Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

You posted an update on Caroline Gilmore. I noticed her father was born in Grapeland, Houston County, TX. That is where my paternal family lived. My grandfather was Preston B. Gilmore and my grandmother was Cassie Lively. But I don't see any familiar names. Can you tell me your connection to Caroline Gilmore?

Jacque Gilmore Petterson

Hey Emma- Accidentally "spammed" you with three requests today. Didn't realize that refreshing the page I was on would send the request again. Sorry about that!

Hi Emma - I'd like to set up a spreadsheet for Montgomery County, NY (land of my ancestors, some of whom owned slaves in the colonial days.) When comparing the numbers, they seem off by about 100, if I'm understanding this right. The directions said I should contact you or Christy if that's the case.

Nice to see your face at RootsTech! Jaki

Hello Emma,

I have made a profile for this person from the 1880 census. Blanche E (Simmons) Allen (1874-) She should be listed in the Kalamazoo, Michigan census, but there is no spreadsheet. I can add her when there is a spreadsheet. I came across her as I was filling out family members of someone on the 1880 census in Wisconsin.

Hi Emma,

I would be interested on working on the 1880 Census Project - US Black History for some small Illinois counties, specifically starting out with Hamilton County, Illinois and Johnson County, Illinois. (These are the counties my families are from).

Hi Emma!

It was recommended that I call your (and Christy’s) attention to the offer I made on G2G: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1698629/can-you-help-the-usbh-1880-census-project?show=1705954#c1705954

I’m looking forward to helping! Leslie

Sorry, Emma. I sent you a PM and forgot to put the Subject line in... should be (Name) is a Voyager Guide candidate.

Thanks,

Robin

Dear Emma,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing a check-in with project members. Please review the following and respond to let us know that you are content with your current team or if you would like to be more involved.

The Project operates in a team structure. There are currently three participant PIP Teams -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team which guides new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.

There are three different Biography Teams - The Biography Team, the Abandoned Team, and the Popular Team.

You're currently identified as a member of the Biography Team. The Biography Team works on profiles from their watchlist and other profiles that interest them.

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If you have not already done so, we invite you to join the email GoogleGroup. We use the WikiTree Discord server #profile-improvement channel for our project. Neither is required; we also use the Profile_Improvement tag in G2G for Project announcements.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project meet its goals. We would like to hear about the successes you’ve had and would also appreciate any feedback you have to help improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or via private message to one of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Kay Knight, Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Robin Shaules, Project Coordinator, Profile Improvement Project

Hi Emma. I am interested in working on St. Clair and Talladega Counties in Alabama for the 1880 project. Talladega has a large African-American population including people who were slaves of a distant relative. Talladega exceeds 5,000 in the colored population, so if that is a problem, I could start with St. Clair which has a much smaller population. My own ancestors, who were not slave owners, lived in St. Clair County. If you or Christy can set up the spreadsheet and let me know when it is available, I will get started. I an an active retiree, so I will do as much as I can when I can. I try to add something to Wikitree every month, but some months get busy.  :-)

Hi Emma, this category has been sent for deletion, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:US_Black_Heritage_Project%2C_Needs_Connection but it is still on 12 locked profiles and has links to 2 pages that all need addressing before it can be deleted. The living profiles seem to all be managed by the same PM.

Thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization project.

Emma,

Thank you for being Captain of the Charming Chestnuts this weekend. 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! Great job, and great fun, too! ~ Star

Emma it would be nice if you can stop Removing images of my cousins Kathy Sledge & Joni Sledge. If that’s the case add photos that’s right for this. Because it’s getting to be very irritating. And I don’t really want to report harassment somehow.

If there are images that can be added it’s best to do it

Hi Emma,

A couple things, firstly, thanks for all you do for and on WikiTree. Secondly, how cool to descend from Orrin Porter Rockwell. A true American Legend! -Kevin

It's time for the One Place Studies Project Check-In!

We've put together a survey for you to fill out to check in with you, it will only take a moment as there are only a few questions. Filling out the survey lets us know you are still interested in coordinating your study and provides an opportunity for you to share any suggestions you may have for the project.

• https://forms.gle/FVwokwa4uNoVgtnJA

If you have decided to step away from your study, please reply to this comment to that effect.

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Hello Emma,

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

Hi Emma, hope you don't mind the reminder... did you get chance to work on any Caribbean stickers? https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1537606/new-barbados-heritage-sticker-and-project-page-please

And could you please add the Global Black Heritage badge to my profile? Thank you!

Emma,

I have not worked with the project in a while and have forgotten what little I learned about procedures. I did run across a beautiful webpage covering the biography of Robert Gordon of Cincinnati. When I saw he did not have a Wikitree profile, I made a preliminary one. Here is the profile number. You may remove me from the profile if you like, otherwise I would not mind seeing how it develops on my watchlist. Thank you, H Baggott-44.

Profile for Robert Gordon of Cincinnati: Gordon-19278 .

Heal the world, indeed! Thanks, Emma, for your passion and work for/at/on the great WikiTree. I wish we were related because I know you'd find all the twigs I'm missing. I so appreciate your work to connect formerly enslaved folks, which I notice because of my spouse's EARLY ancestors. Best to you, INFP Jane

Oh Captain, Our Captain!

