Marion Ceruti Ph.D.
Honor Code SignatorySigned 18 Dec 2018 | 17,389 contributions | 906 thank-yous | 1,596 connections
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You are welcome to contact me about any topic that interests you. However, I especially would like to hear from cousins who have inside information not yet posted about our family.
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Rev. Dr. Marion G. Ceruti Ph.D.
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Tracy Ceruti USN
and Lucille Bird (Dawson) Ceruti
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Biography
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Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has Jewish Roots.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has English ancestors.
Marion has been a member of the England Project for over 1,000 days.
Marion is the 1C21R of King Edward III.
Descendant of Sir Anthony Deane, MP, a noted naval architect for His Majesty, King Charles II.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has Scottish Ancestors.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has Welsh ancestors.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has French origins.
Descendant of Hildegarde|wife of Charlemagne (Karolus Magnus).
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has African ancestry.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is a part of US Black heritage.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. has Barbadian Ancestry.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is the descendant of a New Netherland settler.
Descendant of Thomas Hildreth|9th great grand daughter.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is a Californian.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. is a New Yorker.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. lives in Hawaii.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and added 52 connections.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and added 33 connections.
Marion Ceruti Ph.D. participated with The Wizards of Aus during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon.
Marion was a Girl Scout
Marion was a Gardner
Marion was an Aviator
Marion is a genealogist.
Marion is a Mariner.
Marion is a Writer.
Welcome to The Bahamas Triangle of WikiTree
Welcome, one and all, to WikiTree, where world history becomes family history, and where family mystery is woven into the fabric of family history.
The Bahamas Triangle is defined geographically by the Bahamas, Florida, USA, and New York State, USA. The Ceruti Family-Mysteries Page [2] is the epicenter of the Bahamas Triangle, except that instead of ships and planes getting lost at sea and going missing as they do in the Bermuda Triangle, genealogists and family historians have become confused and gone missing at the keyboard during deep dives into the many unsolved family mysteries. The flow of immigration between these three areas provides the threads of the "fishing nets" in which genealogists get caught while they, themselves are fishing for information. In the process of investigating one family mystery, another one is discovered, and then another. Can you help us creek open the crypt of covered up Ceruti history?
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Family
Marion is the daughter of William Ceruti and Lucille Dawson. She married William F. Hoover, Jr. (her 16C4R) on New Year's Day in 1989. Now everyone can celebrate their anniversary while celebrating the new year!
Education
Having been inducted into the National Junior Honor Society and the National Honor Society [4] in Eastport High School, Marion graduated from Eastport High School with a New York State Regents diploma and a Regents Scholarship in 1969. Subsequently, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Stonybrook in 1973; and the Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979. Her dissertation involved laser spectroscopy of molecules in the gas phase, using computers not only for data analysis but also for data acquisition.
Career
Dr. Marion Ceruti’s career at Navy Laboratories started at the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), and continued with NRaD and ended at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Pacific. She was hired at NOSC as a physicist in June 1979. The first project was the blue-green laser downlink program, which resulted in NOSC TR 470 published that year. Taking assignment with the marine-mammals division in the Naval Ocean Systems Center Hawai'i laboratory on O'ahu, her next projects were associated with animal behavior and capabilities. She was a US Navy research diver and helped perform underwater experiments to test new devices based on advanced technology. In 1987 she transferred to the NOSC laboratory in San Diego, California, where she continued her interest in computing and became an internationally recognized leader in information management. Dr. Ceruti also supported the chemical- and biological-weapons defense community, having joined the Tactical Situation-Assessment Technology (TSAT) team, whose objectives included scientific and technical advances in the area of visual language, and chemical and biological weapons defense.
