March 2017 Connectors Challenge

Question

Hello Connectors!

It's time to begin another month and another year of connecting the unconnected across WikiTree. We'll get the project page updated soon with last month's tallies, but for now, it's time to start connecting!

February's top connector was Bob Keniston with 16 connections made.

Connectors connected 52 profiles to The Tree in February. The Challenge isn't set up to track the number of profiles that were added because of those 52.

Thanks to all of you who participated in last month's challenge February Connectors Challenge,  If you haven't checked out the Connectors Chat page, you should! There is a lot of chatter there about what everyone is working on.

Now on to the Connectors Challenge Rules:

Pick any WikiTree profile which is not connected to the main tree. (In other words, that profile does not have a box at the bottom of the page, showing the degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, Rosa Parks, and Queen Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms.) You can look for unconnected profiles using the Unconnected People tool, the Unconnected Profiles category, the Unlinked_Profiles category, or you may run across an unconnected profile in the regular course of your research.

Either add a new profile for a first degree relative (parent, spouse, sibling, or child) of the person on that profile, or else connect an existing profile on WikiTree to the profile you're working on.

Add a source to the profiles involved in the connection showing the relationship between the two profiles. This could be a census record listing a family, a marriage record, a death record listing the spouse and/or parents, a birth record listing the parents, or any source which demonstrates that the two profiles should be connected to one another. Your source needs to be cited as closely to the style recommended on our Sources help page as possible to count towards your tally.

If you are adding a new profile, add a second, independent source for that profile. (For example, if you add a spouse because of a marriage record, then look for a birth or death record for the spouse you're adding.) (Note: The reason for this rule isn't to discourage you from adding people. But as you have probably already learned, even official documents frequently misspell names, so adding an independent confirmation of the name helps to save other researchers time in trying to find records that don't exist, because the person's real name was not the same as showed up in the linking document.)

Answer this post, creating a numbered list, and including the two profiles and the kind of source you used to make the connection. (For example: "1. Smith-123 to Jones-456 - marriage".) You only need to reply once. As you make more connections, just edit your post to add your new connections.

If you connect a profile which completes a connection trail either for an isolated profile or an unconnected tree, please add "Connected!" at the end of the line which made the connection. We count those connecteds towards your tally.

The tally is of branches/unconnected profiles connected to the WikiTree tree, not sources or profiles added. That said, if you can add a number of sources to a profile, all the better, and sometimes a connection will take a number of profiles to get added. Every one is different, and each one makes our tree better. So, in short, we'll count each "connected!" we see.

If either or both profiles you connect did not have good sources before and were already on WikiTree, then you can also count those sources towards the Sourcerers Challenge.

All participants who do not already have a Connectors Project badge, will get one. Winners each month-the person with the most connections made to the tree-will get the Connection Challenge Winner badge, and the Top Connector each month with get a spiffy template to wear on their profile page. Stats will be kept on the Connectors Challenge page, just like we do for the Sourcerers Challenge.   
See last month's challenge as an example. Ask questions in the comments section here. Thank you!

WikiTree profile: Space:Connectors_Challenge

Comments

And here's a link to the Connectors Challenge post for February: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/345093/february-2017-connectors-challenge

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Thanks, Ellen. Still getting my sea legs creating hot links in G2G. Now all I have to do is get the logo in.

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Inspired to join this not to compete, but just having watched the Saturday Live Stream. Figured that it might be a good mini-project.

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Could we get an update on how many total connections were made in February?

Thanks

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Doug: There were 49 connections reported as Answers on the February challenge, plus what looks like 4 (total) that were posted in the comments section by you and another user. There's been no attempt to figure out exactly how many previously unconnected profiles were connected as a result of those connections, but clearly it was a whole lot more than 49.

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Janine Barber- 5
Paula Dea-500, Est
Mary Diamante- 13
Bob Keniston-16
Star Kline- 4
Isabelle Rassinot-2
Ellen Smith-4
Gilliam Thomas-4
Doug Zimmerman- 226, Est
Total- 774

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Just a reminder on the rules, folks. For the benefit of the folks who tally connections, please follow rule 5 above and create a numbered list of the connections you made between formerly unconnected profiles (or groups of profiles) and the big tree, and include the types of sources you used.

