Melanie (Doherty) McComb
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Melanie (Doherty) McComb

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Melanie McComb formerly Doherty
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Daughter of [private father (1940s - unknown)] and [private mother (unknown - unknown)]
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Secret Santa Challenge
Melanie gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2023 Secret Santa!
Melanie (Doherty) McComb wrangled 26 weevils in the Connection Combat.
Melanie (Doherty) McComb had the second longest verified Weevil-free path for the Gabor/Young battle in the Connection Combat.
Melanie (Doherty) McComb had the third longest verified Weevil-free path in the Swift/Kelce battle in the Connection Combat.

Biography

Melanie McComb is a genealogy blogger (The Shamrock Genealogist) and international speaker. She has been researching her family history for over 18 years.

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
  • Melanie (Doherty) McComb: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup J1c14, FTDNA kit #B74042
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  • 100.00% X DNA 100.00% Melanie (Doherty) McComb: 23andMe, GEDmatch M557635 [compare]
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Hi Melanie!! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Red Hot Effort Milestone for 100 sourced profiles
Melanie (Doherty) McComb reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the November 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
Hi Melanie! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Red Hot Effort Milestone for 100 sourced profiles
Melanie (Doherty) McComb reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the October 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
Melanie,

Thanks for putting this on track, I see there are cousins both named Bethiah Hodges, born in 1723 and 1732. I hope it's better now, if no one tries to revert the confusion. Tim

posted by Tim Prince
You're very welcome! I hope that the change helps you research further on Bethiah's line.

-Melanie

While the younger Bethiah is my 6th ggm, I have DNA cousins descending from the older one, one of them with a 60 cM shared segment. So I spent several hours researching them.
posted by Tim Prince
Hi Melanie! Thanks so much for your work in improving our shared tree!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Red Hot Effort Milestone for 100 sourced profiles
Melanie (Doherty) McComb reached the Red Hot Effort milestone by sourcing 100 profiles in the September 2023 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
Many thanks for your contributions for Team L'Chaim last weekend! Enjoyed chatting with you, as always :-)
Hi Melanie,

It is once again time for our annual Ireland Project check-in. Please respond within the next three weeks to let us know:

  1. If you would like to continue as an Ireland Project member. If your answer is yes, please tell us if you are happy with your current team, or if you would prefer to join a different one. If you are currently participating in more than one team we would appreciate you ranking them in their order of importance to you, from highest priority to lowest. This information will be helpful as we consider possible future changes to our team structure.
  2. In the past, the project has had a very minimal membership requirement (one contribution per year) for badged members to meet. Do you believe this is adequate, or should this requirement be increased? What do you believe would be a reasonable commitment to expect from all project members?
  3. How active have you been in the Ireland Project over the past year? Please choose one of the following options: a) I normally spend 1-5 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. b) I normally spend 6-10 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. c) I spend over 10 hours per month helping achieve my team’s goals. d) I am not able to contribute every month but have spent approximately ________ hours during the past year improving Irish profiles.
  4. Please provide feedback on any things you’d like to see the project do more of in the future.

You can respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. If we don’t hear from you within the next three weeks we’ll assume your interests have changed or you no longer are able to participate in the Ireland Project at this time, and your badge will be removed. If your circumstances change later you will be welcome to reapply for membership.

Many thanks for all that so many of you have contributed to the project in the past year, and very special thanks to those who answered the project’s call and gave generously of their time to be part of Team Seanchaithe during the most recent connect-a-thon. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

le dea-mhéin, Jen Hutton, Ireland Project co-leader

posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton
Hi Melanie - thank you for being a member of the Jewish Roots Project! I wanted to let you know about some new things we have going on.

- You can see new tabs at the top of our home page, where you can select topics to view or work on. You can also use our new maintenance categories - feel free to add them to your own family, or any other Jewish Roots profile, or work on the maintenance yourself, such as adding new records to profiles with only a couple sources.-I'm sending an invitation to join GoogleGroups, which we are re-starting this week. We'll probably do most group chat there, but the most important things will be posted on G2G, which you will be notified about if you follow the jewish_roots tag.

