2023 Cemetery Challenges

Question

The Cemeterist Project is gearing up for a successful new year, and has just organized the first round of Cemetery Challenges for 2023!

January 1^st-14^th will bring us two weeks of Cemetery Sourcing, followed by a week of Cemetery Connecting from January 15^th-21^st. Then we round out the month with a three-day sprint for the Collector's Mini Challenge from January 27^th-29^th.

Will you join us on a journey to honor our dearly departed in one of our many challenges? Or would you like to see a new Challenge? Let us know in the comments below!

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For those of you looking for a little more bling to add to your profile, you could even be the recipient of the coveted Cemetery Challenge Badge!

You can keep up tp date with new challenges as they are added to the Cemetery Challenge Calendar.

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Answer 1

I'm in too. First timer and not sure what it's about but I'll read the linked sources and hopefully figure it out. See you out there!

Answer 2

Would to this challenge.  Hope there will be reminders closer to the darte

Answer 3

I would lie to participate I this challenge. Thanks Kelly

Answer 4

Count me in!! I would love to do this challenge.

Answer 5

I'm definitely interested but not sure yet how January is going to pan out.  I'll join in if I can.

Answer 6

The collector's mini-challenge dovetails with another project I've been wanting to undertake, so I'll look forward to participating in that to work on categorizing profiles at one cemetery.

Answer 7

Greetings!   One challenge that I have personally been facing is to add a Wikitree Category for every cemetery located in my home county of Polk County, Texas.   The Texas Historical Commission lists over 120 cemeteries in Polk County.   Wikitree presently has categorized about 70 of them.   Pick your home county for wherever you live and see if all the known cemeteries have been categorized.   Of course this means posting at least one profile for each cemetery.   I have found many surprise connections scattered among the Polk County Cemeteries.   I will keep in touch!

Answer 8

You can count me in.  However, before I can participate I need to know who to contact for resolve the error I am receiving "WikiTree ID does not exist."   Thanks.

Answer 9

I added a category for a cemetery in Clinton, East Feliciano Parish, Louisiana.

Now, what top-level cemetery category page should I point this page to?

Overcome-by-events. Someone went in and edited the Category page for the cemetery. Do I need to put cemeteries in this format in the future?

Answer 10

I want to participate please.

Answer 11

Sign me up!

Sheila

Answer 12

I'm in for a fun challenge

Answer 13

Is there a set process to request a cemetery to be added?

If I am working on profiles and can't find the one, who do I contact? I am not adept enough to set them up so would like a place/person/G2G post I can say 'Wikitree-ID #' has burial info but I can't find the category.....does such a place/person exist?

Answer 14

I'm happy to join in.

Answer 15

When I add or connect a person I always check the cemetery info. Check from source info and request infomation as needed.

Answer 16

Yes please. I'm in

Answer 17

Sounds interesting. I'd like to help where I can.

Answer 18

I have a question about the Cemetery Challenges. A lot of them are about adding things (photos, categories) to existing profiles; do you still get a point if you create a new profile for those?

I ask because I have hundreds of tombstone photos from back when I photographed cemeteries way faster than I could add them lol! So usually I create a profile, upload the photo, and add the cemetery category all at the same time. And then also research them more, which sometimes leads to connecting them. Every now and then I come across one that already has a profile, but those are few and far between.

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Hi Lianne, the Transcriber's Challenge is for new profiles being created. The other challenges are to clean up profiles that already exist.

We didn't have a Transcriber's Challenge setup yet for this year, so I just added one for Feb 1st-14th.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Calendar_Cemetery_Challenge_2023

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Cool! Thanks, Steven. I'll definitely join in for that one!

Answer 19

I'm adding cemetery categories this weekend. its a new searching process for me to find profiles that I can improve.

Answer 20

I will participate in the Mini Challenge this weekend.  Donna