1776 Teams

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Welcome to the 1776 Teams Page

This page has been left open and you are encouraged to edit it for improvements and for typos/errors.

If you have any small improvements please make them and for bigger changes, please bring it up on the Google Group or send an email to the Project Leader

Teams

Profile Improvement

The Profile Improvement Team seeks to improve 1776 profiles and to add biographies to profiles that do not have a narrative.

Detailed information about the Profiles Improvement Team can be found here.

Team Leader is Beth Stephenson.

Team Members:

• Ellen Altenburg - profile improvements
• Judith (Weeks) Ancell - profile development, primarily in her own tree
• Dean Anderson - profile improvements
• Thom Anderson - profile improvements
• Ann (Atkinson) Sawusch-Profile improvements
• Carol Baldwin PhD, RN - adding profiles and stickers and developing profiles
• Gerald Baraboo - My focuses are French Army Revolutionary War participants in North America and those families that remained in USA, Spanish/ French Army from Louisanne who fought against the British and Illinois Territory, Virginia Territory Colonial Militia who fought against the British on the Western front.
• Sjana Lee Bauer- currently have 11 male & female ancestors that served in the American Revolution
• Dona Buckman - profile development and improvement
• Cindy L Beam- member of NCSDAR and have numerous Patriots from various states
• Richard Bensen - profile development, working Bensen and similar spelling surnames in and around NY
• Johnny Bond- I have done extensive research on those Patriots that removed to Tennessee, and some that relocated to Georgia, after the War.
• Russell Butler Profile Improvement
• Linda Chickering I can work on profile improvement. Is there a list of profiles that need to be worked on, or do we focus on those in our tree?
• Katherine (Cline) Cline-Bowman - profile improvement
• Richard Devlin - working on the Irish Military Diaspora in the United States
• Ann Dysart - profiles
• Jerry Ellis- I would like to work on the profile team.
• Sarah Fergione - profile improvement
• Chris Ferraiolo - profile improvement
• Bill Fort- profile improvement
• Cheryl Givens - profiles
• Angela Grassi - profiles
• Joel Hagenburg M.A. - Profile Improvement
• Robert Hess Jr PhD- I have at least two ancestors who participated in the American Revolutionary War as soldiers on the colonies side and two other ancestors who were Hessian mercenaries, who stayed in the United States after the war. I am particularly interested in the interplay between these two opposing groups as they went on to marry and make history in the United States.
• April Holdridge - Profile Improvement team, I have many ancestors that served in the Revolutionary War.
• Hyla Jenks -35 year DAR member with numerous American Revolutionary War Patriots
• Alan Jewett -direct ancestors in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Muriel K. (Kappeler) Jackson Profile Improvement
• Billie (Bright) Keaffaber - has been and will continue to work on profile development
• Bob Keniston Jr. - Massachusetts profiles
• Honi Kleine - profiles
• Thomas Lawrence
• Travis LeMaster-I would like to join the project. SAR member.
• Patti Harriman- profile improvement. Just point me where you'd like me to start.
• Jeff Michaelsen - profile improvement
• John McAnally-Direct male ancestor served in the Revolutionary War
• Pamela (McCaleb) Parker - profile deveopment
• David Morrow- I'd like to sign up for the profile improvement team. I do have five known veterans who served in the Revolutionary War, and several of them do need stickers. I'll probably have to find what units they belonged to and the state as well. Let me know if this is the case.
• Renee Newman
• Steven Nimocks - profile dev
• Ave Norway- I would like to be a part of the Profile Improvement Team.
• Bill Pease - profile dev (inactive now but plans to pick up later)
• Anonymous Reed- I think the profile improvement tream is the best fit for me.
• John Rudd
• Glenn Rutz-I am a former SAR member and have several of my Revolutionary War ancestors on Wikitree.
• Marshall Satterwhite USN ret. - profile improvements
• John Sigh Jr. - profile improvements
• Mindy Silva - improving bios on challenge profiles
• Deb Soper - profile development & improvement
• Ken Spratlin- I would like to join and work on profile improvement. Currently the Managed Profiles Coordinator for the US Southern Colonies Project, so bump into many of these profile often.
• Audrey Staples profile improvement
• Andrea (Stawski) Pack - profile improvement
• Beth Stephenson - profile improvement
• Ed Street - profile development
• Carole Taylor - Working on The Boston Tea Party followed by adding all ENTRIES of the St. John's Parish Joppa, Maryland 1700-1800 Register, 1164 images and I am on #451 ... A lot of them are Am Rev War...
• Becky Thames-Simmons - DAR with 35+ documented RW patriots
• Jan (Thiers) Rohn - Has quite a few ancestors who participated in the American Revolution
• Bob Tilley - Profile development and improvement
• Deanna Tucker - profile improvement
• Arthur Van Riper Jr - profiles of the New York and New Jersey area and Ohio regions
• Dulcie Verner - profiles
• Jan (Wall) Wall-Buker - profile development
• Diane (Peel) Walls - Profile Improvement
• Jim Ward - profile development and improvement
• Dawn Watson
• Jim Wiborg - Continue developing New England profiles back to the Revolution and beyond. Examples of interests here.
• Thomas Wightman -I have several Revolutionary War ancestors
• Carol Wilder - profile improvement
• Laura Wilkins - profiles
• Sherrye Woodworth -I have patriots, loyalists, and a British officer in my lineage.
• Robert Woods- I would like to use this opportunity to help profile improvement and learn more about how these committees communicated.

