Alison (Winkler) Breton
Honor Code SignatorySigned 18 Jul 2014 | 44,880 contributions | 1,694 thank-yous | 1,029 connections
Signed 18 Jul 2014 | 44,880 contributions | 1,694 thank-yous | 1,029 connections
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Born 1960s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Winkler
and Gillian (Thomson) Winkler
Sister of
[private sister (1960s - unknown)] and [private sister (1960s - unknown)]
Mother of
Charlie (Winkler) Breton
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Jul 2014
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- Alison's formal name
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- images (2)
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- private siblings' names
- private children's names (1)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alison:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alison:
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100.00%
100.00%
Alison (Winkler) Breton:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch FY5536101 [compare], Ancestry member alisonbreton
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Derek Allen
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
David Wright :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XN2518915 [compare], Ancestry member davidwright135
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Alison:
- Meet our Members: Alison Breton May 8, 2023.
- Alison Breton is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 21, 2023.
- Alison Breton is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 28, 2022.
- Alison (Winkler) Breton is a Wonderful Wikitreer!!! Nov 4, 2022.
- Alison Breton is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jun 25, 2022.
- Alison Breton is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 11, 2021.
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We all did a great job this weekend, thank you. We hope you had fun. The total for the event was 98,937 profiles added to the tree. The Mighty Oaks contributed 8,1442 of those. Thank you for working with us and congratulations on your score.
If you open up your contribution or tracker list you can review your work and possibly do some tidying up, on the profiles.
Thanks again for this weekend, you rock, appreciate your input and support for the team.
Joan, Janet, Maddy and Fran
Welcome to England's Mighty Oaks Team once again. Thanks for signing up, we appreciate you joining us for the January 2024 Connect A Thon (CAT}
Please check out the page and the links, Mighty_Oaks
Any questions just ask.
Happy New Year
Joan, Janet, Maddy, and Fran Co-Team Captains
Thank you for the work you are doing on Weares who are directly related to me. Also for the work on Dix which is my maternal side. I didn't think I was related to William Chatterton Dix, the hymn writer, but turns out I am. Thank you. Karen
Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023. Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!
I'd like to share our end-of-year 2023 Newsletter. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading about what we have achieved in 2023.
On behalf of all the England Project Leaders, we wish you a peaceful, productive and enjoyable 2024!
Best wishes,
Steve, England Project Leader
Thank you for your Christmas wishes, I thought the Newsletter was excellent.
I've really enjoyed my Gloucestershire role and that is due in no small part to your friendly support.
I do hope, along with the rest of the England Project team you have a wonderful Christmas and I'll try and make sure Gloucestershire and Bristol have a very productive 2024.
All the best
Alison
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for your commitment to the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members periodically to make sure everything is going well. This is our formal annual check-in with you.
Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Would you like to join any other teams?
Also, we would really like to hear which team is currently your highest priority. If you are a member of more than one team, could you please rank them from highest priority to lowest? Thank you! If you don’t see yourself as being part of a team, please let us know.
We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.
On behalf of all the Leaders, thank you again for all you do and we look forward to you continuing to be a part of our collaborative and fun Project!
Kind regards,
Steve, England Project Leader
During my few short weeks I've worried a bit that having statistics weekly is quite a challenge, with relatively few profiles able to be improved in that short time. Would it be OK if I posted them monthly on our page? I do like to use them to motivate not just me but the whole team. Also, any extra stats (eg if we were the 6th best County for unsourced profiles) are also really good. I want to help make Gloucestershire one of the best Counties (and Bristol one of the best places) on Wikitree but it's a big place!
I really enjoy Wikitree and equally enjoy looking after Gloucestershire and Bristol. Thank you and your team for all your help. It is really appreciated.
Alison
You've made a great start as team leader. Thanks for everything you are doing
I'll drop you a line later today and we can discuss these points and ideas on a one to one basis
Steve
edited by Steven Whitfield
I just "approved" the merger of two profiles for my maternal grandfather Arthur William FAULKNER. My mother was Norma Gwendoline FAULKNER (15 July 1925 - 20 November 2017) Her mother was Esther FAULKNER, Arthur's first wife. Please advise where you are on his tree. Cheers Naomi
Thank you for merging those profiles. I'm not connected to your family line, I work with the Gloucestershire team improving profiles (this often includes Somerset). I think I was searching Faulkners, perhaps to link a family into the main Wikitree and found the 2 profiles looking the same.
Kind regards
Alison
I probably stuffed up, when I was first learning the ropes on here.
It's easily done! I was the same.
All the best
Alison
Thank you for your work on the Bristol Weares. Benjamin Parker Weare 1787-1855 has been merged and checked. I hope to move on to the sons.
Karen
Alison
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals. Every single contribution you make helps improve English profiles!
I'd also like to share our annual Newsletter with you. You can read it here: England Project Newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading a bit about what has gone on in 2022 and what our Project has achieved.