To make a numbered list in your G2G answer (or in follow-on comments if you run out of space in the first answer) use the widget to create numbered bullets in the third row of formatting widgets in the G2G edit box.

Answer 1

I'm in. I don't juggle well, but I'll try to run the Challenge and participate.
1. Rebecca Simonds-409 Added as child of John Simonds-675 CONNECTED
2. Susanna Munroe-186 Added as child of William Munroe-10 CONNECTED
3. Ebenezer Simonds-418 Added as child of John Simonds-675 CONNECTED
4. Amos Muzzy-53 Added as child of Amos Muzzy-83 CONNECTED
5. Ebenezer Bowman-3938.  Added as child of Ebenezer Bowman-4296 CONNECTED

6. Nathaniel Mulliken-28 Added as child of Nathaniel Mulliken-37 CONNECTED

7. Nathaniel Farmer-1980 Added as husband of Ruth Fiske-816 CONNECTED 

8. John Tidd-11 Added as child of Joseph Tidd-267 CONNECTED

9. Benjamin Tidd-145 Added as child of Joseph Tidd-267 CONNECTED

10. Elizabeth Browne-1467 Merged with Elizabeth Brown-310 CONNECTED

11.  William Smith-73940 Added as child of Hezekiah Smith-61513 CONNECTED

12. Joseph Smith-73939 Added as child of Hezekiah Smith-61513 CONNECTED

13. Abraham Smith-73938 Added as child of Josiah Smith-57373 CONNECTED

14. Mathew Livermore-141 merged into Mathew Livermore-57 CONNECTED 

15. Benjamin Merriam-349 Added as child of Benjamin Merriam-545 CONNECTED

16. Mehitable Brown-52993 Added as spouse of Samuel Danforth-252 CONNECTED

17. Ruth Danforth-528 Added as child of Samuel Danforth-252 CONNECTED

18. David Smith-73934 Added as child of Benjamin Smith-121783 CONNECTED

19. Nathaniel Farmer-1980 Added as spouse of Ruth Fiske-816 CONNECTED

20. Abner Mead-1862 Added as child of Cornelius Mead-2953 CONNECTED

21. Thomas Cutler-699 Added as child of Thomas Cutler-649 CONNECTED

22. Jerusha Fitts-104 Added as spouse of Rodger Eastman-26 CONNECTED

23. Ezekial Eastman-645 Added as child of Rodger Eastman-26 CONNECTED

24. Daniel Eastman-646 Added as child of Rodger Eastman-26 CONNECTED

25. Sarah Easrman-647 Added as child of Rodger Eastman-26 CONNECTED

26. Joseph Robinson-12089 Added as spouse of Betty Jones-52326 CONNECTED

27. Thomas Robbins-3090 Added as child of Thomas Robbins-2442 CONNECTED

28. Edee Parker-11248 merged with Edee Parker-21293 CONNECTED

29. John Parker-11261 Added as child of John Parker-6066 CONNECTED

30. Walter Cox-10230 Added as child of Matthew Cox-17136 CONNECTED

31. Samuel Thatcher-565 Added as spouse of Mary Brown-25892 CONNECTED

32. Hannah Pierce-3738 Added as spouse of Joseph Locke-1017 CONNECTED 

33. Alice Beaufew-4 Merged with Alice Beaufew-1 CONNECTED 

34. John Witt-1118 Added as child of John Witt-1934 CONNECTED

35. Pliny Witt-1107 Added as child of Ivory Witt-1034 CONNECTED

36. Roxanna Witt-1108 Added as child of Ivory Witt-1034 CONNECTED

37. Abigail Witt-1117 Added as child of Ivory Witt-1034 CONNECTED 

38. Mary Witt-1109 Added as the child of Ivory Witt-1034 CONNECTED 

39. Ivory Witt-1110 Added as the child of Ivory Witt-1034 CONNECTED 

40. William Kenaston-65 Added as the child of Samuel Kenaston-7 CONNECTED 

41. Sophia Kenaston-63 Added as the child of Samuel Kenaston-7 CONNECTED 

42. William Keniston-175 Added as the child of Samuel Kenaston-7 CONNECTED 

43. Samuel Kenaston-58 Added as the child of Samuel Kenaston-7 CONNECTED 

44. Phoebe Kenaston-55 Added as the child of Samuel Kenaston-7 CONNECTED 

45. Betsy Keniston-172 Added as the child of Samuel Kenaston-7 CONNECTED 

46. Horace Witt-1112 Added as the child of Ivory Witt-1034 CONNECTED 

47. Alvin Witt-1113 Added as the child of Ivory Witt-1034 CONNECTED 

