US Black Heritage Project's
Connecting Challenge
We are Sooooo close to half a million profiles!
Because we keep exceeding all of our goals, the US Black Heritage Project has upped their game for this year. Not only have we created a goal of reaching 625,000 African-American profiles on WT, we have created a stretch goal of 650,000 profiles. With your help, we will easily reach both!
Need a fresh project? Check out our USBH 1880 Census Project. We have a spreadsheet for every state. Our goal is to create a profile for every Black American enumerated on the 1880 census. (reminder: single profiles created don't count for this Connecting Challenge--only people attached to family)
The Connecting Challenge is similar to the WikiTree Connect-a-Thon with a few exceptions. Please read our challenge space page for all the rules.
Who can participate? Any WikiTree member who has upgraded from guest and has signed the honor code.
Start/End: This Challenge is a month long. We begin on the first of each month and end at midnight EST on the last day of each month.
A participant sticker will be available to all members who join in for at least one of the months. Special stickers will be awarded to all participants who create at least 25 profiles in a month. A Winner's sticker will be given to the top contributor each month.
To Partipate:
- Read the rules please!
- Click on the "answer" button below my name on this post to declare you want to participate.
- Start with an existing profile and create a family member attached to that profile. Keep adding as many family members up, down, and sideways on the tree as you can. Each new profile is one point.
- Make sure the research is correct! Use primary documents to find and prove relationships.
- Add the {{African-American Sticker}} to any profiles of Black Americans who lived in the USA, so the project can keep track of the profiles and honor their heritage.
- Add at least one strong source to every profile.
- Use the Challenge Tracker to keep track of every new profile you create for this challenge. It will count the total for you automatically. If you discover you forgot to track some, you can list them here to count.
- Repeat.
- If you are working on enslaved ancestors, every new slave profile you link to a slave owner using the USBH Project's guidelines, counts as a connected profile. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information.
Have questions? Please ask.
Only have time for a few profiles? Please join us! Every contribution gets us closer to our goal.
Do you need some profiles to get you started?
If you are already on the WikiTree Discord server, you should have access to the US Black Heritage Connecting Challenge channel. If you can't access it, please send me a message.
Thanks for growing our tree!
- Our February Challenge total: 5180
- Total count of profiles as of February 23, 2025: 487,480
- February Winners: Nanette Pezzutti, Buffalofish Woodruff, AM Hayes, Nancy Thomas, Carolyn Martin.