-If you have ideas or suggestions for the project, feel free to reply here or send me a message.

Thank you! -Elaine, co-leader for Jewish Roots Project

Thank you for participating in the 2022 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us reach 161,603 profiles! We’re going for 250,000 profiles in 2023!

We’ve started the January challenge here: January Connecting Challenge.

You can see your 2022 total and your all time 2021-2022 total on our tracking spreadsheet.

Emma

Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Yearly Golden Achievement Milestone for 1 sourced profile tracked every month
Melanie (Doherty) McComb reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!

posted by Bill Feidt
edited by Bill Feidt
You are a Doherty?!?! I did not realize this until just now! MArried into the O'Doherty's of Pollans Farm, Donegal. Mags
posted by Mags Gaulden
Mine are from County Monaghan - I'm sure they eventually go back to Donegal at some point.
Hi Melanie,

It's Connect-a-Thon time once amore and the Irish Seanchaithe could do with your help! If you would like to register with us, post an answer (not a comment) on this post… and be sure to note you would like to participate with the Irish Seanchaithe! You should then receive your Connect-a-Thon 2023 badge and you'll be part of the team! We start at 1pm (UTC) on Friday, 13th January and run until 1pm (UTC) on Monday, 16th January.

For more information see the Connect-a-Thon Tutorial and the Irish Seanchaithe Team Page.

Hope to have you on board,

Jen and Feargal.

posted by Feargal Hennigan
Thank you for the invite. I'm actually helping the new team L'Chaim for the next connect a thon
All the best with the new team!
posted by Feargal Hennigan
Thank you for helping us source during the USBH Project October Weekend Sprint. In 3 days we sourced over 111 profiles, corrected connections, updated last names, and connected one of our notables!
Thank you for joining the June USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create almost 6000 new profiles! Our new total is 126903. We have less than 24,000 to our 2022 goal!
50 Profiles
Melanie (Doherty) McComb created 71 new profiles during the August 2022 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl In the Money Milestone for 300 sourced profiles
Melanie (Doherty) McComb reached the In the Money milestone by sourcing 300 profiles in the July 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

posted by Bill Feidt
Thanks for your sourcing contributions in May!
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Melanie (Doherty) McComb reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the May 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
posted by Mel Bishop
Hi Melanie,

I noticed that you used the Challenge Tracker to track a change during a recent Saturday Sourcing Sprint. Please consider officially joining us for the Saturday Sourcing Sprints. You can find information, including how to join, on the Sprints Help page.

No pressure, every profile with a source makes our WikiTree better. Your work will continue to be included in Tracking Sheet's Unregistered total at the bottom of the help page if you do not register.

Your work is appreciated. Thanks for sourcing!

Mel ~ Sprints facilitator

posted by Mel Bishop
Melanie,

Thank you for contributing to the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

WT Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Hi Melanie,

It’s time for our annual Ireland Project check-in! Please respond within the next two weeks to let me know:

  • If you are happy with the team you’re on or if you’d like to make a change. It is now required that all members with an Ireland project badge work on at least one of the project’s team(s), so if you’ve not yet signed up please do so in your reply to this check-in.
  • What you think the project is doing well, and what (if any) changes you would like to see us make? Are there any teams you would like to become more active in?
  • Would you be interested in helping to work on an Ireland Project newsletter?
  • Please give us some feedback on the use of google group and discord. Do you use one or both of these? If you don’t use either of them, what is the best way for us to ensure you receive project communications? If you would like to join us on either one, just let us know in your response and we will get you signed up.

Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. If we don’t hear from you within two weeks, we will assume you are no longer interested in participating in the Ireland Project, and your badge will be removed. If you wish to reapply for membership later, we will be happy to have you back. Many thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Jen Hutton, on behalf of the Ireland Project

posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton
Sourcerers' Challenge Wise Owl Blue Skies Milestone for 50 sourced profiles
Melanie (Doherty) McComb reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the February 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.

Thanks for sourcing, Melanie.

posted by Bill Feidt
Congratulations on adding so many sources during the February 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! Great improvements to the One Tree. Thanks!