The England Project Leaders like to touch base with each of our members every 6 months just to make sure everything is going well. There's no need to reply to this message unless you have something you'd like to let us know about (e.g. if you would like to change your team choices or provide other feedback). We will be in touch with you again in the middle of next year when we do our annual check-in with project members.
On behalf of all the Leaders, I wish you a peaceful and productive 2023.
Best wishes,
Ian, England Project Leader
We would love to have you join the Mighty Oaks for the Source-A-Thon. The event will start on Friday, September 30 at 8AM EDT (Noon UTC) and runs until Monday, October 3 at 8AM EDT (Noon UTC) [time zone calculator] You do not need to participate full time.
If you are interested in joining us then please answer the G2G post here Source-A-Thon Registration remember to mention you would like to join the Mighty Oaks.
Look forward to working with you again
Joan, Janet, Maddy & Fran Co-Captains for the Mighty Oaks
Thanks for the work you did on some of my profiles. I will make the necessary changes in the next few days.
Regards Matthew
We would love to have you join the Mighty Oaks for the Connect-A-Thon. The event will start on Friday, July 15th, at 8 AM (EDT) and will run until Monday, July 18th, at 8 AM (EDT) [time zone calculator] You do not need to participate full time.
If you are interested in joining us then please answer the G2G post here before Midnight this Wednesday https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1431009/have-you-registered-for-the-july-2022-connect-a-thon-yet? Connect-A-Thon Registration] remember to mention you would like to join the Mighty Oaks. There are just a few days left to sign up for the event.
Look forward to working with you again
Joan, Carol, Maddy & Fran Co-Leaders for the Mighty Oaks
I wrote to you recently as part of the England Project's six-monthly check-in with our project members. I haven't heard back from you. I hope you are well.
If you could please drop me a quick note to confirm whether you are still interested in the project and wish to remain an active member, that would be very helpful.
If we do not hear from you within the next 2 weeks, we will assume you are no longer active in the England Project and remove you from our list of project members. You would be most welcome to re-apply to join the project at a later time by signing-up on the project’s G2G welcome post.
Many thanks!
Elizabeth, England Project Leader
edited by Elizabeth (Greet) Viney
It's just less rude.
We all want accuracy - it's part of the honor code. We try to be courteous - it's part of the honor code, and we are specifically reminded "When someone sounds rude, assume that they don't intend to be."
On behalf of the England Project, I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the project's goals over the past year. Every English profile we improve helps!
The England Project Leaders are currently doing our six-monthly check-in with all project members.
Are you happy to with your current project team choices? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
We also welcome any feedback on things you would like to see the project do more of in the future.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message.
Many thanks!
Elizabeth
The Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you for joining us, it is appreciated. Our combined score was 13,335 51 more than the last CAT so well done.
The total overall figure was 84,388 new profiles added and numerous connections made. The total figure was down 1,451 on the January Thon
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for the next event)
Thanks again for last weekend, we look forward to working with you again in 3 months.
Joan, Janet Maddy & Fran
Thanks for editing the mess I made with Helen Rosa Ross Gough, John Edward Chappell, et al.! By the way, do we have any evidence for her Ross second name? I can't see it in the sources. Shall I delete it? Jonathan
Thanks for your message.
I suspect the incorrect marriage was a suggestion based on the fact all 4 were on the same marriage index - so it's an easy mistake to make. I was just passing by the profile to fill in birth locations. I don't remember a middle name Ross but I wasn't on the lookout for it.
At least they're all married to the correct spouses now. :)
All the best
Alison
Back on 15th of March you added some information to the profile of Elizabeth (Balcomb) Mace (Balcomb-162) referring to a marriage certificate which gives her father as Richard Balcomb. Do you have the marriage certificate and if so could you please send me a copy? [email address removed] Regards Matthew
I'm sorry if you receive this twice!
Here is the image link: [1] . I've also added it onto her profile.
I had another look for Elizabeth and father Richard but cannot find them. I searched Balcomb family in Gloucestershire and there is 1 family who moved to Cheltenham from Kent.
If you have a Geneologist subscription I noticed that both Elizabeth and Henry (Mace) gave their address as Park Street, Cheltenham. I would try and look that up in the 1861 census (It's not easy to do an address search on Ancestry). If Elizabeth had been living with her family they may still be there and horribly mistranscribed. Alternatively she may have gone into service (as many girls did) in Cheltenham. It's a bit of a long shot.
Looking again, I think the Croydon Elizabeth was a different person but that might be worth checking. I thought as her father was a journeyman brewer he may moved around a lot but peering closely at her marriage certificate he may have been a labourer.
I am just trying to find birth places and dates for people (so they can be found more easily and therefore connected and not duplicated), I don't have a family connection to Elizabeth.
Good luck though.
