Gwynn (Malcolm) Socolich

Biography

Gwynn (Malcolm) Socolich is a member of the Riddell Name Study Project.

Gwynn (Malcolm) Socolich is a member of the Clark Name Study Project.

Gwynn (Malcolm) Socolich is a member of the Sankey Name Study Project.

Gwynn (Malcolm) Socolich is a part of Illinois history. Join: Illinois Project Discuss: Illinois

WikiTree Day Attendee: 2025

• Member of Ohio Genealogical Society, NEGHS and SDGS.

• Current volunteer profile manager for the North San Diego Genealogical Society [[1]]

• former Research and Mentoring Chair for the NSDCGS for 2 years until 2024.

• former Professional Genealogist for 7 years, was APG member.

• Progen Study group member 2010 to 2011

• Business Clerical work: Public Library, General Motors Defense [Aerospace FSAS, LAV programs], SDG&E research and publications library, "researching the internet" training for employees, SAIC logistics department Government standards library and department reports [Air Force].

• Other Hobbies: Aerospace, Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Crafting with many types of mixed media, Painting, Drawing, Quilting, design and create Greeting Cards, taught water color card creation for charity event. Needlepoint and embroidery. Christmas ornament maker, Creative and Genealogy Writer. Space and NASA physics of flight and characteristics, earth meteorology and space weather. Family Historian, Place Historian. Civil War era photography research.

• See Criticism of GT Ridlon's faulty scholarship (for his Riddell Genealogy) by myself and Patricia Law Hatcher and a book review of his Soule genealogy by the Nebraska Midwest Genealogical Record at the time of publication:History of the Ancient Ryedales

• 1950 Census indexer; name check for Family Search

• Family Historian, Hobby Genealogist for 40 years

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Gwynn Malcolm at registration.

Free Space Pages Created by Gwynn

• Riddle/Riddell Name Study project manager [2]

• Sankey Name Study project manager[3]

Family Search Full Text Search Suggestions

Dunning aka Cook County Hospital

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Buena_Vista_Cemetery,_South_Oceanside,_San_Diego_county_California

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Malcolm_Family_Mysteries

See these Genealogy Society free space pages I created:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Ohio_Genealogical_Society and

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:North_San_Diego_County_Genealogical_Society

Gwynn's Surnames

• Allison, Dr. John Ray Geddis: related to Runkle (Centre, PA) by marriage

• Byal: Baltimore MD to Findlay, Hancock Ohio

• Coon: of Wingate, Indiana; Palmyra, Jefferson, Wisconsin and Onondaga, NY, possibly more of Coon family from separate lines of my descent.

• Cowden: Related to Gilliland and Sankey of Chester county, PA

• Dahlberg, Gustav married secondly Ericka (nee Stonequist) Samuelson: son Philip took surname "Dahlberg: to use railroad union card per (Alice Sankey) but was never officially adopted by Gustav his step father. Philip Dahlberg, Vaudville trap player (drums) aka Ole Dahlberg (in Waukegan IL with a very young Jack Benny) of Chicago, Illinois; Ericka's first husband was Samuel Samuelson who died at Dunning and is supposedly buried in a mass grave on the grounds of Dunning.

• Denis Darling[[4]] line: Braintree, Massachusetts to Wisconsin (pre Revolutionary War)

• DeJong, Christiaan aka DeYoung, Christian: of Sint Jacobeparoche, Het Bildt, Netherlands to Racine, Racine, Wisconsin and Homesteaded in other areas in the midwest

• Dow, Thayer: related to Mayflower passenger Mary Chilton

• Gilliland: Related to Cowden and Sankey, Chester County PA related to Adams of Fagg's Manor, Chester, PA (Faggs Manor Presbyterian Church History)

• Graham, DeWitt Clinton of Monongahela, PA in Civil War; to Mount Vernon Ohio. DeWitts father was Alexander Graham. DeWitt was a soldier in the "Boatmen" regiment of the Civil War (Gwynn has pension file) Alexander Graham was possibly son of Graham/DePue of Monongahela, PA. Alexander Graham's wife Elizabeth Roos remarried to Samuel Lewis (ship builder/carpenter) Brick wall: Who was Alexander Graham's father, was it Aneas Graham?

• Kramer, Sietske of Sint Jacobeparoche, Het Bildt, Netherlands to Racine, Racine, Wisconsin (died of typhoid) grave moved to center of cemetery buried with a person surnamed Hanche, found no evidence Susan Kramer DeYoung is related to Hanche. Mound Cemetery in Racine Wisconsin burial record says Susie D. Young (should be Susan DeYoung)

• Pattee, Hannah was related to Mayflower passenger Mary Chilton

• Runkle, Lydia: wife of Jeremiah Alexander Sankey of Centre, Pennsylvania (her brother was James Runkle of Centre Hall, Thomas Daniel Sankey was unofficially adopted by James Runkle.) Lydia's ancestors were from Bern, Berks, PA.

• Samuelson/Dalhberg, Stonequist of Sweden, Chicago, Dahlberg of Racine, Wisconsin: see also Dahlberg

• Stonequist/Stenqvist, Ericka of Sweden to Chicago, Illinois.

• William Malcolm: Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scoland; Zion Church burial at Ashland, Ohio; Cleveland Ohio (James Curvaso Malcolm) and Findlay, Hancock Ohio. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Malcolm_Family_Mysteries

• Riddell: Many locations France, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, America[5] Riddle/ Riddell Name Study manage Riddell/Riddle Name Study [6] in which there are several free space pages connected to this Name Study.

• James Runkle: Annie Runkle (Married John Ray Geddis Allison) and Laura Runkle : Centre Hall Hotel, Centre County, PA; Thomas Daniel lived with this family growing up, Laura was more like a sister than a cousin.

• Samuelson, Samuel violinist and tailor from Sweden died and buried at Dunning (Chicago) in unmarked grave. Father of Philip Dahlberg and ex-husband of Ericka Dahlberg. (see Dahlberg)

• Sankey, Thomas from New Castle, Delaware (father Abraham Sankey, borther Ezekiel Sankey) to Gregg, Centre, PA to Snowshoe, Clearfield, PA, Freeport, Illinois to Racine Wisconsin (Grandparent of Gwynn) see Sankey Name Study [7]

• Socolich of Croatia, New Jersey and California; (Gwynn's spouse)

• Thayer, Josh: related to French (Hayden) of Mayflower John Alden

• Ward, Edward son of John Ward son of John Ward son of Sylvestor Ward: Hampshire, West Virginia (was Virginia) to Ashland, Ohio to Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio. Sylvestor Ward's nephew was George Ward. George Ward's widow was present at the WV Massacre of the McKinnon FamilyBold text. She survived and married Wintermote. Edward is related to my Graham family.

Wikitree source lists:

• Gwynns Favorite Sources

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