Greg Clarke
Honor Code SignatorySigned 7 Mar 2018 | 9,162 contributions | 349 thank-yous | 1,563 connections
Signed 7 Mar 2018 | 9,162 contributions | 349 thank-yous | 1,563 connections
Communication Preferences:
I am interested in communicating 
with
anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
Here is my family tree.
I have also developed a number of WikiTree Apps, some of which are now part of the Tree Apps collection (available from any profile), and others from my Apps home page. I am also a part of the DNA Innovators team, and have made a DNA Confirmation Citation maker app to help create those DNA source citations.
with
anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
Here is my family tree.
I have also developed a number of WikiTree Apps, some of which are now part of the Tree Apps collection (available from any profile), and others from my Apps home page. I am also a part of the DNA Innovators team, and have made a DNA Confirmation Citation maker app to help create those DNA source citations.
Join me, Mags Gaulden and Betsy Ko (and other friends) on Saturday mornings at 10am Eastern for the weekly WikiTree Update LiveCast on YouTube.
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Greg P. Clarke
Born 1960s.
Ancestors 
and Brother of
[private sister (1960s - unknown)], [private brother (1960s - unknown)] and [private sister (1970s - unknown)] [half]
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Mar 2018
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| Greg Clarke was adopted 3 Dec 1965 | |
| Location: Uptergrove, Ontario, Canada | |
| Adoptive Parents | Biological Parents |
| Father: Patrick Joseph Clarke | Father: Dwight Ashley Douglas |
| Mother: Mary Bernadette McIsaac | Mother: Pauline Denise Marcoux |
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Biography
Greg Clarke participated with Team Italy during the January 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added 40 connections.
Greg Clarke participated with Mighty Maple Leaves during the 2023 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 007 previously unsourced profiles.
Greg gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2022 Secret Santa!
Greg Clarke competed with the
Marvelous Maples in the 2023 WikiGames.
WikiTree Day Attendee: 2022
Greg Clarke migrated from WikiTree to 🕳Rabbit🕳Holes🕳.
I was born on January 16th, 1964, and originally named Kelly John Douglas. As my birth parents were both young teenagers, as was common, I was given up for adoption. Eventually I was officially adopted by Pat and Bernadette Clarke, farmers from Uptergrove, Ontario, Canada, and my name officially changed to Gregory Patrick Clarke - the only name I ever remember answering to. If you switch to my adoptive self's profile, you can view the Clarke/McIsaac family tree.
I went to Uptergrove Public School, Twin Lakes Secondary School in Orillia, the University of Waterloo (BMath, 1988) and University of Western Ontario (BEd, 1988). I became a high school Mathematics and Computer Science teacher where I have worked for the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board since. In my last ten years of teaching, I was part of a special project developing online activities to help students with mathematics, housed at http://mathies.ca
In November 2017, I did the Ancestry DNA test, and along with the Ethnic mix (47% Great Britain ; 29 % Ireland/Scotland/Wale ; 10% Iberian Peninsula ; 6% Europe South) - I also had matches to some cousins I never knew - including a 1st and 2nd cousin (who turned out to be a 1st cousin once removed!). After applying for a copy of my original birth certificate, and discovering the actual names of my birth parents (Dwight Ashley Douglas + Pauline Denise Marcoux) - I was able to find out exactly how I was related to these new cousins, and discovered that in fact, I had a full sister and full brother (my parents stayed together and got married!), and a half-sister (from my dad). Emails, phone calls, and eventually meeting face to face has now reunited me with a family I never knew I had.
On June 30, 2018, I retired from education, after a very enjoyable and fulfilling career of thirty years. I am now the Music Director for Guardian Angels parish in Orillia, Ontario, Canada, as well as the webmaster for the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education, which I have done for the majority of my teaching career, and plan to continue for the foreseeable future in my retirement. In between church music and website work, I'm now enjoying the freedom to explore lots of family tree branches, and working with WikiTree.
Along with getting more involved in WikiTree, becoming a regular co-host to the Saturday Roundup livecast, as well as various 'thon events, I've also connected with other genealogy and DNA endeavours. I'm part of the mitoYDNA.org team, and also part of the organizing committee for the East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference, held annually in Baltimore, MD.
Apps List
Related to that freedom (mentioned above ..) - I have created a number of WikiTree apps, you can view them all on my Apps home page. Below are some of the more popular.
- Fan Chart - a tool to display your Ancestors in a Fan Chart, from 3 to 11 generations.
- Six Degrees of You - an app to display all your Connections, up to 7 degrees now, in ring or family tree format.
- Ancestry Citation Builder - allows you to create links to Ancestry.com sources or images for citations that other Wikitreers can view, even non-subscribers.
