Next week's Example Profile in the Connection Finder will be Charley Pride, famed country music musician and baseball player, who passed away at the end of 2020.
We're looking for profiles of other country-western stars to feature alongside him. Here are a few of the people we're getting started on:
Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.
Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?
All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.
We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eight per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.
We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.
Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!
To help us plan future themes, see the 2021 Example Profile Plans post here.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morris-20845
created by MEEEEEEEE !!!
he wrote THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
Top 7..?
Also:
Ah... there are so many! And here's the Country Music Hall of Fame Category to prove it!
Great list, Christine, I love it, but you've gotta add Jim Reeves and Marty Robbins to the pecking order!
Keith Whitley
Trying to find women, too...
Tammy Wynette
Dottie West
Tagging on to the American list -- John Denver
As far as women, don't forget Kitty Wells. Her profile and connections need your help!
Found Johnny Horton's profile - not connected yet
Reg Lindsay. Has pic, has bio, is connected.
Also Slim Dusty. Has pic, has bio, is connected.
I am sorry to say one of our greats (Ruby Hunter) does not appear to have a profile, and because she was First Nations Australian, I doubt we could work up a profile in a week.
Well, we might just get Ruby Connected, as she now has a profile (thanks, Leandra). Her bio is currently a work in progress.
Edited to add link to Ruby's profile.
Thanks for identifying some Australian country music greats, Melanie.
After I visited Australia, I commented that [in many respects] Australians were like Americans, only more so, and I believe that Australian country music is one manifestation of that.
There's also Jimmy Little AO (no profile that I could find), Smoky Dawson (also could not find a profile), and Gurrumul - may be more "folk" than Country, although he sang of his Country; older brother of the lead singer of Yothu Yindi (also could not find a profile).
Here are a few other possibilities:
Jimmy Dean has an extensive profile and is connected
Kitty Wells isn't connected and needs quite a bit of work
Lynn Anderson is connected
Jimmy Rodgers nice biography and is connected
I was also going to suggest K. T. Oslin but her profile is private.
Here is a compiled list I created of all known Wikipedia entries of Country Music stars with known WikiTree IDs - Wikidata for Country Music Stars with WikiTree IDs
Thanks John, that's interesting. I was quite certain there could be nothing French in this list, but there is Paul Barrere, with French-born paternal grandparents and some good work done on his French ancestry, and, amusingly, the absurdly famous and popular in France (unknown everywhere else) Johnny Hallyday - who could definitely use more work on his ancestors. (Note that in France he's known as a rock star, and not Country-Western, though he did touch many genres including Country).
To add to the already great names listed... I would suggest "Tennessee Ernie" Ford, Roy Clark, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard!
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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Owens-4354 "Buck" has a nice profile and looking like connected.
Edit: I see he was already listed above too, great minds and all.
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