Nan, WikiTree Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Hi Melanie

I noticed you recently chose our Integrators Project Challenge for this month (Feb 2022), thank you!

Could you go here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1368329/wikitreers-join-join-integrators-challenge-february-2022 to sign up officially please. And if you can please add your question that you will be working on or the profile marked "needs profiles created" for the challenge, Thanks! Got a question, see this page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works

Thank you and Good Luck!! Dorothy, Integrators Project Coordinator.

posted by Dorothy Barry
Melanie,

Thank you for contributing to the January 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.

Nan, WT Appreciation Team

posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Melanie, thank you for finding more information on Philip Reynolds. He's one of my brick walls, so everything helps.
posted by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Hi Melanie. I just wanted to say a big thank you for working on my ancestors this week during the WikiTree Challenge.
posted by Roberta Estes
You're very welcome Roberta - I hope you enjoyed all of the discoveries!
Thank you for your work on my Wikitree during the challenge. It is well appreciated, happy hunting!
posted by Shelley Murphy
Thank you for the kind note Shelley! It was fun to work on your tree.
Thanks for taking the Pre-1700 Quiz, Melanie and thanks for joining the Ireland Project! Use the Pre-1700 Projects list to find other projects you may be interested in joining.

As you have probably already learned, sources are very important here on Wikitree, especially on Pre-1700 profiles. If you need any additional info on sourcing, check out these help pages on: Pre-1700 profile sourcing and source citation.

If you have any questions, click “reply” below this message and I will get back to you.

Peggy ~ Pre-1700 Greeter

posted by Peggy Watkins
Hi Melanie,

Welcome to WikiTree, we are glad you are here. Be sure to ask for this Badge. WikiTree takes some time but the Collaboration here is great.

posted by Michael Stills
How do I request the Professional Genealogist badge Michael?
Hi Melanie and thanks for your post on G2G.

I’ve added the Irish Roots Project badge to your profile. If you click on the badge it will take you to the full list of our wonderful members. Click on Irish Roots Project will take you to the first page of the project. I've added your good self to the member interest page. Here you can let others know which counties or names you are researching etc.

Thanks for joining the project and good luck with your research.

Maria

posted by Maria Maxwell
Thanks for joining us! I’m Cindy, a WikiTree Mentor. Hope you're enjoying our site.

I just wanted to check in and see how things are going. Do you have any questions I can answer?

We want to help! Click my name, then ask in the comment section of my page or send me a private message.

Cindy ~ WikiTree Mentor

PS To find reliable sources for your profiles, go to the Family Tree & Tools tab; select Genealogy Research and scroll down near the bottom of that list and select Research with RootsSearch. There are over 20 websites to access from there.

Hi Melanie,

You've been a member of WikiTree for about a week so I am checking in to see how it is going.

Have the tips in the New Member How-Tos been helpful? Most of us still have some questions after reviewing them.

I see that your GEDCOM loaded OK. Do you have questions about the GEDCOMpare process?

I'm here to help with questions about how WikiTree works. Click my name to send me a private message or ask in the comment section of my page. I'll get back to you by the end of the day.

Debi ~ WikiGreeter

P.S. If links do not work in an email from WikiTree, try them from the comment section on your profile page.

posted by Debi (McGee) Hoag
Hi Melanie,

Thanks for volunteering! You are now a full member of the WikiTree community, and can start adding your family. Let me know if you have any questions.

Since WikiTree is different from other genealogy sites, we have a guided tour for new members at New Member How-To. Feel free to work through the How-Tos at your own pace.

Once you add profiles to WikiTree they become searchable and in my experience persons interested in these profiles will contact you and may provide further information to expand your family tree.

Great to have you on board, enjoy, and good luck growing your branches.

Ludwig :)

posted by Ludwig Kraayenbrink
Welcome!

This is just a note to say hello and to let you know that I'm available to answer questions about WikiTree. To contact me, click the link to my name, then send a private message or post a comment on my profile page.

Ludwig, WikiTree Greeter

P.S. If you ever get a "Page Not Found" error when you click a link in a WikiTree email, you can usually find a functioning link in the public comments section of your profile page.

posted by Ludwig Kraayenbrink

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