September 28 - October 1 — the start of Family History Month — is our third annual "Source-a-Thon".
This three-day event is for a good cause (sourced genealogy!) and there will be over $3,000 in door prizes donated from around the genealogy community. It will be lots of fun.
The event will go from Friday, September 28 at 8 AM (ET) to Monday, October 1, 8 AM (ET). Note: We've changed the start/end time from last year.
Last year we had almost 500 participants and sourced over 53,000 profiles! Can you help us do even better this year?
To register, post an answer in this thread with something like "Yes, I'd like to participate in the Source-a-Thon."
If you know what team you'd like to be on, be sure you include that in your answer. If you don't know what team, share where you are from or where/what you like researching so we can pick the best team for you.
Please reply as an answer not as a comment, so we can assign you a badge number and make sure you get counted.
Thanks!
Registration will open September 1.
'''Register for the Source-a-Thon first!!''' Please Go To [https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/674783/have-you-registered-for-the-source-a-thon-yet-2-registrations This G2G Post] to register by '''ANSWER-ing''' at the top post of Source A Thon and tell them you are on Team Tennessee. Then you will be assigned a “race number.” This number is very important. If you do not get one, let me know. Teams fill up fast so please don't wait to register, and after about every 80 registrations there will be a new registration G2G a link to the new thread will be added to the old G2G post.
In the meantime, maybe you could post with an answer to introduce yourself?
What Profiles count as Unsourced for the Source-a-Thon
How to participate..Source a Thon Challenge tracker makes it easy
This G2G question and answer thread is our team's place to ask questions, give advice, see updates and cheer each other on.
Thank you for volunteering to help and have chosen to join our team!!! I appreciate your help while we try to "Source up" the Tennessees and all their "unsourced" profiles on WikiTree"!!
Hello Team Tennessee Volunteers participants!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
This year it's easier than ever to join in the fun. Here's a handy 'how to' video to help you out
You can use any profiles from the Unsourced profiles categories, as well as a couple specific Data Doctor suggestions lists. For us these are Unsourced Tennessee Profiles, here are all DBE Unsourced Tennessee profiles.
1. Choose a profile.
2. Add a good source. For more information on sources, see our Sources help page
3. Remove the {{Unsourced}} template or [[Category:Unsourced Profiles]]
categorization, if there are any.
4. Click the "Challenge Tracker" button at the very top of the page and choose the "Source-a-Thon" option.
Move on to the next profile!
QUESTIONS
Any questions can be asked on your team chat thread here or on the official G2G Source-a-Thon Question thread It will have other helpful links and announcements, as well.
SHARE ON FACEBOOK
If you're a Facebook member, please tell your friends and family what
you're doing this weekend. This helps spread the word about WikiTree.
You might want to post with your "race bib" number, like this:
1.) Right-click the URL for your number above to go to it. Right-click
on the image and select "Save image as...".
2.) Make a mental note on where the image is being saved, e.g. to a
Downloads or My Pictures folder on your computer.
3.) Go to Facebook.
4.) At the top of the status/sharing box click the "Photo/Video" link
and select "Upload Photos/Videos".
5.) Find the image where you saved it.
6.) Add text like "My weekend: Participating in the Source-a-Thon, the
first-ever genealogy sourcing marathon at WikiTree.
http://www.wikitree.com "
Participation will be very easy this year. Last year everybody had to maintain their own counts. Now we have the Challenge Tracker.
You might have already noticed the button that appears after saving a profile. Just click it and select the Source-a-Thon checkbox. Data Doctor Aleš does the rest. He's maintaining the counts on his WikiTree+ server and will enable us to see live statistics and leaderboards throughout the weekend.
The only hard part is the fun part, the genealogical sleuthing.
For the record, here's an example of participation steps you can try:
- Select a profile from the (for us) DBE Unsourced Tennessee Profiles or the Unsourced Tennessee category.
- On the profile's pull-down menu select "Research."
- Select where to search.For example FamilySearch.
- If you find a source, record it on the profile, copy FamilySearch's handy "Citing this Record" citation and paste it into a set of <ref></ref> tags.
- Remove the {{Unsourced}} Research Note Box and save the changes, if there's just the {{Unsourced}} or {{Unsourced|Tennessee}} template it would be nice and very helpful if instead of leaving no template at all, you all could replace the {{Unsourced}} or {{Unsourced|Tennessee}} if it is appropriate and if there's no other template or Project covering the profile by the Tennessee Project template {{US History|sub-project=Tennessee}} .
- After saving, click the Challenge Tracker button and record the point.
- Return to step one and repeat until eyes glaze over.
In short...after adding a source to a profile and saving you will notice this field click Challenge tracker
It Takes you to this field, select Source-a-Thon (it will be there during the Source-a-Thon) and when done click add action..that's all :)
Tennessee Resources
