Mar/Apr 2018 Connectors Challenge

Question

Hello Connectors!

The Connectors WILL be using the Challenge Tracker. You can use an Answer or the Tracker for your connection, but NOT both. So let's begin another month 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!

Feb/Mar 2018 top connector was  with connections.

Thanks to all of you who participated the Dec 2017/ Jan 2018 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:

1. 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 and Queen Elizabeth II.) 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.
2. Either add a new profile for a first degree relative (parent, spouse, sibling, or child) of the person on that profile as a link toward a connected profile, or else connect an existing profile on WikiTree to the profile you're working on.
3. 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.
4. 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.)
5. Answer this post, creating a numbered list only if you aren’t using the Tracker, and including the two profiles and the kind of source you used to make the connection. (For example: "1. Smith-123 added as spouse of Jones-456, Anytown VR) You only need to reply once. As you make more connections, just edit your post to add your new connections. REMEMBER - The Challenge Tracker WILL be used.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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! 

Follow your standings in the Connector Tracker. 

WikiTree profile: Space:Connectors_Challenge

Comments

I'm not ready to try the Connectors Challenge, but I am getting tired of my little non-tropical island of almost-all-Hungarian ancestors who do not connect to anyone in the outside world. Does anyone have any suggestions for the likeliest route toward the big tree? Upwards or sideways? Would my husband's Viennese ancestors be more likely to have relatives already on WikiTree, or should I look at his father's cousin who married a Dutch girl? In either case, there are people I still need to add from my GEDCOMpare; I guess my question is really about how I should prioritize those additions.

(Drawback to both is language: I can't read that dratted German handwriting, and I don't know Dutch at all.)

(If this were simply "six degrees of separation", I have a connection to Harry Houdini: his birth was recorded by the same Jewish congregation in Pest where my husband's grandmother was recorded, about twenty years later.)

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I'm not really tracking, but am excited about my progress.  Last month I connected one of my family groups to the larger tree.  Today I connected another.

I live in the United States, so I feel if I can get my family lines back to the country they migrated from, I have achieved "connection."

I'm still new here and need to learn how to use the tracker.  I see it, but haven't taken the time to learn how to use it.

Answer 1

I'll try a few, and I'll use the tracker

Answer 2

Connectors Challenge for March 2018
1. Began with Dysart-492 and Covert-688 both connected only to each other with Findagrave sources and not to the Wiki Family Tree. Added 1880 Census showing them together.
2. Covert-688 in above
3. Covert-836 father to Covert-688 with Jewett Family History, 1850, 1860, 1870 Census
4. Covert-841 son to Covert-836 with Jewett Family History, 1850, 1860, 1870 Census
5. Covert-842 child to Covert-841 with Findagrave, marriage record
6. Jewett-4482 wife to Covert-836 with Jewett Family History, census records
7. Jewett-4483 father to Jewett-4482 with Jewett Family History
8. Woodin-229 wife to Jewett-4483 with Jewett Family History
9. Jewett-4484 father to Jewett-4483 with Jewett Family History
10. Ashby-2213 wife to Jewett-4484 with Jewett Family History
11. Dysart-531 father to Dysart-492 with 1860 and 1870 Census, Civil War Enlistment information
12. Unknown-374458 wife to Dysart-531 and mother to Dysart-492 with 1860, 1870, 1880 Census
13. Dysart-528 child to Dysart-492 and Covert-688 with Findagrave, 1880 Census
14. Dysart-527 child to Dysart-492 and Covert-688 with Findagrave, 1880 census, death records
15. Dysart-1075 daughter to Dysart-492 and Covert-688 with 1880 Census, death records
16. Hanna-2270 husband to Dysart-1075 with marriage record, 1900 Census
17. Hanna-2273 daughter of Hanna-2270 and Dysart-1075 with SS Death Index, 1910 Census
18. Hanna-2274 daughter of Hanna-2270 and Dysart-1075 with SS Death Index, 1910 Census
19. McDonald-14012 mother of Hanna-2270 with 1900 Census, death records
20. Stearns-2043 husband of Hanna-2273 with marriage record, 1930 Census
21. Robbins-5904 mother of Stearns-2043 with 1900 Census, Naturalization Records
22. Stearns-2045 husband to Robbins-5904 and father to Stearns-2043 with marriage record, 1880 Census
Existing connected profile Stearns-1485 linked as sister of Stearns-2043 with 1900 Census, Naturalization Records
CONNECTION WAS THEN MADE FOR ALL 22 OF THESE PROFILES TO WIKITREE FAMILY!

23. created Folsom-1248 as father to unconnected profile Folsom-1091 with Folsom Genealogy, 1850 and 1860 Federal Census
24. created Folsom-1249 as father to Folsom-1248 with Folsom Genealogy, 1850 Federal Census
25. linked Folsom-1249 as son to Folsom 971 with Folsom Genealogy CONNECTION MADE

 

Answer 3

I am in for this and I will use the tracker.

Answer 4

Once again, the tracker told me that my connection didn't qualify for the challenge, so here it is manually:

• Davie-440 to Davie-487 - birth, census
• Davie-487 to Ward-17788 - marriage, birth, census - and so, the 8th and 10th Premiers of British Columbia are finally connected!

And another one:

• Beaven-156 to Beaven-247 - christening, census
• Beaven-247 to Pemberton-1011 - marriage, christening
• Pemberton-1011 to Pemberton-812 - christening, census - and so, the 6th Premier of British Columbia is now connected!

And still another one:

• Bowser-165 to Bowser-704 - census, birth, marriage
• Bowser-704 to Sinclair-4675 - marriage, death, grave, census
• Sinclair-4675 to Sinclair-1266 - census, marriage, death - and so, the 17th Premier of British Columbia is now connected!

And yet another:

• Robson-547 to Robson-534 - christening - and now the 9th Premier of British Columbia is now connected!

And again:

• Wark-270 to Work-105 - death, grave, Wikipedia - and so, John Work, Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, who was hanging out there all by his lonesome, is now connected! 

But wait! There's more!

• Work-270 to Wark-270 - marriage, grave, Wikipedia, Dictionary of Canadian Biography - and so, Simon Fraser Tolmie, the 21st Premier of British Columbia is now connected! (And, yes, that connection runs through a previously connected Premier, so each new connection enables still more...)

Answer 5

I'll try a few using tracker.