North Central Appalachia Team

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Welcome to the Appalachia Project - North Central Appalachia Team, a part of the Appalachia Project. If you're a member of the project and would like to join this team,

1. add your name, interest area(s), and what you're working to the Members list (below).
2. add the team category to your profile: [[Category: North Central Appalachia Team]] - you can also add [[Category: Appalachia Project]]
3. update your Member sticker (or add it): {{Member|Appalachia|team=[[Space: North Central Appalachia Team|North Central Appalachia Team]]}}
   

   ... ... ... is a member of the Appalachia Project (North Central Appalachia Team).
   or {{Member|Appalachia}}
   

   ... ... ... is a member of the Appalachia Project.
4. read through the project page, if you haven't already.
5. check out the To-Dos (below) - you can add to the list or sign on for a task that interests you.

Regional Team Leader: Karen Stewart
See Members (below).

States
Ohio Appalachians
West Virginia Appalachians

Five Regions of Appalachia

If you see things that need done, you can add them to the Task list, below. If you have ideas for things that the Team could be doing, let me know! ~ Sandy

The links in the table above are for the "landing level" categories (where people profiles should be categorized; project pages are categorized under Category: Appalachia Project).

Thirteen states have counties in Appalachia. The North Central Appalachia Team covers counties in two of them: Ohio and West Virginia (the purple area in the above map).

Ohio: Ohio's 32 Appalachia counties^[1] are split between the Northern and North Central Appalachia Regions. (See the Ohio table on the project's Counties of Appalachia page). The North Central Appalachia counties are Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Gallia, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton, and Washington.

West Virginia: West Virginia's 55 Appalachia counties^[1] are split between the Northern, Central and North Central Appalachia Regions. (See the West Virginia table on the project's Counties of Appalachia page). The North Central Appalachia counties are Barbour, Berkeley, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Marion, Mason, Mercer, Mineral, Monongalia, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Pendleton, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Preston, Putnam, Raleigh, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, and Wood.

When adding the appropriate Appalachians category, add any appropriate county-level location categories too.

The Appalachia Project's Counties of Appalachia includes all 423 counties listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission,^[1] plus some, with links to the WikiTree category pages.

Contents 1 Member Details 2 North Central Appalachia Team To-Dos 2.1 Tasks 2.1.1 Note About VA & WV Stickers

Member Details

See Appalachia Project Membership for the Project's membership.

Members can add details of their interest area(s) and what they're working on for the North Central Appalachia Team in this section.

• Member: Interest area(s)
  • Working on/intend to do/have an idea to do...

• Brooke (Baker) Alley: Brooke to Add
  • (Brooke to Add)

• Betsy (Shook) Baker: Ohio Ancestors
  • (Betsy to add)

• David Ballengee: My father's ancestors were some of the founding settlers in Summers County, West Virginia. Col James Graham of Lowell, WV. Isaac Ballengee, whose sons sold land to John Hinton, who developed Hinton, WV, now County Seat of Summers County.
  • (David to Add) I intend to add stories/anecdotes of my family. Add Cemeteries and add names to Summers and Greenbrier West Virginia Cemeteries.

• Thomas Bruce IV: Has North Central and Central ancestors.

• Mary Calvert:
  • (Mary to enter)

• Cheri Campbell: Northern PA on NY border; also lived in southwestern NYS
  • (Cheri to Add)

• John Carollo Jr.: My mother's line is mostly clustered in the 18th century Quaker settlements of Berkeley & Frederick Co. Va. More ancestors were scattered in Brooke County, Va. and SE Ohio. From there they migrated along the National Road and by the Civil War all settled in Central Illinois. Some cousins stayed behind. One served in the 4th West Virginia Calvary (union) in the Civil War.
  • I still have some genealogical brick walls to get through, especially the Garrett family in Washington County, Pa. in the early 19th century. It's possible the name was Anglicized from a German name like Gerret
  • I have a lot of love for Appalachian culture.

• DC McCown: Ohio and West Virginia
  • My OH Appalachian ancestors are from: Gallia, Guernsey, Lawrence, and Noble
  • My WV Appalachian ancestors are from: Cabell, Fayette, Kanawha, and Putnum
  • Many (but not all) of them were already in WikiTree when I arrived to it, so for those I have been uploading photos/images, improving biographies/profiles, adding resources, and discovering duplicate profiles to merge and/or unravel.

