Slades on WikiTree - Annual Report

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It's not finished yet (okay, it's barely started), but I'm putting together a Free-Space page for a One Name Study on Slade families. My hope is that, by finding the oldest Slades in each line and working backwards, we may be able to link some (probably not all) Slade lines together.

Greg

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http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Slade

Last name: Slade

This interesting surname is apparently of topographical origin, and as such derives from the Old English pre 7th Century 'slaed' - a valley. However a second explanation is that a 'slade' in the South of England may also refer to a strip of agricultural land in a woodland, whilst a person working or living at such a place would have been a 'slader'. The following rhyme appears in the early stories of Robin Hood - 'It had been better of William a' Trent, to have been abed with sorrowe, than to be that day in the greenwood slade, and to meet with Little John's arrowe'. (Poor Mr a'Trent!). It has also been suggested that the name may in some instances, be of locational origin from 'Slade or Slad' villages in Devonshire, Somerset, or Gloucestershire. The surname is first recorded in the mid 13th Century, (see below), and other examples include Reginald atte Slade, registered in the charter rolls of Middlesex for the year 1306, whilst Walter in the Slade appears in the Suffolk rolls of 1327. Later church recordings taken at random include Joan Slader, who married Thomas Mitchell at St Clements church, Hastings, on December 3rd 1570, whilst on October 3rd 1574, Roger Slade married Joyse Lapyngton, at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Other recordings include Alice Slade, who married Thomas Kynnaston on November 23rd 1579 at St. Peter's, Cornhill, and Philadelphia Slader, who married Edward Salmon at St Gregory's by St Pauls, London, on May 23rd 1606. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Sabern de la Slade, which was dated 1255, who was a witness at the assize court of Essex, during the reign of King Henry 111, known as 'The Frenchman', 1216 - 1272. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

© Copyright: Name Origin Research www.surnamedb.com 1980 - 2015

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Thanks, Frank. I put up a link to surnamedb.com on the page.

Greg

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I went through Wikipedia looking for people named "Slade" (not counting fictional characters, stage names, etc.), and so far I've turned up 56 people who could qualify as "notable" Slades. Of those, 9 (or 16%) have profiles on WikiTree. A bunch of the rest look really interesting. Abraham Lincoln's valet was named William Slade. There are judges, actors, university presidents, athletes, politicians, frauds, and gunfighters. 

Alas, I'll be incredibly busy for the next week or two, but if anybody wants to take one of the people without a WikiTree profile, research them, and add them, by all means go for it. Just please edit the Slade Name Study page to move them from the unprofiled section to the profiled section.

Greg

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Two notes:

First, to save space on the server, I delete old charts when I put up new ones. Rather than go back and re-link to the updated chart in old messages every time I make a change, I'm just deleting the old charts, so to see the current charts, either scroll to my last report at the bottom of this thread, or see the Slade Name Study page.

Also, it belatedly occurred to me that people interested in working on people with the surname Slade might possibly be interested in working on the Slade brick wall in my family. The farthest back that we have been able to take that line is William Slade, who was born in Aldgate, Middlesex about 1817. (Actually, we know that his father's name was also William, but we have no dates for him.)

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Unconnected Notable Slades:

• Charlie Slade (England)
• Jeff Slade (USA)
• Samuel Slade (England)
• William Slade (England)

Unconnected Slades from ThePeerage.com:

• Cecil William Slade (England)
• Dorothy Helen Slade (England)
• Richard Gordon Slade

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If anybody who has better access to the necessary sources than I do wants to take a crack at them, here are some of the Slades from ThePeerage.com who I have not been able to create profiles for yet. (In some cases, I do have birth or death dates, but haven't been able to find any source for that person other then ThePeerage.com. In other cases, I haven't even been able to find a birth or death date, without which I can't create a profile even if I wanted to.)

• Anna Slade
• Anne Slade
• Edgar Slade
• Edmund Slade
• Edward Slade
• Elizabeth Slade
• Florence Slade
• George Slade
• George Slade

If you should happen to turn up more information on any of these people, I think Darryl Lundy, who runs ThePeerage.com, would appreciate an update. There is a link to reach him at the bottom of every page on the site.

