Katie (Wells) Barker
Honor Code SignatorySigned 30 Jul 2023 | 8,841 contributions | 170 thank-yous | 557 connections
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Born 1978 in Kent, England.
Lives in Cambridgeshire, England.
Studied at Cambridge university. Then went on to become a teacher and Special Educational Needs Coordinator.
Married & Mother to 2 girls.
I first became interested in family history through my Grandad Jim, who lived in London and likes to use his free OAP bus pass to visit the archives at Kew. He has this big old fashioned tree he had brought and was slowly filling in the names of each generation of parents on it which I loved to look at when we went to visit.
Fast forward several years and pregnant with my first child I decided I wanted to write her a book for her 21st Birthday giving her as much information about her ancestry as possible. Whilst I later discovered grandad made lots of jumps and went off at odd tangents he did give me a good start on maternal lines and taught me the value of referencing sources!
Nearly 18 years on and I’m still working on the book slowly, although my daughter couldn’t currently be less interested!
My most up to date tree is on ancestry but I’m working hard to get it all transferred over to WikiTree since discovering it. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/invite-ui/accept?token=wtGWF-0hEM1JyYoT7E8EEuUeZFOvOTofHnb6rTWOsLQ=
Featured German connections: Katie is 32 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 33 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 34 degrees from Lucas Cranach, 29 degrees from Stefanie Graf, 30 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm, 31 degrees from Fanny Hensel, 34 degrees from Theodor Heuss, 22 degrees from Alexander Mack, 41 degrees from Carl Miele, 26 degrees from Nathan Rothschild, 29 degrees from Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering and 28 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
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