• Bill Crews:
  • (Bill to add)

• Teresa Davis:Watauga, Ashe, and Avery counties.
  • (Teresa to add)

• George DeFrieze: Many eastern Ohio ancestors.
  • (George to Add)

• Pamela (Dodds) Denchfield: West Virginia and Ohio
  • (Pamela to add)

• Amanda (Doss) Doss-Connolly:
  • (Amanda to add)

• Abby Edwards:
  • (Abby to add)

• Sarah Edwards:
  • (Sarah to Add)

• S Esper: I have an Abundant family from the Region who came from Pennsylvania and settled along the Ohio River from Pittsburg to the Virginia/West Virginia border. They came to the area in the early 1700's and settled in Ohio Territory.
  • (S to Add)

• Rachel Estridge:
  • (Rachel to add)

• Pam (Dale) Fraley: Working on creating Free Space pages for the counties in my region.
  • Adding ancestor from Cabell, and Putnam Counties in West Virginia.
  • Cabell, and Putnam Counties in West Virginia.
  • Look toward picking up an idle county page to adopt.

• Judith Fry: West Virginia and Ohio
• Adding ancestors from Wood, Wirt, Preston Counties in West Virginia
  • Guernsey, Noble, and Jefferson Counties in Ohio

• Danielle Gemperline:
  • Primary Interests Scioto County, OH; Pike County, OH; Adams County, OH

• Dan Gilbert: I have ancestors in this area.
  • (Dan to add)

• Anne Guglik: My primary interests in this region are Clermont County, Ohio and Hinton, Upshur and Gilmer counties in West Virginia. Names include Kammerer, Dickson, Parker, Aylor and Black.

• Mary (Gulish) Gi: Working the following family names: Arbogast, Bennett, Linger, Ware
  • Adding Linger family to WikiTree
  • Adding First Responders to WikiTree

• Kim Hatton: Greenbrier County, Pocahontas County, Monroe County (WV)
  • Would like to add as much information about the eastern side of Greenbrier County WV as I can; there isn't much information on that area compared to the rest of the county. Family names I have focus on are Trainer, Jeffries, Gum/Gumm.

• Ida (Gray) Houston: I am mostly interested in the North Central, Central and South Central. In the North Central area, I am interested in the following counties of Ohio: Jackson, Gallia, Scioto, Pike, Ross, Vinton, and Washington. I am also interested in the following counties of West Virginia: Gilmer, Harrison, Kanawha, Lewis, Monongalia, Monroe, and Ohio County, WV
  • (Ida to Add)

• Tabitha (Daellenbach) Howell: Many of my family lines run through Appalachia, especially western Pennsylvania.
  • (Tabitha to add)

• Marcia (Coffman) Hicks RN-Ret.: My paternal ancestors settled Coshocton, Jefferson and Brown Counties of OH in the mid 1800's. I also have maternal ancestors who came from Maryland. ** Still exploring my Appalachian Roots

• Janine Isleman: Ohio and West Virginia, wherever needed
  • working on profiles in Ohio and West Virginia as needed

• Dusti (Brown) Ide:
  • (Dusti to Add)

• K. Jeffries: WV counties of: Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Monroe, Nicholas, Roane, and Monroe.
  • (Kelli to Add)

• Linda (Boblett) Johnson: Adding Ancestors in the North Central Appalachia area
  • Adding WV, VA, OH Ancestor Profiles to WT

• Amy Johnson:
  • (Amy to Add)

• Nicole Kelly: Kanawha County, West Virginia
  • Adding Ohio and West Virginia profiles, bios, stickers, and categorization to WT

• April Kiskis: My Ancestors hail from Cabell, Mason and Kanawha Counties in WV. Gallia, Lawrence, Franklin, Scioto, Ross, Clark, Jackson and Pike Counties in Ohio. Chances are if your family is from Appalachia, Im probably related to you.
  • Adding and improving Ancestor profiles on WikiTree.
  • Adding categories and stickers to existing profiles.

