Great Lakes Region Challenge Team

Profile manager: Tim Bittner [send private message]

Great Lakes Region Team Page

This team will cover areas including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

2020 Spring Clean-a-Thon

Clean-a-Thon sticker

Placing the following text in your bio will put this sticker on your profile (your name automatically appears but you need to enter the year:

{{Clean-a-Thon|team=Great Lakes Region Team|year=2020}}

... ... ... participated with Great Lakes Region Team during the 2020 Clean-a-Thon.

Suggestions/Errors

I haven't been given a specific set of links for our team, but here's a link to the Data Doctors Project that has the information on how to pull up suggestions/errors. Or here from the Clean-A-Thon page.

As more information becomes available I will update this area.

If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask on the G2G page or by sending me a message.

2020 Clean-A-Thon Team Members

• Tim Bittner
• Kaylinn Stormo
• Terri Swift
• Thomas Fuller
• Nancy Regan
• Jill Snelling
• Phillip Jares
• Carole Bannes
• Ron Campbell
• Jamie Ball

2019 Fall Source-a-Thon

Source-a-Thon Sticker

... ... ... participated with The Great Lakes Region team during the 2019 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 2019 previously unsourced profiles.

Placing the following text in your bio will put this sticker on your profile (your name automatically appears but you need to enter the year and total sourced profiles when the challenge is over):

{{Source-a-Thon|team=The Great Lakes Region team|year=2019|sources=365}}

More details on the sticker are here.

2019 Clean-A-Thon Team Members

• Tim Bittner, captain
• Thomas Fuller
• Robin Rainford
• Cheryl Hess
• Dave Dardinger
• Jody Rodgers
• Laura Lane
• Dawn Uribe
• Terri Swift
• Nancy Diener

Scan-a-Thon

2019 Scan-a-Thon Team Members

1. Jody Rodgers
2. Robin Jordan
3. Tim Bittner
4. John Gwinn
5. Scott Fitch
6. Tony Berning
7. Cindy Curry
8. Brian Zalewski

2018 Source-A-Thon

2018 Source-a-Thon Team Members

1. Dave Dardinger, 122
2. Tim Bittner, 146, team captain
3. Thomas Fuller, 164
4. Jen Lieberman, 245
5. Jody Rodgers, 275
6. Robin Rainford, 283
7. Cheryl Hess, 286
8. Allison Schaub, 305
9. Laura Nixon, 307
10. Eric Hoffman, 309
11. Erin English Bailey, 321
12. Grace Ogden, 319
13. Trina Adamson, 416
14. Cheryl Skordahl, 443
15. Leila Tite, 478
16. Karen W, 506
17. Shannon Hogsett, 514

2017 Members

1. Tim Bittner, 152
2. Kathleen Ostic, 303
3. Richard Van Wasshnova
4. Dave Dardinger, 63
5. James Box, 170
6. Cynthia Tun
7. Shannon Hogsett, 484
8. Eric Hoffman

Important Links

• What profiles count as "unsourced" for the Source-a-Thon?
• Do you know how to participate in the Source-a-Thon? Challenge Tracker makes it easy.

If there are other sources that you use that may be helpful to others on the team, please share the link(s).

Online Resources

• Family Tree Researcher
• Pioneer and General History of Geauga County (Ohio)
• Genealogy Gophers
• The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
• History of the Western Reserve, Vol. 2
• FamilySearch.org
• The Biographical Encyclopœdia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century
• The Pioneer and General History of Geauga County
• History of Portage County Ohio
• United States Online Genealogy Records via Family Search
• A standard history of Fulton County, Ohio, an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and county
• History of Monroe County, Michigan: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests. By John McClelland Bulkley
• Seeking Michigan - a variety of original documents - plus old photos of towns, civil war images, and plat maps.

Privately Held Resources

• Owen County Cousins by Rosemary Fulk Lovell -- I have a copy of this in my possession. It contains the lineage of several families that originated in Pennsylvania and moved through North Carolina and on to Owen County, Indiana. Some of the main surnames are: VOLCK/FULK, FISCUS, ARNEY, CONDER, HAUSER -- Fiscus-32
• Descendants of Benjamin Courson, Sr.: A record of their Westward movement through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois by Steve Courson -- This is a pdf version of a lineage that one of my distant cousins put together. At least some of the people contained in this lineage are people who were created by the infamous DeCoursey GEDCOM that you'll run into sooner or later. -- Fiscus-32
• Monroe, Licking, Ohio Resources. Hi, Dave Dardinger I'll be glad to check anyone you want in any of the documents you want and you get the credit! To get to the site, go to the top of the page and click

Research ideas

• Don't forget about Facebook. There are over 10,000 different Facebook groups dedicated to genealogy and history. There is a .pdf listing of all of the different English speaking Facebook groups available at socialmediagenealogy.com Bittner-246 16:01, 8 October 2016 (EDT)