Thank you to everyone who participated in June's Sourcerers' Challenge.
This month marks our one year anniversary; can we push our stats up past 30,000 profiles improved? Are you up to the task? We're currently at 22,704. Let's do it!
The Top Sourcerer in June was Carolyn Martin with an even 700 profiles, the most sourced by one person in one month. WOW!
The All-Time Top Sourcer is Robert Keniston with 3673 profiles sourced since we started the challenge.
2805 profiles were sourced in June; 14,600 in 2016; 22,704 since we started last year. There were 32 Sourcerers in June, 5 new Sourcerers, 68 in 2016, and 108 since our inception.
The sources you all are adding are superb. Remember, your sources need to be as fully and specifically as possible, so others find them useful. That means, if there is a link to the work mentioned, you must include it. If it is a page from a book, the page needs to be included so others can easily see where you found the reference.
We can also do a bit more while adding sources, like clean up the gedcom leftovers or help the formatting from older profiles. Sources are important, but if you can't find them among all the other stuff, they aren't helping as much as they could.
Onto July's challenge:
You only need to answer the post once, and just edit your post to add your new profiles, continuing in a comment on your answer as necessary. Please number your contributions (a number every ten or hundred works just fine). It helps us tally at the end of the month much faster. See last month's challenge for examples.
* All profiles improved must come from the Unsourced categories or be already present on WikiTree and unsourced-you cannot create new profiles and add sources just to up your tally. The hope and goal is to improve the numbers already on WikiTree that need sources. Adding sources will help merges happen, too, which will improve our tree. Showing folks what sources you're using helps newer researchers see just what's available out there for us to access. Another great source of unsourced profiles is to check out orphaned profiles.
* The tally is of profiles improved, not sources added. That said, if you can add a number of sources to a profile, all the better. Maybe we'll switch things up and see how many sources added y'all can do one month.
* If you attempt to add sources to a profile and just cannot find any, please add a note under a section like === Research Notes === giving where you tried to find records and you can sign it with the four tildes (~~~~) so the date is applied as well. Something like "Looked for John in the US Census records for 1900-1940 and couldn't find him on FamilySearch or Ancestry" would be fine. Or, "Searched google for an obituary and didn't find one." That way the next researcher knows where to start.
* If the only source on a profile is "Ancestry tree" or "Geni.com" it can count as unsourced, and you can add better sources to it to count in your tally.
* If you find a match and can merge a profile into an already source profile, that counts, too. You still found a source, plus you eliminated a duplicate. Awesome!
We are now actively in our July Challenge, which will run through July 31st. Ask any questions here in the thread, otherwise, SOURCE!
