Any plan to introduce a G I Brides category?

Question

Is there any intention in the Migration Categories to introduce a category for G I Brides?  I have examples of individuals who married US servicemen and settled in the USA at the end of WW2.  Thanks for your thoughts.

Comments

Seems GI brides come from all sorts of countries, so not sure how useful it would be.  The fact that they married a GI returning home seems a bit reductionist to define them by.  Should be a bio item, certainly, but a category?  I don't think so.

Answer 1

The first question we would need to ask is, what genealogical benefit would we get from such a category?

While being (or marrying) a war bride may be of interest to note in a profile, or possible recognized with a sticker, would a category help to further genealogical research in any way? Would the category serve as a place where family members, or ancestors / descendents, could be grouped together and later connected to the family tree?

Comments

If stickered profiles can be searched in the same way as categories, a sticker would do just as well.  Any comments?

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Stickers can be searched, just not in the same way that a category can be. For example, stickers can provide a list of all profiles that use that template (see the Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Vietnam War page).

As an alternative, you can also use WikiTree+ to search for all occurrences of a template, even if special parameters (using the pipe key) are used. As an example, Sen. John Sidney McCain III uses the following template variation:

{{Vietnam War|branch=United States Navy|startdate=1958|units=VA-163, ''USS Oriskany'' (CVA-34)|enddate=April 1981|rank=Captain}}

Hilbert Hugh "Butch" Herron on the other hand uses the simple variation:

{{Vietnam War|branch=United States, Coast Guard}}

Even though the use of the template is vastly different, I can find them in a search through WikiTree+: https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=%7B%7BVietnam+War%7D%7D&MaxProfiles=500&SortOrder=Default&PageSize=10