Challenge of the week: Clean up marriage data

Question

Hi WikiTreers,

Want to join us in a challenge?

This week's Data Doctors Challenge is centered on weddings and marriages. Let's help profiles in our tree live happily ever after.

WikiTree+ data analysis has discovered 13,924 marriage-related suggestions and warnings to be investigated, including:

• Unknown gender of spouse: These are cases where a person's spouse does not have a gender. If it can be confidently determined, set the spouse's gender from their edit page.
• Single sex marriage: Both spouses have the same gender. Same-sex marriage is not uncommon today but it was rare in history. Try to verify that one of the partners does not have the wrong gender and edit if appropriate. If it truly was a same-sex marriage, dismiss the suggestion.
• Marriage before birth: The person's marriage date is before their birth date. If the correct marriage date or the person's birth date can be confidently determined, fix it. To edit a marriage date look for the "edit marriage" link below the spouse in the Edit Family section of the person's edit page.
• Marriage too long after birth:The person's marriage date is more than 115 years after their birth date.
• Marriage after death: The person's marriage date is after their death date. If the correct marriage date or death date can be determined, fix it.
• Multiple marriages on same day: The person married more than one spouse on the same day. If one marriage date is incorrect, fix it, or if the spouses are duplicates, merge them.
• Marriage to duplicate person: The person married more than one person with the same name. If the spouses are duplicates, merge them.

Here is the table of suggestions we need to investigate.

To earn a point, click the status button on the report by the profile you edited and follow the instructions there. [more info]

The member with the most points at 11:59 pm EDT on Sunday night will get the badge and the bragging rights. But we'll all benefit from an improved tree, with stronger marriages. :-)

What will you be working on? Please post here to let us know and we'll cheer each other on. Or post if you have any questions about how to participate.

PS If you want to chat or coordinate what you are working on with others, in addition to this G2G post there is a handy spreadsheet courtesy of Steven Tibbetts. 

Top 10

• Dean E. Anderson - 453
• Loretta L. Morrison - 72
• Esmé van der Westhuizen - 68
• Charles C. Avis - 52
• Helen E. Edwards - 35
• Peter J. Rushen - 24
• N Gauthier - 23
• Janet Wild - 20
• Marty S. Acks - 16
• Graeme R. Olney - 14

Comments

Challenge is active

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Hey there Ales...or Eowyn:  Do we have a tracker button for the challenge this week as usual ?  I found it, it was hiding on the more info click !

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I did two! 

Sadly, I must move on now, though.

Answer 1

I'll give it a try this week, not much else to do while I'm on lockdown over here in India.

Answer 2

Please count me in for this week's challenge. Thank you.

Answer 3

I chip away at them.

Answer 4

I will help with some, thanks!

Answer 5

Ill try a few as lockdown becoming wearsome

Answer 6

I'm not sure what it meant by click the status button? Where is this?

Comments

Hi, Anon,

Don't know if anyone responded to you.  The Status Button is on the Suggestion Report [list of profiles with the suggestion you are working on on the far right.

This is the challenge for this week: Space:DD_Challenge_Marriage_XIV

When you go to that page you choose a suggestion in the rows and the timeframe in the column.  When you open that report, you have a list of profiles to work on.  Once you work in the profile you go back to the report you got the name from and click on the Status Button for that person.  You then fill in what you did on the profile.

This page explains the reports involved in the challenge along with the status page:

Suggestions_Reports_and_Suggestion_Status_Page and there is also a video.

I hope that helps.

Best,

Sheryl

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Thank you

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You are very welcome and enjoy the challeng!

Answer 7

I would like to assist in this clean-up. I have no preference but it you do need one, Massachusetts would be good for me. Thank you, Elizabeth

Answer 8

I am just today planning to help out with profiles that might still need to be edited ?!

Answer 9

I've been working through the 672 suggestions for a few weeks - and fixing anything I spot on the way - so I guess I'm in for this challenge.