Answer 1

Normally, I wouldn't be doing another report on Slades until next year, but Dean Slade has taken on two huge tasks: checking through the whole Slade Genealogy site to check and see whether all the Slades listed there are also listed on WikiTree, and create profiles for them on WikiTree if they don't already have them, and to do the same for Slades listed on the Veterans Legacy Memorial. That has meant a big uptick in the number of Slade profiles on WikiTree. So much so that Slades have already passed Carmichaels in terms of the surnames I'm studying with the most profiles on WikiTree, and will probably pass Singletons soon. I don't want anybody to think that I'm responsible for all Dean's hard work, so I'm putting out a special edition of this report. As of November 2, there were 3,816 WikiTree profiles for people with Slade as their Last Name At Birth. That's an increase of 99 profiles since the beginning of October. The Slade Genealogy site lists 12,918 Slades. Of those, Dean and I have tallied profiles for 693 people on WikiTree (5.4%). (With such a huge database, it's going to take lots of work to match up the existing Slade profiles and fill in the missing Slades on each site.) ThePeerage.com list 284 people with a surname of Slade. Of those, there are eight duplicate entries, 24 living people, and 63 people with a different Last Name At Birth, leaving a possible net of 189 Slades. Of the 163 Slades I have tallied so far, 152 have profiles on Wikitree (93.3%). (If that sounds impressive, bear in mind that I started tracking Slades back in 2017, so I really should have them all tallied by now.) Wikipedia lists 81 people with a surname of Slade. Of those, there are 34 living people, seven people with a different Last Name At Birth, and three fictional characters, leaving a net of 37 deceased notable Slades. Of those, there are profiles for 31 people (83.8%).

The overall percentage of Slade profiles that are connected to the main tree decreased slightly from 91.3% to 89.5% since the beginning of October. The percentage of Slade profiles from Slade Genealogy, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree that are connected currently stand at 89.2%, 98%, 87.1%, and 100%.

The number of connected Slade profiles has increased by 25 since the beginning of October, while linked but unconnected profiles increased by 31, and the number of unlinked profiles increased by 43.

The percentage of profiles from Slade Genealogy, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our watchlists that have the {{One Name Study|name=Slade}} template applied to the first Slade profile in that line currently stand at 43.6%, 77.6%, 96.8%, and 100%, respectively.

Currently, the percentage of profiles from Slade Genealogy, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our watchlists stand at 0%, 2%, 35.5%, and 10.8%, respectively. The reason for the drop in images from Slade Genealogy is that I decided to separate out all the Slades listed on the Slade Genealogy site who are also listed on other sites (ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and now the Veterans Legacy Memorial). This lets me calculate things like the percent of sourced, connected, etc. profiles that are unique to the Slade Genealogy site, and also avoids double-counting things like images on profiles.

 

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Of the 3,816 Slade profiles on WikiTree, 93 profiles are currently marked as unsourced, leaving 3,723 profiles (97.6%) at least supposedly sourced. The percentage of Slade profiles from Slade Genealogy, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our watchlists with at least one primary source currently stand at 74.3%, 90.8%, 93.5%, and 97.8%, respectively.

The average sourcing level for Slade profiles from Slade Genealogy, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our watchlists currently stand at 1.5, 2.3, 2.1, and 2.2, respectively.

The number of "tallied" profiles (profiles from Slade Genealogy, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia and our watchlists) at each sourcing level dropped due to no longer double-counting profiles which appear in multiple sites. This means that the percentages are very slightly worse than I had previously reported. (However, as Dean keeps adding profiles, the percentages should improve again, because he is a very thorough sourcerer.)

The percentage of Slade profiles on WikiTree as a whole which are partially sourced shows as a thin light orange line. (As the the appropriate "Needs More Records" category gets applies to more Slade profiles where it's needed, this line should get more visible, and as {{Unsourced}} template gets applied to more Slade profiles where it's needed, the orange line should get thicker as well. That might seem like going backwards, but it would actually be progress, because the numbers would more accurately reflect the state of Slade profiles.)

The percentage of Slade profiles from Slade Genealogy, ThePeerage.com, and Wikipedia with links back to that person's entry currently stand at 90.5%, 99.3%, and 100%, respectively.

Answer 2

I've created a spreadsheet to track the progress of various aspects of the Slade Name Study, and started building charts to show progress:

Most of the measures I'm tracking (Sources, added from Wikipedia, ThePeerage.com, and SladeGenealogy.net) have moved up since the last time I updated the chart. However, the percentage of Slades who are connected has dropped. (I suppose that's sort of good news, since it means that more new Slades have been added to WikiTree, but it does seem weird for the percentage of connected Slades to be dropping when the overall connected keeps rising.)

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I have split out the chart into four separate charts: 

• the first one tracks the total number of Slades on WikiTree, which is rising steadily
• the second one tracks the percentage of Slades listed on Wikipedia, ThePeerage.com, and SladeGenealogy.net who have WikiTree profiles
• the third one tracks the percentage of Slades on all four sites whose WikiTree profiles have a source other than that site on their profile
• the last one tracks the percentage of Slades on all four sites whose WikiTree profiles are connected to the main tree.

