J Stewart

safka-5 should be opened, it's Melanie, the singer with several hits. She doesn't keep out of the public eye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_(singer)

Just trying to understand the removal of the wife on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hargrove-888 See https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Edwards-3146 All of the sources indicate that this was a valid marriage. Can you please provide the source you used to prove that it should be removed? Thanks for all your help.

Hello J

The Shipping disasters page was written as a broad page to lead in to all shipping disasters.

When you posted a comment on the Shipping Disasters, for a while I thought we had mentioned the the wreck of the Saint John on that page. What I do for a topic such as the one you mentioned, I google it thus "wreck of the Saint John, Wikitree" to see if there are similar pages.. ( I found none.) I did find sources https://cohassetcentralcemetery.com/articles/51-wreck-of-the-st-john-the-tragic-wreck-of-the-irish-famine-ship-st-john

https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/shipwreck_st_john.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH_LlnOlpZg https://wheresmerrill.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/1849-st-john-disaster.pdf

But I did not encounter a wikitree space page already created.

If you want to write about it and list the people killed, it is yours to work on.

Mary Richardson, Project Coordinator

Dusty Springfield’s brother, Tom Springfield died recently and is a notable songwriter in his own right. His name at birth was Dionysius O’Brien but he changed it later to Tom Springfield. There were obituaries in the British press eg https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/29/tom-springfield-obituary

The English Project tell me that you are his profile manager and that you have him as “living”. Would you mind updating that, please, and opening up the profile ? I would like to see it and add or work out the Crane connection to the Notleys. ( Tom’s wife was a Crane, I believe. Her father was part of the Crane Freuhaf trailer company. Many thanks, Joe

Thank you for your addition to Amanda M (Crosswhite) West. Are you connected to her in some way? Your changes prompted me to look at my records and I believe I have made a mistake in connecting her with the West's descendant of Isaac Matterson West. Her husband and children are correct but his parents do not seem to be correct. If this is a part of your family, I hope you might be able to clarify. Thanks.

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The <reference/>-tag misses a "s". It must be corrected to <references />

Hi J.,

Thanks for adding to the profile of Abram Tompkins, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tompkins-430. He is no relation of mine, so if you would like to be PM, just say the word.

(Insert big, toothy grin here)

Claire Chapel-160

After seeing a rejected merge of Doud-16 and Dowd-672 I was curious as to why. The birth month, date, year and place, death month, date, year and place, parents, spouses, and siblings are identical. Only (Ephraim) is an actual child.

Looking through the changes log https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dowd-672 I saw your explanation of changes in April 2020 : "(Added source (FindAGrave); added Notes field about profiles that need to be researched and merged (by someone ELSE))" and the research note you left on the profile "Large number of variant spellings only add to the CONFUSION with this record and Profile Doud-16." I've never been it confused when the dates places people are the same but the last name is spelled differently (I found two). There should only be one profile for each person on Wikitree. Rejected matches just slow up the mission. There is no reason why this merge was rejected. I reversed the rejected match and proposed a new one. No further research is needed.

Hi J.,

The Westward Ho/Lewis and Clark Expedition Project needs your help!

Regarding profile George F Shannon (1787-1836). Please visit this G2G page https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1151307/westward-ho-project-sticker-needed to support creating a Westward Ho/Lewis and Clark sticker.

Thanks, your consideration of this request is appreciated!

Dek Prentice Coordinator - Lewis and Clark/Trails and Wagon Trains

The news clippings you are adding to Friedrick Trump do not all belong to him. I would suggest you stop adding them until you research them better. Some of them may be for his son.

J.A., the Appreciation Team thanks for you for efforts toward making our Shared Tree the best it can be with your 1000+ contributions during August 2019. You are an important part of what we are all about!

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Thanks for the link to the Walker site - I had just come across that site as well, but appreciate your passing on the info. It looks meticulously researched,

I'm not, afaik, related to this line of Walkers, but got interested as Benjamin Walker (1741-1775) served with my great7 uncle, Moses Parker, at Bunker Hill, and shared a similar fate. That is, wounded & captured by the British, leg amputation, then dying as a POW.

To James Stewart and all interested parties ---

I am from Ogle County, IL, & own a copy of the 1878 History of Ogle Co.,IL, which I was using to enter the biographical sketches that have enough info. -- Most are short columns of a couple of inches of info. - - Some are pages long. -- what I entered for Elisha Arnold, his wife & children is what was printed in 1878 in that history. Some of these entries have info that connects to other profiles, & it's always great to see them connect to others' work, & isn't that the point in the first place? I can see that these profiles have already been connected to others' work. If you have info that is relevant, please enter it. Please be sure that you give your references and documentation.

Thanks,

Jill Lee

Wow, that's fantastic! Good luck with your tree-building!  :-)

Vicky