Will you join us for the first ever WikiTree Friday Date Night?

Question

Date: 6 Nov 2020

Time: 4 pm Eastern US (2000 GMT)

No need to swipe right or left! We're looking for lonely profiles without dates!! Let's give them a little TLC!

Pick from one of these lonesome categories on WikiTree+ (don't forget to click "find suggestions" to generate the report):

• (131) No Dates - No Dates on relatives - Open - Unknown Status
  • Report 
  • Instructions
• (132) No Dates - No Dates on relatives - Open - Status Died
  • Report 
  • Instructions
• (133) No Dates - Dates on relatives - Open - Unknown Status
  • Report
  • Instructions
• (134) No Dates - Dates on relatives - Open - Status Died
  • Report
  • Instructions

We'll kick the evening off with a video (Facebook | YouTube) on 6 Nov  4 pm Eastern US time (2000 GMT). So pop some popcorn, grab a drink, and come and join us for "date night" !!!

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This "challenge" is really just for fun, so we're not tracking or keeping score. Just join in to have some fun, share some social time with your fellow WikiTreers, and make some big improvements to the tree.

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Important Info & Instructions:

• Profiles for Living People
  • Add [[Category: WikiTree Admin]]
  • Add the correct date(s) and sources to support them
  • Save
  • The Team will use the WikiTree Admin category to make sure these profiles are handled appropriately, including removing you from the Trusted List, if necessary.
• Where else can I find profiles to work on?
  • Check the Estimated Dates maintenance categories
  • Go to My WikiTree > Surnames, choose a surname you're interested in, sort the list by date, and look in the date column for Open profiles with no dates.
  • Peruse the Unsourced Profiles category for sad profiles with no dates
• Are we making progress?
  • Check out the new free-space page attached! It's chock full of all the details. Let me know if anything's missing!

Comments

I just thought to ask. How long is this date?

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Well, Eowyn and I are doing the video kickoff, and I imagine we'll be around for about an hour or so, but people are welcome to keep working as long as they like.

We hope to do this on a regular basis, too. So, maybe once / month??

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I just glanced at one with my LNAB, with no dates, not sure if it should be unlisted. This could be very hard.

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Please take a look a the "Important Info/Instructions" section I just added to the original post. We set up a category where you can add profiles that turn out to be for living people, and the Team will handle those.

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Perfect!!!

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Awesome, Julie, thanks!

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Eowyn gets credit for the category! I just typed it in. lol

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Date "night" starts in about 3 hours! I hope a bunch of you can join us!

I just updated our starting stats on the free-space page linked up above. We have our work cut out for us!

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Wish we had a place to chat while we work since we're on a date!

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I just set up a channel on the WikiTree Server on Discord. 

Link: https://discord.gg/uMN4JFH3

(If you tried to get in and couldn't, try this new link I just posted)

Answer 1

Great idea!!

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Thanks, Traci!! I'm looking forward to it!!

Answer 2

It's a date

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See you then, Ronel!

Answer 3

I can't tell you how long it's been since I've had a date (cough), so I'm in! I also love fixing up these tragedies. I do wish we could track our own personal numbers though because I'm very much goal oriented if you haven't noticed before now I guess we could set the status on the database error and watch those numbers.

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Absolutely! Track if you want to. We're just not doing it formally. And feel free to report your accomplishments. That's always fun.

And, gee, Emma, I didn't think you had a competitive bone in your body. hehehehe

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LOL. You must not know me very well then, Julie. You should see us at family game night around here! 

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I bet it's quite similar to ours. hahaha!!!

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Many have most likely fallen at the hands of Landlord Emma in Monopoly. =)

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Ha! Monopoly is too tame a game for the likes of my family.

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Have you tried Chronology?

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I hadn't heard of it until now, Kay. It looks interesting.

Answer 4

ok -a win for team Frances

(had to adopt to change the typo in the LNAB) and now a whole host of just lovely LNAB have come into play.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stettaford-1

Comments

That sounds more fun than sorting out Browns or Smiths!

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for sure -- my LNAB is Jones... and my family have Jones married Jones :(

Answer 5

Great Idea, Julie. I think i can make it next week. I might start early, just for something randomly interesting to try.

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It's a little addictive to get started on these, Nancy! But it's also frustrating when you run across several in a row that don't have good information to work from.

Answer 6

Okay, this sounds like fun. Please count me in.