48. Emily Witt-1114 Added as the child of Ivory Witt-1034 CONNECTED 

49.

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Answer 2

I am going to give this a try, focusing on unconnected profiles from Western/Central New York.

Alright, this is tough! I added 64 profiles without connecting my two unconnecteds to the main tree. But found many interesting stories! 

William L. Marble (Marble-163): I added 9 first degree relatives and 36 family members in all. 

1. Added daughter Sally (Marble-440), census, still need to add an independent source for Sally 
2. Added daughter Esther (Marble-441), linked through census and death record, several independent sources for Esther - Connected! 
3. Added daughter Amanda (Marble-442), linked through two marriage certificates and the census, independently sourced through a different census - Connected! 
4. Added son Silas Wright (Marble-443), linked through census, several independent sources for Silas - Connected! 
5. Added daughter Mary (Marble-444), linked through census, still need to add an independent source 
6. Added daughter Eliza (Marble-445), linked through two census', still need independent source for Eliza 
7. Added son William (Marble-450), connected through death record, added 1920 Census for independent source - Connected! 
8. Added son Benton (Marble-451), linked through census, independent source for Benton from a later census - Connected! 
9. Added son Charles (Marble-452), linked through census, added additional census record for independent source- Connected! 

Estella Trumbull Turner (Trumble-144): I added 7 first degree relatives and 28 relatives altogether.

1. Added father William (Trumble-150), linked through census and Estella's obituary - Connected! 
2. Added mother Kate (Hutchis-2), linked through census and Estella's obituary - Connected! 
3. Added sister Lydia (Trumbull-213), linked through census, added husband's obituary and daughter's marriage license - Connected! 
4. Added sister Hattie (Trumbull-214), linked through census, still need to add an independent source
5. Added sister Lillie (Trumbull-215), linked through census, still need to add an independent source
6. Added sister Louise (Trumbull-216), linked through census, still need to add an independent source
7. Added brother Robert (Trumbull-217), linked through census, still need to add an independent source

Comments

Nice work, Amanda.

Answer 3

I'm in again too. Will be focussing on the UK, particularly England, and Thomas surnames where I can.

1. With this one, I merged 3 duplicate profiles, which were all part of family of unconnected profiles over 3 generations. Not sure if it counts as 1 or 3 connections

Richard Thompson-23996 merged into Thompson-21191 clear duplicate Connected!

2, William Thompson-24000 merged into Thompson-21187. Clear duplicate. Connected!

3. Martha Taylor-38629 merged into Taylor-28960 clear duplicate Connected!

4. Mitchell-6450 merged into Michell-350 (clear duplicate - confirmed LNAB with baptism record. can't remember which one was unconnected, but Connected!

5. Merged Thomas-13612 into Thomas-8875 - clear duplicate. Connected!

6. Researched then detached incorrect husband (also unconnected) - source - marriage record - then merged Thomas-9045 into Thomas-4358 - clear duplicate. Connected!

7. Uploaded Gedcom for father William Charles Smith-122327, and gr mother Elizabeth (Eldridge) Smith - Eldridge-1742 to link Charles Edward Kingsford Smith (Kingsford-Smith-1) to his great grandfather John Eldridge-1693  Source Birth index -Connected!

