This month’s Bio Builders Challenge theme is People who died before their 18th birthday.
Be sure to add {{Died Young}} after ==Biography == in the narrative.
You are not limited to profiles on your Watchlist.
Thank you for your support.
Here's our checklist:
Data Section:
Biography Section:
You can see some ideas on where to find some of this information on the Biography Builders space page.
Use "comments" below to ask questions.
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[edited to add link to challenge page]
Alicia, have you tried the CC7 app yet? https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/beacall6/cc7_table.php
Add your own WT ID to top left box and give it time to work through your connections
You will then get a table where you can easily see birth and death dates in columns
I can't use WT+ yet either
You're welcome!
I have it open continuously now - it is a great app and you can sort by any column and see where your gaps are too for parents, siblings and dates.
Don't think I'll be getting anything else done now that I know about this app
One more category people can use (or look at): Stillbirth.
Also another place to find profiles would be Children on the Titanic - There were 68 children who perished in the Titanic disaster... Many of them could use connecting, sourcing and biography love!
Hope to find some
1.Harold Roy Goodrich (1899 - 1899)
Can do this one. I have many Died Young profiles bookmarked and no idea what the plan was but now can do something with them.
I'm in, but I think I've already done most of mine. I'll probably do some Infant Mortality and Child Mortality orphans.
I'm sure I'll come across a few I can do.
Oh this month's challenge is great! I have LOTS of children on my watchlist that I put there to finish "on a rainy day". Now this gives me an incentive to sort out as many as I can!! Here's my final edit of profiles for this month. The first five are brothers who died on Titanic.
1. Albert Rice (1902-1912) age 10 years 2. George Hugh Rice (1903-1912) age 8 years 3. Eric Rice (1905-1912) age 7 years 4. Arthur Rice (1908-1912) age 4 years 5. Francis Rice (1909-1912) age 2 years 6. William James Rice (1899-1899) - age 7 weeks 7. Patrick Hand (1936-1936) - age 11 days 8. Thomas Michael Kenealy (1908-1908) - age 3 weeks 9. Anne Connors (1882-1882) - age 2 days 10. John Mathew Abbott (1897-1903) - age 5 years 11. Alfred Thomas Ellis (1874-1876) - age 2 years 12. George Henry Ellis (1881-1882) - age 1 year 13. Ellen Ellis (1884-1887) - age 3 years 14. Ellen Josephine Ellis (1872 - 1884) - age 11 years 15. Florence McDonnell (1899-1908) - age 8 years 16. Norah Bridget McDonnell (1904-1918) - age 14 years 17. Catherine Martha McDonnell (1896-1908) - age 11 years The next five are siblings: 18. John O'Connor (1908 - 1908) - age 3 weeks 19. Anne O'Connor (1904-1904) - age 3 months 20. Anne O'Connor (1906-1908) - age 22 months 21. Michael O'Connor (1915-1916) - age 4 months 22. William Oliver O'Connor (1921-1922) - age 9 months The next six are siblings: 23. Lucy Teresa Holahan (1894 - 1894) - age 7 months 24. Agnes Holahan (1903 - 1903) - age 21 days 25. Margaret Holahan (1903 - 1903) - age 5 days 26. Bridget Holahan (1902 - 1902) - age 7 days 27. Christopher Holahan (1897 - 1897) - age 6 weeks 28. Marcella Holahan (1896 - 1896) - age 5 days 29. Christopher Wayne (1911-1912) - age 3 months 30. Mary Christina (Wann) Wayne (1898-1910) - age 12 years 31. Mary Wan (1872-1874) - age 2 years 32. Margaret Newman (1897-1897) - age 2 days 33. Fanny Newman (1895-1896) - age 20 months 34. Joseph Christopher Newman (1898-1901) - age 2 years The next seven are brothers who all died before age of 5 years: 35. Gerard Keenan (1913-1915) - age 2 years 36. Michael Joseph Keenan (1897-1901) - age 4 years 37. John Joseph Keenan (1907-1910) - age 3 years 38. William Patrick Keenan (1898-1901) - age 3 years 39. Patrick Keenan (1911-1911) - age 12 days 40. Christopher Keenan (1902-1902) - age 7 hours 41. Francis Keenan (1909-1910) - age 8 months 42. Patrick Wanne (1874 - 1889) - age 14 years 43. Christopher Wanne (1860 - 1866) - age 6 years 44. Peter James Fitzgerald (1906 - 1906) - age 1 month 45. Catherine Mary Fitzgerald (1899 - 1908) - age 9 years 46. John Fitzgerald (1905 - 1905) - age 2 weeks 47. James Fitzgerald (abt. 1903 - 1909) - age 6 years 48. Thomas Ellis (1882 - 1887) - age 4 years 49. William Henry Ellis (1882 - 1891) - age 9 years 50. Mary Elizabeth Ellis (1884 - 1890) - age 6 years 51. James Wane (1906 - abt. 1907) - age 8 months 52. William Wann (1864 - abt. 1864) - age 5 months 53. Peter Paul Carabine (1917 - 1917) - age 3 weeks 54. Bernard Carabini (abt. 1888 - 1889) - age 9 months 55. Francis Dominick Carabini (1912 - 1912) - age 2 months
I have quite a few profiles of children that could use improvement, so I'm in again this month.