Answer 3

I've updated the charts on the Slade Name Study page. Progress in adding and connecting Slades has slowed over the past couple of months, but I have been working on improving the sourcing.

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Greg, you do a fantastic job on your study. Do you have other participants, or is it pretty much just you?

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Other people have been pitching in, especially when it comes to connecting. (Since I refuse to give FamilySearch my birth date, and She Who Must Be Obeyed has forbidden me to spend money on genealogy, I'm fairly limited on what I can do as far as sourcing, so connecting is a lot harder for me than it used to be.)

But more help would be extremely welcome. I just don't have the time to do everything I'd like to do. Probably the most glaring hole right now is that there are thousands of people listed on SladeGenealogy.net who need to be added to WikiTree, sourced, and connected. (There are more to add from ThePeerage.com, too, but nowhere near as many are missing there. I'm pretty sure that I've already added all the deceased Slades from Wikipedia.)

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Inspired by you, a while back, I launched a Fuller Notables sub-project of the Fuller Name Study. The goal was to get all Fullers on Wikipedia a profile here at WikiTree. Our list started with 54 people. So far I've added two of them. One of them less than an hour ago. The former one I did get sourced and connected. Also, another member of the Fuller Name Study did one too. So progress is slow, but at least we're moving.

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Good stuff! If you want a copy of the spreadsheet I use to track Slades and generate charts, send me a private message. (I just duplicate it and change all the "Slade" references to whatever name applies for any one name study I'm working on.)

Answer 4

I've updated the charts on the Slade Name Study page again. (I have been toying with the notion of renaming this thread to "Slade Name Study Monthly", although "Slade Name Study Quarterly" would be more accurate.)

The number of profiles on WikiTree with a Last Name At Birth of Slade has continued to rise at a pretty steady rate for over two years now, and the number of sourced and connected Slade profiles have also been rising in parallel.

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I had been spreading out my activities in adding profiles for Slades listed on other web sites (Wikipedia, ThePeerage.com, and Slade.one-name.net) across all of them, but this spring, enough people encouraged me to keep adding Notable Slades from Wikipedia that I finished them up, so Wikipedia now stands at 100% added, and has for several months now. Because there are so many more Slades listed on ThePeerage.com, finishing them up will take a lot longer, and adding all 10,634 Slades listed on Slade.one-name.net is probably going to take years.

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For the purposes of tracking sourcing, I am not including links to those people's entries on Wikipedia, ThePeerage.com, or Slade.one-name.net, and am only measuring the proportion of those profiles which have other sources (BMD, census, etc.). By that measure, profiles from Wikipedia are doing nearly as well as the overall Slades on WikiTree (probably because Wikipedia is pretty good at including sources). Profiles from the other sites are lagging behind.  

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Progress in connecting the Slade profiles I'm adding from other sites has been steadier. Some of the notable Slades from WikiTree continue to be difficult, although the efforts of other WikiTreers in connecting Notable Slades has led to some great breakthroughs, and it may well be that the last holdouts will be connected eventually. Connecting Slades from ThePeerage.com is usually pretty straightforward, because ThePeerage usually lists spouses, children, parents and so on. As often as not, we've had to add profiles for people who weren't Slades to build a connection to the main tree, so we still have a lot of Slades who are isolated from other Slades, but at least they're connected to the main tree. The numbers look bad for Slade.one-name.net, but that's mostly because there are so many more Slades listed there than on WikiTree that the percentages are pretty low on all measures. But, like ThePeerage.com, Slade.one-name.net lists parents and children, so it's often possible to find a connection to the main tree on WikiTree.

Answer 5

I've updated the charts on the Slade Name Study page again. And this time, I went ahead and changed the name of this thread to "Slade Name Study Quarterly".

Happily, the number of profiles on WikiTree with a Last Name At Birth of Slade has continued to rise, and the number of sourced and connected Slade profiles have also been rising in parallel.

I have managed to add a few more Slades from ThePeerage, but most of the Slades that I haven't added yet are people for whom I have been unable to find any sources (and, in some cases, dates), so the pickings are getting pretty slim there. Still, I'll keep working on them as I can. I have been adding more from the Slade Genealogy site, although there are so many Slades listed there that it takes adding about 100 profiles to move the numbers 1%, so that's going to be a long job.

