William Foster Jr

What a beautiful eulogy Malcolm! William was a joy to work with, and the work he did as leader of the Virginia Project was exemplary. His death was a great loss to both the project and to WikiTree.

Rest in Peace William.

Hello. My name is John Freeman son of Orland E Freeman (Freeman-9302). My father's WikiTree profile shows he has three sons; me and Scott, & Scott. I know I had one brother named Scott but I didn't know I had two. My brother's Wiki ID is Freeman-7319. I can't see the one tied to you so I know nothing about it. But could you please delink him from my father. Unless of course, you are trying to do a Minnesota nice thing by telling me my father cheated on my mother. =0)

Thanks

Hi! I'm new at this and added my mother Hemphill-1817. You had already entered a record so I initiated a merge with your Hemphill-1419.

Is there a way I can manage her account after the merge, since it's my mom? I'm New-2242. We don't share any dna, maybe because the possible connection is 17 steps? away.... Thanks!

William--

I sent you a check-in message 18 days ago about the US Southern Colonies Project to ask you about your continued involvement but have not yet heard back from you. Do you still want to be in the Southern Colonies project? If I don’t hear from you by the same time next week I’ll assume that you’ve moved on to other things but you’re most welcome to re-join the project at any time.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Best wishes,

Mary~ Project Coordinator, Membership, US Southern Colonies

Hi William,

This is the time for the 2023 annual check in with members of the US Southern Colonies Project. Have you been active during the last six months in this Project? Note that it is a Wikitree requirement to respond to the US Southern Colonies Check-ins. Please reply to this message by clicking the reply button below this message, to post your answer. I look forward to hearing from you..

Many thanks,

Mary~ Project Coordinator, Membership, US Southern Colonies

I have initiated a merge of Wadlow-19 and Wadlow-130, as I inadvertantly created a duplicate. Please approve this merge. Thank you!

Hello William

It is time for the semi-annual check in for June, 2022 with members of the US Southern Colonies Project. Have you been active during the last six months? Note that it is a requirement to respond to the US Southern Colonies Check-ins. Please respond to this message by clicking the reply button below this message, to post your answer. I look forward to hearing from you..

William this is your check in, but I have seen your activity on other profiles.

Many thanks,

Mary~ Project Coordinator, Membership, US Southern Colonies

Hi William!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the April 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 1st place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 84,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Next Thon: Connect-A-Thon in July (tbd)

Greetings from the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:1776

We're doing our semi-annual check-in with members to see if you have been active in the last six months? Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the 1776 Project that you respond to these check-ins.

Please post your reply as a reply to this message here on your page, for convenience of our record keeping.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Mary Richardson ~ Project Coordinator,1776 Project

Hi William!

As always, thank you for your participation with Team Virginia in the January 2022 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 85,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree!!

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

P.S. Our Discord Channel is also active all year, not only during Thons. Drop in and say hi!

I think William is the best teacher for people like me, that require lots of patience. I learned how to navigate moving my ancestors here and confirming our DNA connections from Gedcom.

Whew, the teaching was awesome and his generosity of time outstanding. William should be awarded the Super Star, I guess thats awarded differently. I was unable to give an award badge! Thank you, William!

William -

Registration for the 1st 2022 Connect-A-Thon is open. Can't have a Team Virginia Thon without ya... you are Mr. Virginia! :)

Thanks for joining Team Virginia on the 2021 Source-A-Thon.  Our Team finished in 1st place by sourcing over 6,600 Profiles!  That is an amazing job!! 

We couldn't do it without you & look forward to you joining us on the 2022 Clean-A-Thon!

Mindy & Sandy - Team Virginia Co Captains

...see ya around "the Colonies"

Hello,

I am checking in on behalf of the 1776 Project to announce the new project membership requirements and to verify that you are still interested in being a member of the project. All project members are being asked to join one of the project teams and also to make at least one project contribution every 6 months. We are also asking all project members to join the project's Google Group for project communications.