Professional Publications and Awards
Dr. Ceruti's early projects resulted in publications on echolocation, marine-mammal chemoreception and biochemistry, e.g. NOSC Technical Report 930 and a journal article in Comparative Physiology. As she developed her background in acoustics, she supported the aural enhancement of active sonobuoys and conducted time-separation pitch psycho-acoustic experiments, which resulted in several conference presentations and an article in the Journal of Applied Acoustics on how to train blind people to navigate in the absence of object cues. After transferring to the NOSC laboratory in San Diego, she received numerous invitations to write book chapters and journal articles, as well as invitations to speak in international meetings. For example, she wrote invited book chapters in the Handbook of Local Area Networks, the Handbook of Data Management, and Heterogeneous Information Exchange and Organizational Hubs. She delivered invited papers, for example, at the IEEE COMPSAC98 in Vienna and at the BMi defense conference in London, United Kingdom. Also a conference organizer, she was general chair of the Naval Security Group's and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)'s Federal Database Colloquium for 14 years. She managed a four-year program sponsored, in part, by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The program, Knowledge Management for Distributed-Tracking (KMDT) was focused on data fusion, de-clutter, simplification of tactical information in command centers during naval warfare. This program resulted in many more publications, some in international conference proceedings, and a publication award. Dr. Ceruti published various papers on the next-generation chemical and biological sensors and their data fusion. Her paper topics have varied from soft-computing methods for diagnose and prediction of glaucoma, to the use of Maya hieroglyphics for military communications. Her publication-of-the-year award in 2003 was for her first paper in the Infodynamics series titled “States of Matter and States of Information.” Infodynamics is the information equivalent of thermodynamics, which includes other dynamic quantities in addition to entropy. Since then, she published five other papers on Infodynamics, one of which, an invited journal article resulted in a publication award of honorable mention. With the TSAT team, her haptic data-glove invention has won many awards. Out of over 120 publications, 23 have generated awards. Dr. Ceruti’s awards include:
- Cold War Service Certificate for service to the United States during the "Cold War;"
- Seven Honorable-Mention Publication awards between 1995 and 2010;
- Publication Award of Excellence, 1999;
- Distinguished Achievement in Project Accomplishment, 2000;
- Group Achievement Award of Merit, 2002;
- Distinguished Achievement in Leadership, 2005;
- Distinguished Team Achievement Award, 2006;
- Exemplary Civilian Service Achievement Award, 2008;
- 30-year Service Award, 2009;
- Federal Laboratory Consortium Far West Region Award for outstanding technology development, 2009;
- Patent Application: “Wireless Haptic Glove for Language and Information Transference,” Navy Case No. 99084, 2009;
- Team SPAWAR Innovation Award for Science and Technology Product, Process or Service, 2010;
- Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 2010;
- Patent: “Hall-Effect Sensor System for Gesture Recognition, Information Coding and Processing,” US 8,421,448 B1 awarded 16 Apr 2013.
Hobbies and Personal Interests
While at the NOSC Hawai'i laboratory she continued her life-long interests in surfing, diving, writing, and music. She also developed an interest in flying, having earned an FAA commercial glider-pilot's license with single-engine land privileges. She also became a flight instructor and joined the Civil Air Patrol where she became a safety officer at the state level. She is a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Suffolk Chapter, New York. She is also a member of the Hildreth Family Association. Dr. Ceruti is a charter member of the Historical Diving Society, having descended from the inventor of the diving helmet, Charles Anthony Deane. Decades after transferring to San Diego, she produced two compact discs mainly of Italian renaissance music and baroque music, which also included original compositions. She resides with her husband of over 30 years on Maui, Hawai'i, USA. She is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church Monastery, a non-sectarian organization. Dr. Ceruti is a speaker and organizer for a study group that is focused on spiritual practice and experience.
She is a member of several WikiTree teams, projects and groups, but lately has been most active in the England Project, the Bahamas Project, the Wales Project, and the Scotland Project.
Independent or Related Events?
Marion Ceruti's 9th great grandmother, Marie (Unknown) Crocheron, initials "MC," was a Huguenot emigrant to Staten Island, New Netherlands Colony (now New York, USA). Marie had at least nine children including Anthony Crocheron and Adrianna Crocheron.[1]
Marion Ceruti, another "MC," has a grand nephew, Anthony, and grand niece, Adriana, (with one"n") who is Anthony's younger half sister. Their mother, Marion's niece, was unaware of the existence of her 10th great grandmother, Marie (Unknown) Crocheron, at the time of their birth and could not purposely have named Anthony and Adriana after Marie's children.
Relation to Famous Historical Figures and Gateway Ancestors
Descendant of gateway ancestors, such as Hannah Jessup Hildreth, and Abigail Hopton Stillwell. Hannah and Abigail are 8C3R, with a common ancestor of Joan Stainton Dronsfield, my 20th g grandmother born in 1325 in Yorkshire, England.
23rd great granddaughter of King Henry II of England, Curtmantle, FitzEmpress Plantagenet and his wife Aliénor (Eleanor) Duchess of Aquitaine. 22nd great granddaughter of their son, John "King of England, Lackland" formerly Plantagenet , who signed the Magna Carta.
24th great granddaughter of Matilda (Maud) "Holy Roman Empress, Lady of the English" of England formerly Normandie aka d'Anjou.
