This month's theme will be surnames beginning with the letter "B".
Biography Builders Goal: To make profiles as complete as possible with well-written biographies and sources. You should research as much as you can find on a person, writing the information onto the profiles to create as complete a life story as you can for that person. Sourcing should be full citations. This includes adding categories and links to events and people connected to that profile and citing all those additions. See the first month for examples of how to participate.
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Thank you Bob
Sounds like fun 1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brahm-30 Peter Brahm DEFINED 2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brahm-27 Joseph John Brahm DEFINED 3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brahm-29 Catharine Brahm DEFINED 4.https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bard-320 Julia Bard DEFINED 5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brandt-2203 Harry Dick Brandt 6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowden-2651 Leslie James Bowden 7.https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brahm-27 Joseph John Brahm 8. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brahm-44 Peter Joseph Brahm
9. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brahm-47 Theresa Catherine Brahm
10. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baker-15411 Arabella Baker
11. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baker-28700 Elmer Baker
12. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baker-36035 Russell LeRoy Baker
That's good timing as I just landed on a family with the name Butt lol.
Starting with family names and profiles from sourcing:
1) Thomas Reuben Whitfield Burn
2) Sarah Bachell added hospital records
3) Richard Batchell
4) Thomas Batchell
5) Phinias/Vincent Bachel
6) Thomas Batchell
I'm in (I hope) good time for me to work on the Burrows
Change of plan, working on a bunch of Billings I adopted in the last month.
1) William Billings III-Added more references, put the little bit of bio that was there into my style, added the children, military info, prof and Will information with inline citations-Genealogically defined
2) Hannah (William) Billings-Serious research involved in this one (conflated profile). Don't even know if this one should count. Added references and LOTS of research notes.
3) Hannah (Billings) Clark-part of the serious research mentioned above (had to do 4 other profiles first to get this one done correctly, attached to the correct husband, corrected marriage date, corrected date of birth, corrected date of death, added correct children and copy of first four pages of husbands will.
4) Joseph Billings Sr-what a mess , LOTS of notes, inline citations added, image added, will recipients added. Can't create profile for 2nd wife because of conflicting information (noted in Joseph's profile, and left note about what is wrong with the first attached wife profile on that profile.
5) Joseph Billings Jr-Full biography with notes about discrepancies with inline citations, images and partial docs attached, genealogically defined.
6) Elder Silas Burrows-Complete except for profession in biography (enough there to say it's done, I just want to do more with it.) Added both marriages including dates, locations, added his birth, children and death info with inline citations, if I remember right this was also a GEDcom clean up. This one will be my last one for this month.
I'm in! This will be interesting!
I just finished yesterday and the day before a whole bunch of Blodgetts, missed that one. But I found a stray maybe ancestor this morning
I'm in this month.
1. Robert Black, Sr.
Count me in! It will be a busy month but I should be able to do a few.
I have lots of B’s buzzing around in my tree, so I’ll be writing some bios for this challenge.
1. Abijah Bemis
I'll try again this month - some possibilities: Annie Batton, Ezra Battey, Edward Seymour Bander, Hermine Hansen Butler...
1. Merton Bander
I hope to get some done this month - will have lots to choose from in my family as my maiden name is Boy.
1. Mary Ethelwynne (Axtell) Boyd - done
2. Daniel Boyd - done
3. My Great-Grandfather John Aiken Boy - in progress
I shall do a few again this month B for Brrr it's chilly out there:) 1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blackman-1710 The following have all had work done during and after the Source-a-Thon. All have had needs categories added to keep them on the Surrey lists for more attention. They are all improved but not defined 2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baigent-12 Mr 3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-24676 Mrs Baigent 4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baigent-11 5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baigent-13 6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baigent-14 7. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baigent-9 8. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baigent-8 9. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baigent-10
10. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Balchin-8
11. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Balchin-15
12. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Banner-136 and wife
13. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wood-9874
14. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Batten-629 need to verify marriage
15. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Batten-630
16. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bennel-1 and hubby
16A. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glaze-114
17. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-26502 and wife
18. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bygrave-108
19. Son https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-26503
20. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burbridge-62 - Son
20A. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burbridge-63 is wife of Burbridge-62 requested pm to change name born with to Simmonds name on marriage certificate. PM added an earlier marriage to profile so LNAB is now Grantham. Added 1901 & 1911 census and found birth record to confirm LNAB current profile is https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Simmons-11333 which will change again when PM changes LNAB again. Profile has now be merged into https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Grantham-783
21. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burbridge-64 Post ged com clean and 1901 census added
22. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burbridge-65 / Post ged com clean and 1901 census added
23. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baitup-17 / Post ged com clean and census editing done
24. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burford-223
25. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bythewood-108
26. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bythewood-109 only record found was son's christening
27. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bythewood-121
28. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bolton-685 & hubby
28A https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cannon-1051
29. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bolton-686
30. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bolton-687 Cleaned up biography - unable to confirm the sources found
31. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnard-2288 sources added but needs more work
32. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Balchin-9
33. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whitbourn-1 - Mrs Balchin
34. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Balchin-5 - Post gedcom clean 1881 census added and some data converted to text
35. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Balchin-10 - Post gedcom clean - add birth record with some text added with research notes and needs categories
36. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Balchin-14 Post gedcom clean and sourced with some text added with research notes and needs categories
37. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Buddle-50 - Working on this family group
http://Sept./Oct. Biography Builders - Surnames beginning with the letter "B."
1. Bonnie Joan (Mullins) Barlow [Mullins-4460]
2. Albert "A. J." Joseph Barlow [Barlow-3329]
3. James Sidney Barr [Barr-3463]
4. Susannah (Yearwood) Barr [Barr-3462]
5. Daniel Wayne Bunting
6. Andrea Bunting
7. Christina Bunting
8. Eric Bunting
9. Daniel James Bunting
10. Sandra Bunting
FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES COMPLETED. That was fun. I'd like to help write more. Confused where to find other "B's" surnames that need biographies. I'm here if anyone needs &/or wants help with their "B's" surnames. I'll check back. Hopefully, I can find my way back here. So many tags, etc. I hope whoever is reading this, can please let admins know it's not simple enough. It's fine. Just not getting any younger and likes it simple. Have a beautiful day everyone.
Sincerely,
Paula Ann Hawkins-Reinke