Dean Anderson
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Dean was born in Greeley, Colorado to Glen Anderson and Linda Berry and before I was a year old we moved. For the first few years of my life we lived in several different location due to my fathers job. Eventually we settled in Walden, Colorado which happen to be home for my parents. We lived there until the summer of 1972 when my father got a job in Toledo, Ohio. So we packed up and moved across the "Great Midwest" to Toledo. What a culture shock for us kids, we went from a small town of just over 900 people to a city of over 400,000 people and that didn't include all the surrounding towns.
Dean married Stacie Rene Steely on 8 Jun 1984 in Toledo, Ohio. [1] They had two daughters from the marriage Danielle Leigh and Jessica Rae. Danielle was born while he was stationed at Misawa AB, Japan and Jessica Rae [2] was born while he was stationed at Beale AFB, CA. Dean and Stacie were divorced on 18 Dec 1990 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. [3]
Dean was remarried to Tammie Shaye Hardy on 19 Apr 1991 in May, Brown County, Texas. [4] They have one son Anthony Chris Edward Anderson. Anthony was born at Wilford Hall Medical Center on Lackland AFB while he was stationed at Kelly AFB, Texas. [5]
I am a retired veteran who served in the US Air Force for almost 21 years. I had the privilege of being stationed at numerous locations throughout the United States and the world. I was honored to have my retirement ceremony conducted in the courtyard at The Alamo and my retirement flag was flown above The Alamo prior to the ceremony. So, my military career has a special bond to San Antonio, it began with basic training, reenlisted in front of the The Alamo and ended with my last assignment at Lackland AFB.
My assignments included: Lackland AFB, Texas, Lowry AFB, Colorado, Keesler AFB, Mississippi, Misawa AB, Japan, Beale AFB, CA, Taegue, AB, Republic of Korea, Kelly AFB, Texas, Eielson AFB, Alaska, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, and Lackland AFB, Texas.
I had many deployments and temporary assignments, here are just a few: Kadena AB, Okinawa, Yokota AB, Japan, Vincenza, Italy, Saudi Arabia (Desert Storm), Osan AB, Republic of Korea, Mildenhall AB, England, Clark AB, Philippines, Goodfellow AFB, Texas, Hurlburt Field, Florida, Nellis AFB, Nevada, and Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. Several of these I have been to multiple times.
After the military my jobs have required me to continue travelling. Because of that I am hoping to accomplish my goal of visiting all 50 states and as many countries as possible, to include all 7 continents. Overall, I have been to 40 different states and at least 15 different countries, to include 4 out of the 7 continents. And these lists continue to grow each year as I continue to travel. I hope to make that happen soon.
I have been working on my family’s genealogy off and on for several years and have recently decided to start spending more time to getting it finished. I have always been fascinated with history and this goes right along with it. Additionally, I want to make sure that my grandchildren know who their ancestors where and were they came from. This is very important to me and I want to continue doing my part to keep the legacy alive.
I also enjoy doing research and looking for information, so I thought this would be an effective way to continue doing that and helping other people find their ancestors. I have found working on project to be very rewarding and have learned a lot about the different ones I have worked on. I try to work on a new one every month, in fact I find myself working on a couple at a time.
Besides genealogy I am an avid hockey fan. In fact, I play in an adult league, have coached youth for almost 20 years and have officiated for close to 25 years. Besides hockey I have also officiated football for almost 20 years. The highlights of my officiating have been when I was asked to work the Florida Panther (NHL) and San Antonio Rampage (AHL) Training Camp Scrimmage Games when I was stationed in San Antonio, Texas in 2003. It was a wonderful time getting to skate with the teams. I have also done numerous state high school hockey playoff and championship games in Texas, Arizona, and Nebraska. However, the best probably was when I was working the State High School Football Championship Game in Alaska, it was televised and I made a call along the sidelines on a pass play calling it out of bounds. The coaches and players for that team didn’t like the call, but because it was televised the announcers were able to replay it in slow-motion and watch it again. And “yes” I made the right call.
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Mary
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The US Civil War January Challenge is to connect US Civil War Soldiers for the January Connect-a-Thon. This year will be a twist of what I usually do. Instead of you choosing a "Surname Letter", you will be choosing from a block of soldiers whom I've already screened that show they have family to connect. Each soldier has a connection to one or more of his immediate family--parents, siblings, spouses, children, on their profile. Whether you work on one soldier or your whole block of soldiers, it's one step closer in our goal to connect each of our US Civil War Soldiers. The goal is to make sure all these soldiers are connected at least by one or two degrees. You can sign up now by clicking this link: US Civil War Sign-up Chart
It's Thon time again, this time the Source-a-Thon! It will be from September 29 - October 2, 2023. Do you want to participate with Team Cornbread Catchers in this Thon? Use this link to get to the G2G sign up post! Click the "answer" link at the bottom of the post and, when the Answer box pops up, mention that you want to be on the Cornbread Catchers team!
