G2G: Louisiana Roots Team Chat - Connect-a-Thon XVI (Jan 2026)

Question

This is the Louisiana Roots chat page for the Connect-a-Thon XVI (January 2026). This is the team's fifth Thon event that it will participate in.

DATE/TIME:  Friday, Jan 16 at 7 a.m. CST  to  Monday, Jan 19 at 7 a.m. CST (72 hours)

GOAL:  The goal of this team is to focus on adding new profiles with a birth or death in Louisiana  or  connecting the unconnected profiles with a birth or death in Louisiana.  Unconnected Louisiana profiles can be found at this link:  Lists of Louisiana Unconnected Profiles

Participation / Instructions:  Connect-a-Thon Instructions

Registration:  If you haven't signed up yet, go to the registration post and comment under the Louisiana Roots answer.

Team Page:  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Louisiana_Roots

• Team Roster:  3 members (current as of 15 Jan 2026)

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Category - Louisiana, Needs Profiles Created:  see list of 2,089 profiles needing profiles created.  (There are 144 additional profiles needing profiles created since the last connect-a-thon.)

Unconnected Louisiana Profiles:  Lists of Louisiana Unconnected Profiles

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Points Tracker:  by User   by Team   by Division  (pages will show results once the Thon starts)

YouTube Chats (Schedule/Links to Live Video Chats on YouTube):  Friday • Saturday • Sunday • Monday

Team Chat on Discord:  Team Chat on Discord (Note: NEW team members will be added to our channel after registration closes on Wed, 14 Jan 2026.)

If you have any questions or comments, post them below.

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G2G Miscellaneous Questions / Items to be Updated:

• Can you help spread the word about WikiTree during Connect-a-Thon XVI?
• Do you have any Connect-a-Thon XVI questions?
• Will you share a XVI Connecting Selfie?
• Guess the Connect-a-Thon XVI Total!

Comments

Team Stats

Team Ranking:  40 out of 43

Profiles Added:  88 out of 80,336

• Victoria - 44
• Tommy - 24
• Stephanie - 20

Answer 1

Allons-y! The more Louisiana cousins who join in on the fun, the higher all our CC7s are likely to go!

Comments

Yes indeed!

Answer 2

Good morning team:  Stephanie and Victoria

Answer 3

Good morning Stephanie and Victoria.

Day 1 in review:

• There are 43 teams.
• There are 604 participants with one or more profiles created.
• There were 26,873 profiles created so far.

Currently, our team is ranked 40th with 3 participants which created 55 profiles.

Answer 4

Good morning Stephanie and Victoria.

Day 2 in review:

• There are 43 teams.
• There are 654 participants with one or more profiles created.
• There were 51,969 profiles created so far.

Currently, our team is ranked 40th with 3 participants which created 66 profiles.

Comments

Not bad, thanks to Victoria's good work!

Answer 5

Good morning Stephanie and Victoria.

Day 3 in review:

• There were 43 teams.
• There were 674 participants with one or more profiles created.
• There were 80,336 profiles created.

Our team finished 40th out of 43 teams with 3 participants which created 88 profiles.