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The percentage of Slades on WikiTree which are considered as "Sourced" has remained in a narrow range between 96.0% and 96.8% since March. Actually, the number of unsourced Slade profiles has been steady at 76 for several weeks now. On the one hand, quite a number of the profiles with the {{Unsourced}} template on them are unlisted, which, in my mind, is a bit unfair, since privacy regulations make it very hard to source most people while they're still alive. (Unless they hit the news or something.) On the other hand, there are probably lots of unsourced Slade profiles on WikiTree which don't have any sources, but don't have the template, either, so even though I track those numbers, they're probably not to be trusted.

The percentage of Slades on Wikipedia (in other words, notable Slades) which are considered as "sourced" dropped this month, because I realised that two of the profiles which I had considered as "Sourced" only had links to Wikipedia on them, and no primary sources (birth, baptism, marriage, census, death, etc.), so I shouldn't have tabulated them as being sourced in the first place. I would love to see the "sourced" rate for Notable Slades at 100%, but I'm going to need help with that, because I've gone as far as I can with the sources available to me.

I have been able to make some more progress with Slades from ThePeerage and Slade Genealogy sites, mostly because I'm only adding new Slades from those sites if I can find other sources for them.

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Unfortunately, the percentage of Slade profiles connected to the main tree hasn't been able to match the high of 94.9% (set in September, 2017) since. It's great that so many Slades are being added to WikiTree, but we are starting to slip in getting them connected. For a couple of months, the percentage of Notables Slades that are connected to the main tree surpassed the percentage of Slades from ThePeerage, but most of the Slades that I've been adding from ThePeerage recently are family members of Slades who were already on WikiTree, so they started out connected. But both percentages lag well behind Slades as a whole. (Which probably comes as no surprise, since most Slades on the site are probably added by people working on their own family trees.)

Answer 6

I've updated the charts on the Slade Name Study page again.

Happily, the number of profiles on WikiTree with a Last Name At Birth of Slade has continued to rise, and the number of sourced and connected Slade profiles have also been rising in parallel.

The Slade on Wikipedia have been at 100% for some months now (at least, until I find more deceased Slades on Wikipedia: not all of the Slade on Wikipedia are listed on the "Slade (surname)" page.) It's getting much harder to find sources (or dates) for the remaining Slades from ThePeerage, but I'll keep working on them as I can. I have found more from the Slade Genealogy site, although there are so many Slades listed there that it takes adding about 100 profiles to move the numbers 1%, so that's going to be a long job.

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The percentage of Slades on WikiTree which are considered as "Sourced" has dropped slightly this quarter, because I went through the orphaned Slades and applied the {{Unsourced}} template to any profiles where it was merited. I also swallowed my pride and added the {{Unsourced}} template to any Slade profiles in my own watchlist where it was merited. There are probably still lots of unsourced Slade profiles on WikiTree which don't have any sources, but don't have the template, either, so even though I track these numbers, they're probably not to be trusted.

I've implemented a new measure this quarter, measuring the average sourcing level for Slades on WikiTree (or at least those four subsets of Slades which I'm tracking in my spreadsheet, and thus have sourcing levels for). Sourcing levels are as follows:

3 = 3 or more primary sources, possibly plus secondary sources

2 = 2 primary sources, possibly plus secondary sources

1 = 1 primary source, possibly plus secondary sources

0.5 = One or more secondary sources, no primary sources

0 = Unsourced or unavailable for analysis due to privacy settings

So the goal is to move the average sourcing level to 3, or at least closer to it.

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It probably doesn't look like it, but the percentage of Slade profiles connected to the main tree did actually increase (by 0.2%) since November. Most of the Slades that I've been adding from ThePeerage recently are family members of Slades who were already on WikiTree, so the Slades from ThePeerage have passed the Slades from Wikipedia again. (Oh, man. That sounds like something the host would say on a game show.  )

Unconnected Notable Slades:

• John Slade (England)
• Samuel Slade (England)
• John Slade (England, Canada)
• William Slade (England)
• Charlie Slade (England)
• Jeff Slade (USA)

Unconnected Slades from ThePeerage.com:

• Cecil William Slade
• Dorothy Helen Slade

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Another new measure I've implemented this quarter is tracking the percentage of profiles in the Slade subsets I'm tracking who have the {{One Name Study|name=Slade}} template applied to the first Slade profile in that line. I have added that template myself to the tops of lines whose profiles I manage myself, and in the orphaned profiles I've come across for heads of lines. For managed profiles, I have sent private messages to the profile managers.

I've also started measuring the average categories per profile. For most people, I would expect profiles for their place of birth and place of death at the very least. For people for whom I have been able to find an occupation in at least two records (census, marriage, or death records), I add the category for that occupation. There are also categories for universities, colleges, and even high schools, and for military units, and various medals and awards. So the low number of categories for most subsets of Slades is probably a sign that they need a lot more research. 

