Hi Everyone -- Welcome to all the New Members - Hope you are enjoying the site.
Refresher Course - Lots of activity here recently --
Pre-1700 Profiles – Tips/Tricks Suggestions
The pre-1700 is a little tricky and takes some work. As you know, the main objective is only one profile per person – with best possible [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sources sources]. see Source Style Guide. For help with numbered references, see Footnotes.
A. BEFORE CREATING OR EDITING PRE-1700 PROFILES, THE PROJECT INFO NEEDS TO BE IDENTIFIED AND IN PLACE
B. SEARCH FOR DUPLICATES (Many exist already – many w/dups date/spelling discrepancies, etc.)
Upper RH menu – find, then people search http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:SearchPerson
- Name Specific – sort by birth (show merging options) – check for dups
- Surname Specific – Search last name only, sort by birth – check for dups
- Propose a merge on all dups to “lowest number w/correct spelling of Last Name
- Pre-Merge – Post name variations and discrepancies on the “Merge into” profile; add source information
- In merge notes “reference the profile ID containing the pre-merge info.
C. CONTACT PROJECT/PROFILE MANAGER(S) BEFORE EDITING (Profile Posts/Trusted List Request)
D. FINAL PROFILE CLEANUP – CONTAINS PROJECT INFO; EXPANDED BIO; SOURCES, ETC.
On Pre-1700 profiles – each profile must be assigned To a Project. Each Project usually has a list of specific guidelines to adhere to. If you can’t determine the project from available information, then it needs a G2G Request so it can be “Assigned to a project”. If “there is none and you are the profile manager” you are good to go (but it still needs to adhere to basic pre-1700 Guidelines Best Practice and Sourcing..
The items that need to be answered with a source:--- Birth; Marriage; Death; Children
WikiTree is a “Free” community. Ancestory Trees and other Public Member Paid Sites are not a viable “Source” and need to be changed. If you have an Ancestry account, please access and find the “actual source” for these three items and insert this under your reference area or within the Bio area – also any birth records for .children, etc.
If you don’t have ancestry, search for clues.elsewhere. and include on the Bio and/or references. (Perhaps a “Research” or “Discrepancy” section)
In a nutshell:
(1) Join the appropriate Project
(2) Become familiar with the Project’s requirements and goals, determine locations and categories, etc. http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:England
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:United_Kingdom#Goals Goals]
(3) Write up your Bio and Include your sources, add project info, templates, etc. Conform other members of the family to the project’s requirements..
You can read about the [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project_FAQ Project FQS] here and follow the links to other subjects. Project searches can be found on the upper RH menu “Find” “Projects”
A bit long - thanks for reading.
Regards, Sandy