Worcestershire and West Midlands Team
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Location: Worcestershire, England
Surnames/tags: WORCESTERSHIRE ENGLAND WEST MIDLANDS
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Worcestershire and the West Midlands
If you are interested in helping us out and are not already a member of the England Project, please read the England Project Page to learn more about the project, what we do and how to join us.
This week's Worcestershire Statistics
This week's West Midlands Statistics
Click the links in the tables below to navigate to the area you are working in.
Worcestershire - This week's Statistics
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West Midlands - This week's Statistics
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Quick Links: Worcestershire Category Page | Worcestershire Research Resources | Regional and County Statistics Page
Goal
Our ultimate goal is to make all West Midlands and Worcestershire profiles the best that they can be. It is our desire to leave a lasting legacy of work for future generations and current researchers that can facilitate their quest for family history, and bring them one step closer to discovering the myriad of people it has taken for them to draw breath.
What we do
The 'county' of the West Midlands is almost 50 years old and has now been included on the England, Regional & County Statistics Page for the first time. Many of these profiles have been badly neglected and are in poor shape so we would welcome any help in improving them.
We also handle the responsibility of improving the profiles of people from Worcestershire along with several other tasks, which include:
- Oversight of the Worcestershire County Category page and ensure that it is consistent with the other England County pages.
- Monitor the Worcestershire County Category page to ensure that all profiles are placed into the most accurate sub-category possible and not into any of the parent categories.
- Focusing on the improvement of Worcestershire profiles including sourcing, connecting, merging duplicates, correcting database errors, and writing biographies.
- Creating profiles for prominent or notable Worcestershire-based individuals and connect them up to the global WikiTree
- Researching and updating profiles on WikiTree which are relevant to prominent Worcestershire families
Team Leader: Jemima Winder
West Midlands Team Members: Jemima Winder Jennifer Middlemiss John Elkin Maureen (Fearn) Wilkins
Worcestershire Team Members: Jemima Winder Jennifer Middlemiss Ray Hawkes Barry Chapman Ian Perry Steve Bartlett Elizabeth (Greet) Viney Sondra Marshall
| Team Member | Interests | Currently working on | Main Worcestershire surnames |
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| Jemima Winder | I'm the team leader for Worcestershire and am particularly interested in the Evesham area, where I was born. However, I now live in Stratford-upon-Avon and most of my ancestors come from Yorkshire. | Getting this team up and running again and improving Worcestershire profiles. I find making connections particularly satisfying! | Millward, Atkiss |
| Jennifer Middlemiss | I was born and brought up in Birmingham and live not far away in Solihull so it all still feels very local. | I'm currently trying to get to grips with the 1500s to complete that part of the Orphan Trail. I've also had a go with a couple of challenges recently and have enjoyed those. | Layton, Brewer, Knight |
| Ian Perry | My dad's Worcestershire ancestors | I started working on my mother’s German family at the start of the year and have gone down the rabbit hole there. | Perry, Jenns, Gardener, Lines |
| Steve Bartlett | My maternal grandmother came from the Upton area but my time is largely spent with the Wales Project in which I am heavily involved. | My particular specialty is Categorisation. | |
| Ray Hawkes | I live in Worcestershire and I have ancestors from several places that are or were historically in Worcestershire including Evesham, Rochford, Shipston on Stour, Dudley and Stourbridge. | I am still researching those lines and adding new profiles to Wikitree and reviewing those I previously created to see if I can make improvements, especially where I have DNA matches. I am also a member of the Malvern FHS and I am happy to do lookups in their parish record transcriptions on request. | |
| Maureen (Fearn) Wilkins | Shropshire Team Leader - interested in West Midlands areas previousy in Shopshire/Staffordshire | Worrall, Lomas, Tranter, Hindley | |
| Elizabeth (Greet) Viney | I have a lot of people in Blockley/Aston Magna | Fletcher, Robins |
Communication and Collaboration
If you want to work with us please do! You can communicate with everyone by posting to this page or you can message individual members. Remember we will largely be working in the context of profiles that are managed by other people. Always try to discuss any major changes you may wish to make to a profile with the profile manager/s involved.
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Thanks, Rob
Thanks, natalie, Categorization
Stephen