Answer 7

Another quarter has passed, so I spent last month working on Slades, and I've updated the Slade Name Study page again (including the charts) again.

Happily, the number of profiles on WikiTree with a Last Name At Birth of Slade has continued to rise, and the number of sourced and connected Slade profiles have also been rising in parallel. There are plenty of surnames with many more profiles, but then again, there are many surnames with fewer, so we seem to be roughly in the middle of the pack.

The Slades on Wikipedia remain at 100% (at least, until I find more deceased Slades on Wikipedia: not all of the Slades on Wikipedia are listed on the "Slade (surname)" page). It's getting much harder to find sources (or dates) for the remaining Slades from ThePeerage, but I'll keep working on them as I can. I have found more from the Slade Genealogy site, although there are so many Slades listed there that it takes adding about 100 profiles to move the numbers 1%, so that's going to be a long job.

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The percentage of Slades on WikiTree which are considered as "Sourced" rose slightly this quarter. Like last quarter, I went through the orphaned Slades and applied the {{Unsourced}} template to any profiles where it was merited. However, people came along afterwards and seemed to be sourcing Slades as fast as I could mark them, which is a wonderful thing to see. There are probably still lots of unsourced Slade profiles on WikiTree which don't have any sources, but don't have the template, either, so even though I track these numbers, they're probably not to be trusted (much).

The percentage of Slades the various datasets I'm tracking which are considered as "sourced" appear to have taken a jump this quarter, most dramatically in the profiles from the Slade Genealogy site. We have been able to add more sources, but most of the difference (at least as far as ThePeerage and Slade Genealogy are concerned) is that I've decided to count the sourced profiles as a percentage of the profiles on WikiTree, rather than as a percentage of the people listed on the source. (So, for example, 460 sourced profiles for people listed on Slade Genealogy out of the 619 profiles on WikiTree comes to 74.3% sourced, as opposed to 4%, which is what it would be if I were still taking the percentage from the 10,633 Slades listed on Slade Genealogy. I didn't make that change to make the numbers look better [although they do], but rather to give a more accurate picture of the state of the profiles on WikiTree. [The "Adding Profiles" chart already shows how much farther there is to go there, anyway.])

The dataset where the average sourcing level increased most this quarter was my own watchlist. That's largely because I got so behind last quarter that I didn't get to working on Slades on my own watchlist at all, so this quarter, I worked on them first, then Slades from Wikipedia, and I was partway through Slades from ThePeerage when I ran out of time at the end of the month. (I am finding more Slades from ThePeerage listed on Slade Genealogy, because the same guy who gave me the family tree of John Slade, First Baronet Slade has also given it to the guy who runs the Slade Genealogy site, so the overlap between those two sites is going up. (One of these decades, I'm going to get organised and identify those Slades who are listed on all four sites: Slade Genealogy, ThePeerage, Wikipedia, and WikiTree.) That means that the numbers have improved for the Slade Genealogy dataset, too.

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Remember the old saying about "two steps forward, three steps back"? After increasing by 0.2% in the previous quarter, the percentage of Slades on WikiTree who are connected to the main tree dropped by 0.3% this quarter. Most of the Slades that I've been adding from Slade Genealogy and ThePeerage are nearly tied in terms of percent connected, at 97.9% and 98%, respectively. That doesn't surprise me, since many of them show extensive connections on their respective sites, which means that there are plenty of connections to look for here. But as good as these numbers are, there is still room for improvement.

Unconnected Notable Slades (from Wikipedia):

• John Slade (England)
• Samuel Slade (England)
• John Slade (England, Canada)
• William Slade (England)
• Charlie Slade (England)
• Jeff Slade (USA)

Unconnected Slades from ThePeerage.com:

• Cecil William Slade
• Dorothy Helen Slade

I'm also happy to be able to report that I managed to link separated Slade branches together three times this month, so we are (slowly) making progress on getting all the different Slade branches connected together. Currently, there are 94 heads of Slade lines listed in [[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Slade_Name_Study]]. That number will probably go up still more before it goes down, but I'm hoping that it will go down eventually. Whether it eventually goes down to one line is the question that I started the study to find the answer to, but whatever the answer turns out to be, getting there promises to be interesting. 

The percentage of profiles in the Slade subsets I'm tracking who have the {{One Name Study|name=Slade}} template applied to the first Slade profile in that line is increasing, but we have a long way to go. I have added that template myself to the tops of lines whose profiles I manage myself, and in the orphaned profiles I've come across for heads of lines. For managed profiles, I have sent private messages to the profile managers. (But after all this time, I've only see a fraction of the total Slade profiles on WikiTree, so there are probably lots more Slade heads of lines to add the template to.)

