Jillaine Smith
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Jillaine was born at the tail end of the baby boom, youngest of four children of her parents.[1] Raised in California, she moved to Washington DC in the mid 1990s to marry PDB . Jillaine and PDB are members of the Bethesda Friends Meeting.
She has made her career supporting the nonprofit sector, and since August 2011 has been one of three co-founders of Fourth Quadrant Partners, LLC. The firm closed in 2022 to make way for the nonprofit, the Emergent Learning Community Project.
Jillaine started researching her family in 1998. She also maintains a set of (now archival) genealogy pages at RootsWeb.
Her research areas include:
Previously, she conducted research professionally, and was a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, New England Historic Genealogical Society and National Genealogy Society; she is a graduate/survivor of Elizabeth Shown Mill's Course 4 at IGHR.
Roles on WikiTree include (as of 24 October 2020):
As project coordinator of WikiTree's Native Americans project, I co-lead an effort to help document Native American relationships on WikiTree. There are several theories about the Native origins of early Sizemores of colonial America. I was pulled into this family line related to these early claims. Shortly afterwards, I discovered that a very bad merge had been done in late 2019, conflating two separate George Sizemore branches. After failing to identify volunteers willing to help restore the separate lines (I don't blame anyone, it was a mess), I started working on it myself in 2022. While the two Georges (-29 and -1198) have been detangled from each other, I continue to work (with others) through the subsequent generations to ensure they are appropriately assigned to the right family. However, this surfaced the fact that -- beyond the bad merge done in 2019 -- there is MUCH controversy about the different Sizemore branches. I am currently working with a number of Sizemore descendant/researchers to tease out the different theories. I welcome additional support from anyone willing to identify reliable sources or engage in discussion of evidence in order to ensure that Sizemore profiles on WikiTree are as accurate as possible. Thanks.
(I've also started following Rick Pierpoint's excellent example and have started creating freespace Source pages; just wish I knew how to find them...)
In the event of my death or incapacity for more than 90 days, I give the following permission:
Should these profiles / pages not be accessed within 180 days from my demise, the Wikitree staff shall have full and total access to manage said space and profiles in any way they see fit, up to and including assigning them to any willing Profile Manger, orphaning them, or deleting them.
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