Debi & Kelly
Thank you for being part of the Charming Chestnuts team this weekend. One of our Olympians, Leon Tuck, was the #1 Olympian, and our team won a bronze medal, a silver medal, and a gold medal, and achieved first place overall! I hope you enjoyed participating in the events. ~ Star
Great to have you on the team again! Looking forward to another fun weekend! I am helping out Debi since she is still on her RV trip. I updated the team page and added a new G2G chat.
Our team page link https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Cornbread_Catchers
The new July G2G post is https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1606954/come-join-the-cornbread-catchers-july-2023-connect-thon-chat
The Discord Channel help. Discord: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Discord Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/cornbread-catchers?pli=1
Best,
Kelly
I think the category should be Category:1776 Project Members
The existing one is causing a red incorrect category at the bottom of your profile. Thanks for your help, regards, Margaret, Categorization project
We're doing a little Category housekeeping, and cleaning off the 1776 Project level. Would you please help with the following change in your biography?
Change
Category:Project 1776
to
Category:Project 1776 Members
Thanks a bunch! Betty
edited by Betty (Skelton) Norman
edited by Margaret (Gale) Haining
Let me know if you have any questions,
Tabor (who is helping Debi out for this Thon)
Thank you Dean for participating in the US Civil War Challenge. There were 27 of us who signed up for the Challenge, completing 6,480 profiles.
The US Civil War February Challenge will be to create profiles for those soldiers who died during the Battle of Shiloh on the 7th and 8th of April 1862. If you're interested in joining another challenge, check out the US Civil War Challenge Page on February 1st.
Thank you again. Pam
Here's the link to the G2G question: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1506578/us-civil-war-january-2023-challenge
I Hope you'll join the fun.
On behalf of the G2G Integrators Project Leaders, we are doing a six-month check-in with members. Please let us know if you are still active. If you are active, please let us know in which ways you most enjoy 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.
David and Pip ~ G2G Integrators Project Leaders
We now have a Google group for the Texas Project. https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/wttexas
If you are interested in joining the Texas Google group, please send me your email address by private WikiTree email.
I will then add your email address and you will be set to receive the postings.
Thanks,
Mary Richardson, Project Coordinator, Texas
Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the Military and War Project that you respond to these check-ins. To make bookkeeping easier, just click Reply to this message on your own page, add your reply, then <SAVE>. I look forward to hearing from you..
Many thanks,
Mary~ Project Coordinator, Military and War Project
Mary
We're doing our semi-annual check-in with members to see if you have been active in the last six months? Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the 1776 Project that you respond to these check-ins.
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Mary
Thank you for contributing to the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
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Nan, WikiTree Appreciation team
Thank you for again contributing to the Sourcerers Challenge in January! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
Nan, WT Appreciation Team
P Kreutzer, US Civil War Between the States Project Leader.
On behalf of the G2G Integrators Project Leaders, we are doing a first of the year check-in with members. Please let us know if you are still active.
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Please reply as we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Pip
Thank you for contributing to the December 2021 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
Nan, WT Appreciation Team
Thank you for your contributions to the November Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
I am checking in on behalf of the 1776 Project to announce the new project membership requirements and to verify that you are still interested in being a member of the project. All project members are being asked to join one of the project teams and also to make at least one project contribution every 6 months. We are also asking all project members to join the project's Google Group for project communications.
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best regards,
SJ
Just a reminder, you had signed up to participate in our February Integrator Challenge but you haven't shown up on our tracker yet.
Here is where your contributions for our challenge would show up: https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/IntegratorsChallenge/20210201/User.htm
Hope your doing ok.
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
We're sad to inform you that the Black Sheep Project is being dissolved. All BSP's subprojects will be moved in pieces under the Notables Project as categories and perhaps as Teams, depending on interest. Witch Trials will become a subproject of Notables.
Your BSP project member badge will soon be removed. If you'd like to join the Notables project, please let one of us know and we'll get you a Notables badge.
Please email either of us if you have any questions and if you'd like to join the Notables project.
Thanks, Susan McNamee & Traci Thiessen ~co-leaders, Black Sheep Project
Thanks! Great job!
Thanks for your participation 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
I noticed you chose our Integrators Challenge this month (July 2020), thank you!
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1064586/wikitreers-join-the-fun-join-integrators-challenge-july-2020
And if you can please add your question that you will be working on or the profile marked "needs profiles created" for the challenge. Thanks.
Got a question, see this page as well: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Integrators_Project_Challenge_Outline&public=1 and ....
