Join Team GB-Gen for the Source-a-Thon and clear those Unsourced Profiles from the UK! [closed]

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We're less than two weeks away from the WikiTree Source-a-Thon...and it's England out in front, with Scotland behind and trailing rather are Wales and Northern Ireland.  The goal is to add sources to as many UK Unsourced profiles as you can! You can even win a prize!

Register here for a race number, read all about it here, and sign up for Team GB-Gen by posting an answer (not a comment) on this thread, with your race bib number, and which UK county or country you will focus on.

There is a freespace page with further details.  The Source-a-Thon is proving so popular, WikiTree are on their FIFTH registration thread...join in the fun!

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I guess you are thinking that some of us know fast and sure ways to source a person's Records. What about sending us a memo (perhaps after your contest) to state what ways are the most accurate and the fastest for finding records that fit with persons x and y. We need to know what you know.

I for one thought when I hit that part of a person's record that (silly me!) using "ancestry.com" was plenty of all we needed. Over several years of W-tree, I've learned it is not. And further that ancestry.com is omitting crucial details from some records now (asserting it is a demand or requirement of their original source) so it's impossible for us to know if that particular source really fits our most distant and hard to find relatives in, say, Germany after the two world wars or Eastern European records for Jews.

Please give instructions that will cut our time doing that necessary "grunt work" after being so elated to find anything at all. That elation is causing lots of errors along the way.

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I'm not addressing Ancestry.Com other than this, they are the biggest theif on the internet, they stole 90% of what they charge for, and no one knows where they got it from not even themselves...

I don't belong to the LDS church, but they largest geneological resource on the internet.   There census records, and digitized marriage, birth, and death records are an excellent source.  

There ancestrial files Are the result of interviews with direct family members in the early 1900's, Most of the times there are no other sources and they have to be used, What I do to improve there reliability is to find the 1790 to 1850 census info that can be extrapolated back to confirm it.   I would hate to see thousands of profiles damaged by someone trying to source them when there are no other sources.  

Many of the EARLY ancestry.com sources are the stolen ancestrial files. Wili needs to have a policy on converting all these Ancestry.com sources back to there original source files, documenting them, and then going from there.

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Bib #340, I'll work on Scotland - Looking forward to it. Good Luck to everyone!

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I'll want to see your work especially (and any other Scotland researchers) because of my entire male Burnett line. Thanks, you guys and women!