8. Thomas-10896 merged into Thomas-2168 Connected!

Comments

Gillian, Merging an unconnected into a connected counts.

Answer 4

My first time taking a real crack at this. Realizing that I have a few little islands of profiles that I added to WikiTree - typically as random additions or because I had a hypothesis - but which weren't ever connected. Anyway, it's time to connect a few of those.

The first one is a family that I'd worked on a while ago, which is probably connected to my own tree, but the connection's never become certain. Samuel W. Crozier-254 is probably related to my Margaret Crozier-56 (if anyone is able to see what I'm missing...) and I have his daughters, including Winnifred Crozier-255 and her husband Sinclair McGougan-20 already, so here's the sequence to attaching this:

1. Duncan McGougan-26 Added as the father of Sinclair McGougan-20

2. Charles McGougan-27 Added as the son of Duncan McGougan-26

3. Violet Justesen-69 Added as the wife of Charles McGougan-27

4. Violet Added as the daughter of Hans Peder Justesen / Larsen-3127 CONNECTED

One down... and that connected 8 old profiles and made 4 new ones in the process. 

Comments

JN, Welcome to the Challenge.

Answer 5

As I'm a newbie, but very teachable. I've added, then connected Sarah Harris Vaughan to husband and children and Parents. Her parents were online already, as were her husband and children. Anyway, they now have grandparents and a mom! Yea.

1. Child Vaughan to mother Connected!
2. Child Blanche Vaughn to mother Connected
3. Carrie Vaughan to mother Connected
4. Florence Vaughn to mother Connected
5. William Vaughn to mother Connected
6. Selma Vaughn to mother Connected
7. Blattner Vaughn to mother Connected
8. Addie L. Vaughn to mother Connected
9. Jarrot Vaughn to mother Connected
10. Boone-70 into Boone-2019 linked through census and will of Father Connected
11. Boone--2020 into Boone-2019 linked through census and will of Father Connected
12.  

Comments

Kelly, Check your Vaughn children tomorrow. The system only checks once a day for Unconnected files.

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That explains it! Now, it will be more fun! Thank you, Bob.

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Bob, I found a Census for the parents.

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Great. Make sure you add the source to the parents, and any others affected.

Answer 6

Early New England connections are calling!  I have some old genealogy books and stories,so it's a jigsaw puzzle.

Griswold and Barnard are currently in focus.

1  Aaron Griswold:  sourced & connected to his parents Francis and Jerusha Griswold www.wikitree.com/wiki/Griswold-619 -- connected

2.  Francis Griswold:  connected to parents Francis and Jerusha Griswold Griswold-1113 -- Connected

3.  Cornet Kilbourne; Kilbourne-188 was Jedidiah Kilbourne, son of Samuel and Mary. of Rowley, Massachusetts.  Sourced and ---Connected

4. Hannah Kilbourn Coffin (Kilburn-292):  connected to parents Eliphalet and Mary Kilbourn of Boscawen, New Hampshire; birth record  -- Connected

5.  Kilburn-299 (Eliphalet Kilburn) and Mary (Thurlow) Killborn Thurlow-306-- Sourced and Connected

6. Hannah Kimball https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kimball-2418

Sourced birth record naming parents Peter Kimball and Elizabeth – connected

7. Peter Kimball https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kimball-2289 sourced his parents Joseph and Abiah Kimball https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kimball-266 using "History of the Kimball Family in America" and birth record -- Connected

8. Sourced Samuel Little: the son of Daniel and Abiah Little,

Samuel:  https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Little-7746 connected to

Father Daniel https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Little-203 and

Mother Abiah Clement Little https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clement-712--Connected!

9. Elizabeth (Thurston) Kimball and her husband had Massachusetts roots but moved to New Hampshire.  How to connected Elizabeth? 