How far back can we go?
54th great grandafther, Dubun ap Bryddgwyn aka ap Brithguein, was born about 0020 C.E. in Roman Britannia. He is the father of King Onwedd ap Dubun, b. abt. 0050 C.E. of the ancient Royal Family of Gwynedd. Although it was possible to go back farther than that, some profiles have been deleted, presumably because WikiTree does not allow B.C.E profiles.
Direct descent from Magna Carta Surety Barons:
- Hugh le Bigod, (later Earl of Norfolk)
- Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk
- John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester
- Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester
- Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford
- Gilbert "Earl of Clare, Earl of Gloucester, Earl of Hertford" de Clare, 23rd great grandfather
- Henry "5th Earl of Hereford" de Bohun 23rd great grandfather
- Robert "ès Blanchemains, Earl of Leicester" de Breteuil formerly Beaumont, an associate of Hugh Le Bigod. 28 great grandfather
- Robert "3rd Earl of Oxford" de Vere 23rd great grandfather
For a complete list of Magna Carta Surety Barons, 17 of whom are between 23rd - and 27th g grandfathers, see [5]
Proven relationships include the following:
- Diana, Princes of Wales, 11C1R & 10C2R
- Merovech Merovingian (abt. 0415 - 0458) - 47th great grand daughter
- Charlemagne, Kings of France and his wife Hildegarde, - 36th great grand daughter.
- William the Conqueror, Kings of England, Duke of Normandy through Hannah Jessup Hildreth - 29th great grand daughter.
- Harold II of Wessex, Kings of England, through Hannah Jessup Hildreth - 31st great grand daughter.
- N.B. The lines of descent of these two kings, William and Harold, come together for the first time along this line of descent, with the birth of Constance Sutton, my 19th great grandmother. (Earlier descendants of both kings along different lines are not precluded, but this one is documented on WikiTree.)
- Alfonso II (Barcelona-31), Count of Provence, b. ca. 1174 - 3C26R.
- Patricius Ap Calpurnius, aka St. Patrick - 50th great grand niece. [6]
- St. Volodymyr Sviatoslavich, the Great, Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus (b. 961-d. 1015) (Рюриковичи-2) - 33rd great grand daughter.
- Lt. Nicholas Stillwell, Jr. b. 1606 -8th great grand daughter
- 51st g grand daughter of Attila the Hun [7] through Hannah Jessup Hildreth
- 4C19R of Richard III "King of England"
Descendant of Abigail Hopton Stillwell - 8th great grand daughter and 8th cousin 13x removed (8C3R) through the Hannah Jessup (Jessup-164) line. According to Hetty Stillwell Lee's genealogy, Abigail was the first wife of Lt. Nicholas Stillwell, Jr. and the mother of Capt. Nicholas Stillwell III.
When airborne, it is better to be Wright than rong:
- Wilbur Wright 8C1R
- Orville Wright 8C1R
Research Notes
Some of the data in the United States Public Records, 1970-2009 are factually wrong. The record states that on 15 Nov. 2007 my residence was in Eastport, Suffolk, New York, United States. Actually, my residence on that date was in San Diego, California, USA. The entry regarding my previous residence of Eastport, Suffolk, New York, United States 11941 is correct.
Digital Afterlife Statement: When I have become unable to continue my work on WikiTree, through physical or mental illness, or die, I do not want any of my Profiles deleted. I give permission for the profiles of which I am profile manager to be transferred to one of my family members, any of the other wonderful WikiTreers who have collaborated with me, or WikiTree admin - the best distribution for each profile to be determined at the time, observing the following preferences if possible.
- 1. The descendants of Theodore Ceruti should become managers of the profiles of his descendants. If they decline, any Bahamas genealogist is welcome to manage these profiles.
- 2. Descendants of Theodore Ceruti should become manager(s) of the Ceruti Family Mysteries page. [8].
- 3. The descendants of the Rev. Judge Isaac S. Bird should become managers of the profiles of his descendants.
- 4. The descendants of Hannah Jessup Hildreth should take over profiles that represent her descendants that I manage. Preference should be given to any member of the Hildreth Family Association to manage Hildreth profiles and those of their descendants.
- 5. My profile should be taken over by my husband, if living, one of my cousins or one of my WikiTree friends or relatives if they decline. Ceruti-7, 08:08, 8 Aug. 2023."
Sources
- First-hand observation, family records, DAR records, Stillwell family records. Entered by Marion Ceruti at registration.
