Connecting from UnconnectedList NLD, small question

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Hi Guys,

During the last seven months I have been focusing on the Dutch unconnected roots,via the DBE UnconnectedList NLD page. Since 1 April I have been keeping track of the progress, by noting the number of dutch profiles and the number of unconnected profiles that are mentioned on the page:

1/4: 11213/179379
29/4: 11282/183574
27/5: 12027/188642
1/7: 11448/193424
and the last score of 11111 unconnected out of 195130 profiles. Slowly but surely we are below 6%

As I will be AFK (away from keyboard) during the next few weeks, my question is that someone posts the new scores that will be available on Wednesday. 

Thanks!

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22/7: 11194 / 195977 (+83 / +847)

29/7: 11197 / 196686 (+3 / +709)

5/8: 11121 / 197320 (-76 / +634)

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Hi,

A few days ago I have connected several profiles with last name Engel to the tree :-)

Today the DBE_UnconnectedList_NLD page does not exist.

I was wondering how it is decided that the profiles are related to the Netherlands. A lot of profiles seem to be unrelated.

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I got the 22/7 numbers from this page. Maybe the urls of the Unconnected Lists were reorganized.

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I asked Aleš some time ago in this post and he answered:

If location ends with: 

• Amsterdam
• Drenthe
• Dutch Republic
• Flevoland
• Friesland
• Gelderland
• Gouda
• Groningen
• Holland
• Limburg
• Nederland
• Netherlands
• NL
• NLD
• Noord-Brabant
• Noord-Holland
• Overijssel
• The Netherlands
• Utrecht
• Zeeland
• Zuid-Holland

I set it as Dutch. I am not sure about New Netherland

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It seems the page was renamed :-( 

New url https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Automated:DD_Unconnected_List_NLD

Profiles: 196686 Unconnected tree 9331 Unconnected orphan 1866

Total unconnected 11197

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Thanks for the update Jan (Z)! My saved link didn't work.

The list of Ales explains why some Germans from the place Limburg were mentioned in the Dutch list. Thanks for all your troubles.

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Also why some "Newfoundland and Labrador" (NL) profiles are mentioned in the Dutch list.

And what about Amsterdam without further geographic indication?

BTW, good to see you BAK (Back At Keyboard) again!

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Hey B, indeed to see you Back at your Keyboard ;-)

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At the risk of showing that I am un-knowledgeable in an area where I should be knowledgeable, I have a question.  What is the Unconnected List and an unconnected profile?  The people in most of the profiles seem to be connected to family members, so that can't be it.  Some of them have town, province or state and country listed as well, so that wouldn't strike me as the unconnected item either.

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Hi Bertram,

This Help Page should explain it all.

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A few years later and there are still 10407 profiles Unconnected however there are 417932 profiles in total.
The percentage has improved a lot !!

I sometimes go through the list and change NL to Newfoundland (for places ending on bay or town or port etc)

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Hi Jan,

Thank you for taking care of the Canadians. This week there are two new large branches from Newfoundland: Raymond-2568 for 88 and Andrews-4428 with 36 profiles.

Last week was very strange, I connected 8 branches but the unconnected number rose from 9324 to 10407 (+1083). The total number of Dutch profiles grew from 396893 to 417392 (+20499), the biggest growth I have ever seen!

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B.W. is there any explanation for this growth? Could we do some kind of check? It's indeed very strange such a huge amount in one week.

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B.W.
Not clear to me why these 2 trees (and many others)  are in the list. There seems to be no link to Nederland/Netherlands.
Maybe the script to find the unconnected/unlinked has changed ?

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Jan, I didn't see the link either, but sometimes the marriages in Newfoundland & Labrador are recorded as NL.

Margreet, I don't know. Sometimes there is an error in the numbers Ales produces.

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I think marriage locations are now in searches. My search for unsourced netherlands united states grew a lot last week and it seemed to be due to marriage locations. Perhaps this has increased the numbers of unconnected?

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I was able to connect Désiré Cleys (1870-1962) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree to the three. Only 1 profile out of 126 related to Nederland :-)

Als changed Amsterdam to Amsterdam in South Africa for another tree and changed NL marriage to Newfoundland in yet another tree.

I noticed there are many profiles with locations "Oostenrijkse Nederlanden" are also in the list of unconnected trees. This is nowadays Belgium (België), should these be on our list ?

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Thank you all for responding. Due to LOWT (life outside WT) I could only respond in a very short way. Great work in Cleys, a lot of the top 10 on the page is mainly Belgium or Germany. BTW, depending on the year, "Oostenrijkse Nederlanden" can be Dutch of Belgian. The filter is not very precise.

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On the sudden growth: it might be that the table with names  used to define 'Netherlands' or Dutch profiles has been changed, thus including more profiles. I have been marking quite some profiles as Dutch, but not that many...

On the other hand: there are loads of Dutch Wikitreers now, so there might be some serious work being done in the current lockdown.

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Yes, two parts of the story. I read this in the Arborists group:

"I worked out the issue with the stats for this week. Wikitree+ is now picking up profiles in the searches by locations at marriage as well as birth and death. So it has added more profiles to the various searches based on the place of marriage. Definitely a good thing in the long run, even if it did inflate the numbers for last week."

And I know I spend no evenings outside during this lockdown.

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Yes BWJ,

Ales reported this week:

• I added marriage location and marriage country to wikitree+ search index.
  • https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=MarriageLocation%3DLjubljana&MaxProfiles=500
  • https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=MarriageCountry%3DSlovenia&MaxProfiles=500
• You can also use magicword MissingLocation with it For instance all slovenian profiles with missing marriage location: https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=Slovenia+MarriageLocation%3DMissingLocation&MaxProfiles=500

Answer 1

Will do!

I will be FAK (frequently at keyboard).

Hope the reason for AFK is holidays. If so: have a wonderful time!

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Thank you Jan,

Holidays indeed. and tomorrow a visit to Middelburg.

BTW, just made a connection for a Nering Bögel, and read the amazing story again of the black sheep!