Who should be included in a "German Roots" project?

Question

Someone recently tagged everyone in one of my ancestral German family lines with the "German Roots" icon, which states  so and so- "has German ancestors."  Obviously since so and so lived and died in Germany. Should all German relatives have such a tag?

Answer 1

Several years ago, there were several users who advocated placing the German Roots template on the profiles of everyone who lived in or had ancestors from Germany, but since then the use of templates has been clarified. Project box templates like that one are supposed to be used only on profiles that are managed by the project. It is, however, acceptable to use stickers for purposes like highlighting a person's nationality or ancestral roots. I don't know if there's a "German" sticker yet.

CONFESSION: After seeing your message, Daniel, I looked at your ancestry here to see if I could see where this German Roots template was being used. You have many German ancestors, and I quit looking before I found the branch with the German Roots template. However, I did see that you have quite a few ancestors who participated in the 18th-century Palatine Migration and are eligible for inclusion in the Palatine Migration project. I added the Palatine Migration project box template to some of their profiles. I didn't also add the project as an additional profile manager, but we might want to do that. Identifying profiles of people who were in that great wave of migrants is one of several steps that the project can take toward improving the genealogy of these migrants and their families.

Answer 2

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:German_Roots

This is the general guide lines I use - ideally the person who migrated over is the only person. This may be parents and children. Like my family the parents and some children came over so I tagged them. If the child is born in the states I did not tag them since there is alot of tagging happening. I also put the location they came from by tagging them into the correct state in germany if known.

With this being said if you do want all of the descendants in the list create the family name study and tag each person in it creating a one place to look.