Alison
Well, the Connect A Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and have fully recovered. Thank you for joining us The combined score of 13,284 - is 113 more than the last CAT so well done. The total overall figure was 85,839 profiles connected.
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for next event)
We are a bit late with out thanks, but we appreciate all your help and we look forward to working with you again.
Joan and Maddy.
I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the goals of the England Project. We've achieved a huge amount during this period and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
Are you happy to stay in your current project teams? Which teams are you most active in? Are there other teams you would like to join or become more active in?
Also, do you have any feedback on what the project is doing well and anything we could do better in the future?
Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks!
Nic, England Project Leader
Well, it was a fun weekend, we hope you enjoyed yourself. Thank you for joining us. It is appreciated. The combined score for our teams was a fab 9,296 up 419 on last year, well done. The total overall figure was 56,972 profiles sourced.
Check your personal figures here - https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourceaThon/TeamAndUser.htm (gives you a target for next year’s event)
Thanks again for this weekend, we look forward to working with you again
Joan & Maddy
Hi Alison
We would love to have you join the Mighty Oaks for the Source-A-Thon. The marathon starts Friday, October 1 at 8 AM (ET) and ends Monday, October 4, 8 AM (ET) but you don't need to participate the whole time
If you are interested in joining us then please answer the G2G post here Source-A-Thon Registration remember to mention you would like to join the Mighty Oaks
Look forward to working with you again
Janet & Joan Co-Leaders for the Mighty Oaks
It's that time of the year again: check-in time! As England Project Leaders, we like to check in with you every six months or so to see how things are progressing. Back in May, we didn't ask for a response due to the rapid emergence of Covid-19 because we understood that people's lives were changing rapidly. While we are still living in a Covid world, we do need to hear back from you this time around.
First of all, how are you doing? What are you currently working on? Are you happy with the team(s) you're in, or would you like to change things up?
Secondly, we're looking for some feedback on the Google Group and our Discord server. Do you use either or both of these? If you don't use either, why not? Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve participation and collaboration, either generally or for you personally?
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Joan, Amy & Lizzie.
Hi Alison
Thank you for joining the Mighty Oaks for the Source-A-Thon (SAT). Congratulations on your work during the SAT. Its an amazing result for the Mighty Oaks, we sourced 8,887. Altogether the teams sourced a total of 57,577 profiles on wikitree. We hope you had fun while building the tree.
We are looking forward to working with you for another Thon soon.
Janet & Joan
Hi Alison
We would love to have you join us in the Mighty Oaks for the fifth Source-A-Thon
If you are interested in joining us then sign up here https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1097927/have-you-registered-for-the-2020-source-a-thon-yet?
Here is our chat page is open - Oaks Chat We will also be on Discord for live chatting.
This link is for the help page for the event Help page
Look forward to working with you again
Janet & Joan
Thanks for the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree over the weekend. I hope you’ll join us for the Source-a-thon this fall.
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Hi Alison
Thank you for joining the Mighty Oaks for the Connect-A-Thon (CAT). Congratulations on your work during theCAT what an amazing result for the Mighty Oaks we added 12,615. Altogether the teams add a grand total of 60,128 new profiles added to wikitreeWe hope you had fun while building the tree.
See you next year or before for the Source-A-Thon
Janet & Joan
Co-Leaders for the Mighty Oaks
Your England Leaders are completing the six monthly check in with all team members. I wanted to thank you for your work on English Profiles. These are unprecedented and difficult times, and we understand as Project Leaders that your situation may have changed somewhat in the last few months. What we are all able to/ wish to contribute on Wikitree has changed. Please let me know if you are happy with your current role and team choice or if you wish to do something additional or different. Thank you again on behalf of all the project leaders for everything you do!
Kindest Regards, Amy Utting
I'm glad you're working well in the Gloucestershire! I'm not part of the team myself, but I'm currently working on a Place Study for Lydney (in Forest of Dean, near the Welsh border) so I do a fair bit of work in the area. Let me know if there's anything I can do (as a Lydney researcher and as a Leader) to help you in the future :)
Regards, Amy
I sent you a message a while ago on behalf of the England Project Leaders and have yet to heard back from you. I hope you are well.
One of the requirements of membership in the England Project is that you respond to the six-monthly check-ins.
If I dont hear from you in the next week or so Ill assume you no longer wish to be in the project and go ahead and remove you. You would, of course, be most welcome to rejoin at any time via the G2G sign-up post.
Best wishes,
Susie :-)
On behalf of the England Leaders, I wanted to say a huge thank you for all your contributions towards the project in the past six months as a Team Member for Gloucestershire. We've achieved a great deal during this time and we couldn't have done it without you.
Are you happy to stay in your current team and the project as a whole? Are there any other teams you'd like to join? What are we doing well, and what would you like to see us doing differently moving forwards?
Please respond to this message via e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks,
Susie, England Project Leader :-)
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