Suggestions News and Updates (May 14th 2023) [closed]

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News

Previous News

  • Updated the category member's history report to remove the profiles thet were removed from the category.
  • Added a link on WT+ on Category items (search and navigate pages) to category history report. It is a link on letter T next to the location pin after the category name.
  • Fixed a link to search for profiles on a FG cemetery in cemetery reports.
  • Added gender to WT+ search index. You can now search for MaleFemale and NoGender
  • Added Northrn Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, Southern Rhodesia to Zambia and Nyasaland to Malawi in the location table https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=Africa
  • Added Province of New Hampshire and Utah Territory as historical entities in the location table https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=United%20States
  • Started rescan of the external links, that were ok in initiall scan. I scanned 500K profiles (out of 8M) and 25K of them were no longer available. and since some are used more than once we have 50K new suggestions. That means that in 2 years 5 % of the URLs are no longer working. I am a bit surpriced by the number.
  • In the last two weeks I did yearly rescan of all broken links. And 11K out of 200K were reported ok. That reduced the suggestions count for 13500 last week and another 2000 this week.
  • Added magic word ApprovedMerge that returns profiles where the merge was approved and can be completed. PendingMerge now returns only profiles, that are waiting for the approval.
  • Added a posibility to see when a profile was added to the category. Use this link and replace the category name. https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTCategoryTime/CategoryTime.htm?Category=Puritan_Great_Migration_Project_Needs_Relationship_Check

Challenge

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1580888/challenge-missing-connections-between-existing-profiles

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in The Tree House by Aleš Trtnik G2G6 Pilot (878k points)
closed by Aleš Trtnik
Thanks for all your work Ales,

I'd love to see some graphs over time to track progress, if one of the prgrammers is looking for something interesting to do :)

603's used to be down to near 4K but are now back up to 18K. I know we have more profiles, so that explains some of it. I'd expect the number to shrink with the new tools in place, so it would be interesting to see the effect.
Graphs and stats for suggestions are done on WT+.

https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=stat2&dataID=1603&Year=0
Excellent!

1 Answer

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Thanks for all your work.

Some comments about the 966 error.

The glorecords site is apparently only reachable inside the US. It was a 12030 Connection error. Here's the full citation U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776-2015," database on-line, Ancestry.com (: accessed 27 April 2018), Albion Sanford; Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007.; Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records; Washington D.C., USA; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes.

I am also seeing the suggestion on the legacy.com obituary site as a 403 Forbidden "U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current", PE; Publication Place: Pe, CA, USA; URL: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pe/obituary.aspx?n=patricia-ann-larsen&pid=189147617, Ancestry Record 7545 #1731407330 (accessed 11 May 2023), Name: Patricia Ann Larsen; Gender: Female; Death Age: 85; Birth Date: 3 May 1933; Birth Place: Cedar Rapids, IA; Residence Place: Riverside, CA, Iowa; Death Date: 22 May 2018; Spouse: Raymond Fuller Larsen; Child: Susan Sappington Lori Erwin Beal Pamela Clark.

by Kay Knight G2G6 Pilot (654k points)

For what it's worth I can access the front page

https://glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx

from Australia.

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