If you are interested in remaining with the Project, please reply to this comment or send me a message, request to join the Google Group, and let us know what team you would like to participate on.

We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all your hard work. If you have any questions, please ask. We would also love to hear any feedback you may have for the project.

If we don't hear back from you we will assume that you no longer wish to participate in the project and if so, you could rejoin at any time as is convenient for you.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

SJ - 1776 Project Leader

Lula Tuttle Sinnott.

Hello William, Sorry, I did not mean to imply another merger for there is none. I had just reviewed the Joel Knight profile and since He has the same birthday thought it could happen. Maybe I should stop looking. : > ) Do you mind if I write a biography for Joel King? Lula Tuttle Sinnott

Lula Tuttle Sinnott

Hi again, William Foster,

I looked at the Joel Knight profile and I believe it to be a legitimate person, with all the right information. Just that the Joels got mixed up but haven’t figured how yet. I hope a further merger is not pursued. This concerns me. Lula Tuttle Sinnott

Hi William!

Thank you for your participation on Team Virginia in the July 2021 Connect-A-Thon. You helped bring Team Virginia to an amazing 2nd place finish. We could not have done it without you! This year's Thon members added over 74,000k new Profiles to the Global Shared Tree. Team Virginia is always great with you on the team!!

Mindy and & Sandy ~ Team Virginia

Save the Date: October 1st through 4th, Source-A-Thon (with amazing prizes!)

Hi, William,

You will notice that Amy Lynn Hunt has just joined your project. She joined Wikitree "hoping to learn something new" (I have no idea what). The instruction to new members is "start with your own family," so she has been painstakingly adding her family, which is now on FamilySearch. And not surprisingly got very frustrated. It would be nice if you coud take a look at her profile and her family, and then send her some encouraging words. Familysearch is a lot easier if I all want to do is create a family tree, but Wikitree is a lot friendlier, a lot more interesting, and a lot more fun. --Thank you.

Hi, William!

Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.

Keep up the great work!

Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Hi William in reply to your comment. Sorry about the deletion, I must be getting tired, done for today.

Hello, William!

Thanks for your participation during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree over the weekend. I hope you’ll join us for the Source-a-thon this fall.

Kind regards,

Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

I like to join to join this project. I have tons of Virginia family. I also ask to join the google group.

Billie

Thank you very much for all the work you did for the Obaha family. Now I know, we are fifth cousins! :)

Thanks William, I now know the importance of spelling out completely locations.

Hi! I just replaced Magna Carta Project with Virginia Project as manager of George Wyatt & removed PPP & Magna Carta Project as manager of his brother Edward. Posting here in case you wanted to add Virginia Project as manager of Edward too (or remove it from George).

• George: Wyatt-214
• Edward: Wyatt-189

Cheers, Liz

Thanks, William, for your prompt and very helpful facilitation for me joining the Virginia Project!

Your mentorship is much, much appreciated, and I look forward to contributing!

Cheers, Mark

Hi William,

Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your patience with my utter confusion coming into Wikitree. You are the BEST!!!

Hi William,

We had a lot of fun during the 2019 Spring Clean-a-Thon!! I'm excited to co-captain with you for the first ever Connect-a-Thon where we will be adding new profiles to our Global Tree. I know you are just as excited and will be joining me in cheering on Team Virginia!! I'll see you there!

Mindy Co-Captain of Team Virginia

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I am not sure about father of Moses Tharp but it was NOT Solomon of MD/DE. Is this what you were asking me?

William,

Am a descendant of many earlier West Virginia settlers who came during the time of the creation of the state--late 1700's to 1863. This creates problems because of the way it was create from part of Virginia, then it was broken down into counties overtime. What this did had settlers who lived in the same area but birth/death/married/events as location changed across creation time of the state until 1863. Catherine Hardman-881 is and example. Is there a way we could created a subcategory to help folks in research since the West Virginia records are kept in the final location of the person. Here are sources with the date of county formation after the breakup of the District of West Augusta in 1784 which became Monongalia, Ohio and Youghany which was the parent counties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia.