What are you working on today?

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I decided to take a little time today to work on an ancestor's profile from my anniversary list - Foy Whitney. He is long overdue for some TLC!

What about you? What are you working on today?

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I enjoyed this thread. It would be nice to do something like this more often.

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I completely agree.  :-)

Answer 1

Wanting to know 8f Gould French is indigious

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Hopefully you can find out!

Answer 2

For the past year I have been been working on profiles I created. I have gone to my watchlist, sorted by oldest date and updated as needed.

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Nice! I know several WikiTreers prefer to work on profiles that way.

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That's the way I do it Kevin, it works well for me.

Answer 3

Great Question Eowyn!

I have been hanging around on g2g and preparing to begin a clean up my biographies thon. It's long overdue.

Thanks for asking!

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I think that's where I'm at too. I have many, many bios that would greatly benefit from my attention. :)

Answer 4

I typically work on my anniversary list every day. I usually start with my relatives on the Hildreth side because I need to post those to my Facebook group, but I didn't have any on that side today. So the profile I worked on first this morning was for someone on my Gilchrist side--Curtis Atchison--who died at the age of 18 from pneumonia. His death took place in 1922 when antibiotics had not yet been discovered.

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So young 

That's neat that you have a Facebook group for some of your family. 

Answer 5

I had an epiphany recently and have been working on my husband's family from Colombia. I didn't understand these paternal and maternal surnames, and now I do! It really helps to sort out families.

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Oh, good for you for diving into unfamiliar territory! 

Answer 6

I'm putting out fires today, but I hope to work on another of the people from my local cemetery.  I enjoy taking the photos and then creating profiles for them. Some of them are difficult as California is one of the places where, during the 1800s, people ended up when "running away" from their pasts.

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Here's a cartoon for you.

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That's great, Joyce! Thanks!

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Funny cartoon, Joyce!  And that's great, Robin, that you are doing that work!

Answer 7

I'm working on three lists.  Hunting those relatives to add from the 1950 census, and listing the descendants and ancestors on my paternal lines and maternal lines that either are not yet on WikiTree or might be but I haven't found them, yet.  Using the descendants list helps me spot the ones to add, so I will be ready for the THON!!

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Awesome! It's coming up fast!

Answer 8

Getting ready for the Connect-a-thon, filling a folder with links to families, on my Watchlist, that I can add missing persons to.  Also, collecting links to profiles already on WikiTree that I can connect those new profiles with on the other end.

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Cool! I'm starting to get excited about the Connect-a-Thon. It'll be here before we know it.

Answer 9

Preparing for the 1950 census release and updating some older profiles.

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Can't wait for the release!

Answer 10

Hello Eowyn,

I am trying to do some researching in preparation for the Connect-a-Thon.  Go Team Nordic Noir! 

Missy 

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Team Nordic Noir rocks!

Answer 11

Working on the thousands of undated Dutch profiles. Adding sourced dates where possible and see if they can be merged with other profiles...

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Thank you for working on that Michel!

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Michel! 

Bring your undated Dutch profiles to Date Night! We'd love to have you hang out with us. 

Answer 12

Today and probably several more days or weeks, I'm working on a gift given to me by a 6th cousin who popped up out of a rabbit hole in New Zealand on Sunday, we share 5 x GGPs, Thomas and Ann. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wootton-501

I created their profiles 2 years ago as a newbie and the sourcing needs work.

This is the story.

I received an email on Sunday. A sixth cousin from New Zealand contacted me thru WT, she is not a member, we share 5 x GGPs. I knew that a 3rd Great Uncle Charles Wootton and family had emigrated from England to New Zealand in 1878 but hadn't researched the family after they arrived. She is descended from this Great Uncle.

I have already researched the direct line to me from Thomas and Ann, and another line that connects with my family more recently.

After an initial chat she sent me 2 researched family trees, one includes all 10 children of Thomas and Ann, and several generations of descendants and a more detailed tree for one branch that starts with a son of the 5 x GGPs, a 4 times great uncle and ends with my living second cousin in England. Another branch moved to New Mexico in the late 1800s. In total about 200 people to add to WT.

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Oh my goodness! What a wonderfully amazing gift!

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And  for WikiTree!

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Very true!!

Answer 13

Today I'm working on fixing the inconsistencies/errors in my tree on Ancestry. My tree on there is a mess, partly other people's mistakes and some of my own. I'll likely work on my personal tree as well so I can eventually upload a revised gedcom.

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I hear ya, I have a tree like that on Ancestry that my mom and I are working on.

Answer 14

Working on some Alabama connections: Automated:DD Suggestion List AL. 

Sheila

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I got an email from you! :)

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Really?  That's cool.  Do you need any help with any thing?  Just ask, I am usually around the computer most days!

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Thanks! Same for you if you ever need help.

You emailed me about one of my ancestor profiles that could be changed from Public to Open privacy setting.  So I changed it. I appreciated the email!

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Wow....that was quick!  I just sent it to you!  Thank you.  I am adding a few sources now.

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Oh lovely, thank you!

Answer 15

Today, I am working on setting up the next Friday Date Night. :-D 

In case someone isn't familiar, we've been using Zoom to get together and talk about what we're working on and, really, just hang out for a bit. It's fun, and we always learn something new. 

Check out the details for this week here.

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It's a jolly good time.

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One of the best ways to spend Friday night... with friends.

Answer 16

I'm currently working on some 17th century ancestors, centered on Ole Olsen Bjerva, whom I've been procrastinating about for a long time. They are sparsely documented, and there's a lot of explanation to do. Which means that I have to spend a lot of time on those profiles. Also, as I'm growing ever more pedantic as the years go by, there are some "sources" that I don't accept at face value anymore. So, there's also some pruning involved. I'm very reluctant to publish even carefully guarded speculations, as they're soon all over the interwebs, presented as plain truth.

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I understand about the sources. Ole's profile looks like it is coming along nicely!  Is it his children you are also focusing on?

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Yes, and his descendants in general - I've registered 73 descendants down to the great-grandchildren. And of course it goes on from there; at least 16 of the 48 great-grandchildren have their own families and descendants.

Quite a few of those descendants are on WikiTree already, and more will come. I'm approaching 40 % of my Solumslekt database here on WikiTree now, all of them related to me in some way.

Answer 17

Improving the profiles of a Seminole family identified by the Unknowns team.  They find people who have something other than the approved "Unknown" as a surname and if they seem to be Native American I am trying to identify the correct tribe and add some sources to the profiles.

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Thank you so much for working on those, Kathie! Our Native American presence is so much more accurate with your work than we could ever be without you.

Answer 18

I used the post about this week's Data Doctors Challenge for orphaned profiles  and ended up working on a family for the USBH Connecting Challenge.  Lots more family to add.

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Oh, hey, two birds, one stone! That's awesome! Thanks for working on that.

Answer 19

Untangling the intertwined Kirk, Kissinger, Harless Vaught and Epling families of Giles County, Virginia from 1800 to 1900.

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Sounds intense!