Welcome to US Black Heritage Project's weekend sprint!
Friday June 23--Sunday June 25, midnight
Goal: To work together as a project to add as many birth locations as we can in 3 days to profiles with the African-American sticker. This will help us prevent duplicates and more easily find family.
Instructions:
- Post an answer below and tell us which of the 76 pages on the report you will be working on. Each page has 100 profiles. (to get to your page on the report, change the last number in the URL to your page. It starts on page 0) This will help us prevent tripping over each other.
- Use sources to find the birth location. If the profile has no sources, find and add some. (Hint: US Census records are an easy way to find birth locations)
- If you cannot find at least the state of birth, make a best estimate based on sources, mark the location as uncertain, and add a research note. See this help page about estimating birth locations.
- We will not be tracking individual scores, but you can keep track of your own contributions and comment on your post at the end of the weekend just for fun.
Thank you for helping us improve our profiles!
Pages claimed: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30, 35, 42, 44, 45, 50, 52, 61, 64, 65, 74
Before: 7677 profiles missing birth locations
After: 6409 profiles (1268 completed!)