Emma, cousin, our fearless leader; as usual, you lead the way. Thank you for your gracious guidance and perpetual leadership to rally the troops for the SAT '22 where you sourced at a blistering pace. I wish I could have focused on producing more but I am pulled in many directions and also don't use discord so I miss out on most of the communication. But you ROCK and it is appreciated. Thanks again and Go Roses!

Hi Emma. It would be appreciated if you could please look at this G2G question, which hasn't been tagged with black_heritage yet. It's beyond my experience, but there's an interesting possible merge to be considered. Thanks and regards—Jim

Hester Whitehurst Jeffrey (Whitehurst-741) from Boston Ma and Rochester NY looks to be a likely candidate for the project.

Emma, I would like to propose a new category for the LDS project. I was working on Utah Unsourced when I found this guy: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Buckland-1475 ... and then I found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_Brooklyn_Saints More info: https://californiapioneer.com/historic-events/ship-brooklyn/

What say you?

My name is James Smith. My cousin Catherine Wilson forwarded to me an email concerning the search for Emma Coleman by her descendant J. Coleman. I too, am a descendent of Emma. Many trees on Ancestry.com mistakenly have Emma M (nee Bullington) Coleman 1852 -1943, (parents Samuel Bullington and Mary Barnett) who was white listed as our ancestor. The correct person should be Emma (nee Lyles, Lyle, Liles) Coleman a mulatto, whose parents were Edward Lyles 1824 and Susan Inmann 1836.

To add to the story, our DNA matches with others who have Bullingtons in their trees. In addition, I have a thru line that connects me to a descendent of Robert Bullington. It is possible that our Emma Lyles is a half sister to Emma Bullington with Robert Bullington being the father of both of them. I would be glad to share the information we found with anyone. My email is [email address removed]

Hi Emma,

Thanks for the inquiry. I have a list of slave holders within my surname of Hinshaw/Henshaw. Here is the link: https://www.afrigeneas.com/slavedata/Henshaw-MA-WV-1743.htm. Also, the profiles of John_Marrant, and Olaudah_Equiano, should be added to the project. In researching slavery and free blacks, I found that as a percentage of the African American population in the United States, free blacks fluctuated between 1790 (7.9 %) and 1860 (11 %), reaching a high point in the census of 1830 of 13.7% of America’s 2.39 million African Americans. According to the census of 1830, “the South” contained 857,097 enslaved people by the 1830s. Currently I'm researching Paul Cuffe (born free) and on my to do list are Newport Gardner and Phyllis Wheatley, both sold into slavery.

Hi,

Thanks for asking about my activity on Black Heritage. I was not aware that I am on 'topics' and am not sure what it means. I am relatively new to WikiTree and have not figured out what its many areas are about yet. I had hoped to be trained in Black Heritage and be assigned someone to help walk me through. I did stumble upon Dizzy Gillespie, a wonderful musician and a Baha'i, and had hoped to add something about his faith to his biography, but have not yet done that. I am not sure what level of references are acceptable. In any case, I see you are dealing with a large influx of people and am willing to wait until someone can give me some guidance. "Be happy, Be happy, be full of joy" Beverly Enslow (Felty-296)

Hello Emma,

Before I forget, I would like to call your attention to the fact that the profile of notable Justice Clarence Thomas is not yet part of the Black Heritage project.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thomas-41129

I am sure that you know how to include this very notable and patriotic African American in the project.

Thank you for all that you have done for Wikitree and for the Black Heritage project. You are an inspiration to us all.

Congrats, Emma! You won the 8 p.m. drawing!!

Hi Emma! I wanted to let you know I've started work on a pretty amazing human, and I was wondering how to go about adding project protection to the profile / the best way to add a notable ?

Jordan Bankston Noble, an emancipated former slave who served in four wars

Dear Emma,

Thank you for all you do on WikiTree. Here's what we're doing with the Profile Improvement Project. You're welcome to join us if you've got extra time.

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing its first annual check-in with our project members. Please review the following and let us know if you are content where we have placed you or would like to be more involved.

We are in the process of transitioning to a team structure. There will be three participant PIP Teams to start -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team which guides new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.

You're currently identified as a member of the Biography Team Level 1, working on profiles from your own watchlist and whatever else you find. Biography Teams Levels 2 and 3 will work on designated profiles for notables (Level 3) and everyday people (Level 2). Please let us know if you would like to help with a higher-level Bio Team or one of the other Teams.

You joined the Project before the Voyage started in late 2018. We would like to invite you to consider a "fast track" Voyage, especially if you would like to work at a higher level on the Biography Team. If you’re interested, choose a profile from your own watchlist that you have completed to the best of your ability and compare it to the Voyage Biography Standards. If your profile is at Level 2 or better, include a link to the profile in your response to this check-in for a “fast track” review.

