Terry (McClintock) Fillow

Hi Terry,

The Religious Society of Friends Project (aka the Quakers Project) has a new leader—me! I’m Jillaine Smith, and I’m excited to be joining project coordinator David Wilson in caring for Quaker research and improving Quaker profiles. I’m also doing a project check-in with each of our members.

We’ve been refreshing project pages and setting priorities for 2026. One key goal this year is to identify the Monthly Meeting(s) for each Quaker profile and add the appropriate category. If you manage or watch Quaker profiles, we’d love your help adding those categories.

You can find other ways to help here: Project:Religious_Society_of_Friends#Ready to Help?

If you have a Quaker-related interest you’d like to work on that isn’t listed, please let us know—we’d be happy to support it.

We also know that interests and availability change. We’ll be updating our project member roster at the end of this month, so please reply by then to let us know if you’d like to continue as a project member (and update your entry at Quaker Project Participants), or if you’d prefer to have your project badge removed. If we don’t hear from you, we’ll remove you from the member list.

Thank you for all you do to support WikiTree and Quaker research!

Jillaine

Terry,

We just changed the intent of the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Profile_Improvement_Project category to be for sub-categories and free space pages only. We don't want any profiles to have the category. We will use badges to identify members of the Project. Would you remove it from your personal profile.

Thanks, Kay

Hi Terry - I approved your trusted list request.... I hope i did it properly - let me know if there is anything else you need.

thanks Tim

Hi Terry. I have been working on the profile of Ruby Estelle (Unknown)) Dorman all day. I notice you have it now occupied. Please allow me to finish my work. Thanks!

Terry, thank you so much for adding to the information I have regarding the Johnson lineage related to my father's first wife, Jessamine Johnson Anderson, and for linking Jessamine's brother (Billy Frank Johnson) in my father's profile. I enjoyed the newspaper clippings you added to your comments and in them also found references to my step-mother Margaret Morrow, who had been married to Billy Frank. They later divorced and after some years, she and my father were married and remained together until his death.

Cheers, Jeannine Anderson

Hello Terry,

Are you descended from or connected to via blood the Embree family? Could we be kin?

Doug

Hi Terry Thank You for the information about my Grandmother Patrica Ann Philpot Daniels

Hi Terry thank for the information about my Great Grandparents James Albert Daniels and Doris May can you please tell me how you got that Information Kind Regards

Lindsey Daniels

I would like to be the one to add the bio and source info for profiles I have created. Currently, I don't have access to all ancestry hints. I will be finding other places with the info, in my own time. I am working on my tree, and also on wikitree people.

Hi Terry, I noticed that you finished some work I was doing for Lena (White) Culbertson. While I appreciate what you did, I was intending to complete it this morning. In the future, I’ll try to add the note “Sourcing and Editing in Process” so you’ll know it’s being taken care of. Thanks!

Hi Terry! Thanks for your tireless work on Unknowns.

I came across your additions to Carolina (Unknown) Lindblom, which contained enough clues to find matching Swedish records, which I have added in the Research notes section of the profile. Working through it convinced me it was warranted to change her LNAB to Andersdotter - she had a gendered patronymic in the Swedish part of her life, although then she emigrated as Andersson. The profile is now orphaned (my watchlist is ever owerflowing and in need of culling). https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Andersdotter-15378

Hi Terry

Thanks for your previous help with my Tree. I'm looking for Parents of 'William Chant' Born about 1849 in Saltley - Birmingham Death 1909 was Railway Coach Builder

Thanks

Joy Chant

Thank you for researching my great aunt Fannie Allen. You have gone above and beyond in uncovering Fannie's life story. I now know Fannie is resting next to her sister Elizabeth Allen Andes in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Chattahoochee, Gadsden County, Florida.

Thank you for your information on Mary Edwards, I will amend my record. I have approximately 6,000 names for the Edwards Family, though the actual number of people would probably be closer to 4,500, as the females have at least two entries, maiden name and married name/s. I always appreciate any information I receive from family members, or others whom have knowledge of these persons.

Hi Terry, Not sure if you are related to the Lindens as well, but thank you for your help!

If you are related and want to chat, please feel free to ping me! Cheers, Crystal

Thank you for participating in the 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create a total of 50,162 profiles for the year through the challenge. We exceeded our 2024 goal of reaching 400k profiles and finished out the year with 455,869!

You can see your personal 2024 challenge total and your all time 2021-2024 total on the 2024 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

We will continue the 1880 Census Project in 2025

Please add Ancestry.com Sharing Links for all the sources for Morgan-9828, or I will delete those unlinked sources from my profile.

Hi Terry, thank you once again for your help solving Unknown surnames. I've tided up the profiles based on the information and notes you have kindly provided. I really appreciate all the effort you put in tidying up profiles. Best regards, John

Thank you for participating in the April 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 5226 profiles. We’re zeroing in on our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

Thank you for participating in the March 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4936 profiles. We’re getting oh so close to our goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

Hello 17C Terry,

What is the best way to determine the LNAB of Constance C. Rea, wife of John T. Rea (Rea-3065)? I don't have a profile for her because of the uncertainty about her LNAB. John was a business associate of my great grandfather, Theodore B. Ceruti (Ceruti-35), and I suspect that Constance was Theodore's sister, but I can't prove it. Do you have any suggestions on the next step?

Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have.

Dear Terry,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing a check-in with project members. Please review the following and respond to let us know that you are content with your current team or if you would like to be more involved.

The Project operates in a team structure. There are currently three participant PIP Teams -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team which guides new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team.

You’re currently identified as a member of the Unknowns Team. Are you working on a particular group of unknowns? Are you happy with the Team you are on? If you are interested in working with a different Team, please let us know.

If you have not already done so, we invite you to join the email GoogleGroup. We use the WikiTree Discord server #profile-improvement channel for our project. Neither is required; we also use the Profile_Improvement tag in G2G for Project announcements.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project meet its goals. We would like to hear about the successes you’ve had and would also appreciate any feedback you have to help improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or via private message to one of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Kay Knight, Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

Robin Shaules, Project Coordinator, Profile Improvement Project

Thank you for participating in the January 2024 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6202 profiles. We’re reaching toward a new goal of 400,000 profiles in 2024.

All first-time participants in 2024 can add the 2024 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

Thank you for participating in the December 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6214 profiles. We created a total of 46,036 profiles for the year. We met our 2023 goal of 250k profiles and finished out the year with 168,195!

You can see your personal 2023 total and your all time 2021-2023 total on the 2023 tab here: our tracking spreadsheet.

Check out our new 1880 Census Project. We’d love everyone’s help in 2024.

Terry, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

Terry, thanks for your sourcing efforts this month.

Thank you for participating in the January 2023 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 6960 profiles. It was one of our biggest months of all time! Our new total is 174,667.

All first-time participants in 2023 can add the 2023 participant sticker to their profile. Connecting Challenge Stickers

We’ve started the February challenge here: February Connecting Challenge.

Emma

Terry

As per your request I've added you to the trusted list for Mary Polly wife of Joseph Willis. My only interest in this page was because the identification of Mary's last name as "Witt". My interest here was mostly with Joseph Willis. After looking the page over I realized I had enough information that I thought I could refute her last name. As I recall the page seemed to be orphaned, so I temporarily adopted it. I have no long term interest in it. If you think Mary's lasts name really was "Witt", I'd be happy to hear why.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us reach 161,603 profiles! We’re going for 250,000 profiles in 2023!

We’ve started the January challenge here: January Connecting Challenge.

You can see your 2022 total and your all time 2021-2022 total on our tracking spreadsheet.

Emma

We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!

Hi Terry!

Thank you so much for all of your research on my great uncle Stanley Howe! I figured it was a long shot, but a fresh set of eyes doesn't hurt every once in a while Thanks again and I hope you had a very Merry Christmas!

Regards,

John

Thanks for the guidance, Terry! I did not know we shouldn't use the term "uncertain" when we aren't sure about someone's surname at birth. I appreciate the help, many thanks. I made the correction for Mary Marlow, and also one other person on my tree whose maiden name is yet to be pinned down.

Thanks Terry, I have made the changes for Christine Mathers

Congratulations on earning a 50+ sticker in the November 2022 Sourcerers Challenge and thanks for all the improvements you've made to WikiTree!

Thank you for joining the June USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create almost 6000 new profiles! Our new total is 126903. We have less than 24,000 to our 2022 goal!

From your friends at the Appreciation Team:

Congrats on the Super Star Badge!

Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.

Thanks for your sourcing contributions in May!

Thank you Terry, you have been a wonderful help!

Terry,

Great work on the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving our tree.

WikiTree Appreciation Team

Thanks for your contributions Terry !

Hi there, I see that you've been working on a project to clean up the surname list of unknown people. I tried doing that on my own once, probably about three years ago. I was messaging people asking them to correct the spelling for "Unknown" from things like "Unkown" or "Unknow" or "unkwon" etc. Many people did with no trouble.

I just looked this morning. There's a whole lot of "U.K." and "Uk, and "unkn." and things like that. Maybe that list could be included on the current project for cleaning up profiles. What do you think?

Thank you for joining the February USBH Connecting Challenge, Terry, and helping us create 3116 new profiles.

We’ve started the March challenge here: March Connecting Challenge.

Terry, Thank you for joining the December USBH Connecting Challenge and helping us create 10523 new profiles. We met our goal of creating 50,000 new profiles in 2021!

We’ve started the January challenge here: January Connecting Challenge. We are working toward a goal of 150,000 total profiles in 2022.

Emma

Hello Terry! We’re putting out a call to all past USBH Connecting Challenge participants. We are only a few thousand profiles away from meeting our goal of 50,000 new profiles for 2021. I hope you’ll be able to join us by adding some new profiles in December. They sign up post is here:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1335880/join-us-black-heritage-connecting-challenge-december-2021

Thanks for your contributions in 2021! Emma

Terry, Thank you for joining the July Connecting Challenge and helping us create 4052 new profiles!

Emma

You are awesome as usual! Thank you for always being helpful. You have a beautiful soul cousin ❤️