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Yay, Robin!!

Answer 7

I've done one that had a whole family of unsourced I am working on now.

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That's fantastic, Nancy!!

Answer 8

I will try to make this. The 133 are one of my favorite to work.

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Terrific! I enjoy them, too. Major rabbit holes!!

Answer 9

No flowers or wine needed 

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Wine would be nice. hahahaha

Answer 10

Since there seem to be no men so far who might want to go on a date, I'd better start the ball rolling.

However I might start a bit earlier, Australia is so far ahead of everyone else (time wise) that it would be Saturday afternoon date for me, which just doesn't sound right.

The other way I use to find 'no date' profiles is to search for a surname I'm interested in, arrange the list in date order, and then scroll down to the bottom, and there are sure to be some profiles that need a date.

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Well, John, then we'll just have to join *you* ! 

And, yes, that's an excellent tip! I do the same when I'm working on a surname. You can usually find a treasure trove of unsourced profiles doing that.

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John,

I go to the weekly suggestion report, pick open profiles, then change the URL to jump way ahead in the report. For 133 and 134 they are in approximate birth sequence based on relatives dates.

Answer 11

I commend Julie on her double-entendre. Kudos! =) I'll definitely be in the stream and I'll see about those dates!

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Hey Chris, I'll see you there!

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Glad you're joining in, Chris!

Answer 12

Fantastic idea! I'll work on a few of them. When I have encountered profiles with no dates and I suspect they are living based on parents or spouses profiles I check Facebook.

I've found a bunch that are on Facebook and confirmed it was the same person by looking at their "About" info and their Friends or Family.

Glad to see a way to deal with living people by adding the category.

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Yay, Emily! I'm glad you're going to join us!

Answer 13

Thank you Julie! I thought you would never ask :-)

It's a date!

Ian

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Great, Ian! Glad you can join us. 

Answer 14

This is a great idea! And thank you so much for the instructions for how to deal with open living people.  I have already started a few.

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Oh, good! I hope you can stop by on Friday, too! :-)

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I dated a few Iowa profiles tonight.

Answer 15

so this week I started with https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Warren-2015

and haven't made any progress with him (although I think there might be a duplicate of him as https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Warren-2014)

But I have put dates on a few of his in-laws.. and found some of their names (lots were imported as "Living" or "unknown") Along the way I have learnt about the history of Fulda Indiana.

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Thanks, Frances!

I spent a little time this weekend taking a look at that family. Seems like there are some questions that need to be answered before we can do any merges.

I wasn't able to find any marriage records for Mary Speckner / Spechner ... weird.

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oh - I like the estimated birth date marker!

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and did you check out Felger-1?

I can't find any sign of her, but she's been imported with a bunch of children given her maiden name - yet they look to be Speckners.

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but managed to connect that branch to the tree via the lashers - lots more to be added there too.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lasher-8

Answer 16

Here's a handy hint...if you run up against a family and find they were created by someone with a closed account, you can check the closed account's contributions for clues!

Just use the link:https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&who=

and insert the closed account's Wiki-ID. Here's one I was working with and I got clues:https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&who=Henson-793

I was working on this profile:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Henson-796

Comments

Thanks, Natalie!!

Answer 17

If you want to look everywhere you can try around https://www.softdata.si/wt/Err_20201101/133_60_245.htm

And you can change 245 to other nearby pages. I was working on page 250, which put it in the mid 1800s.

Don't forget to add locations when you find them!

I just added some info at the end of the Bio Check help about searching via WikiTree+ for profiles created by a specific manager Id or associated with a GEDCOM. These can also provide clues.

Comments

Fantastic, Kay! Thanks!

Answer 18

I got about 138 profiles done. It was hard to keep track. But it was extremely satisfying!

Comments

I know! I love working on these types of profiles.

Answer 19

I've been taking your hints & tips and updating the WikiTree Friday Date Night space page.

If you have more to add, please do so, or you can message me w/ them if you don't want to edit that page.

Thanks, everyone!

Comments

I go to the weekly connections, pick a profile up about every 8 degrees (or an interesting name) and check the suggestion list, as a WikiTree connector I am typically looking for connecting suggestions (106,585, 591 or 592) but for date challenges I look for 131-134, especially if they are within X degrees of me better chance of finding the info.  once I find a branch with a lot of 131-134 suggestions, I just stick with that branch until they are done.