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Very impressive work, great tracking skills. Makes me a bit scared to start my own ONS

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You don't have to do all this to start a One Name Study. In fact, I started the Slade Name Study in December, 2015, and didn't start tracking any numbers at all until March 2017. And even then, I started out counting profiles and comparing them to the number of profiles at each source, and also counting how many were connected. Tracking sourcing came next, and I only added sourcing levels and tracking the template last December. What (if any) numbers you track depends on what interests you. I started tracking the percent connected early on because I'm a Connector, so that's important to me. Other people might want to track how many have categories, or photos, or a recorded place of burial, or whatever matters to them. One of the nice things about One Name Studies is that nobody's forcing every study to do exactly the same things. 

Actually, that's one of the things that I appreciate about WikiTree in general: we don't have anybody telling us how to do things. People offer advice, and that's great, but nobody's going around "grading" how other people manage profiles, and telling them that they have to do exactly these things in exactly that order or they're going to be thrown out of WikiTree. (Okay, some people might be going around trying to boss people around like that, but they have no authority to do so.)

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Hi Greg. Nice to meet you. My name is Courtney and my mother's maiden name is Slade. We are descendants of the Slade's of Cornwall, particularly relating to Polruan & Fowey. The author Daphne Du Maurier wrote a book called 'The Loving Spirit' which is based on the Slades.

https://www.dumaurier.org/menu_page.php?id=98

We are based in Australia, but if we can do anything to help fill in some gaps, we'd be glad to help.

Courtney

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Slade-2899

It would be nice to identify who the slave holder (probably a Slade) was.

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Hi, Courtney. Welcome to WikiTree!

As it happens, I put in a fair amount of work a few years ago on a GEDCOM upload that had become disconnected on upload, in part because it includes a number of Slade. Most of the profiles are from Cornwall, so those may be relatives of yours. You can find them in the Westhunkin family tree ged category.

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You're probably right, Isabelle. I have lived in dread of finding out that I am related to a slave owner. I'd much rather find that I am related to former slaves.

Answer 8

I would like to say that I spent last month working on Slades, but Real Life kept me from getting much accomplished on WikiTree. But I have updated the Slade Name Study page (including the charts).

As of the beginning of November, there were 2,993 profiles with Slade as the Last Name At Birth on WikiTree, for an increase of 23 profiles since the beginning of October. 82 of those profiles had the {{Unsourced}} template applied, leaving 2,911 profiles at least presumably sourced, for a decrease of seven profiles marked as unsourced over the course of the month. 303 profiles were not connected to the main tree, leaving 2,690 profiles connected, for a decrease of two unconnected profiles.

The percentage of Slades listed on Wikipedia with profiles on WikiTree dropped pretty drastically last month, because Wikipedia now lists six more deceased Slades than the last time I checked.

It probably doesn't look like it, but the percentage of Slade profiles connected to the main tree did actually increase (by 0.2%) during October, so somebody (or several somebodies) managed to connect some Slades.

Unconnected Notable Slades:

• Samuel Slade (England)
• William Slade (England)
• Charlie Slade (England)
• Jeff Slade (USA)

Unconnected Slades from ThePeerage.com:

• Cecil William Slade
• Dorothy Helen Slade

Answer 9

As of September 1, there were 3,268 WikiTree profiles for people with Slade as their Last Name At Birth. That's an increase of 245 profiles since the beginning of January.

ThePeerage.com lists 283 Slades. Of those, there eight duplicate entries, 63 people with different Last Name At Birth, and 24 living people, leaving a net of 188 Slades. Of the 162 Slades I have tallied so far, 151 people (93.2%) have profiles on WikiTree. There are 81 Wikipedia entries for Slade. Of those, there are seven people with a different Last Name At Birth, three fictional characters, and 34 living people, leaving a net of 37 notable Slades. Of those, 31 (83.8%) have WikiTree profiles. The Slade Genealogy web site lists 12,909 people with a Last Name At Birth of Slade. Of those, so far I have managed to find 639 profiles on WikiTree (6%).

The percentage of all Slade profiles that are connected to the main tree has increased slightly from 89.9% to 90.7% since November. The percentage of connected Slade profiles from Wikipedia increased slightly from 86.7% to 87.1%. The percentage of connected Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, and our family tree remained steady at 97.8%, 98%, and 98.7%, respectively.