• Mark Lemen: West Virginia and Ohio
  • Adding ancestors from Jefferson and Berkeley Counties in West Virginia
  • Adding ancestors from Ross, Pike, and Highland Counties in Ohio

• Cindy (Williams) Lesure:
  • Cindy to Add

• James Little: James to Add
  • (James to Add)

• Anonymous Luck:
  • (Anon to add)

• Reta McCollum: Reta to Add
  • I just keep finding more ancestors that were in West Virginia at one time or another. Surnames McCollum, Anglin, Baker, Lewis, Mihoan, Robinson. Mostly Jackson and Kanawa counties.

• Monte Mccoy:
  • (Monte to add)

• Russ McDaniel: The family migration path was from at least Monroe (County), VA to Charleston, WV
  • (Russ to Add)

• Allison Matz:
  • My ancestors in Appalachian are mainly from Cabell and Wayne counties in West Virginia and Gallia and Adams counties in Ohio. I am currently researching surnames Woodrum, McCalla, Blume, and Shepherd. I am focusing on trying to bring older lines to present day by connecting spouses, children, and siblings of people I find.

• Rebecca (Tucker) Morris: WV Ancestors in Berkeley, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Mercer, Raleigh, and Summers.

• Willow Parish: I am a born and raised Appalachian from South-East Ohio and would love to contribute to the North Central Appalachian Group!
  • (Willow to add)

• Mike Patak: Adding spouse's ancestors from West Virginia
  • Adding spouse's ancestors (mostly during Thons) to Webster, Upshur and Randolph Counties, WV

• Sandy (Craig) Patak (Team Leader, Project Leader): My entire family comes from this region of West Virginia with a concentration on Gilmer, Harrison, Hardy, Lewis, Nicholas, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, and Webster Counties. Some moved to the Trumball, Ohio area. Family Names: Bonner, Arbogast, Linger, Lance, King, Ware, Bennett, Teter
  • Actively adding/reviewing/sourcing ancestors in West Virginia. 90% of my WikiTree work involves West Virginia. Mostly Lewis, Upshur, Randolph, Webster Counties to start

• John Powers: Adding ancestors in North Central Appalachia
  • Adding WV and OH Ancestor Profiles to WT

• Robyn (Brewer) Ritz: Ancestors from Southern Ohio from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.
  • (Robin to add)

• Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson
  • (Erin to enter)

• Maggie (Seay) Church: My interests are in Monongalia and Marion Counties in Virginia/West Virginia and across Penn.
  • (Maggie to enter)

• Liz (Noland) Shifflett: Berkeley County, VA (ancestor Henry Van Meter lived there) and other pre-WV Virginia counties (I'll need to compare the North Central counties with the counties listed in this table in order to list them here). I also have a keen interest in Kanawha County Salt Works (both VA & WV) and the Dickinson & Shrewsbury families (see Salt Makers for more information).
  • add stickers & categories as appropriate to profiles found under Category: Berkeley County, Virginia & Category: Berkeley County, Virginia Colony
  • The Kanawha County, West Virginia space page already exists & several team members are interested in the county. I contacted Andrea (6 August) about adding me & other interested project members to the space page.

• Katherine (Slone) Sims: I was born and raised in Southwest Virginia, as were my parents. Through my own research into my family tree, I've discovered that a lot of the family that didn't stay in Virginia moved on to West Virginia and planted roots. I'm specifically looking at Kanawha County and focusing on the Wade and Hale families and anyone who intermingles with them.
  • Adding ancestors from West Virginia
  • Profile Improvements on West Virginia Profiles.

• Karen Stewart: Both of my parents were born and raised in this part of West Virginia. I have ties to Ritchie (born there), Gilmer, Upshur, Randolph and Lewis counties. Some surnames are Martin, Stewart, Cutright, Rohrbough, Morgan, Beer, Goff, Riddle, Clevenger and many more.
  • Adding ancestors from West Virginia
  • Profile Improvements on West Virginia Profiles.

• Margaret (Robe) Summitt: I've entered many profiles in Monongalia and Marion Counties and Virginia/West Virginia and in Adams and Brown Counties, Ohio. This was mainly in my pursuit of all descendants of my 3ggf William Robe. It lately has been done to make interconnections between the families of these areas. Family names are: Robe, Stewart, Arnett, Cordray, Hall, Brand and many others in West Virginia, and, Howland (in southern Ohio), and others.