- Ancestor Webs - a family tree visualization app that allows you to see multiple connections between two WikiTree profiles - especially useful with endogamous family trees (previously known as Relative SpiderWebs)
- DNA Confirmation Citation Maker - an app designed to help you create proper source citations to add to your profiles to record your DNA Confirmations.
- The Super Tree - a family tree building app that allows you to create a Super Big Family Tree showing up to 7 generations of ancestors and/or descendants, cousin branches and in-laws; totally customizable.
- NEW Photo Lines - an app to build a visual line of paternal or maternal ancestors to you, using their profile pictures, which you can then embed on your own profile page!
- Not an app, but I did create a Google Spreadsheet for downloading Ancestry DNA matches info and the link to the G2G post gives details on how to use it.
- Similarly for MyLivingDNA.com matches.
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Earliest Known Ancestors
Y-DNA - Direct Male Line
Starting with the father of Gregory Clarke:
- Dwight Douglas b. 1945-11-13, Flesherton, Grey County, Ontario, Canada DNA ✓
- William Douglass b. 1907-12-01, Artemesia, Grey County, Ontario, Canada DNA ✓
- Herbert Douglass b. 1876-02-18, Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada DNA ✓
- William Douglass b. 1836-03-14, Templeshanbo, Wexford, Ireland DNA ✓
- William Douglass b. 1801-00-00, Templeshanbo, County Wexford, Ireland [uncertain]
View the Y-DNA descendants of William Douglass.
mtDNA - Direct Female Line
Starting with the mother of Gregory Clarke:
- Pauline Marcoux b. 1947-12-03, Nédélec, Québec, Canada DNA ✓
- Marie Berthe Germaine Cloutier b. 1925-11-13, Nédélec, Quebec, Canada DNA ✓
- Marie Augustine Trudel b. 1890-02-11, Ste-Thècle, Quebec, Canada DNA ✓
- Marie Célanire Gagnon b. 1866-12-22, Saint-Prosper, Bas-Canada [confident]
- Marie Massicot b. 1831-06-12, Saint-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Bas-Canada [confident]
- Flavie Frigon b. 1810-01-09, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade [confident]
- Marguerite Rouillard b. 1790-03-21, Saint-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Québec, Canada [confident]
- Geneviève Perigny b. 1766-09-16, Batiscan, Province de Québec [confident]
- Elisabeth Brisson b. 1727-03-30, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Quebec, Canada [uncertain]
- Marguerite Perrault b. 1704-03-14, Batiscan, Champlain, Quebec [confident]
- Geneviève Duclos b. 1671-00-00, Batiscan, Champlain, Canada, Nouvelle-France [uncertain]
- Jeanne-Genevieve Cerisier b. 1641-00-00, Amboise, Tours, Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, France [confident]
- Marie Lalande b. 1615-00-00, France [uncertain]
View the mtDNA descendants of Marie Lalande.
My Surnames List
- Click on Surname to view EKA - Earliest Known Ancestor
- Paternal Grandfather , Paternal Grandmother vs Maternal Grandfather , Maternal Grandmother ancestors
- Aiot, Ashley , Ayotte
- Babineau, Baril , Bele , Bell , Bernier , Bertrand , Bertrand , Biggar , Bissonnette , Bourbonnais , Brouillet , Bruneau , Brunet
- Cauchon (Cochon) , Chabot , Charrier , Cloutier , Comeau , Côté
- D'Aoust (Daoust) , Douglas , Dumont
- Fiset (de la brecque Fiset) , Frigon
- Gagnon (Gaignon) , Gotobed , Goulet , Guimond
- Heckemberg (Ekemberg) , Hope , Houle , Hunault
- Jacob, Julien
- Labonté (Clément, Clement dit Labonte, Clement) , Lavasseur , Leclerc , Leduc , Lefebvre , Lefèbvre , Little
- Marcoux (Marcou) , Marois , Massicot , Masson , Matthews , McIntosh , Morin
- Nault (Nault-Labrie, Neau) , Nobert
- Overland
- Payne, Percival , Poirier , Pringle , Périgny
- Racine, Richardson , Robb , Rouillard , Ruel
- Thirlwall, Tourigny , Trudel , Trépanier
- Valin, Veillette , Vézina
- Woods, Workman
My Surnames-in-Law List
- Click on Surname to view EKA - Earliest Known Ancestor
- Paternal Grandfather , Paternal Grandmother vs Maternal Grandfather , Maternal Grandmother ancestors
- Caputo, Coppola
- De Cicco
- Fabiano, Funari
- Macchione, Maione , Misasi
- Naccarato
- Richichi
- Serra, Sicilia , Spina , Spina , Spina , Spina
- Tulipano (Unknown) , Turco
- Volpe
Current projects
- WikiTree apps -
- DNA Confirmation app - many improvements added, and new links
- Super Tree (tree app) improvements:
- better horizontal spacing of clusters to avoid excessive criss-crossing in the upper regions
- ability to hide/show branches to really customize your view
- repeat ancestor options
- FanChart improvements
- Tree app crossover - add Six Degrees bubble view to CC7 app
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Greg Clarke at registration.
