Linda (Lenze) Mearse

Thank you for participating in the April 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5226 profiles. We’re zeroing in on our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

All first-time participants in 2024 can add the 2024 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

Thank you for participating in the December 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6214 profiles. We created a total of 46,036 profiles for the year. We met our 2023 goal of 250k profiles and finished out the year with 168,195!

You can see your personal 2023 total and your all time 2021-2023 total on the 2023 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

Check out our new 1880 Census Project. We’d love everyone’s help in 2024.

Thank you for participating in the April 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5952 profiles. Our new total is 201,351. 250k here we come!

All first-time participants in 2023 can add the 2023 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

We’ve started the May challenge here: May Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Dear Germany Project member,

it's annual check-in time 2023. If you still wish to remain a member of the Germany Project, please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. In this case please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help, with researching your German ancestors, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with Germany in order for knowledgeable people to see them.

If you wish to remain a member, we would like to learn more about your perception of the Germany Project in order to achieve a future development according to our members needs and wishes. For this, we created a survey, which we kindly ask you to fill-in.

In case you want to communicate, discuss and receive help about WikiTree in German, you might want to check out the WikiTree category at Compgen’s Discourse as well as the German Discord server Ahnenforschung.

Of course there’s still the official WikiTree Discord server, where we usually talk English. Feel free to learn more about Discord and the server at Help:Discord.

Kind regards from Black Forest

Flo (Project Coordinator Research/Resources)

Linda, thanks for your work to improve the tree.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us reach 161,603 profiles! We’re going for 250,000 profiles in 2023!

We’ve started the January challenge here: January Connecting Challenge.

You can see your 2022 total and your all time 2021-2022 total on our tracking spreadsheet.

Emma

Hi Linda,

Thanks for having a Big Heart and adopting Orphan Profiles. You will want to read this After adopting orphans FAQ to understand what to do next and it explains the special attention those profiles need.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

David

Thank you for joining the June USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create almost 6000 new profiles! Our new total is 126903. We have less than 24,000 to our 2022 goal!

All first-time participants can add the participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

We’ve started the August challenge here: August Connecting Challenge.

Hi Linda,

Thanks for joining the Germany Project! Jelena has awarded you a project member badge. When you have a chance, please do the following:

1- Read the main Germany Project Page (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Germany) to familiarize yourself with what we do and what is required of project members.

2- Add GERMANY and/or GERMAN_ROOTS to your list of followed G2G tags, so you can follow what the project is working on (see Help:Tags: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Tags#How_to_follow_tags).

3- Submit a join request to our Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/wikitreegermanroots), where our project communicates. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ADD YOUR NAME AND WIKITREE ID to the request so we know who you are and can get you set up.

We look forward to working with you! Please feel free to contact me with any questions any time.

Thanks! Traci ~ Germany Project co-leader

Congratulations Linda, and welcome! You won this weekend's Saturday Sourcing Sprint by sourcing 32 unsourced profiles. Thanks for your work in improving WikiTree: we're happy to have your participation in the Sprint.

Hello Linda,

Congratulations on certifying to work on pre-1700 profiles! It’s very important to read and understand the Help:Pre-1700 Profiles page.

Primary sources should always be added to pre-1700 profiles at the time they are created. If you don't have a source for a pre-1700 profile, it would be best to ask for help in the G2G forum before creating the profile.

These profiles for deep ancestors are shared by many, and collaborating on them works best if we all follow the guidelines in the certification quiz.

Hilary ~ WikiTree Pre-1700 Greeter

Thank you for checking that. It will be fun trying to further investigate our connection!

Sorry about that! Here's hoping this will work.

Kit Number: A707036 Cheers, Jenn

Hi Linda,

Ran our DNA & rec'd this msg.: Sorry, no connection was found between Linda and Jenn out to 10 steps. There is one, it's just not on WikiTree yet. Please help grow the family connections of Linda and Jenn until they meet. Looks like we need to add more data!

Hi! I see where you have uploaded your DNA for comparison. Congratulations on earning the DNA badge.

Did you know we have a Project for DNA where a lot of great new things are happening? It has information listed that might be of interest to you, and feel free to contact any of the members if you would like additional details.

For more answers about DNA, here are links to explain further, DNA, DNA Features, DNA FAQ.

I'll get my Murrah ancestry in as soon as possible. I did adopt Lodowick Murrah. Let's hope the new DNA test shows a connection. There is also a Dean on with a Murrah ancestry from Copiah Co. MS. As I recall that would be Charles Murrah, who is also presumably a brother to Thomas and David.

Hi Linda

Now that you have had a little time to try WikiTree, there are a few more features you may find useful.

Ideas on what to include in a profile can be found in Styles and Standards, including some tips on writing biographies.

If you need to describe an event, an heirloom or a location relevant to your research, you may like to learn about Free Space Profiles.

Lastly, sometimes you'll run into unresponsive profile managers. We have a process for resolving those unfortunate situations.

~Terry~ WikiTree Mentor

Hi Linda, I noticed you uploaded a GEDCOM. Our process here is a little different than what you might find on other sites because of our goal of growing one worldwide tree with a single profile for each individual. Here's a link to a great step-by-step of the process including screenshots that you might find helpful. You might also want to check out our Before You Import a GEDCOM help page. Feel free to message me if you have any questions!

Hi Linda,

We're very pleased you decided to join our community and hope you'll have great success in finding cousins with whom to collaborate. In the upper right hand corner, you'll find several drop-down-boxes that will prove very useful to you. You might review the help page before you begin this new adventure. The help pages are filled with answers to many questions you may have. For the health of our shared tree, please add documentation and sources to each profile you create. In order to make it easier to search for duplicates, it's important to add a birth or death date and place to each profile. Please estimate a date if you don't know the exact date. We hope you're experience as a WikiTreer will be very productive. Michele

Hello,

I whole-heartily agree with the WikiTree mission and the 9 rules. I've been "playing" with genealogy for 20+ years and I'm very intrigued by the possibilities I see with WikiTree. Linda Lenze Mearse