Sticker and template

The Sticker and Template Team will add stickers to the participants of the war, Patriot, Loyalist, and ally profiles, help to answer questions about the American Revolution ("1776") sticker and template, and assist members with questions relating to the DAR sticker, SAR sticker, and Society Ancestor sticker.

Detailed information about the Sticker and Template Team can be found here.

Team Leader is Christine (Campbell) Preston - Christine is also correcting sticker errors and coordinating sticker and template implementation

• Dola (Nowell) Acree - stickers and templates
• Jean (Jenks) Adams - stickers & template
• Donna Armistead - stickers/templates, categorization
• Mary Baker-emplate and Sticker team or the categorization team. I have a fair amount of experience on WikiTree, very little insight into military records though
• Deborah Barber - stickers
• Katherine Bauer- I am interested in the Revolutionary War, I would like to be on the Sticker & Template Team
• Dreama Brower-I am a DAR member and have been working on my Patriot ancestors. I am also working on related family of my ancestors and plan to offer my assistance to members of DAR for their ancestors.
• Frank Broughton Sr - Sticker Team
• Valerie Craft - stickers (DAR stickers)
• Teresa willis
• Teresa Davis - Teresa Davis
• Robert Drennan I have 2 DAR relatives and would like to join the Stickers team.
• Ann Dysart - stickers
• Kathy Evans Adding stickers to profiles, correcting sticker template errors
• Sarah Fergione - I am a member of the DAR, training to become a branch registrar
• Debbie Freeman - stickers - currently working to removed top level American Revolution category from profiles and adding the new sticker in it's place
• Richard Herndon- I am in the SAR, and am looking for additional patriot ancestors.
• Laura Huggins Ward- want to help Profile Improvement, stickers
• Mollie King-I'd like to join the sticker team for 1776. I've updated a couple of my DAR patriots to the new template already. Thanks!
• Leslie Lapham
• Judy Line- I think I's like to try the Sticker team.
• Alexis (Lovelace) Nelson - working on DAR and SAR stickers
• Cortland Lowe
• J Blaine Martin - I would like to join this project and help on the research or the sticker and template team
• Nikell McCarthy - stickers!
• DC McCown
• Beryl Meehan - stickers, DAR, New Research/ New Patriots, Life Guards, Boston Tea Party, and the Big Runaway Category
• Kirby Mullenberg- I'm in the process of joining the DAR and have various American Revolution ancestors Requested Stickers, categories and membership.
• Rebekah (Phelps) McKinney - stickers & templates
• Chris Russo- I've previously added 1776 stickers to some of my ancestors.
• Elizabeth Schafer- I’d like to contribute to the Sticker and Template team.
• Joel Simmons- SAR member here- please put me on the "The Sticker and Template Team"
• Betty (Skelton) Norman - stickers
• Andrea (Stawski) Pack - stickers
• Alice Thomsen- I would like stickers/templates, categorization, profile improvement, and research. While doing a profile improvement I work on all 4 elements of the profile.
• Tracye (Brewer) Smith stickers
• Mindy Silva - adding & improving stickers on challenge profiles
• Cfv Smith - 2020 Atlanta Chapter SAR Past President - will work w/stickers and templates
• Gary Smith -Numerous RW ancestors, and I am a life member of SAR
• James Turner- I have identified several ancestors the need stickers.
• Bill Vincent Ph.D. - stickers and template
• Shonie Hartley Wahl- I am a DAR member and looking for more Patriots in my line, I would love to join.
• Eric Weddington - adding / improving DAR sticker, SAR sticker, and Society Ancestor sticker
• Brenda (Adkins) Wright - stickers
• Greg Wood - stickers and template
• Rebekah (Phelps) McKinney - stickers & templates
• Linda Chickering - stickers & templates