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works Also, you can put a sticker on your profile You can do so by adding the words Integrators Challenge with the {{ }} in front and back, in your biography.
Thank you and Good Luck!! Dorothy, Integrators Project Coordinator.
I understand what you meant when you stated the culture shock you experienced when you moved from Colorado to Lucas County in Ohio. As you can well imagine, it was quite a culture shock I also experienced when I moved from one of the most remote areas of Central Appalachia to a very large city in Ohio. The county I moved to in Ohio is much larger than Lucas County. In fact, it doesn't get much larger. So, I understand the challenges that are associated with culture shock and the adjustment that can be necessary.
I also want to congratulate you on an amazing career. How fortunate you were to have your retirement ceremony conducted in the courtyard at the Alamo since you began and ended your career in San Antonio. I see where you stated since leaving the military, your jobs have kept you busy and you have had the good fortune to be able to travel to 40 states and are well on your way of meeting your established goal of visiting all 50 states. I wish you luck. If there is one thing I regret most in life, it has been my lack of travel throughout the most beautiful country in the world. We have it all here. There just is no comparison to the United States of America.
John Williams
edited by [Living Williams]
The Global Cemeteries Project is currently undergoing our member check-in and wanted to verify that you are still active and interested in being a member of the project. Are you currently assigned to or working with one of our Cemetery Teams? If not, is there a particular Team or area you are interested in participating with? I would be delighted to help you get setup in one or more of our collaborative teams!
We use Google Groups for internal project collaboration, so if you are not yet setup for access feel free to submit a join request and we will get that approved as quick as possible. We also ask that members check their follwed tags to make sure you are following the correct project tag (CEMETERIES) so you don't miss any disucssions in G2G.
Last, but not least, we would like to thank you for all of your contributions to WikiTree and let you konw that any ideas or suggestions for improvement you may have for the Global Cemeteries Project would greatly appreciated!
I look forward to hearing form you soon!
Steve ~Global Cemeteries Project Leader
but you are not showing up on our tracker here: https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/IntegratorsChallenge/User.htm
Make sure if you create a new profile or improve one according to our project requirements that you select the Integrator Challenge once you saved your work.
Thanks, Dorothy, Project Coordinator.
I think you have already had requests, asking you to add the Disasters Project as manager to the following pages.
Space:Central_Pacific_Mine_No._3_-_Explosion
Space:Union_Pacific_Coal_Company_Mine_No._1_-_Explosion_27_Apr_1890
Central_Pacific_Mine_No._3_-_Explosion/
Space:Union_Pacific_Mine_No._4_-_Explosion
I have repeated the request today.
Would you do that please so that we can bring them up the standards we are trying to achieve.
Regards Joan
You may have noticed that the Disasters Project is doing a lot of work at the moment tidying up mining disasters pages. We have noticed that you have done some fantastic work on Wyoming Mining disasters. Thank you so much for that. We would like to preserve the work you have done, but would prefer to move some of the information onto the pages of the specific disasters. I do not know how you feel about us doing that and would love to hear your views. If we do not hear from you we will presume that you are happy for us to proceed.
Regards Joan
edited by Joan (Williams) Whitaker
I noticed you chose our Integrators Challenge this month (February 2020), thank you! *Could you do us a favor though, and go here to sign up officially athttps://www.wikitree.com/g2g/978731/wikitreers-join-join-integrators-challenge-february-2020
And if you can please add your question that you will be working on or the profile marked "needs profiles created" for the challenge. Thanks.
Got a question, see this page as well: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Integrators_Project_Challenge_Outline&public=1
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works
Also, you can put a sticker on your profile You can do so by adding the words Integrators Challenge with the {{ }} in front and back, in your biography.
Thank you and Good Luck!! Dorothy, Integrators Project Coordinator
On behalf of the Disasters Project Leaders we are carrying out a check-in to see how all the members are doing and taking the opportunity to thank you for all your hard work in the past.
We have recently made a lot of changes. We are changing the focus of the project to include more about people involved in disasters and the effect it had on them and their families. We have divided the project into teams. Please have a look https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Disasters
Please let me know, by comment on my profile or a private message, whether you are still active in the project, and which team(s) you would like to work with. What are you enjoying most about being in the project? What would you like to see improved or changed?
We're looking forward to hearing back from you,
Joan and Lizzie
The Appreciate Team THANKS YOU!
Pippin Sheppard Appreciation Team Member
Outstanding! We started this program in April of this year 2019 award is April through December.
And if you can please add your question that you will be working on or the profile marked "needs profiles created" for the challenge. Thanks.
Got a question, see this page as well: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works
Also, you can put a sticker on your profile You can do so by adding the words Integrators Challenge with the {{ }} in front and back, in your biography.
Thank you and Good Luck!! Dorothy, Integrators Project Coordinator