why doesn't this person show up on the Spaces list that she is connected to?

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 [[Steeves-82|Lucinda Steeves]] is my third cousin four times removed.  Pretty nearly everyone with the name Steeves will be some relation to me, so while participating in the Sourcerers Challenge i thought i'd see if there were any unsourced Steeves (there are a lot).

I picked Lucinda and gave her a few sources, and in the process of so doing, noticed that she had a template-like thing that had a link to a Space: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Descendant_of_Thomas_Skinner_of_Malden%2C_MA

I clicked on it, and it took me to a list of Thomas Skinner's descendants, but only those whose surnames start with "A".  Lucinda didn't appear on the list.

So I started to ask this question.  Then when i tried to put the URL for the Space in the field below, a red-font message says: That WikiTree Space Profile does not exist (Space:Descendant of Thomas Skinner of Malden%2C_MA)

Is that working properly?

Regards

Shirlea

WikiTree profile: Lucinda Steeves
in WikiTree Tech by Shirlea Smith G2G6 Pilot (289k points)
edited by Shirlea Smith

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The  wiki IDs with the names has to be entered using the edit tab, scroll down and you will see how it is done. It is not something that is done automatically as if it were a category and  the names would be added by adding a category  to a profile.

example

Category: Descendants of Sebastian Arnick

Category: Descendants of Thomas and Joan Mildenhall

 

 

 

 

by Jacqueline Clark G2G6 Pilot (173k points)
selected by Shirlea Smith
Thank you!  so it is really a lot of work to populate such a Space, but using Category instead of a Space would be easier....  Did i understand correctly?

I created my categories  after  putting category descendant of name here with the  brackets and saving  it showed red on the  public view.  click that and add information about the category and make sure you use category surnames as the highest level category

My Mildenhall one has 1,444 so far

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