Categorization

There is currently a lot of work to be done in the project categorization department. There are many obsolete categories, some that are duplicated, others not in proper hierarchy, and some that have yet to be created. Early on this team will try to "clean up" the category mess and eventually the project will be in place to give help to those who have category questions and more importantly, they will help to set up the new categories that will be created when new military units are entered into the sticker template.

Team Leader position is open.

• Donna Armistead - stickers/templates, categorization
• Kathleen Coleman
• Kathy Evans - will be working primarily in Massachusetts
• Vance Johnson- I believe I could help most on either Categorization or the Sticker Teams
• Heather Jones- I'm interested in joining the categorization team
• C C Lee Categories
• Jim Moore - working on categories
• Kirby Mullenberg- I'm in the process of joining the DAR and have various American Revolution ancestors Requested Stickers, categories and membership.
• R North- I am a retired data architect, so my skills seem to fit best with the categorization team.
• Lynden (Raber) Rodriguez OCDS - categorization
• Darryl Rowles - New team member 12/1/2023.
• Lucy (Selvaggio) Selvaggio-Diaz - categories
• Stu Ward - focusing on Nova Scotia
• Greg Wood - categorization
• Teresa Willis - categorization

Research assistance

The Research Assistance Team will help members who have research questions for 1776 profiles.

Team Leader position is open.

• Dan Bacon - research assistance
• John Bates- I would like to join the research team. Thank you for welcoming me to the project.
• James Bazemore - research assistance
• Margo Briley- I think my best fit would be the Research team. I already do this for DAR, so it would be fun to apply my knowledge to help others.
• Marcia (Britcher) Fiedler research
• Marv DeWitt - can offer help & suggestions about applying for NSSAR membership
• Nancy Fansler - research
• Geoff Grant - research
• Donald Gradeless Ph.D. - research
• Karla Godsey- I am DAR and would love to work on this project.
• Lonnie Jones - has experience navigating the SAR application process
• Jack Kelly
• Eddie King - can do record pulls and help finding docs
• Deborah (Carder) Mayes - can help with research assistance
• Elizabeth Marsh- I'm a retired librarian, I've been doing genealogical research for over 10 years, I am a DAR member and have prepared and submitted over 50 lineage applications
• Lauren Millerd- extremely familiar with locating resources in Connecticut, as well as some in Rhode Island and Massachusetts
• Sherrie Mitchell research for Virginia especially, and also for NC, MD, KY, TN
• Jodie Pillius- I am a member of DAR.
• Nanette (Gahn) Pezzutti - can help others with NSDAR inquiries
• Anonymous (Ford) Stark - can help with Williamsburg, VA
• Steven Belden - research

Welcome Team

The Welcome Team will greet new members at the G2G join thread, assist with Google Groups orientation, and will help to answer 1776 related questions in the G2G Forum. The Welcome Team will also assist in periodic member check-in posts.

Team Leader is Lisa (Smith) Martin - Lisa leads the Welcome Team and helps with greetings and orientation of new project members.

Project Leaders and Coordinators

• SJ Baty - Project Leader - On leave

• Betty (Skelton) Norman - Project Leader

• Mary Richardson - Project Coordinator (Membership)

• Ken Spratlin - Project Coordinator (Managed Profiles)