pretty great for 13 members. It was a very successful Challenge.

Thank you for joining Appalachia Roots on the Connect-A-Thon. 

Our Team finished in 1st place by connecting 17,576 profiles! 

What an incredible job!!!  Check out the scoreboard.

We couldn't do it without you amazing team members! - See you again at the next Thon in July 2024!

Sandy & Patty - Appalachia Roots Co Captains

Thank you Erin for your comment.

Greetings! Thank you for making this vast, new world seem a bit less intimidating. Grateful. ~ Newbie Thornton-12323 ... otherwise known as Joan.

Hello Erin,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing a check-in. The Project operates in a team structure with these participant PIP Teams -- The Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and three Biography Teams. 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, working on profiles from your watchlist and other profiles that interest you. The other two Biography Teams work on Abandoned and Popular profiles from the provided lists. Please let us know if you are content with your current Team or would like to change to one of the others.

If you have not already done so, we invite you to join the email GoogleGroup. We use the WikiTree Discord server #profile-improvement channel for our project. 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 Erin, 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

Thank you Erin for Completing 16 for 16 Missions. I will also send the coding for the 16 for 16 sticker in a private message.

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

Hi Erin, This year 27 members signed up to Connect Soldiers during the 2024 January Connect-a-Thon, which resulted in 367 soldiers being connected to family!!!! We beat last years score by 67 soldiers. Thank you for participating :)

Hi Erin, thank you for signing up on the January Challenge to connect Civil War Soldiers during the Connect-a-Thon :)

Erin! Thanks so much for making Appalachia 'Shine during our December 2023 Challenge. Our January 2024 Challenge is all about the Connect-A-Thon and adding Cemetery Categories to profiles.

Wishing you a very happy new year!

Sandy

Hi Erin, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a marvelous New Year.

The Annual US Civil War January Challenge is to connect US Civil War Soldiers for the January Connect-a-Thon. This year will be a twist of what I usually do. Instead of you choosing a "Surname Letter", you will be choosing from a block of soldiers whom I've already screened that show they have family to connect. Each soldier has a connection to one or more of his immediate family--parents, siblings, spouses, children, on their profile. Whether you work on one soldier or your whole block of soldiers, it's one step closer in our goal to connect each of our US Civil War Soldiers. The goal is to make sure all these soldiers are connected at least by one or two degrees. You can sign up now by clicking this link: US Civil War Sign-up Chart

Thanks for joining Appalachia Roots on the 2023 Source-A-Thon.  Our Team finished in 1st place by sourcing over 9,000 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 2024!

Sandy & Patty - Appalachia Roots Co Captains

Erin, thank you. I am new to Wiki and do not see a way to change what appears as Baby to Nancy. I am looking for Joseph Wardlow who went to California from Missouri in 1846 with the Carriger party. Apparently as the result of a fight over a gold mine claim Joseph Wardlow, brother of Carriger's wife escaped to Northern California leaving a youthful son with the Carrigers (his wife and a baby son died near Sonoma in 1846), Glad to share more on the Missouri Wardlows. Nancy Post

Thank you for your participation in the July 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Appalachia Connectors to the Second Place finish and First Place Normalized Score Finish with over 8700 profiles added. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 94,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Sandy ~ Appalachia Connectors

Thanks Erin, I'm relatively new to Wikitree. I did have my DNA analysed through Helix but I understand they no longer exist. I haven't contributed much to date but have numerous generations of ancestors to record. Our family, until a couple years ago, had annual reunions beginning in 1906 & records prior to then. There are several dead ends which hopefully Wikitree can assist me with.

Thank you for the greeting. I uploaded my Gedcom yesterday and it feels like an endless task to work down all these name looking for a match. I am chipping away at it. I have lots to learn and have watched several videos but still the learning curve will be long.

Hi! You added the Notables Sticker to Sallie Lee Dickinson (1776-1842). What qualifies her to be a Notable?

IT HAS ARRIVED!!!!!

We need the Kentucky Project Members to join the Kentucky Genealogical Society's WikiTree Challenge! We are going for the record.... over 500 new profiles!

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1592825/wikitree-challenge-research-kentucky-genealogical-society

Thank you for welcoming me. I have my tree on another website. I am looking for more info on my great grandfather and not having any luck. I have some info, but, can't find any on his parents. I will keep searching as much as I can.

Thank you for the welcome. I decided to keep going back without filling in too much detail until I found an ancestor on the tree. I found the match at my 3rd great grandparents. So, now I'll fill in those branches before going back up the tree further.

Thank you for your warm welcome, Erin!

Erin -

You did it! You got triple digits! 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

It's time for the One Place Studies Project Check-In!

We've put together a survey for you to fill out to check in with you, it will only take a moment as there are only a few questions. Filling out the survey lets us know you are still interested in coordinating your study and provides an opportunity for you to share any suggestions you may have for the project.