- Certificate of Marriage Registration, record number 483, dated 27 January, 1989, Town of Riverhead, New York, Office of the Town Clerk. Signed by the Deputy Town Clerk, Nadia Moore (handwriting ambiguous - could be "Moole").
- Research Gate Web Page, Marion Ceruti [9]
- Amor Fortuna CD, Marion Ceruti, All Music [10]
- Le Dame Musicanti CD, Marion Ceruti & Donatella Gillette, All Music [11]
- Marwan I, Wikipedia [12]
- "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch [13] entered 28 July 2020, Marion Ceruti, 2007.
- [HSL, 1931] ”Stillwell" compiled by Hetty Stillwell Lee. October 1931. Excerpts were distributed at the Stillwell Family Reunions held in New York City during the first half of the 20th century. In addition to her own family observations and private communications with various cousins, Hetty Stillwell Lee used sources from the New York Public Library, the Long Island Historical Society, and church records and from a family Bible. These sources included records from Staten Island regarding the early Stillwell family in the New York area. The titles of two documents were cited among the sources: 1. "Memoirs of the Stilwell family" and 2. “Notes on the Descendants of Nicholas Stillwell, the Ancestor of the Stillwell Family in America.” The first document was not found during extensive searches, whereas the second document is believed with reasonable certainty to be [WHS, 1883]. That either document could have been [Benjamin Marshall Stillwell's document (BMS), 1878] has been ruled out by the fact that some of the key information in [BMS, 1878] is inconsistent with [HSL, 1931]. The second document cited in [HSL, 1931] has been located and is present in the collections of major libraries. The complete citation of the second document, [WHS, 1883], is given below on the reference list. [2] N.B. Copies of [HSL, 1931] were distributed at the annual Stillwell Family Reunions, which were held from ca. 1923 to ca. 1948, mostly in the Woodstock Hotel in New York City. At least one copy of the document was received by about 50 Stillwell descendants who attended at least one reunion dinner. Many more copies could be in other private collections maintained by other Stillwell family historians. Therefore, it is not fair to say that Hetty Stillwell Lee's document resides solely in the collection of profile manager and family historian, Marion Ceruti, since anyone who attended the reunions is presumed to have received a copy, which could be in the possession of his or her descendant(s). It is fair to say that almost no adult who attended the last reunion is still living.
- [WHS, 1883] Stillwell, William Henry, Notes on the Descendants of Nicholas Stillwell, the Ancestor of the Stillwell Family in America, E.W. Nash Publisher, 80 Nassau St. New York, 1883, 64 pp. (references to surname "Lake").
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
- Marion Ceruti: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup J1b1b1, FTDNA kit #775971, MitoYDNA ID T10953 [compare]
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100.00%
100.00%
Marion Ceruti:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LP3166798 [compare], Ancestry member ceruti1
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~6.25%
Karen (Mercier) Crusius
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AncestryDNA
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~6.25%
~12.50%
Robert Turner :
AncestryDNA, yourDNAportal ROB99670926, Ancestry member RobertMTurnerSr
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~3.12%
Jimmy French :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch CR7229888 [compare], FTDNA kit #205317
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~0.78%
Catherine (Newbold) Newbold-Kelley :
AncestryDNA
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Marion:
- Marion Ceruti is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 15, 2024.
- 300,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Marion Ceruti, and thank you from all of us! Nov 30, 2023.
- Marion Ceruti is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 19, 2023.
- Marion Ceruti is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 5, 2022.
- 200,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Marion Ceruti, and thank you from all of us! Sep 9, 2022.
- Meet our Members: Marion Ceruti May 30, 2022.
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Nice to meet you and thank you for reaching out regarding our common roots in Barbados. The work you have done in genealogy is amazing and I hope someday to visit Barbados. I will take you there in spirit. First I have to go back home to Yorkshire; it has been 40 years since I was last there. Happy New Year from Canada!
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Thank you for your message. Being on the Kent team has been great as one of my ancestry lines comes from that area. However, I am pleased to have participated in other areas of English ancestry. Lately, I have identified cousins who have been Baronets and have been working on their profiles as well. Some have married into the family of barons, and most likely they have living descendants. This is very interesting to me. English ancestry is on both my mother's and father's side, so there are plenty of opportunities to look for ways to improve profiles.
For example Benjamin Barnett (Barnett-5457) may have been born in England. Alternately, he almost certainly has English ancestry. I would like to know more about sources in England who could identify his origin.
