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WikiTree Challenge 2024 Challenge 6

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WikiTree Challenge 6

Guest Star: Judy Muhn
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Guest Star

Beginning genealogy research at the age of 12, Judy has provided research to clients around the U.S. and Europe, and has presented at international, national, regional and local conferences. Specializing in Acadian & French-Canadian, Native/Indigenous research, and Michigan, Ontario, and Quebec resources and records. Judy is also a specialist in Scottish research and can translate French and German records. Judy's Indigenous ancestors have been in North America for thousands of years (Lakota/M'ikmaw), her French-Canadian ancestors arrived in 1607 to what became Quebec and Acadia, Scottish ancestors in the 1780s and 1830s, and her Polish and German (Pomeranian) ancestors arrived in the late 1880s.

With lineages to the royal families of Europe and United Empire Loyalists, Judy's research includes the various spelling/phonetic variations that our families use through the years. Somewhere in these families there are also Jewish families in Eastern Europe which is part of what Judy is utilizing DNA to research, as well as the "original" Polish surname that the family changed when they immigrated.

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Notes from Guest Star

I would really like the Gadde, Nimer/Niemiec/Niemczyk families worked on? I have much on the French-Canadian and Scottish families (my maternal lines) but my paternal lines are not well-developed and I'd appreciate help as I don't read/know Polish or those records and Pomerania/Poland/Eastern Germany.

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Locations

List any countries you find here

  1. Canada
    1. Ontario
    2. Quebec
  2. Finland
  3. Germany
    1. Prussia
  4. United States
    1. Alabama
    2. Arizona
    3. Florida
    4. Illinois
    5. Indiana
    6. Massachusetts
    7. Michigan
    8. Minnesota
    9. New Jersey
    10. North Dakota
    11. Ohio
    12. Pennsylvania
    13. Tennessee

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

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  1. Cecylia Magrowska (1873-1974) CC6 on the Nimer line Lived to be 100, and got her US citizenship at 99. At the time she was believed to be the oldest person naturalized as a citizen in detroit. https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press/147638480/ Marsh-9608 21:14, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
  2. Colin James Walker (1827-1901) In 1881 Colin Walker lost his hay, straw and grain in the Great Thumb Fire. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-great-thumb-fire-1881-colin-wa/147733219/ The Great Thumb Fire was the first time the American Red Cross (established in 1881 by Clara Barton Clarissa Harlowe Barton (1770-1843)) was utilized in disaster relief and became the model for disaster relief around the world. There is a great Free Space page on the devastating fire! Thumb Fire 1881 Fachner-1 13:49, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
  3. Charles Anthony Bigenwald (1896-1924) Charlie died of a skull fracture due to a car overturning. (accident) Ulmer-538 17:43, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
  4. Alfred Arthur Hopper (1861-1916) died almost one month after being wounded by a horse. His death certificate stated his death was due to an “Infected Hand from horse bite causing Erysipelas Infection with gangrenous conditions of right hand and arm from fingers to body.”Schafer-3394 19:17, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Military Profiles

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR

1812 War

CIVIL WAR

19TH CENTURY MILITARY

WORLD WAR I

  1. William Herman Geisler (1891-1960) Fachner-1 04:39, 18 May 2024 (UTC) Fachner-1 04:40, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
  2. Edward Henry Elliott (1896-abt.1926) Michigan PFC CO D 116 INF WORLD WAR I Fachner-1 04:39, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
  3. Charles Lyle Hawkes (1892-1960)Schafer-3394 11:10, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
  4. Samuel Hall Conkey (1899-1996) Fachner-1 13:28, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
  5. Douglas Henry Ferriby (1890-1965) Fachner-1 14:17, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
  6. Conrad Herman Sternberg (1891-1956) Fachner-1 03:04, 23 May 2024 (UTC)


WORLD WAR II

  1. Zygmunt Frank Osinski (1907-1996) (CC7) Marsh-9608 19:51, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
  2. Kenneth Benoit (1913-1974)
  3. Carlton Douglas Ferriby (1921-1998) Fachner-1 14:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
  4. Lester Arthur Kitzerow (1920-1943) Purple Heart. Robinson-27225 00:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

20TH CENTURY MILITARY

KOREAN
VIETNAM

Free Space Pages

Cemeteries

Place Studies

Bounty Opportunties

Connections

These links are added at the beginning of the week by Eowyn. The first person who makes a unique connection for an individual wins the bounty points for that person. Remember to claim any connection bounties in the G2G post!
  1. Andrew Niemiec
  2. Mary Brzezan
  3. Theodore Wilhelm Gadde
  4. Amelia Denz
  5. Dougal Walker
  6. Christina Johnson
  7. Jacques Edouard Elliott
  8. Marie Laura Josephine Villeneuve - connected Liza - Macklem-13 19:17, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Brick Walls

These links will be added mid-week by Eowyn. Remember to claim any brick wall bounties in the G2G post!
  1. Mary Brzezan (parent)
  2. Gordon Selinksky (mother)
  3. Cecil Luebke (parent)
  4. Amelia Britshart (parent)
  5. Florence Clark (parent)
  6. George Hawkes (mother)
  7. Herman Krause (parent)

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  • Editing Tips This page shows basic markup that can be used on WikiTree profiles and Space pages. Please remember not to use tables on Challenge profiles.
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  • WikiTree Browser Extension This addon is great for a lot of things, but the main help for the Challenge is the "auto-bio" button that it puts on the profiles. This will give you basic narrative you can add to. It is also great for adding stickers and cleaning up GEDCOM clutter. Let your team captain know if you need help learning one of these features!
  • The Background Images Category contains pages that you can find a large variety of background images on. Most of them are tiled (repeatable) images.
  • WikiTree+ is valuable for so many things! Here are a few of the search features you can use for challenge profiles: (Go to WikiTree+ query for Active Challenge profiles with noparents. In the "Search" section, look at the "Text search" box and then "Text:" underneath that. Leave the ProfileList parameter and change the text at the end to search for different things. You can copy the text below and paste it in the text box. Click "Get profiles.") Thank you Aleš!!
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