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Of the 3,268 Slade profiles on WikiTree, 79 profiles are currently marked as unsourced, leaving 3,189 profiles (97.6%) at least supposedly sourced. Of the Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, 74.8% have at least one primary source. Of the Slade profiles from ThePeerage.com, 89.5% have at least one primary source. Of the Slade profiles from Wikipedia, 87.1% have at least one primary source. Of the Slade profiles from our family tree, 96.2% have at least one primary source.

The average sourcing level for Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree have remained steady at 1.5, 2.3, 2.0, and 2.0, respectively.

The percentage of profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree that have the {{One Name Study|name=Slade}} template applied to the first Slade profile in that line remained steady at 54.6%, 77.6%, 96.8%, and 100%, respectively.

Answer 10

As of when I finally checked this month (I'm a bit behind because Real Life has been even more insane than usual), there were 3,355 WikiTree profiles for people with Slade as their Last Name At Birth. That's an increase of 87 profiles since the beginning of September.

ThePeerage.com list 283 people with a surname of Slade. Of those, there are eight duplicate entries, 24 living people, and 63 people with a different Last Name At Birth, leaving a possible net of 188 Slades. Of the 163 Slades I have tallied so far, 152 have profiles on Wikitree (93.3%). (If that sounds impressive, bear in mind that I started tracking Slades back in 2017, so I really should have them all tallied by now.) Wikipedia lists 81 people with a surname of Slade. Of those, there are 34 living people, seven people with a different Last Name At Birth, and three fictional characters, leaving a net of 37 deceased notable Slades. Of those, there are profiles for 31 people (83.8%). SladeGenealogy.net lists 12,918 Slades. Of those I have tallied profiles for 639 people on WikiTree (4.9%). (With such a huge database, it's going to take years of work to match up the existing Slade profiles and fill in the missing Slades on each site.)

The overall percentage of Slade profiles that are connected to the main tree increased slightly from 90.7% to 90.9% last month. The percentage of Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy, ThePeerage.com, and Wikipedia that are connected remained steady at 97.8%, 98%, and 87.1%, respectively. The percentage of Slades from our watchlists that are connected increased slightly from 98.% to 98.9%.

I'm adding a new measure this year, showing the percentage of profiles which are connected to the main tree, not connected to the main tree but linked to at least one other profile, and not linked to any other profile. (This measure is made possible by Aleš's cool reports.) Hopefully, over time, you should see the percentage of unlinked and unconnected profiles going down, and the percentage of connected profiles going up.

The percentage of profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree that have the {{One Name Study|name=Slade}} template applied to the first Slade profile in that line currently stand at 54.6%, 77.6%, 96.8%, and 100%, respectively.

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Of the 3,355 Slade profiles on WikiTree, 88 profiles are currently marked as unsourced, leaving 3,267 profiles (97.4%) at least supposedly sourced. The percentage of Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, and Wikipedia with at least one primary source remained steady at 74.8%, 89.5%, and 87.1%, respectively. The percentage of Slade profiles from our family trees with at least one primary source rose slightly from 96.2% to 97.7%.

The average sourcing level for Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree currently stand at 1.5, 2.3, 2.0, and 2.1, respectively.

I have added another new measure for sourcing levels, showing the percentage of "tallied" profiles (profiles from Wikipedia and our watchlists) at each sourcing level. Hopefully, over time, you should see the percentage of profiles at level 0 (unsourced) and level 0.5 (no primary sources) go down, and the number of profiles at level 3 (three or more primary sources) go up.

And still another new measure. This one shows the percentage of "tallied" profiles and WikiTree as a whole which are unsourced, partially sourced (at least a secondary source), and "fully" sourced* (at least three primary sources). This chart shows the difficulty in measuring sourcing levels for WikiTree as a whole, or even a single Last Name At Birth on WikiTree: for the tallied profiles, I depend on the counts in my spreadsheet, where I assign sourcing levels as I check the profiles. For WikiTree as a whole, I depend on WikiTree to get a count of profiles with the {{Unsourced}} template, and WikiTree+ (thank you, Aleš!) to get a count of profiles with either [[Category:More_Records_Needed]] or [[Category:Profiles_with_Incomplete_Sourcing]]. (I imagine that the Categorization Project will merge those two category hierarchies eventually.) But because both templates and categories are applied manually, there are a ton of profiles to which they should be applied, but haven't been yet. So that's why the tallied profiles show as about 55% "fully sourced", while all profiles show as about 95% "fully sourced". (This is one big reason why I keep saying that such-and-such a percentage of profiles on WikiTree is "supposedly" sourced.)

 * Yes, I know that three primary sources doesn't actually qualify as fully sourced, because ideally every fact stated in a biography should be backed up by at least one primary source, but I based my sourcing levels on the work of Paul Gierszewski, who first came up with a system for measuring how well profiles are sourced.

