Kate (Gardner) Schmidt

Thank you for participating in the April 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5226 profiles. We’re zeroing in on our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

Thank you for participating in the March 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4936 profiles. We’re getting oh so close to our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

And let's add New Hampshire to that list of thanks :-) Emma

Thank you for rocking the state of Maine! Emma

Thank you for participating in the February 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5129 profiles. We’re getting ever closer to our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

Thank you for joining Team Roses for the January Connect A Thon and helping us create a total of 3,457 profiles!

The April Connect A Thon sign up has already arrived. Team Roses has its own sign up post here. I hope to see you there!

Thank you for participating in the January 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6202 profiles. We’re reaching toward a new goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

All first-time participants in 2024 can add the 2024 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

Thank you for participating in the December 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6214 profiles. We created a total of 46,036 profiles for the year. We met our 2023 goal of 250k profiles and finished out the year with 168,195!

You can see your personal 2023 total and your all time 2021-2023 total on the 2023 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

You created 4,525 profiles during the 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge! Your support of the USBH Project is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for participating in the November 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2273 profiles. Our new total is 261,602!

Thank you for participating in the October 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3315 profiles.

Interesting project.

A new USBH notable for you.

While updating some profiles today, I happened to see a Name I recognized from another hobby, old tools and woodworking, I checked wikitree and he was not here, but he is now. Ceasor Chelor or Chelor-1 and I am happy he is first in the family name.

Thank you for joining in the fun this month and helping Team Roses source 2993 profiles! There was a lot of great clean up that happened too including merges and last names and relationships corrected. We hope you can join us for the Connect-A-Thon January 19-22, 2024.

Thank you for participating in the September 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2322 profiles. Our new total is 242,774!

Thank you for participating in the August 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2917 profiles. Our new total is 234,419!

Thank you for participating with Team Roses for the July Connect A Thon. Together we created 3323 new profiles. We rock!

Believe it or not the Source A Thon is just around the corner. Look for sign ups to happen in a couple of weeks.

Emma

Thank you Kate, I would be delighted if your group would take over the Sturrup bio. I know its not necessary but I'll remove myself as manager in the hope that your group will upgrade it.

Also, although I am pretty "white" my family is rooted in the Bahamas and I take interest in the accomplishments of Bahamians, there are many for a small country. I start bios for notable Bahamians regardless of race. I have several other bios that may be of interest to you. Can you please pm me with you email address so I can go through bios I manage and suggest a few to you?

Thank you for participating in the July 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4445 profiles. Our new total is 226,808!

Thank you for participating in the June 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4320 profiles. Our new total is 220,137!

Thank you for participating in the May 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4667 profiles. Our new total is 211,475!

I believe Mandy Patinkin is properly connected now through his Aunt Lillian's husband's cousin's wife, Blanche Cora Clabaugh (1911-1992).

Hi Kate,

I didn't know how to reach you, but I noticed you are working with USBH Notables, I think Helen Elsie Austin fits into this categroy. https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Austin-15847&errcode=saved. I hope she can be added. Also, my husband's family claims John Howland as an ancestor, if he is the one who fell off the boat. Bev Enslow (Felty-296)

Thank you for participating in the April 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5952 profiles. Our new total is 201,351. 250k here we come!

Emma

Kate, thank you for joining in the fun with Team Roses during the April Connect-A-Thon and helping us create 3,911 profiles together. I know the challenge helped push USBH Project over 200k profiles this month! Look for dates for the July Connect-A-Thon coming soon.

It's time for the One Place Studies Project Check-In!

We've put together a survey for you to fill out to check in with you, it will only take a moment as there are only a few questions. Filling out the survey lets us know you are still interested in coordinating your study and provides an opportunity for you to share any suggestions you may have for the project.

• https://forms.gle/FVwokwa4uNoVgtnJA

If you have decided to step away from your study, please reply to this comment to that effect.

Thank you for participating in the March 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3452 profiles. Our new total is 191,151.