- Birth Certificate of Kelly John Douglas, Registration 64-05-014057, obtained from Service Ontario, Province of Ontario, Personal copy in the files of Greg Clarke
- Adoption notice of Gregory Patrick Clarke, Registration 005956, Dec 3,1965, O.B. Folio 2118, from County Court of the County of Ontario, obtained from Service Ontario, Province of Ontario, Personal copy in the files of Greg Clarke
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Greg Clarke and his second cousin, TK. Their most-recent common ancestors are their great grandparents, Herbert Douglass and Sophia Robb. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd Cousins, based on sharing 221 cM across 11 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Greg Clarke and his second cousin, JL. Their most-recent common ancestors are their great grandparents, Donat Cloutier and Marie Anne Trudel. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd Cousins, based on sharing 232 cM across 12 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Greg's formal name
- full middle name (P.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (3)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (3)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Greg or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Greg or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Greg Clarke: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-FT8806, FTDNA kit #IN45890, MitoYDNA ID T12922 [compare]
- Greg Clarke: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H3t, FTDNA kit #IN45890, MitoYDNA ID T12923 [compare]
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Greg Clarke:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch HT658020C1 [compare], Ancestry member uptergroveGreg
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #IN45890
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MyHeritage DNA, yourDNAportal GRE1833d4b1
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Living DNA
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~0.78%
Maryse Denis
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Maryse45
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Greg:
- Ask Aleš (April 2024) Mar 26, 2024.
- Ask Aleš (March 2024) Mar 5, 2024.
- Ask Aleš (February 2024) Feb 13, 2024.
- Greg Clarke is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 8, 2024.
- Greg Clarke-11007 is a Wonderful Wikitreer Jan 14, 2024.
- Ask Aleš (January 2024) Jan 2, 2024.
Featured National Park champion connections: Greg is 19 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 25 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 17 degrees from George Catlin, 20 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 27 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 18 degrees from George Grinnell, 30 degrees from Anton Kröller, 19 degrees from Stephen Mather, 24 degrees from Kara McKean, 20 degrees from John Muir, 19 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 31 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
I've thoroughly enjoyed your apps - particularly the fan chart and the Super Tree. The apps make it SO much easier to visualize (1) what needs adding and (2) interesting relationships. The Super Tree comes closest to having my own "tree drawer", highlighting relationships of interest.
I notice one thing 'missing' from the Super Tree. On my mother's side, there are two instances (about 100 years apart) where brother and sister marry sister and brother. But the Super Tree only shows one of the marriages. I'd love to see an enhancement where both connections are shown.
Added note: I did notice that if you expand on cousins, both marriages are shown, although the profiles are duplicated on the tree.
Thanks for what you do. Peter Boonstra, Boston
edited by Peter Boonstra
edited by Jacqueline Dobson
Karen
I uploaded my tree pic & even found an APP to get it's "DNA"! LOL! New selfies on the WikiGame Selfie page; in honor of you ;)
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
This is Chris from the Italy Project. As part of the annual project check-in, can you fill in the project survey? This will let us know that you are still interested in the project and which teams you'd like to participate in.
Thanks and have a great day!
- Greg
It’s time for our annual Ireland Project check-in! Please respond within the next two weeks to let me know:
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
Using the "Colourize Repeats" option in a heavily endogamic population will produce charts with many names unreadable (black text over very dark blues or purples). This happens even with the "Show Name Highlights" option.
It would be possible to improve the colours? ie not ignore "Show Name Highlights" in the cells with "Colourize Repeats"?
Thanks.
At some point, I'd like to revisit this - and - if you're willing to help out with some testing, send me a private message, and I'll add you to the list! - Greg
Well written, interesting biography, too. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have two families to connect to - two sets of parents to know. It's a blessing.
edited by Barb (Egglestone) Furman
exploring the DNA Confirmation App and the My Cousins Tab. Time for me to start contributing again. You are an inspiration to us all.
-Greg
How impossible would it be to get Relative Spiderwebs working for multiple (think four, five, etc.) profiles? I can run the combinations separately and then posit connections by comparing, but it is exactly what I would like to see to lay out how multiple lines connect to each other.
I have a couple of sample profiles you could use for testing if you think it would work.
Thanks!