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And two final new measures:

First, I've been measuring the number of profiles of people listed on ThePeerage.com and Wikipedia which contain links to those people's entries on the respective site, but I hadn't been tracking how those numbers changed over time up to now. Currently, the percentage of Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, and Wikipedia with links back to that person's entry are at 97%, 99.3%, and 100%, respectively.

Second, I'm also starting to track how many profiles have images on them. That is, photos, paintings, drawings, etc. portraying the person whose profile it is. So, even though I think it's better to have things like pictures of gravestones, the old family home, etc. than no image at all, I'm not counting those in this measure. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to tally photos on Slade profiles last month, so no chart.

Answer 11

Various events conspired to keep me from doing a start-of-the-month report for Slade this year (or even the end-of-the-month report at the beginning of September), but as of today, there were 3,717 WikiTree profiles for people with Slade as their Last Name At Birth. That's an increase of 59 profiles since the beginning of September. ThePeerage.com list 284 people with a surname of Slade. Of those, there are eight duplicate entries, 24 living people, and 63 people with a different Last Name At Birth, leaving a possible net of 189 Slades. Of the 163 Slades I have tallied so far, 152 have profiles on Wikitree (93.3%). (If that sounds impressive, bear in mind that I started tracking Slades back in 2017, so I really should have them all tallied by now.) Wikipedia lists 81 people with a surname of Slade. Of those, there are 34 living people, seven people with a different Last Name At Birth, and three fictional characters, leaving a net of 37 deceased notable Slades. Of those, there are profiles for 31 people (83.8%). SladeGenealogy.net lists 12,918 Slades. Of those I have tallied profiles for 640 people on WikiTree (5%). (With such a huge database, it's going to take years of work to match up the existing Slade profiles and fill in the missing Slades on each site.)

The overall percentage of Slade profiles that are connected to the main tree increased slightly from 90.9% to 91.3% since the beginning of September. The percentage of Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree that are connected remained steady at 97.8%, 98%, 87.1%, and 98.9%. The change is too small to see in the chart, so I'm skipping it this month.

The number of connected Slade profiles has increased by 68 since the beginning of September, while the number of unlinked profiles increased by two, and linked but unconnected profiles decreased. The difference is too small to see in the chart, so again, no chart.

The percentage of profiles from SladeGenealogy.net that have the {{One Name Study|name=Slade}} template applied to the first Slade profile in that line increased slightly from 54.6% to 54.7% last month. The percentage of profiles from ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree with the template applied to the first Slade profile in that line remained steady at 77.6%, 96.8%, and 100%, respectively. Once again, the changes are too small to see in the chart.

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Of the 3,717 Slade profiles on WikiTree, 93 profiles are currently marked as unsourced, leaving 3,624 profiles (97.5%) at least supposedly sourced. The percentage of Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree with at least one primary source currently stand at 74.7%, 90.8%, 90.3%, and 97.7%, respectively. Again, the changes are essentially invisible, so so is the chart.

The average sourcing level for Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia, and our family tree remained steady at 1.5, 2.3, 2.0, and 2.1, respectively. So you know the drill.

The number of "tallied" profiles (profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, Wikipedia and our watchlists) at each sourcing level remained unchanged. (I should probably explain that various things kept me from working on Slades -- or Wikipedia in general -- for pretty much all of August, and while September wasn't quite as insane, it was still pretty insane. And people wonder why I am like I am...)

The percentage of Slade profiles on WikiTree as a whole which are partially sourced shows as a thin light orange line. (As the the appropriate "Needs More Records" category gets applies to more Slade profiles where it's needed, this line should get more visible, and as {{Unsourced}} template gets applied to more Slade profiles where it's needed, the orange line should get thicker as well. That might seem like going backwards, but it would actually be progress, because the numbers would more accurately reflect the state of Slade profiles.)

The percentage of Slade profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, ThePeerage.com, and Wikipedia with links back to that person's entry remain at 97%, 99.3%, and 100%, respectively. No change, no chart.

What I did manage to do this year was tally photos on Slade profiles. (Actually, I had already been talllying them. I just needed to add the right formulae to the spreadsheet I use to put the numbers in the right place and chart them.) So far, I have found images on 1.3% of the profiles from SladeGenealogy.net, 2% of profiles from ThePeerage.com, 35.5% of profiles from Wikipedia, and 10.2% of profiles from our family tree.

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I should also make it clear that these charts don't include the progress made by Dean Slade, who is working on profiles from SladeGenealogy.net. I hope that I'll be more together next year, and be able to show more changes, including Dean's progress.