Team Missouri Connect-a-thon chat January 2022

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Where's my "Show me" state folks at?!

Thank you for volunteering to help and for joining our team. This post will create a thread where we can work together to coordinate our efforts. This is the place for the team to ask questions, give advice, see updates, and cheer each other on.

As a reminder, these are the states we cover: Missouri (of course!), Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Of course, if your connections lead you elsewhere, you can certainly follow that trail!

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in The Tree House by Lori Zukerman G2G6 Pilot (151k points)
edited by Lori Zukerman

Glad to see Team Missouri in the 2022 Jan Connect-a-thon! 

Best of luck to y'all!

Let's make our tree healthier!!!

Super Sweepers 

Happy to see the Super Sweepers in it as well, Loretta! Good luck to all of you and let's have some fun with this one!!!

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Lori asked me to share what helped my numbers in the last connect-a-thon.  In the years I have been here, I have gradually learned to make better use of the categories.  So what helped move things along was advanced preparation that I didn't even realize I was doing at the time.  Namely I had already gotten into the habit of leaving maintenance categories on profiles that I knew could use more work.

So when the thon got here and I was looking at the suggestion list, I could see profiles from "needs profiles created" category for people that I recognized and knew the sourcing would already be there to add children and spouses for them.  That enabled me to copy and paste a source onto sometimes as many as 10 new people to quickly create stub profiles without having to stop and research.

Since 2022 is to be a year of connections, make sure you are adding that "Missouri (Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc) needs profiles created" category to everything that it applies to (in advance of the thons) and that the sources for those next profiles are there so it is easy to see who else they work for.  That way it is easy to recognize them as being ready when the thons arrive.  Then you can add 'needs biography', 'needs more records,' 'needs death record' to them before you leave so maybe someone will be drawn back to help them more later.

This is an example of how someone I have worked on recently has been left with a bunch of children that can still be added:  Andrew Mackey 

Any other tips?

by LaMyra Morton G2G6 Mach 4 (42.5k points)
selected by Toni Boone
Great idea but I can see how that would flag it so anyone could work on it. Good and bad thing. lol

I think you could also do a free space page or a file on your own computer that you want to revisit. I worked on building out biographies last month on some of the profiles I sourced during the Source-a-thon and they have plenty of connections that need to be added. It's not hard to go thru your list of profiles that you've worked on and start flagging the ones that need connections built. And I plan to do just that to prep. We'll see how long it lasts before I end up down a rabbit hole. lol
Right.  That is what worked for me last year.  No one else seemed to be using the category, and I could go through them pretty fast.  Maybe creating a personal maintenance category would work better this year since it is the focus of the year this time.  But if everyone starts doing the same thing, we can get in each other's way and the profiles aren't there for the person that prepped them.
It obviously worked really well for you because you were in beast mode! Thanks for sharing with us.

Thanks for sharing, LaMyra and Lori!

I believe that I now have a good understanding of the scoring rules for this particular Thon based on the recent discussion here. Once the Thon starts (while I won't be focused on speed) I do want to ensure that my contributions are being applied to Team Missouri. I'm assuming that the Simple Report by Team and User link from the Tracking Progress section of the Connect-a-Thon Help Page will be updated to reflect the current Thon information, and my contributions should be reflected there after 5 minutes. Is that correct?

Thanks!

Edited to update the last link

That is correct!
Thanks, Lori!
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I would like to join Team Missouri!
by Michelle Enke G2G6 Pilot (407k points)
Make sure to comment on the main sign up post tomorrow!
I am registered! Looking forward to the big event!
Got you added to the team & me too!!

Go Team MO!!!
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I feel this is really going to be great!
by Toni Boone G2G6 Mach 2 (26.0k points)
Oh, they're always fun, Toni! This just isn't one of my strong areas so I'll be more relaxed knowing there's no way I can place in the top five or even ten this time. No rushing so it should be more enjoyable than the source-a-thon or clean-a-thon. Team Missouri always seems to have a respectable showing but the point is always to have fun and learn so we can make things better.

Feel free to ask any questions! Lots of helpful folks in the group and a lot of us are distantly related.
By the way, we are distant cousins, 14th cousins twice removed.
It is really great to meet you, cousin
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I just wanted to say how pleased I am with our numbers. You guys are AWESOME! Congrats go to Randy for finishing first on our team with 849 and SIXTH overall. Heck of a job by Randy, Rick and LaMyra! I don't know about y'all but I'm proud to call each of you cousins and team mates. I can't wait till next time!

by Lori Zukerman G2G6 Pilot (151k points)
Strong team performance!
Thanks, it was fun!
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The 1st Connect-a-thon for 2022 is now completed and The Southern Super Sweepers want to thank your Team for participating. It is so important for making new connections in the future. Looking forward to seeing your Team for the 2nd Connect-a-thon soon.

by Loretta Corbin G2G6 Pilot (242k points)

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