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Thank you for contacting me and providing the England Project Newsletter. I have enjoyed working on family English profiles, particularly on my mother's side from Kent and Yorkshire.
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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.
Cheers and many thanks!
Elizabeth, England Project Leader
Thank you for contacting me. I am happy to remain a member of the Kent team. I am also happy with my other teams and activities on WikiTree.
Thank you also for your contributions to the England Project.
Best regards, Marion
I am retired navy. Looks like we were in San Diego at same time in our careers.
It's truly a small world. My career also crossed paths with that of my cousin, Capt. James Borop, USN, who was in charge of a fleet of minesweepers when he was on active duty. I read a document that he approved.
Also, I discovered that a Kirkland cousin, also on my father's side, had a parallel career with SSC Charleston while I was at SSC Pacific, or whatever name they are calling it these days.
Best, Marion
edited by Marion Ceruti Ph.D.
Wales Project Semi-Annual Check-In
Thank you for being a member of the Wales Project. You may recall membership requires at least one contribution to project goals during each 6-month period. A contribution includes creation of and modification to Wales related profiles.
Have you been able to contribute?
It is recognized some members are active. Thank you for your work. (There is no viable method to determine which members have been active in the Wales Project.)
Please respond to this message by posting a reply in Comments below or sending me a private message. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Stuart Awbrey, Membership Coordinator
Best regards, Marion
I see you worked at NOSC. I was there from 1981-1983 at the Naval Telecommunications Systems Test Node. Small world.
Regards, natalie
This year we are hoping to learn what our membership would like to accomplish over the next 12 months. In case you aren't aware, this year is WikiTree's ""Year of Connections"" and the Project's leadership would like to contribute to this in as many ways as possible.
We would appreciate it if you would share your thoughts and ideas with us on how we can accomplish this goal. We would also appreciate it if you would provide some feedback on our existing goals, including:
We continue to communicate with our Project members via Google Group (official) and Discord (unofficial), as well as G2G. You may also reach out to any of the Project leaders via WikiTree's internal messaging system at any time.
Thank you for all you do to help the Scotland Project become a knowledge hub for Scottish genealogical research! We wish you all the best in 2022!
Thank you for your message. Due to increased family and community duties, I have been unable to participate in the Scotland Project's activities. My efforts to trace my Scottish roots back further than five generations have resulted in dead ends. Most of my WikiTree contributions lately have been to identify cousins who have been disconnected from the family and re-connect with them. Thank you for your dedicated leadership. I wish you the best of success in the Scotland Project.
Wales Project Semi-Annual Check-In
Thank you for being a member of the Wales Project. You may recall membership requires at least one contribution to the project each 6 months. A contribution includes creation of and modification to Wales related profiles.
Have you been able to contribute?
It is recognized some members are active. Thank you for your work. (There is no viable method to determine which members have been active in the Wales Project.)
Do you desire to stay on your current project team(s)? 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.
Thanks,
Stuart Awbrey, Membership Coordinator
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Thank you for contacting me. I have made contributions to at least one Wales-related profile in the last six months and I would like to continue membership. I am not as active on the Wales project because I have had trouble finding sources about ancestors who lived in Wales. Maybe I am not looking in the right place. Do you have any ideas?
Best regards, Marion
The best method for receiving help with research is on the Wales Project Discord. One of the channels is "research-help." You can post questions you may have and other members will respond if they can help.
I don't see you on Discord. If interested, let me know and I will send you an invite to join.
Stuart
I would like to thank you for all your contributions towards the goals of the England Project during the past six months. We've achieved a huge amount during this period and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members. As the England Project Leaders, we are completing our six monthly check-in with all 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! Mike Christmas, England Project Leader
It's great to hear from you. Thank you for reaching out to me. You also have been very active in the England Project and I thank you for all of your contributions. I am happy with the Kent Team. I also am in the process of connecting my relatives in the Bahamas to their English origins as a member of the Bahamas team. The sun never sets on the British Empire and it rises proudly in the Bahamas, the team in which I have been most active lately because I have found family archives among my father's estate. It turns out that the majority of his ancestors were of English, not Italian origin. Who knew?
When this effort reaches a reasonable stopping point, I can switch to my attention to my maternal relatives with origins in Kent. My late cousins have accumulated a large body of information, including pictures, regarding the seafaring Deanes. I am excited to post this to WikiTree.
Best regards, Marion
Best Regards Mike
Thank you so much for all your contributions to WikiTree in the last six months, and especially to the Wales Project. It’s been wonderful to have you as part of the team as we work together to increase the quality and quantity of Welsh Profiles.