*Elizabeth (Thurston) Kimball. (Sourced birth rec naming Daniel and Hannah as parents)

*edited the Biography for Daniel Thurston. (Sourced marriage to Hannah in 1741)

* edited the Biography for Hannah (Parker) Thurston. (Sourced marriage to Daniel in 1741)

Connected Elizabeth Thurston Kimball to her parents – who were already in Wiki

10. David Thrall (Thrall-44) wife was Jane Barber (Barber-5190).

 Jane's parents were Barber-1023  and Jane Alvord Barber Alford-305--  Connected!

11.  Elizabeth Barber https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barber-4511; her father was Aaron -- Connected!

12. .John Warham Strong Strong-2984 connected to daughter Azuba Strong Strong-3380  -- Connected!

13.  Azuba Strong Strong-3380 sourced and connected to 2nd husband George Griswold-1201 -- Connected!

14. Jane (Barber) Thrall (Barber-5190) to father (Barber-1023)- connected!

15. George Griswold married Mary Hayden:  Hayden-2442 -- connected!

 

 

 

 

 

  

Answer 7

Lets see if I can get this competition going!

Here what I do:

 Go the the "Find" on your page, select the "unconnected people", Click.

now select the "View All" tab.

Now scroll down to the "Sort By" selection.

Select the "Most Connections on Top"

Now the competition begins: find a person that you think you can find connections for !?  A Name that you recognize, A Location you know, A time period you know.

Click on that person, now examine the profile.  Focus on the females.

Most folks build there tree based on the male member (no pun intended).

Females are included, but they do not build a tree based on them,  SO. Identify the females on your selected profile, If they are not there find the sisters and daughters use your sources and fill them in.

(side bar: I have never paid to do research, go to FamilySearch.org, and learn how to use that site, if you do not know already)

Now, do a FamilySearch.org search on your selected named female:  Once you get the results, scroll down the left side of the page till you find the "collections" link, select it.

now look at all the record collections that came up, and check all the marriage records, go to the top of the page and select filter.

Now with any luck, you might have found a husband.  This is where you need to use genealogical sense, to identify the husband, you know, names, dates, etc everything make sense.  Now plug that data, as husband for your selected lady. Take time lots of time and view every possible match that Wiki comes up with. you might find that CONNECTION.  If not repeat. That is what I do.

Good luck

Comments

Doug, Just a suggestion, but, hit My Watchlist instead of View all when you Find.

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The my watch list IS the default.  I'm assuming everyone knows there unconnected people, I do and have given up on finding connections there.  I have tried, and just do not have the resources.  However "All" with most connections on top, provide trees that are over a hundred connections, with that many people in the tree its possible to find someone to work with, and all you have to do is make one connection and that entire tree is connected.

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And sometimes it just won't connect:

I started with

• Simpson Asbury Hagood 29 Jan 1836 Anderson, Anderson Co., SC - 3 Feb 1912 [100+ connections] [search] [view all Hagoods]

and found Martha Jane Hagood formerly Bradford

Found her husband and added 3-4 generations of Bradford's (all there children and wives (15-20 people) no luck, but I found:

Marshall's, Hawthorne's, and Graham's there a name I know!

J.w. Matthews. , Clema Graham.,

I have added many 10, 20, 30, 40 Not sure but a lot all sourced with Census, and birth, marriage, and death records.  no luck, still no connections,  Not sure exactly how many it would make but over 100.

Anybody else wants to attempt this tree.

 

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Check tomorrow. The system only checks the Unconnected once a day, usually in the middle of the night.

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Yes I understand that, but for a connection to be made you have to link or merge with someone that is already on Wiki AND tied to the primary tree.

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Great tip, Doug!

Another helpful tool that some newer people may not be aware of. Scroll down the profile you chose, and on the right you'll see a "RootsSearch for name" link (or use the profile menu and click on "Research"). 

This will take you to a screen where you can customize websites you want to search.

I agree with Doug, though, I always start with FamilySearch, and once I've exhausted all the sources there, I move out to do a general Google search. Just be careful which sites you use. Make sure they cite sources! :-)

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Found the connection for

Simpson Asbury Hagood 29 Jan 1836 Anderson, Anderson Co., SC - 3 Feb 1912 [100+ connections] [search] [view all Hagoods]

With some big help from Carol (Winton) Keeling, another connector.

