Wormuth Name Study

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About the Project

The Wormuth Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Wormuth name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Wormuth name.

As a One Name Study, this project is NOT limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Wormuth's), by time period (18th Century Wormuth's), or by topic (Wormuth DNA, Wormuth Occupations, Wormuth Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project. The Coordinator began this project because of hitting a brick wall on this family branch.

However, the purpose of the one-name study is broader than that: The study has a global scope; it includes research within countries or time periods where sources of genealogical data are readily available; and it will research and store all data in WikiTree as the core genealogical dataset.

Of course, you can always work at your own pace and you're always free to do your own research.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

Project participants need to be members of WikiTree. It's free. If you are not yet a WikiTree member, see Help: How to Use WikiTree to get started.

It is expected that you will sign and follow the Honor Code to ensure that our work is accurate.

To join the Wormuth Name Study,

• first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name and WikiTree ID to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

• If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Lorraine O'Dell MLS for assistance.

• Add ONE_NAME_STUDIES and Wormuth to your list of followed tags on your profile. That way you'll see all our discussions in G2G!

• Send a private message to the name study's coordinator or post a comment on the page to let them know you wish to join the study. Discuss with them your interests and how you can help.

Once you are ready to go,

• you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker. NOTE the text under the sticker image. This is the sticker to add to your own profile; it is not the sticker to add to profiles that are part of the study; that can be found in the instructions.

Copy and paste the sticker into your profile, in the Biography section.

Instructions

Here you will find some instructions for various tasks in the study.

• Getting Started

-- If you have never participated in a one-name study before, PLEASE, read the information about one-name studies found here at WikiTree and watch as many of the videos there that you think may be helpful.

Remember, this is a Study of the NAME, not the descendancy; profiles included will have a variant of the surname by birth or marriage; children of women with the birth name will not be included if they don't have the surname.

• Profile Cleanup

--There are already profiles on WikiTree that qualify for the Study and many have had the Study sticker added. When the sticker is added to a profile, the profile automatically appears in the Study's list of profiles.

--Each of those profiles need to be reviewed and edited, if necessary, to bring them to WikiTree standards. There are standards listed below. We can only do what we can do. Be sure to send a quick message to the profile manager telling them that you have edited their profile and added it to the Study. We might suggest that they participate, if interested.

• Data collection

-- an important task of any one-name study is to attempt an exhaustive collection of all occurrences of the surnames included, everywhere. A one-name study is always global.

-- In order to accomplish this task, we can begin with the genealogical search sites suggested by the study size survey: WikiTree, Ancestry, FamilySearch and Findagrave. We already know that sources at Ancestry and Findagrave are sometimes iffy, but they each can identify individuals who fit within the study; then, we just have to find more information for those individuals. Most of the WikiTree profiles have been identified and stickers attached to identify the profile as being included in this study. But, it can be a good preliminary task to do the WikiTree searches, in any case, especially if you have not done this work before, just to see what you find. You may find some profiles that were missed.

-- Once an individual with the surname has been identified, we want to create a profile for them here at WikiTree. Before doing that, we have to search WikiTree to be sure there is not already a profile for them. If there is, we want to add or correct any information, as needed. Be courteous and contact the profile manager to inform them that the profile is part of this Study. You might want to invite them to join the Study, as well. Be sure to add the project sticker to the Biography section. To see the text that creates the sticker, click on edit, cut and paste that text into the Biography section of the profile you're editing or creating. That profile will show the sticker and be placed in the Study's Category Page where the list of profiles included in the study is displayed.

• Profile standards

--We want to include, as much and as often as possible, certain basic information in each profile:

• full names,
• birth dates,
• birth locations,
• marriage dates,
• marriage locations,
• death dates,
• death locations.

Above all, we want to include sources for each of those.

Ancestry family trees are NOT good sources. Most have no sources other than other family trees. However, they can be a beginning point in finding some of these facts. Make note of "facts" in those trees and try to find sources for them to add to profiles.

-- We want to include the Study sticker, below, on the profiles we add or cleanup. It's advisable to copy the text of the sticker to a Word or Notepad file to be copied and pasted whenever you need to. Or, if you're good at memorizing it, that'll work. The sticker ensures that the profile will appear in the list of profiles in our Study.

--In addition to the basics, try to include:

• parentage,
• children,
• occupations,
• any interesting facts about the individual,
• an image, are all good additions to a profile.
• memories of a person is always nice to have in a profile.

If parents and children are added and have the same surname, they can be added to the Study and a sticker added to their profiles.

--Categories and any appropriate stickers like military service are good to have in a profile. Categories can be for birth and death locations or for occupations.

--Helping outside WikiTree -- WikiTree is a bit complex, if you're not a coder or don't want to go through the learning curve, you can still help with the Study by supplying the coordinator with information and by being a go-between with family members. Valid information that can be verified with documentation will be added to profiles, family members will be added to branches and you will still be able to see your tree and profiles of your family members because WikiTree is free and you can come and search for family members and see what's been put in their profiles. You don't have to join WikiTree, if you don't want to. You can also supply photographs.

--Keep up with the blog

-- more coming --

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

• Study Size Estimate
• Profiles included in the Study appear in the Study's Category: Wormuth Name Study page - currently 262.
• Wormuth Variant Notes
• Resources.
• Progress Report.

Tasks and Project Goals

There are multiple goals for this study:

to identify and record all Wormuths, according to surname variant;

to record the basic vital and family information for each individual;

to create as complete a Biography as possible for each individual;

to compile a data set of all individuals found which can be organized, charted and displayed.

to complete a tree branch for each individual.

Questions to answer:

• When and from where did the Wormuths come to North America?
• What was the original name?
• Are the Wormuths in the Mohawk Valley, NY (Montgomery County) and those in Sullivan County, NY related and how?

Most of this will be accessible here on WikiTree. Much will be repeated at Guild for One-Name Studies where the study is also registered. All of the information will also be contained in databases of the coordinator; the statistics in spreadsheets. In addition, a blog has been started for the project: The Wormuth One-Name Study. The purpose of the blog is to record various aspects and progress of the Study.

Here are some of the tasks that we think need to be done. We could use your help.

• Establish the parameters of the project. At this point, searching for and identifying individuals with the variants below will begin and any without a profile in WikiTree will be added. Variant spellings will be added as found.

• Data Collection: I would recommend that you select a variant of the surname and begin searching that variant. Be sure to cite your sources. You can create your own free-space page to keep your research. It would be helpful to add a link here to that to the Research pages. If you're aware of another variant, please create a profile for someone fitting that variant and add the variant surname to the list. If you need help with that, please contact the coordinator. See the Instructions page if working on this. The list of profiles in WikiTree that are included in this study can be found at the Category page for the project.

• Profile cleanup - this will sometimes be part of data collection but many of the profiles already here on WikiTree have already been added to the study. So, if you enjoy cleaning up profiles, adding sources, etc., you can visit the Category page and go through the profiles there to see what needs to be cleaned up.

• Identify areas in the United States and elsewhere where these variant names can be found. If you are interested in researching in a particular region, please note that after your name in the Members list.

• If there are any additional tasks you can think of you can add them here.

• Maintain a list of research resources for the project.

Members

• Lorraine O'Dell Coordinator - Trying to sort out all the variant spellings of this matrilineal surname and find origins.

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Wormuth
• Warmuth
• Wermuth
• Warmouth
• Wormouth
• Wormwood
• Warmoth
• Wormoth

Resources

Add anything you find helpful. I will look for online sources for an article I have on the a family with the surname.