Notables August 2020

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Hear Ye, Hear Ye

If you are interested in people who are famous, notable, noted, significant, important, historic, heroic, or otherwise fascinating, then the Notables Project might be for you! 

The idea behind this post is for anyone who needs help with connecting Notables to the tree to post to this thread and ask for help, or if you want to tell us whom you have successfully connected up, or if you want to join the Notables Project and get a badge.

Besides checking out the Notables Project page, don't forget to take a look at the Notables List page, where you can find lists of Notables who have profiles which aren't yet connected to the main tree. (For ideas on way to connect unconnected people and branches, see the Hints and Tips on the Connectors Chat page.)

Please remember to concentrate on those Notables who have already passed (died), so that we can see their profiles. If you create a profile for a living Notable, that profile WILL GO UNLISTED and no one can see it except for the PM and anyone on the trusted list!

And remember - Notables should have a Wikipedia page at the very least to qualify. But an entry in the country's NATIONAL Whose Who or a NATIONAL Biography  is acceptable as well. And they should be DEAD!

If you manage a profile for any living notable, would you please replace any Notables categories on that profile with [[Category:Living Notables]]? That could clear out a lot of profiles that people can't work on from the various Notables categories, and also keep all the living notables in one place to make them easy to find, should the need arise.

Deaths in July 2020 on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2020#July

in The Tree House by Robynne Lozier G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)

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Frankie Banali - Drummer for the music group - Quiet Riot - has died. He was 68 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Banali

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/quiet-riot-frankie-banali-dead-1048274/
by Robynne Lozier G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
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by Jessica Key G2G6 Pilot (314k points)
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Prince Edward Island (P.E.I. Canada) Politician and Activist Nancy Guptill has died.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/nancy-guptill-one-p-e-124644135.html

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Guptill
by Robynne Lozier G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
working on this one now. will check to see if the rest of PEI famous 5" are already on wikitree as well.
Her profile is at Garrison-5945
connected to the main tree via her husband's Guptill Family.
That was fast!!

Thank you so much Kathryn!!
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Canadian Cathy Smith, who is said to have injected John Belushi with his fatal drug dose, has died. She was 73.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/cathy-smith-dies-sundown-muse-171452707.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Smith
by Robynne Lozier G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
After reading up on her, I noticed she spent time with Gordon Lightfoot. Now I've got his music running around in my head again - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Sundown (which may have been written about her), If You Could Read My Mind, and I'm sure a few more here and there.
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Just saw where Joe Ruby, the co-creator of such cartoon characters as Scooby Doo and Shaggy has passed away. What a talent for developing children's cartoons!

He was 87 at the time of his passing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ruby

by Scott Fulkerson G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
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I’m working on the Scripps family (newspaper fame), but I’m not related and am not a member of the “Notables.” I found them by accident (don’t remember how), but I do have—and have been able to find--lots of sources.

Is it okay if I do this, or should I leave it to members of the Notables group? (I don’t have a link handy, but if you check my contributions feed, you can see what I’ve done.)
by Carole Bannes G2G6 Mach 5 (52.7k points)
You do not need to be a member of Wikitree Notables Project to make famous profiles. You can go ahead and make profiles with sources. If they have a wikipedia page, you should put the following at the very top of the profile ...

{{Notables Sticker}}

Thanks for helping wikitree grow :)
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by Kathryn Penner G2G6 Mach 6 (63.9k points)
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by Kathryn Penner G2G6 Mach 6 (63.9k points)
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Singer Peggy Lee should be connected once the database updates: Egstrom-2

Btw, can someone who knows their way around Norwegian or Swedish sources connect her to her Scandinavian family?
by Jessica Key G2G6 Pilot (314k points)
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I could definitely use help connecting René Charles Joseph Marie Lefebvre, Lefebvre-2310. I created profiles for him and his (also notable) son since their family is connected to my family by association, but I'm hopeless with French records.

If anyone who's comfortable with French records would be willing to help add relationships onto these two profiles, I would greatly appreciate it!
by Jayme Arrington G2G6 Pilot (182k points)
Jayme, if you would like to know more about finding your way around French records, I am looking for volunteer "guinea pigs" to test a French Orphelin Trail which is focussed on French records. 19th century records in France often contain a wealth of information (my totally biased opinion is that they are really exciting to work on).

Would you consider adding the prefix "Monseigneur" to Marcel Lefebvre? It is really the way he is known here: "Monseigneur Lefebvre". thank you!

I'll check if Roglo suggests a workable way to connect him. It's unfortunately not always possible.
Sounds good! Is Mgr an acceptable abbreviation for Monseigneur in the prefix field? I added Monseigneur in front of his name in his biography, but the prefix field cuts off after the "u" in Monseigneur.

And I'm happy to be a guinea pig! I know basic French, but otherwise I have no experience with French records. Just let me know where to go/what to do :)
Yes, Mgr is the customary abbreviation of Monseigneur. I'll send you a PM :-)
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I've been working on connecting the family tree of Harry Houdini (aka Ehrich Weisz). https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Weisz-93. I've been trying to find more about his parents and siblings and getting them all connected, especially his father Mayer Samuel Weisz. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Weisz-94.

I'd also like to join the Notables project to help assist my research.
by Meredith Secaur G2G Crew (410 points)
edited by Meredith Secaur
Houdini would be a good one to connect to the tree. Good luck with your research!

And welcome to the Notables Team!
I am trying to help with this one. So far I  have added the names for Houdini's maternal grandparents.

Houdini is supposed to have had a second cousin, [[Weiss-3132|Marie (Weiss) Jagusch]] and I am adding profiles there, to see if I can connect it up to Houdini and the global wikitree.
I connected the possible cousin's line to the global wikitree but have not been able to link them to Houdini. The cousin's Weiss line seems to be longtime in Germany while Houdini's Weisz line is Hungarian. However both lines have a marriage to a Schmitt ... don't know if there might be a connection there.

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