The WikiTree Challenge: Will you join an October team? [closed]

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We are in the midst of our most ambitious community event ever: The WikiTree Challenge.

Each week in 2021, a team of WikiTreers is collaborating on the tree of a special genealogy guest star. Our challenge is to make their genealogy more accurate and complete than it is anywhere else. Here are all the details: Help:WikiTree_Challenge.

Can you participate in any of these weeks? 

  • Week 40: Oct 6 - Oct 13 Shelley Murphy the Family Tree Girl
  • Week 41: Oct 13 - Oct 20 Roberta Estes a pioneer of genetic genealogy
  • Week 42: Oct 20 - Oct 27 Irene Cornish whose great-grandparent's marriage record was returned to her
  • Week 43: Oct 27 - Nov 3 James Tanner a genealogy author and blogger

To register, simply post an answer below (not a comment) and say something like "I want to participate in weeks 41 and 42."

Remember that you don't need to be skilled in the records for those ancestor locations. Things you can do to help:

  • Write biographies for others
  • Work with the Category project for needed categories
  • Add relevant resource links for others to use (to blogs, etc.)
  • Check the G2G post occasionally and notify the captain of questions
  • Keep an eye on Discord in case others need help
  • Upload pictures that were approved by the guest to that weeks Space page
  • Search a paid site you belong to for obituaries and articles 

For more information on how to work during the challenge, see The WikiTree Challenge: Improving Profiles

closed with the note: Thank you for participating! You can sign up now for November.
in The Tree House by Mindy Silva G2G Astronaut (1.1m points)
closed by Mindy Silva

42 Answers

+10 votes

Sign me up for all weeks in which the challenge is being held.

by Tommy Buch G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)
Thanks Tommy!!
+10 votes
I'd like to sign up for all of the weeks :)
by Jayme Arrington G2G6 Pilot (182k points)
Yay, Jayme! Thanks!
+10 votes
Sign me in. I will help if I can.
by Dieter Lewerenz G2G Astronaut (3.1m points)
Great Dieter! Thanks!!
+8 votes
I would like to do Week 43.
by Eileen Robinson G2G6 Pilot (203k points)
Thanks Eileen!
+9 votes
Sign me up for all four weeks, will do what i can during this time.
by Jennifer Robins G2G6 Pilot (253k points)
Thanks Jennifer!
+9 votes
I'd like to help out wherever I can.
by Karen Stewart G2G6 Pilot (125k points)
Great Karen! Thanks!!
+8 votes
Sign me up for all the weeks please.
by Rosalie Neve G2G6 Pilot (174k points)
Great Rosalie! Thanks!!
+9 votes
Please sign me up for all weeks - I'll certainly chip in for anyone with Irish ancestry.
by Paddy Waldron G2G6 Mach 6 (61.1k points)

Great Patrick! We have several weeks for that laugh (41, 42, & 43!!)

And the Murphy is the only one of the four October guests without Irish ancestry?!

(I think I have finally figured out today how to get WikiTree to call me Paddy and Patrick in the appropriate places!)
+7 votes
Please sign me up for the entire month!  Thanks!
by Michelle Enke G2G6 Pilot (423k points)
Great Michelle! Thanks!!
+7 votes
Sign me up for week 41.
by Marcia Powell G2G Crew (420 points)
Great Marcia! Thanks!
+7 votes
Please sign me up for all four weeks. Thanks
by Maggie N. G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
Yay Maggie! Thanks!
+6 votes
Sign me up for all the weeks. I want to improve on the accuracy of the trees.
by Eileen Robinson G2G6 Pilot (203k points)
Great Eileen! Thanks!
+7 votes
Sign me up for the month. I am addicted
by Kathy Nava G2G6 Pilot (300k points)
Great Kathy! Isn't it fun?!
It is fun. I am learning so much and everyone is so helpful.
+7 votes
I'm in for the month.
by Paul Gierszewski G2G6 Mach 8 (88.9k points)
Great Paul! Thanks!!
+7 votes
You can sign me up.  I'll help where I can.
by Kathy Rabenstein G2G6 Pilot (319k points)
Thanks Kathy!!
+8 votes
I can help with week 43, thanks!
by Michelle Custer G2G Crew (660 points)
Great Michelle! Welcome to the challenge!
+8 votes
Sign me up!  Shelley Murphy & I are related (DNA doesn't lie), but don't yet know how.  Opportunity to remedy that!
by Robin Baker G2G6 Mach 1 (11.8k points)
Great Robin! Thanks!
It will be interesting to see help Shelley with her tree! We're not related though by blood.
+7 votes
I don't see any Jewish lines or connections to Manitoba, but please sign me up anyway, as I might be able to help with some line of one of them.
by Louis Kessler G2G5 (5.5k points)
Great Louis! Thanks!
+8 votes
I want to join all the challenges too!!!!
by Allison Willis G2G Crew (440 points)
Great Allison! Welcome.
+8 votes
Please sign me up for the month of October.
by Greg Lavoie G2G6 Pilot (371k points)
Great Greg! Thank you!

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