I have you down as being on the Glamorgan Team here. Is this right? How are things going? Do you have any questions? What can we do to support you? Would you like to change any of your teams? Do you want to continue in the Wales Project moving forwards?
I also see you aren’t in on the Discord server. You’d be very welcome to join us where we have live text and voice conversations which really helps with collaboration. Just let me know and I can send you an invitation.
I look forward to hearing back from you with all the above. Thanks once again, Olivia, Project Coordinator for Wales :-)
Thank you for contacting me and for offering support. It's always nice to hear from you. I am doing well and my projects are progressing slowly, with the help of others.
Can you tell me the best and most accessible online source of genealogical information available for ancestors from Glamorgan? I have hit a brick wall regarding my maternal grandfather's line of descent. I traced it to Wales. but I can't find the parents of Edwin Dawson (Dawson-7523).
By the way, using fan charts, I discovered that one of my ancestors, Amalach ap Beli, was the king of Wales who lived around the year 90 CE. Isn't that exciting? Who knew?
Thank you for volunteering to be the Wales Project Coordinator. I appreciate your dedication to collaborative genealogy.
edited by Marion Ceruti Ph.D.
It’s time for a Project check-in!
Scotland Project Leaders check in with you at least once a year to see how you are doing. With the changes happening around the world, we understand that life is hectic right now.
What are you planning to work on for the Scotland Project this year? Are you happy with the team(s) you part of, or would you like to make some changes?
This time round, we’re also looking for 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 to ensure you receive Project communications? If you would like to join us on Google Group or Discord, let us know in your response.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jones-99909 Emma
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.
I hope that the three of you are well and reaching your WikiTree goals. Best regards, Marion
Thanks for all 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. We are proud of your efforts.
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Thank you so much for participating with the Twisted Thistles during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon! Here is a sticker code you can put on your profile, just add the double curly brackets {{ }} at both ends.
Connect-a-Thon|team=Team Twisted Thistles|year=2020|profiles=33
Cheers,
Sarah and Bobbie
As a member of the Scotland Project, we'd love to have you join the Twisted Thistles in the upcoming Connect-a-thon the weekend of July 17 - July 20. If you'd like to join us and help to develop our ever-expanding Scottish tree, please register on the G2G post here and be sure to mention you'd like to be on the Twisted Thistles team for Scotland.
We also have our team Chat page posted here.
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
As you will have seen, we have been doing some restructuring in the Wales Project and are now organising ourselves into different teams. Please have a look at the new project pages, and let me know which team(s) you would like to be in.
Please can you also send me your e-mail address? I can then make sure you are introduced to your Team Leaders, are in the Google Group, and receive an invitation to join our Discord server.
Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the Wales Project that you respond to these check-ins.
Many thanks,
Susie, Wales Project Co-Leader
I'm not sure I replied to your message earlier but I see now that you posted it a couple of months ago. Yes, we are cousins, both of us having descended from Chrétien du Bois. I think there is a way to tell the exact description of the relationship between two WikiTreers - a tool on the web site. If you know that, please check it out. In the mean time, I will try to determine the exact nature of how we are related.
Have you read any of the sources given. Sitherwood has Thomas and Alice married and names Christopher born in 1716. Gives birth/death of Thomas and cites where is will is found. The Will book it is in is cited in the Sources. Alice's father and Hannah's father provided the Lippit-Taylor burying ground where they are buried. John E Stillwell has the Taylor family info in Vol 5. What else is there to be said? 2. Thomas son of Richard b 1666, died 1725. The opening sentence of Thomas Stillwell-1319 is correct. 3. He married Ann Hubbard 3. Thomas 3 son of Nicholas Sr, the emigrant, married Martha Balien/Balieu. died 1705.
Sharon
Sharon
Communicating with Bruce now. Hope you got the note that Hannah Taylor is Christopher's mother based on the 1716 birth year and the 1712 land transaction of Thomas and Hannah. Sharon
Put source on Christopher and Nicholas on Christopher's profile. Children of Thomas b 1688-1759 and Alice Throckmorton Stillwell.
Sharon
It is a mess. See Thomas Stillwell-46 under research note. Sorted the three Thomas Stillwells with sources. Check all the Stillwell sources I used and Ladd tree and Life of Richard Stillwell by John E Stillwell has wrong wive for Thomas m Throckmorton and Taylor. Sharon
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 Kent. 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 :-)