Thank you for participating in the February 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5295 profiles. Our new total is 184,311. Congrats on taking first place! All that amazing hard work you did during the Challenge added up.

Hello Kate,

Thanks again for signing up to RAWK five fellow WikiTreers in the month of March.

Here is your RAWKERs sticker code. To display this on your profile, just add curly brackets at each end:

Community Event |image=WikiTree_Event_Images-1.png |text=was a RAWKER |event=We Will RAWK You Event

If you're on Discord, please do join us on the We Will RAWK You channel using this link:

https://discord.gg/fQ2Z3mFw

If you're not yet on Discord, this Help page should get you going:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Discord

Looking forward to researching with you!

Kathy

Thank you for participating in the January 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6960 profiles. It was one of our biggest months of all time! Our new total is 174,667.

All first-time participants in 2023 can add the participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

Emma

Kate,

A very late thank you for participating with Team Roses during the January Connect-A-Thon. Together we added 4320 new profiles! That’s amazing! Look for information about an April Connect-A-Thon.

Emma

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

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

Congratulations on being the 5th top contributor in 2022!

Thank you for joining the November USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4748 new profiles! Our new total is 153,062. We’re going for 250,000 profiles next!

Emma

Thank you for joining the October USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3419 new profiles! Our new total is 147,729. We have less than 2300 to our 2022 goal! Wow!

Emma

Thank you for joining the September USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2978 new profiles! Our new total is 140,351. We have less than 10,000 to our 2022 goal!

Emma

Thank you for joining the USBH Weekend Sprint—adding birth locations. In 3 days we added 1792 locations! We also made many other valuable improvements to profiles. Together we cleared 19% of the profiles needing love!

Thank you for joining the August USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 2400 new profiles! Our new total is 131,074. We have less than 19,000 to our 2022 goal!

Thank you Kate for being my tutor on the Path! You're the best & I'm so grateful. xox Charles Raleigh NC

Thank you for considering me for the path, but I have to decline. I am sick and trying to finish a free space and my goal of making profiles for my slave holders and the incarcerated persons affiliated with them that are in my family tree. I have about 20 slave holders left and I don't know how many slaves left. Hopefully I can finish this mission of mine and can accept your project. All the best to you and those who volunteer.

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!

Hi Kate, I looked at your GED import profile Lila B. (Dominick) Lowe (1877-1920) It looks great. The only thing I would suggest is adding the = Acknowledgements = section and preserving where the information first came from.

Hello Kate. My name is Jakki and I would appreciate any help you can give me with my tree. I am very new to Wikitree and I have to be honest, I have not really gotten the concept of how this site works!! So, I am a project in the making!! I did send a message that I would be interested in the US Black Heritage Project. Please, let me know if you can be of help to me and if I can be of help to the Black Heritage Project. Oh! and by the way, I am a Gardner!!! An African American Gardner!! My Gardner roots are in Carter County, Tennessee!!!

Congratulations on be selected the member of the week! Awesome interview. Keep up the outstanding work you are doing. You are a joy to have on the team! Did you know we have 22 degrees of separation?

Hi cousin Kate!

Kate and Marsha are 12th cousins once removed

Kate (Gardner) Schmidt and Marsha (Cramer) Baker are both descendants of Emlyn (Weeks) Mitchell (abt.1550-1628).

Kate, You are my 6th cousin, once removed.  :) Jill

Richard Tempest is your 19th grandparent and he's my 16th grandparent.

Pretty new to this but I find it very interesting.

Kate, thanks for your hard work during the June connecting challenge!

Emma

Thanks for adding Willie Pickett to the project. Please add any corrections etc! A very talented guy!

Thank you for placing a category on Betts-4341 but shouldn't it show on the profile?

Kate, Thank you for joining the May USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3182 new profiles. Our new total is 107, 702. We have less than 43000 to our 2022 goal!

Emma

Thanks for your hard work creating new profiles for the USBH challenge!

Emma

Kate, Thank you for joining the March USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 3153 new profiles. Our new total is over 97,000. We’re so close to 100,000!

Emma