I will participate this month.
1. Carlton Earl Newman - died at age 2 years
2. Charles Flowers - died at about age 22 months
3. Claudie Gilchrest - died at age about 20 months
4. David Harvey Gilchrist - died at age 2 years, 2 months
5 Faye Marie Smith - died at almost 3 years
6. Frederick "Fred" Ballard Jr. - died at about 2 years 8 months
7. Hazel Aymett Hopkins - died at almost 3 years
8. John Alex Holden - died at 2 years 10 months
9. William Allen Drury - died at 2 years 4 months
10. Joseph Charles Dunnavant - died at 2 months
11. Dorthy "Dot" Stewart - died at 3 years
12. Cleophas Willoughby - died at 13 years
13. Michael Lee Adcox - died the day he was born
14. Annie Tindol - died at 21 months
15. Sybil Tindol - died at 3 years
Drat, I added sources to two of mine yesterday and earlier, so today I have added a new sticker
[[Cox-41654|Joseph Nathanael Cox (1885-bef.1886)]]
[[Cox-41644|George Dunbar Cox (1889-bef.1897)]]
Here's one done today
[[Prout-1051|Anna Prout (1905-1905)]]
Working on:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kinzett-171
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Johnston-27124
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leeson-820
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leeson-821
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brathwaite-30
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ingram-7141
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Corbin-2643
might find some more when I've found death dates for some unnamed infants on my list
Hi Bob, Glad to see this challenge appear, appreciate the work you do. I am in, think I have done those on my watch list, but will review them and then look at the English mortality categories. Starting with Hampshire, Surrey, and Northumberland.
Didn't get as many done as I would have liked, as life got in the way.
I'll see who I can find, here is one to start,
1. Eliza Reeves
2. Annie Mc Minnies
3. Daniel Alexander
4. Elizabeth Alexander
5. Mary Ann Hills
6. William Akers
7. Daisy Skipp
Some of us non-WT+ users are using the CC7 app? https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/beacall6/cc7_table.php
You will then get a table where you can easily see birth and death dates in columns - and it even highlights the {{Died Young}} for you too
Thank you! I was able to pull some existing family members.
I would still like to utilize the WT+ so if anyone feels they could provide some direction on how to pull data I would be very appreciative.
I added this to my great grandaunt's profile: Mary Elizabeth Hutto, 1901-1916 Died at age 14 or 15. Looking for others
I'm participating this month. I'll post a list here, and add to it as I complete more:
Have you tried the CC7 app? https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/beacall6/cc7_table.php
Thank you! It is mixing profiles without dates with those with dates for me (maybe a glitch on the Mac?), but it is showing the image that comes with {{Died Young}} so it's really easy to identify the profiles I need.
Who knew?
I'll work on improving these profiles:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Centolani-4
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Garroni-7
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Howard-31047
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Howard-31049
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marks-5371
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Murphy-28562
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Murphy-28595
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Murphy-28596
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sharp-14622
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sharp-14623
I will try to do a few this month. Notes for me:
Category:Infant_Mortality for those who died between birth and exactly one year of age
Category:Child_Mortality for those who died between age 1 and 18
Category:Accidental_Deaths
Category:Diseases
Category:Birth_Defects
Category:Stillbirths
Category: Premature Births
Here is a WikiTree+ search for orphaned profiles with the Died Young template that are also in a "Needs Biography" category - there are currently 126. You'll need to hit the blue "Get Profiles" button on the left to bring up the results.
You can also search on WT+ using the keyword age which limits results by the age of death. So this search, for example, is orphaned profiles in a Needs Biography category who died at age 3 (again, hit that button to bring up the results). Replacing age3 with age10 would give profiles of people who died when they were 10 years old.
Hope that helps and gives you some ideas!
Based on my post, I'm not trying to find them within my own family, I'm trying to find others to fix. Using the info from Christy I have been able to find some to work on. Thank you