Skye Sonczalla
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Skye Sonczalla

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Skye Sonczalla
Born 1970s.
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Biography

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This user is a native speaker of English.
Skye Sonczalla is a member of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
Skye Sonczalla is a member of the Sączawa Name Study Project.
Skye Sonczalla is 100% United States American.
Skye has Ruthenian ancestors.
Skye has Polish ancestors.
Skye has German ancestors.
Skye has British ancestors.
Skye has Irish ancestors.
Skye has Scottish ancestors.
Skye was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!

I have been researching my genealogy on and off for over 25 years. I am very excited to utilize Wikitree and share information with other researchers. One tree - many collaborators; focus on quality profiles - not quantity. If I am the profile manager of one of your ancestors, please do not hesitate to ask to be a co-manager or to email me with edits/corrections.

Projects

Poland Project Leader: Nearly 100% of my time on Wikitree is devoted to this project. The project was dormant for several years and has since been revived with new information, pages and a categorization (aka index) system for Wikitree profiles.

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Team Leader: The region of my ancestry, which touches upon the present day locations of Ukraine and Poland. I began this project as a way for people to understand the changing geography and developed a category system for about 95% of the villages. Categorization system (or an index system) is a great tool for finding other surnames from the village of your interest and collaborating with others.

Cieplice, Jaroslaw, Galicja, Austria One Place Study: The village a set of great-grands left in the early 1900s, and the ancestral home to my Ukrainian branch. I have been working on transcribing various records from this village for several years. My goal was to find all the interconnections throughout the generations and to bring as much information as I could to 1918, making it possible for others to find their relatives. If you are connected to Cieplice and would like to join Wikitree, please send me a message as I am happy to help you!

Sączawa Surname Study: the root spelling of my maiden name "Sonczalla" and my Polish lineage. My hope was to collect as much information on individuals with this surname pre-1900 and break some brick walls. After entering all the individuals from a certain region, I was contacted by another fellow Sączawa in Poland, who pieced together my Polish pedigree. It was one of the most wonderful gifts I have ever received from another person!

Wikitree "Free-Space" Pages I Have Created

Comparing 1900 to present day Poland overlay maps. I am fond of historical overlay maps, as they help people understand border changes. 1900 is significant because it is give or take a decade that many of our ancestors migrated to other areas. Understanding historical geography is important in reading immigration, naturalization and other documents. I have not yet begun to do any homework on the innards of Prussia, but that is something I will do in the future (after I complete other tasks.) 12 June 2023

Welcome to Wikitree! I admit I am a huge fan of Wikitree, and I often encourage others to join (friends, family, genealogy contacts, people from other genealogy group pages, etc.) I do understand Wikitree is not the easiest to understand for anyone who is a beginner, and I created this page to help. Once you become more advanced and have questions, please do not hesitate to send a message.

Witamy_w_Wikitree! for Polish speakers In working with the Poland Project, I am sensitive to create a "bridge" to the language barrier between Polish speakers and Wikitree. This page will help them to understand the basics of Wikitree.

Ukraine, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Cieplice, Jaroslaw, Galicja, Austria One Place Study

Civil War letters from Col. Stephen Clark.

Green background images for Wikitree profiles and pages

Mayflower Ancestor

Stephen Hopkins

Veteran Ancestry

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  • First-hand information. Entered by S. D. at registration

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Skye or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
  • Skye Sonczalla: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H1b1, FTDNA kit #535504
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Leger-741 Loretta (Leger) Corbin
Please add me as a manager for Wheeler-119
posted by Loretta (Leger) Corbin
Thomas-29419 Steve Thomas
Hi Skye,

I like maps. The overlay of Poland and Texas is interesting. I have worked in Texas, which has an area of 270,000 sq.km. My home state of Western Australia has an area of 2,500,000 sq.km. - about 9x Texas

I do have a lot of information to add about the family of my wife from Podlaskie Voivodeship. I am still very interested in Poland.