• https://forms.gle/FVwokwa4uNoVgtnJA

If you have decided to step away from your study, please reply to this comment to that effect.

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

Yay! Your CC7 is now over 1,000!!!

Hello Erin,

Thanks again for signing up to RAWK five fellow WikiTreers in the month of March.

Here is your RAWKERs sticker code. To display this on your profile, just add curly brackets at each end:

Community Event |image=WikiTree_Event_Images-1.png |text=was a RAWKER |event=We Will RAWK You Event

If you're on Discord, please do join us on the We Will RAWK You channel using this link:

https://discord.gg/fQ2Z3mFw

If you're not yet on Discord, this Help page should get you going:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Discord

Looking forward to researching with you!

Kathy

Hi Erin, thank you for participating in the KIA at the Battle of Shiloh Challenge for February. There were 510 Soldier profiles created during the Challenge.

The March Challenge will be to create profiles for the Union soldiers who died while POW's in the Andersonville Prison.

Hey! Welcome to the Italy Project! Please be sure to send me or one of the other heads of the Project (Frank Santoro or Azure) a message with your email address so we can add you to the Google Group and invite you to the Discord.

Hi Erin!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the January 2023 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to a Historical Finish with over 10k profiles added and an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 95,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Thanks for being such a great cheerleader and keeping us company on the overnights!

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in April (tbd)

Thank you Erin for participating in the US Civil War Challenge. You completed 232 profiles. There were 27 of us who signed up for the Challenge, completing 6,480 profiles.

The US Civil War February Challenge will be to create profiles for those soldiers who died during the Battle of Shiloh on the 7th and 8th of April 1862. If you're interested in joining another challenge, check out the US Civil War Challenge Page on February 1st.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us reach 161,603 profiles! We’re going for 250,000 profiles in 2023!

We’ve started the January challenge here: January Connecting Challenge.

You can see your 2022 total and your all time 2021-2022 total on our tracking spreadsheet.

Emma

Hi Erin!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the 2022 Source-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members sourced over 63,000k Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

WikiTree Symposium and Day on November 4-5, 2022

Hi Erin!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the 2022 Source-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members sourced over 63,000k Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

WikiTree Symposium and Day on November 4-5, 2022

Erin, Thank you for joining the August USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2400 new profiles! Our new total is 131,074. We have less than 19,000 to our 2022 goal!

All first-time participants can add the participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

We’ve started the September challenge here: September Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Hi Erin! Thanks so much for joining the South Central Appalachia Team. I look forward to working with you. If you have any questions or suggestions, post them to the team page or send me a private message.

Cheers, Liz - Team Leader, South Central Appalachia Team

Erin -

I just started a new project is on WikiTree: the Appalachia Project. I would love to have you join us! Since you are already working on profiles in Appalachia, it wouldn't add to your WT work. Just a sticker and a category, here and there. To join, review the Project page and pick a regional team (or teams) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Appalachia

Sandy

Hi Erin!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 87,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!! Here is The Wrap Up information

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Next Thon: Source-A-Thon in the Fall (tbd) and WikiTree Day on November 5, 2022

Hi Erin,

Thank you for your sourcing contributions in May!

Hi ,

I noticed that you used the Challenge Tracker to track a change during a recent Saturday Sourcing Sprint. Please consider officially joining us for the Saturday Sourcing Sprints. You can find information, including how to join, on the Sprints Help page.

No pressure, every profile with a source makes our WikiTree better. Your work will continue to be included in Tracking Sheet's Unregistered total at the bottom of the help page if you do not register.

Your work is appreciated. Thanks for sourcing!

Hi Erin!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 84,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in July (tbd)

Erin -

Registration for the 1st 2022 Connect-A-Thon is open. We would love to have you join us on Team Virginia again!

Thanks for sourcing, Erin.

Hello, Erin!

Congratulations on certifying to work on pre-1700 profiles! It’s very important to read and understand https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Pre-1700_Profiles. These profiles for deep ancestors are shared by many, and collaborating on them works best if we all follow the guidelines laid out on that page.

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard – WikiTree Greeter

Thanks for joining Team Virginia on the 2021 Source-A-Thon.  Our Team finished in 1st place by sourcing over 6,600 Profiles!  That is an amazing job!! 

We couldn't do it without you & look forward to you joining us on the 2022 Clean-A-Thon!

Mindy & Sandy - Team Virginia Co Captains

Hi, Erin!

We’re glad you’ve become a Family Member of WikiTree!

Our Member How-To pages can help you get started adding profiles or just learning your way around. Be sure to check out the drop-down menus at the very top-right hand side of your profile.

Exploring the site is the best way to learn. One way to do that is to check out the drop-down menus on the top right side of your profile page. Questions? You can always use the G2G link in the Help Menu to find answers.

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