Join US Black Heritage's Connecting Challenge--September 2021 [closed]

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                US Black Heritage Project's

Connecting Challenge

In order to meet the US Black Heritage's goal of creating 50,000+ new African-American profiles in the year 2021, we have started a connecting challenge. It will be similar to the WikiTree Connect-A-Thon with a few exceptions. Please read our challenge space page for all the rules.

Who can participate? Any WikiTree member who has upgraded from guest and has signed the honor code. 

Start/End: This Challenge is a month long. We begin on the first of each month and end at midnight EST on the last day of each month. 

A participant sticker will be available to all members who join in for at least one of the months. Special stickers will be awarded to all participants who create at least 25 profiles in a month. A Winner's sticker will be given to the top contributor each month.

To Partipate:

• Read the rules please!
• Click on the "answer" button below my name on this post to declare you want to participate.
• Start with an existing profile and create a family member attached to that profile. Keep adding as many family members up, down, and sideways on the tree as you can. Each new profile is one point.
• Make sure the research is correct! Use primary documents to find and prove relationships.
• Add the {{African-American Sticker}} to any profiles of Black Americans who lived in the USA, so the project can keep track of the profiles and honor their heritage.
• Add at least one good source to every profile.
• Use the Challenge Tracker to keep track of every new profile you create for this challenge. It will count the total for you automatically. If you discover you forgot to track some, you can list them here to count.
• Repeat.
• If you are working on enslaved ancestors, every new slave profile you link to a slave owner using the USBH Project's guidelines, counts as a connected profile. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information.

Have questions? Please ask.

Only have time for a few profiles? Please join us! Every contribution gets us closer to our goal.

Do you need some profiles to get you started? 

• Check out the project's managed profiles list (notables).
• Check out the Project's "needs profiles created" category.

If you are already on the WikiTree Discord server, you should have access to the US Black Heritage Connecting Challenge channel. If you can't access it, please send me a message.

Thanks for growing our tree!

Our August total: 2262

Our total for 2021: 23,980

Comments

I’ll participate, thank you!

Answer 1

I'm excited to add more profiles this month! We're really growing

Answer 2

I'm ready to start adding more profiles this month. 

I plan to extend the families I was working on last month. They were very interesting people.

I had a problem with the Tracker last month. I think I will try to remember to use Firefox Browser this month to see if I have better luck with the Tracker.

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Thanks, LG! Let me know how it goes with the tracker. Fingers crossed.

Answer 3

I'm in again and will be combining this challenge with the Black Heritage project for September notables. :-)

Comments

Fabulous! Thanks, Karen 

Answer 4

I'm ready for my second month!

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Thanks, Lizz!

Answer 5

Last month was fun; this month should be even more fun! I've not run out of family or Mary Jane Green's family so far!

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I don't think we can possibly ever run out of family Thanks, Valorie!

Answer 6

I’ll participate! (now writing this as an answer instead of a comment, oops)

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Thanks, Elaine!

Answer 7

I’ll be adding a few more profiles this month.

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Thanks, Tommy!

Answer 8

Emma, I will participate again this month.

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Wonderful! Thanks, Alexis

Answer 9

I'm aiming to get some done in September!

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Yay! thanks, Sacha

Answer 10

Yes! I'll add a few.

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Yay! Thanks, Isabelle

Answer 11

I'll be adding some - thanks!

Comments

Thank you, Shirley!

Answer 12

Count me in.

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Thanks, Carl!

Answer 13

Me too!  Got some in already!

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Thanks, Bartley!

Answer 14

Count me in, please! :)

Comments

Awesome! Thanks, Cheryl

Answer 15

Hope to do more this month

Comments

Fabulous! Thanks, Jennifer!

Answer 16

I'm in! My official challenge numbers may be low, as I'm finding the challenge tracker annoying to keep up with, but the important thing is that I'm making profiles.

Currently I'm working on some Lawrence County, Alabama families that I've spent enough time on to recognize surnames in random records, and I want to get back to a family in York County, Pennsylvania and see what other folks in that community I can add.

Comments

Every little bit helps! Let me know if there's a way I can help make the tracker easier to use.

Answer 17

Adding in the Beman family from CT

Comments

Thanks, J!

Answer 18

I’ll try to add a few. I’ve added Jones-110053, I’ll see how much of his family I can add.

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Thanks, Richard!

Answer 19

I've added a few profiles:

1. Reah Chaplin (Nesbit) Lincoln (1915-) 
2. Florence (Nesbit) Thompson (abt.1914-) 
3. Reah (Wilson) Rose (1893-abt.1954)
4. Joseph L Thompson (abt.1918-1961) 
5. Hilary Harlee Thompson (1896-) 

Comments

Thanks, Lucy!

Answer 20

Late entry...

This hits too close to my tree. I have enslaved ancestors from South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Virginia. Whew!

All of my 2nd to 4th great grandparents (paternal and maternal) were born into slavery. I'm checking to see if there is a connection to the slaveowners (especially with the surnames).

Therefore, I will participate especially till the end of year... it's going to be an interesting experience!

Comments

Thanks, Eileen!