We would also like to invite you to join the email GoogleGroup and text chat Discord channel for our project. If you request to join our GoogleGroup, please be sure to include your Wiki ID. Neither is required; we also use the Profile_Improvement tag in G2G for Project announcements.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project and WikiTree. The Project’s mission is to:

Make profiles beautiful! We clean up messy biography sections and sources, and try to set standards for attractive, useful, and well-written biographies, starting with those we manage.

We know you’re working on profiles *smile* We would like to hear about successes you’ve had toward the Project’s goals. We would also appreciate any feedback you might have to help us improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or privately via private message to either of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Robin Shaules Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Thank you for joining the February USBH Connecting Challenge, Emma, and helping us create 3116 new profiles.

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

Hi again! Maria retired as manager of Space: Caribbean Flag Images & I've adopted it so that I could archive her comment. Let me know if you'd be interested in managing it. I need to double-check that it doesn't include any non-Caribbean territories, but other than that it shouldn't need any additional work. I've also asked Melanie.

Cheers, Liz

just an update... I'm making progress. I think that the top-of-profile text for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Flags will now do what I need it to do. I'm working on a restructure of Space: Flags of North America that should also make it easier for folks to find the flag they're looking for (and I've created Space: Flags of Central America). It's been an education! North America is said by most all sources to encompass 23 "officially recognized independent states" & then there are territories (22 according to the source I'm using - this page). The Flags of North America had more than 23 flags but less than 45 when I started. I intend it to have 45 by the time I'm finished.

Cheers, Liz

P.S. Look what you started LOL!

Thanks for EVERYTHING you do for the USBH project, Emma, and for creating the most profiles this month!

Winner Sticker

Thank you for making the profile of John Bootsie Wilson better .

I want to thank you and say how much I really appreciate you hanging out with the 20 of us...You have helped me expose more people to Wikitree and the US Black Heritage Exchange, etc. xoxox...Your book is on the way! 8th cousin 3x removed, love it...

Thank you for your work on my Wikitree during the challenge. It is well appreciated, happy hunting!

Thank you so much Emma,

You went the distance with our family, You showed Intelligence, Understanding, Guidance and Patience in our particular case. WikiTree should be proud having you on their team, I am. When we started it seemed an impossible task but your ingenuity saved the day. My new 1st cousin Mary Ann was adopted out at birth and her records were expunged, but you found our connections through the use of your skills knowing about DNA testing, so many Manager Profilers on WikiTree could learn from your skills. Thank you Emma, Darrel White

Thank you for your help! That is a crucial branch of my family where I've run into a dead in at Mike Moss, Mary's father.

Thank you for the suggestion to merge Mary Moss. I need to find out who uploaded besides me. We may be able to collaborate.

Thanks again!

Hi I am not comfortable with the CLN change on the profile now known as Montalt-2. This was discussed in the past. Is there some new information?

Emma,

Thanks for your feedback. Finding Samuel Lee's parents and grandparents has been a challenge, and your advice will certainly help!

Emma, thank you for leading team Roses in the connect a thon, and for all your hard work during the competition! Also thanks for making me feel welcome even though I am pulling down the average.

-Michelle

Hi, Emma,

Thank you for inviting me to join Team Roses for the Connect-a-Thon. I learned a lot and I am still learning all the time. Having a captain like you helps a lot. I am not sure what the next team event is but if you will have me I would love to join. Jeff M

Hi Emma, I just noticed for Oklahoma Slavery, the Choctaw Nation is listed as Oklahoma, I copied it for Chickasaw (and then noticed it was Oklahoma not IT), but would it be possible to have them listed as Tribe Nation, Indian Territory instead of Tribe Nation, Oklahoma but still have them nested under Oklahoma Slavery? Just checking. Thanks.

Thank you Emma for helping my new 1st cousin Kovacevich-22 Mary Ann and myself for going the distance and finding the necessary and correct WikiTree connections proving our DNA matches were correct.

So many profilers failed to find the connections, but you didn’t give up, this is a happy story with other family members now recognizing family matches on both sides of the fence, you are an intelligent and wonderful profiler, please don’t disappear from WikiTree, your worth your weight in gold, One World Tree is growing a little closer with my family, thank you. Sincerely Darrel White

Thank you for your kind welcome, I will take advantage of new member tips!

Thank you Emma for your tireless work in the Black Heritage project, and also your work with adoptees. Connecting people with their past is such wonderful work, and I appreciate it!

Valorie

Hi Emma,

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 team(s)? Which team(s) 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

Hi Emma. I'm a volunteer on the U.S. Southern Colonists -- Jamestown Project. I help Mary Richardson to I.D. Jamestown immigrants between the years 1606-1624/5. I'm reaching out to you because I came across an immigrant that I think might be of interest to someone in the Black Heritage Project. His name is John Pedro, an African man who came to Virginia in 1623 aboard the Swan. He then worked as a servant for Captain Francis West. I couln't find much more about him, but I thought someone else might want to pick up his trail. I created a biography for him using what I had: John Pedro.

Looks like we're kind of bumping into each other on the Black Heritage Project with the Johnson/Jeter family in Virginia. Might have to do some merging. (So many Johnsons, I admit I didn't look at all the possible matches real closely when creating profiles). I'm going to bed now, will look at it more tomorrow.