User talk:Klewis47

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Lewis7.GED Imported Successfully

The pages from your GEDCOM, "Lewis7.GED" have been generated successfully. You may view them by launching the Family Tree Explorer and opening the family tree into which this GEDCOM was imported.

-WeRelate agent 23:03, 4 June 2007 (MDT)

Heistand/Heistand families [28 January 2008]

Are you related to the Heistand/Hiestand family? I have a file here at WeRelate that has many of the same names in it as you have online. See what I wrote so far on the family --Msscarlet1957 17:46, 28 January 2008 (EST)

drake family [30 August 2008]

Would you like to exchange info on the Drake FAMILY?

I think I can be of some assistance.

Thanks,

Daniel DUCKY Drake

danielduckydrake@gmail.com--Duckydrake 15:23, 30 August 2008 (EDT)

Your Likins Family [30 December 2008]

Hey Kevin,

 Very interested in your Likins line. I have a huge database that isn't online at this time,had to pull it down for a while. but would help out where I can. Interested in a swap??
 Bobby Lykins--Theswede 00:55, 30 December 2008 (EST)

Gee family [9 January 2009]

How are you interested in the Gee family? Are you related?--Busdriver43512 10:04, 9 January 2009 (EST)

Hans Blanckenbuhler [5 July 2009]

Kevin, could you please "clean up" this person's page. It appears that you have multiple marriage pages for him that need to be merged and cleaned up.

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Hans_Blanckenbuhler_%281%29

Thanks much and best regards,

Jim:)--Delijim 10:50, 5 July 2009 (EDT)

Colonial Lines

Hi, Kevin-- It's nice to see someone your age with a serious interest in genealogy! I've finally gotten around to unloading a GEDCOM for my early colonial lines and their English & Dutch ancestors, which I had been putting off because I knew I was going to find lots of overlaps with pages already created. Sure enough, I can see that some of my lines are frequently going to be following some of yours. That being the case, I kind of wanted to give you a heads-up that when I can add "real" sources for information on the pages we share, I'm going to be deleting the MySources you've included from Ancestry's One World Tree. There's a reason for this.

You're probably already aware of this, but all the info in One World Tree is just taken from other unsourced assertions and GEDCOMs. As such, it's completely lacking in verifiability. That is, there may well be a documented original source for a name or date or relationship, but if there is, One World Tree isn't going to tell us what it is. Or it may just be someone's wild guess, or even made-up "facts" -- and there's more of that than you might imagine. I use Ancestry heavily myself, and I look at what their "family tree"-type sources say, but I use those only as leads and placeholders -- an idea of where and when to look.

Anyway, I didn't want you to think I was simply brushing off your own research -- and if you come up with better info than I have on a page, I expect you to replace or add to mine, right? :-) --Mike 15:22, 31 December 2009 (EST)

Jonas Jonasson [12 March 2012]

Hi, I am a descendant of Jonas' sibling Mans Jonasson (Mounce Jones).

I am not sure if you are aware of a publication that deals with the New Sweden Colony on the Delaware, Swedish Colonial News, but Dr. Craig has published quite a bit of the genealogy of the colony in the newsletter before he passed away about a year and a half ago. He left all of his research to the Swedish Colonial Society in Delaware. Many of the newsletters can be found at: www.newsweden.org.

I am doing my research at the Allen County Public Library, in Allen County, Indiana where they also have many of the first year in print.--EarthandIce 18:05, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

Cassell Family History from Michigan [27 December 2014]

Hi, I'm daughter of Jean and possess the family heritage book, going back to Germany from where they came, settling in PA, going to Michigan. My greatgrandfather died when my grandpa was only 3 and his widow remarried a person named Welsh; the children all being adopted, but not all taking the name. Only recently discovered this site so sorry if I'm really late in responding to you. The book is History of the Bechtel Family, Grand Rapids, Michigan, published by the Moelker Printing Co., Grand Rapids, MI. My book was printed in August 1977. Our family is on pages 43 to 48/49. There are copies in all families so I hear. Several of the groups settled in CA.--Chickapinhill 23:01, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

William Smoot [29 April 2019]

The sister's Thomasina, Dorothy and Alice were not the daughters of William Smoot, they were his nieces, the sisters were the daughters of James Gilbert and Mary Smoot...Wayne--Way 17:58, 29 April 2019 (UTC)