Introducing the Curator Team

Welcome Ashley.

Welcome to the team Ashley!

Welcome aboard Ashley

Yay Ashley's here!

Yay, Ashley!

Thanks, everyone!

I am looking forward to working more with users on genealogy of the northeastern Caribbean (particularly the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Haiti, and Cuba) and non-Bostonian New England (emphasis on Connecticut, Vermont, Western Massachusetts, and New Hampshire). Please feel free to contact me if you'd ever like some extra help in those areas.

Hello all - and thanks for the separate welcomes I got over the past few hours!
A few words about myself... I have a Dutch father and a Belgian mother. I grew up in Brussels, where I studied Political Science. I lived a year in Heidelberg (D), and lived for about 12 years in France (in two consecutive periods - Paris and Nice). My wife of nearly 25 years is Portuguese, who was born in Caracas and spent her childhood in Tunis and New York.
All this just to say that the world has no boundaries for me, and I love to work on new challenges.
Professionally, I'm an independent consultant to large IT organizations.
Despite a very international orientation, I'm very keen on working our trees in Holland and Belgium. Simply because that's where my roots are. Before starting with Geni, I knew of only some 20 Homs relatives, since then, I've discovered 150 living relatives - and none of them had a clue that there was this big connection. That's a great experience!
I think Fred has done tremendous work on pulling together the Dutch/Flemish user community - and I think the foundations are there for a lot of interesting activity.
Victar has asked me to help out on France. I'm not French, but I think I won't rest until we can make that a vibrant Geni place too - if only because the French are the best placed to work the sources for so many historical profiles.
Finally, I'm also keen on building the bridges across the Atlantic. Many ancestral lines start/stop with the emigration/immigration. It's only through collaboration that we can fill the holes and bridge the gaps. As many have seen, we've initiated a New Amsterdam project, and I see a lot of enthousiasm building around that.
Thanks again for taking me in - I hope I won't be boring :-)

sjors, veel succes en je kunt op me rekenen, als is het maar voor het dagelijkse kopje koffie met suikerwafeltje... maar je Bossche Bol van vandaag staat nog onaangeroerd, heb je het zo druk gekregen in je nieuwe baan? kus, jMu.

Welcome aboard George, you gave allready a tremendous boost to the international and intercontinental integration. Ga zo voort en gij zult spinazie eten. Let Google translate translate that and never the significance will appear !

Hey George, my nearly constant companion for the last few weeks, no shout out to me? ;-) Welcome!

George, Welcome Aboard!

Your international experience will be invaluable here on Geni. I add my voice to Victar's for help in French profiles.

George, we have been working together. Welcome to the Team!

Congrats George!!!

Welcome George, what a fascinating introduction!

Welcome aboard George

welcome

Welcome, George! This is good news, indeed. For all of us.

George good to have you on the team!

Welcome, George! I took an intensive six-week Dutch course and I'm afraid all I learned was that I have no talent for the language, but maybe you'll inspire me to learn a bit more. :)

George I'm delighted to be working with you more closely. Welcome aboard.

Welcome, George!

Welcome George

Thanks all ! If I'm a bit slow in responding, it's because I'm too busy dealing with the flood of work ;-)

I should have told Fred this :) but Ashley just reminded me -- the only country I ever traveled in (beside the UK) where they addressed me in the native tongue was the Netherlands. Not strictly true, when I spoke Arabic in 1975 Egypt, they assumed I was Lebanese but then that was when there were few foreigners in Egypt and it was unthinkable that a person speaking Arabic was not an Arab.

I have been working on Genealogy now for 30 yrs., and would like to add information and documentation to those profiles that have none. I have been a member of Geni for 2yrs in a couple of weeks and have found it to be the best site for growing the shared tree.

My Mother, Father, Aunt by marriage, Bro-in-Law have lines that connect in the tree. My mothers line connects to Pomeroy but I have not found a connection to my husbands. I was born and raised in Santa Clara, Calif. moving to Washington State after my first child was born. I was inspired to do Genealogy because of my Uncle's wife who gifted me for many years with "The Genealogical Helper". My maiden name is Erickson, I have a Swedish, English background. My husband's lines are English, Irish, German, Norwegian.
I seem more comfortable working in the United States and England areas, since English is the only language I know, my husband has some German & Norwegian relatives for which I use Google translate.

Carole, I did not know you were from Santa Clara! I have been active in that community for years and live in South San Jose.

It is my great pleasure to introduce to the Geni membership our newest Curator, Peter Rohel. I know many of you have been working with Peter already because his nomination actually came from you, the membership.

Please give Peter a warm welcome.

As a Curator, I plan to assist Users in making their experience the Best it can be on Geni, using my 7 year genealogy and 15 year IT backgrounds. At the same time, participate in discussions - to make Geni the Best site it can be.
As a User born in Šternberk (Sternberg), Moravia, Czech (relative of the Sternberg, etc. royals) - abt. 50% (of 50K+) Names of the old site have been Migrated. Ancestors from former Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Germany & other parts of Europe - and Descendants all over - I went very wide with distant Relatives. Thank you for your Continued Migration Help (past 4 years) - very much (now) appreciated.

I am delighted that Geni has appointed me as curator, special thanks to the existing curators for all their support, you know who you are.
I am a researcher since 1996, slowly started off with my own Dutch family tree but quickly became involved in helping others even to the stage I had to abandon my own tree as I was too busy helping others.
As I was born in The Netherlands I spend the first couple of years researching the dutch genealogies, when I moved to Ireland I slowly started to work on Irish projects, and they were and are still very challenging. I became a volunteer for the Random Act of Genealogical Kindness in 2007 and helped many with their searches in both Ireland and The Netherlands. RAOGK stopped their great service so this gave me the time and space to do some more work on Geni.
Workwise I am doing research for a New York writer at the moment in to the girl friends of George Bernard Shaw, another big challenge.
So this is me in short, I will do my very best to become just as great as you all are, but be patient till I am up to speed with this please :)
Thank you all for having me in your team

Welcome, Annemarie!