posted by Steve Thomas
Sonczalla-1 Skye Sonczalla
Awesome Steve! When you get to that point and do not see a village ... you know you can ask me directly to create the village or I can easily show you how to do it. Former Russian Empire areas are just a quick button, and voila (I know you can do it and I'd love to show you.) I was floored when I first saw the picture of Poland within Texas; somehow I thought it was so much bigger! I think those of us in the USA forget how large our country really is. You typically cannot just "walk" anywhere (store, work, etc) ... you always have to drive. Cheers!
posted by Skye Sonczalla
Olsher-1 Dean Olsher
Thank you for your contributions to the profiles of my ancestors from Zgierz. I hope to discover more relatives from there. That part of my family tree has much room to grow.
posted by Dean Olsher
Sonczalla-1 Skye Sonczalla
Wonderful Dean! Make sure to check out the Resource Library as it is always being updated with new ways to help you in your search. Once you begin adding more family and especially extended family, it's amazing how others will find you (from Poland) to make connections. I hear stories all the time. :)
posted by Skye Sonczalla
Olsher-1 Dean Olsher
Thanks for drawing this to my attention!
posted by Dean Olsher
Gabriela Mermon
Hi Skye! I'd definitely be interested in learning how to batch categorize, as I ionly know how to add categories to individual profiles by editing the bio section.
posted by Gabriela Mermon
Sonczalla-1 Skye Sonczalla
Open up the Wikitree Plus page to run your search: https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm
  1. On the left side of the screen, select "SEARCH".
  2. "sort by": which ever option works best for you
  3. "page size": select maximum (otherwise it will default to 10 profiles per page)
  4. "text": add the name of your village
  5. "max profiles": I typically enter 5000

Now you see all the profiles attached to the name in your search parameter. You may see other profiles other people have created too. You will see of those that do not have a village category attached (on the right column of the screen).

So now you will see a wonderful feature at the VERY TOP left of this page called "BATCH CATEGORIZE". It should be in a small blue font above the first name that appears.

  1. Click on this link.
  2. It will ask you to input the name of the village category, you only need the village and powiat as it will search all the categories within Wikitree. Helpful hint: If the search result is too large or you do not see what you are looking for, add a comma (ex: Konin, ).
  3. Once you find your category select it. Make sure it is the correct category. If you have just created the category, it will not show in this list for a few days. There is a way to bypass this: enter in the wording after "Category:" so for example, add: Modła, Mława, Mazowieckie, Polska (do not hit enter!), next click on the first box of a profile you see that can use the category. You should see your newly created category in blue. If it is in red, it is not correct. If there aren't many profiles, you don't have to use this method either, just enter it in manually to each profile.
  4. All profiles below will have a box you can select to add the category.
  5. You will only want to select maybe 20 profiles at a time, because for each profile you select, it will open into a new page on your computer for each (or select the amount that will work for your computer). You don't want to freeze your computer.
  6. You are required to save each profile page. After 30 seconds have passed, Wikitree goes into "autosave" mode. Once it does this, do something like hit the spacebar in the biography to see the "save button" reappear. Then hit save. Close out that profile ... and onto the next.
  7. You will notice back on Wikitree Plus, that those profiles you have just worked on will be removed from that working list. If you refresh that page, they will all appear again. So make sure you have time to sit and work through all of them (as it can be frustrating).

Just a warning note: remember that Wikitree will lock up your account if you hit the save button too many times within a short period. I have yet to have an issue with the amount of profiles that I batch, but after saving about 10 profiles ... let about 10 seconds pass.

posted by Skye Sonczalla
edited by Skye Sonczalla
Kelsey-745 Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hey,

Here is a list of all 4 thons next year:

Connect-a-Thon Jan 19-22

Connect-a Thon Apr 12-15

Connect-a Thon Jul 19-22

Source-a-Thon Oct 4-7


That means the first Thon of the year will be a Connect-a-Thon on the weekend of the 19 - 22 Jan 2024. I would love to have you with your fellow Legacy Heirs at that time, if it works out for you. I will remind you about registration when that time comes.

P.S. I now know a quick and easy little tip on how to add profiles. If you use the Sourcer/Searcher app, and want to know the hint, let me know and I will send you the steps.

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
N.-17 Maggie N.
Skye, I am waiting to hear from Steve Harris https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harris-5439 about Polish Roots and the Slavic Roots Project. I am resigning as leader of Slavic Roots as it was set up by other leaders who are no longer with it. I do realize the old Polish Roots project is criss-crossing with Poland Project work. Steve and the Team will figure this out; I trust that this will get cleared up. I will probably know more next week.

Thank you for catching the Polish Roots gaffes.

posted by Maggie N.
Sonczalla-1 Skye Sonczalla
Thanks Maggie! I think it's a good move that Wikitree is evolving to focus on location rather than "roots/ethnicity". I have cleaned up the Polish Roots Category Page. You can find it under Poland Project Maintenence Category ... along with the stickers which people have used that nest them in that category. I've removed the roots stickers from the sticker page. It's good for you too to simplify.  ;)
posted by Skye Sonczalla

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