Would there be interest in a Buffalo, New York project?

Question

Some of us have large databases of Buffalo, NY names and information for this city that was once thriving and full of immigrants.

Comments

I love this idea! My father's side of the family includes Italian immigrants to Buffalo, NY in the early 1900s, and Irish immigrants in the mid 1800s. My step-father's entire family is Polish and they immigrated to Buffalo in the late 1800s.

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I am interested - and would be eager to hear how you think it should proceed.

Answer 1

Sharon,

Have you checked out the One Place Studies project?  That would be a great place to start collecting information and profiles!

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:One_Place_Studies

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Would the developers at Wikitree be willing to set uo a  separate "raw" datatbase for a one place study?  the idea being I have a database of thousands of names that I have gathered from on-line information so they are not really sourced so they probably should not be uploaded int the main wikitree database. but if wikitree would allow me to use their site yo upload all of this data into a separate database that I could then manage and allow other people who request to be part of the study to also update it owuld be agreat way for people interested in the study to collaborate and use that database as a starting point. Merges and searches would be limited to within that database which might make those processes easier.

What would be really nice is if you could also link in any profiles with that "one place" catagory into the raw databse also so researchers would know that those profiles already exist in the main database.  It would also be nice to have a "add to main databse" function that would allow a researcher to move a profile that is better sourced to the main databse automatically without having to recreate the profile.

 

Absent of this does anyone have a good idea on how people interested in a "one place" project would bet collaborate on large numbers of "raw" profiles?

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I have found the best way to handle databases in Wikitree is to build a table using Excel and format it for export to a Wikitree Space.   I have done this several times in my Iredell County, North Carolina, One Place Study.   I took the entire 1790 Census for the county and put it into a space.  See

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Iredell_County%2C_North_Carolina%2C_1790_Census

Then, I link to profiles in Wikitree as they are created or found.  If you need help with the spreadsheet to format it , let me know.

Answer 2

I'm not sure of the time period of the arrival of the Buffalo immigrant population.

I would like to see a project that covers the immigrations from Europe to the United States in the late 1800's to early 1900's.

I think there might be sub-projects of that for places in the United States, such as Buffalo, where large groups of these immigrants settled.

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Buffalo was  founded in 1832.

Germans were there by 1837

Irish came with the famine in Ireland inthe late 1840s.

Two thirds of Buffalo was either Irish or German.

Polish probably came in the 1870s due to the Franco-Prussian War.

Italians came between 1880 and 1920.

Vietnamese came after 1973.

Answer 3

I defeniteyly would be willing to work with you on this.  I was thinking about doing something for Erie County, which includes Buffalo.

Answer 4

I have been adding information about Buffalo for a while.  There are some free space profile already created.

Answer 5

Sharon, we could revive the Old Eastside neighborhood project...  Move those pages I have on Rootsweb to freespace pages on wikitree where anyone could edit and maintain them. This suggests "special interest group" or sub projects for certain neighborhoods especially where there were clusters of immigrant types. Like the Germans who came btw 1837 and 1867 (mostly).

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I started an Eastside page, copying over some (but not yet all) from my pages over at Rootsweb:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Buffalo_Eastside_Neighborhood