She found a Find a Grave memorial with Margaret (Meaders) Hagood. father, Jedediah identified,  Other siblings were confirmed with death records, so I am positive we have the right person.

How many connections made don't know started out with 100+ being identified on the "Unconnected page" and I added over 100 (stopped counting at 110) profiles in looking for that elusive connection.  Yes every profile was sourced, as were numerous other unsourced profiles

What is important is that one of those very large trees is now connected, and also has grown substantially, and there are now many more leaves for other relatives to find. 

 

 

 

 

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Way to go, Doug. BTW, your actual first-degree connection is Margaret being add as the child of Jedediah. That is one big branch added to The Tree.

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SO this counts as one connection?

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Yes. We have no way of tracking the profiles that became connected as a result of the one connection. Plus, all the profiles you added may make it possible for someone to find a lost branch of their tree.

Answer 8

Here is one:

Alfred Dreyfus: Starting at Infante Jaime of Spain, created his wife, Emanuela de Dampierre (details from Wikipedia page). Added her father, Roger de Dampierre (birth record). In addition to Emanuela's mother, he was married to Raymonde Dreyfus (marriage shown on both birth records). Raymonde was the daughter of René Dreyfus (existing profile; added birth record and source for Mort en Déportation mention). René's father Jacques Dreyfus already had a profile (added source: marriage record including birth and parents). Linked Jacques to Raphaël Dreyfus and Jeannette Libmann, Alfred Dreyfus's parents - CONNECTED ! (a few more profiles matching Alfred Dreyfus's family were connected to the branch)

Comments

Fist Pump!

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Yesss! I was happy to get that one done.

Answer 9

Ok I picked one.
On the unconnected profiles page found:
Aluna Terry-2387 and added her husband Hunt-7081 CONNECTED
Charlotte Broswell-1 and added spouse Osborne-4928 CONNECTED
Going to go find another one.

Answer 10

1. William Antcliff-15 was one of a small group of profiles I created in December when I was trying to see if I could find a relationship to some people who are strong DNA matches in Gedmatch. I still don't know how we might be related, but at least he and his family are now connected. I created his wife Martha Daschner-2 and connected her to an existing profile that I found for her father, Christian Dashner-39. (Census records and a marriage record for William and Martha's son.) CONNECTED!
2. Willem Van den Bergh-191 was unconnected. Proposed merge to Gijsbertszen-1 will soon get him connected (baptism records, online genealogies). Merge is done. CONNECTED!
3. William Steward-1202 was in a cluster of at least 14 unconnected profiles. I connected him to his connected son Elisha Stewart (birth records for Elisha and siblings). CONNECTED!
4. Amos Luddington-163 was unconnected. I connected him to his father Eliphalet Luddington-184 and daughter Sibyl Luddington-107 (published genealogy). CONNECTED! 
5. Connected Anna Smith-106016 Dodge (plus several of her family members) to her parents, John Smith and Mehitable Wood (genealogy published by my great grandfather). CONNECTED!  

Comments

Good job, Ellen.

Answer 11

Sticking my toes in the water:

1. Thomas Brenton-353 added as child of Joseph Brenton-73 CONNCECTED

Comments

That's the first step on a long journey.

Answer 12

Hi, I did not have much time this past month, here are some connections I have made :)

1)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pretorius-2208	Add husband
2)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-296	Add her parents
3)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Human-253	Add husband
4)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Viljoen-927	Add her parents
5)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Erasmus-849	To father
6)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Erasmus-203	To his parents
7)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Du_Preez-621	Add her parents
8)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-145	Add her parents
9)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-15	Add his parents
10)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-17	Add his parents
11)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-545	Add his parents
12)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-9	Add his parents
13)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Botha-131	Add spouse
14)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-374	Add his parents
15)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-363	Add His father
16)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-377	Add his parents
17)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-378	Add his parents
18)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prinsloo-419	Add his parents
19)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Strydom-209	Add her parents
20)	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Strydom-779	Add her parents