I'm trying to use your wonderful Fan Chart app to create wall art for relatives. Do you have any plans to support "Highlight DNA Confirmed" on the .pdf creation option? I tried doing a screen grab, but the graph the snipping tool saves doesn't scale up to poster size well enough. I know that the "DNA Confirmed" data might not seem like a candidate since it's dynamic, but I'd like to show it to encourage more cousins to get tested. Thanks! Bernard Ellis
Congrats on the Super Star Badge!
Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.
Keep up the great work!
Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
In appreciation with all your work here, Maggie (aka Magda Maria)
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. You have every right to be pleased with your efforts!
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
PS: Very cool the church choir directing. I dabbled a little in that myself over the years.
Thanks so very much for your participation in the spring Clean-a-thon! Every suggestion you cleared made our Tree that much better. The WikiTree community appreciates YOU!
Pip Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
John Williams
Greg and Janine are 25th cousins once removed
Cousin, Janine
I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on this: "It would be nice if there was a way to easily link DNA matches (from Ancestry, 23andMe, etc…) who are WikiTreers to your profile."
I'd really like a better way to track my own matches. Those who are WikiTree members and those who aren't. But if they aren't it has to be done privately, and that's really getting far afield from our mission.
OK ... how could we easily link DNA matches? Easy to say, maybe not as easy to implement. Here are some initial thoughts.
--> SO .. if THOSE names of those potential DNA matches (who are not my own personal DNA test results) could be collected in one location, along with their DNA test details (company / results / user ID ), then it would be easier to narrow down who to check on . --> Going one step further - IF I myself have tested at the same company as another WikiTreer who might be a potential match (from the list above) - I wonder if there is a way to generate a URL link that could take us directly to that company's website and do a comparison between the two userids (mine and the potential match). Sort of how we have that ability with GEDcom right now (if you're logged in already). That of course depends on the individual company and their APIs, and so that might be dreaming .. --> FINALLY, if we DO find that John Smith on WikiTree is also a DNA match based on a company DNA test result, it would be nice to have a way to record that in our profile, and then pull it up on a list somewhere for reference (or for our cousins to reference so they can compare their results too). This might be something that needs both WikiTreers to agree to this information being public before it can appear on a list that others can view.
That's kind of a long winded answer - not sure of the logistics of any of it, how easy/hard to do, but, that's my initial thoughts on the matter.
Take care, -Greg
Happy Wikitreeing! We also have a DNA match!
Cousin Angela Boyer-3525
edited by Angela (Boyer) Cortner
Thank you so much for responding to our check-in. We are delighted that you wish to continue contributing to the Canada project. Below is a quick checklist for active members. The project leaders would like you to make sure you have done the following:
1) Checked the Project Page for ways to contribute
2) Added CANADA to the tags you follow.
3) PM the project leaders with your email address to be added to the Google Group
4) Bookmarked the Activity Feed to monitor the project watchlist
Thank you
Janet~ Volunteer Coordinator
Enjoy the wedding and the Thon-prep work is Key
It has been a couple of weeks since we contacted you about your participation in the Canada and as we haven't heard from you, we are following up to make sure you wish to remain a member.
We understand that interests shift as we grow our shared tree and that some members may have moved on to projects more pertinent to the branches they are currently building. If this is the case for you, please let us know.
If we do not hear back from you within the week, we will assume you have moved on to other things for the moment and remove you from the project. Please know that you will always be welcome to rejoin should your interests shift back in this direction.
Thank you so much for your participation; we genuinely appreciate it.
Janet~ Volunteer Coordinator
On behalf of the Canada Project Leaders, we are doing a six-month check-in with members. Please let us know if you are still active in the Canada project. If you are active, please let us know in which ways you are currently contributing to the project.
All of us at WikiTree would like to thank you for your contributions and hope that you are enjoying exploring your roots.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Janet ~ Volunteer Coordinator
P.S.
If you joined the project only to show your connection to an ancestor, please consider using a Canada Stickers on your profile instead of the project badge
For the latest news on the Scan-a-Thon, please check out the Mighty Maple Leaves chat page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/735713/mighty-maple-leaves-2019-scan-a-thon-page?show=735713#q735713
Im leading the Mighty Maple Leaves team for the first Scan-A-Thon from January 11-14 and am writing to invite you to join our team again. Well be adding original images to open profiles and free-space pages. Like the previous thons, this is a competition, but most of us will be doing it for the sake of preserving our family history and enriching our ancestors' profiles with everything from photos and sketches to letters and postcards.
More information: Scan-a-Thon Help Page
Registration: Registration Page: Click the Answer Button to Register
Mighty Maple Leaves Free-Space Page: Mighty Maple Leaves
I do hope youll join, even if its only to upload and share a few family photos.
Cheers, Laurie
Je viens de lire votre courte biographie. It just shows how life can be generous if you give time to learn.
With such a background, how and where did you learn such a good French language knowledge?
Happy to have ou aboard WiliTree.