• Karen Thompson: My family has relatives from the West Virginia counties of Barbour, Cabell, Gilmer, Pendleton, Kanawha, Lincoln, Monroe, and Putnam counties. I have resided in Cabell County for over 65 years.
  • (Karen to Add)

• Eric Weddington:
  • Weddington Name Study includes Weddington families in eastern Kentucky and surrounding areas (OH, WV). These Weddington families originated in south west Virginia. Knowledgeable of other associated family names in eastern Kentucky. The North Carolina Weddington families migrated to Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. I have other family lines in Tennessee. Some knowledge of central Pennsylvania. Cemeterist. Multiple ONS coordinator. I work on the Hatfield & McCoy sub-project. Interest in the Melungeon Roots sub-project.

• Mitchell Wilcox: Tyler County, WV Ancestors
  • My paternal family is from the Harrison, Marion & Tyler Counties; My maternal family is from Green County Pennsylvania, Tyler & Wetzel counties in WV. I enjoy finding new relatives & helping others to find their ancestors in this area.

• Chris Wine: Most of my family is from Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania
  • Pennslyvania= (Cambria, Westmoreland) Kerestesy, Komisar, Polask, Vecsei
  • West Viginia,Virginia - (Braxton, Upshur, Lewis, Harrison, Barbour, Nicholas}Wine, Forinash, Fisher, Hartman, Bragg, Conrad, Moore, Yeager, Dick, Hurley, Riffle, Carter, Sharp, Miller, Williams, Adkins, Bonds, Shields, Mace, Scheider, Blaine, and Hull.

• Roger Wise: Kanawha and Greenbrier river valleys
  • (Roger to add)

North Central Appalachia Team To-Dos

Profile Maintenance: Project members are asked to help work on profiles in the project's Maintenance Categories. Note that if you add a maintenance category, you should generally also add details of why you added it to the profile's Research Notes.

Needs categories

• Appalachia Project Needs Biography
• Appalachia Project Needs GEDCOM Cleanup
• Appalachia Project Needs Research
• Appalachia Project Needs Sources (profile has at least one source but needs additional sources)

Profiles for Appalachians with no sources should have {{Unsourced|Appalachia}} added to the profile, which will put the profile in the project's Unsourced Profiles category:

• Appalachia, Unsourced Profiles

Tasks

Team members - if you're working on a listed task, please "sign" it by adding ~~~~

• Research county formation history to establish a timeline people can use to properly categorize profiles.
• Check location categories for profiles of people who were born in, who lived in or who were associated with this region.
  • Add the appropriate Appalachians category + Sticker.
  • If the person is associated with Appalachia, check the qualifications posted by the Notables Project to see if [[Category: Appalachia, Notables]] should be added to the person's profile (whether or not they're associated with the North Central region of Appalachia).

Note About VA & WV Stickers

When using the Appalachia Project's Appalachia Sticker, please keep in mind that West Virginia was NOT a State until June 20, 1863. Please use the appropriate stickers for those that were born in Virginia, now West Virginia:

Virginia and West Virginia Specific Stickers Sticker Sticker Code Native Virginian (Born in Virginia, Now West Virginia as of June 20, 1863) {{Nonmigrating Ancestor |addinfo=Native Virginian (Born in Virginia, Now West Virginia as of June 20, 1863) |flag=US_State_Flag_Images-49.png |tooltip=Flag of Virginia }} ... ... ... was a settler in West Virginia before it split off from Virginia. {{West Virginia Sticker|a settler in West Virginia before it split off from Virginia}} ... ... ... was born in Appalachia, in Virginia. {{Appalachia Sticker |born |state=Virginia }} - IF the person stayed in what is now Virginia ... ... ... was born in Appalachia, in Virginia (now West Virginia). {{Appalachia Sticker |born |state= VA-WV }} - IF the person stayed in what is now Virginia (This only adds the Virginia Appalachian category, you will have to manually add the West Virginia Appalachians category. NOTE: Also check the Profile's Location of Birth. If it states West Virginia and it is before June 20, 1863, please correct it to Virginia.

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Regional Team Space Pages:

Northern Appalachia Team | North Central Appalachia Team | Central Appalachia Team | South Central Appalachia Team | Southern Appalachia Team

Regional Team Categories

Northern Appalachia Team | North Central Appalachia Team | Central Appalachia Team | South Central Appalachia Team | Southern Appalachia Team

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