Update: Scan-A-Thon is on; Nor'Easters are in!

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We are now in the first ever Scan-A-Thon where you scan in photos and documents on profiles to help increase the look and the sources for these profiles. There is a limit of 10 uploads to each profile.

We party runs until Monday, January 14, at 8 AM (ET). (Eastern Standard Time is GMT -5.) There will be video chats every few hours with updates on how the event is going and prize drawings.  Winners get to choose between a Scan-a-Thon t-shirt of coffee mug.

This is the Official Nor'Easter thread for the event. Please post with what you are doing. Thanks!

Team and user tracker.

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we are now just over a month out. I hope everyone is gathering their documents up. Remember if you scan and upload a document to add some type of background info for it so we know what it is and where it came from.

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It's still early yet but we already have 11 people on our team. :)

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We are now about 3 weeks away and have 12 confirmed and a couple possible members. Get those photos and documents ready. Call your family for them before that Christmas visit. ;)

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Happy New Year everyone. We are currently at 14 members with a few new recruits added. Feel free to ask questions, chat, tell us about you, etc. The more people the merrier so feel free to snag other people too. :D

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Strategies? Do people do pre planning? I need something to get my mind off a boat load of personal issues.

Do 1700s and 1800s newspaper clippings count if they are digital.

What about digital dead Fred photos? I am really good at sleuthing pictures with a small amount of clues. I love that kind of challenge.

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{{Scan-a-Thon|team=Nor'Easters|year=2019}}

See the space page for sticker details.

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Hi anonymous. The name change threw me. Digital clippings, online photos, scanned documents, all are fine as long as it is either not copyrited or you own the rites to use it. Remember, only 10 per profile count so don't find 50 for one and none for any other profiles.

As far as things like census records, if you scan through the census microfiche at a library and then get a printout yourself then it can count. If you find it transcribed on Ancestry or something, it won't.

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Can someone tell me what "Deck Duty" means?  I guess I'm on it tomorrow!

Shannon Caruso

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Fancy term for swabbing the decks. You want a mop or a scrub brush? LOL

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 Ok, Steve!

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6 hours till GO TIME!!! Get your scanners warmed up!! 

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Good morning, Nor'Easters! I'm getting started now.

I've got a yearbook that belonged to my grandmother. Lexington, Massachusetts, Class of 1937. Between this and a handful of photos from an old album that I never finished scanning (on my desk for about two years now!) I will be busy.

Update: Already had to restart my computer. Trying to do too many things all at once ... :-)

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thank you Steven 

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Hi everyone on the Nor'Easter Team!  I've been busy, too, scanning and uploading but have quite a bit more to go.  I found that I needed to expand my tree to include my great aunts and uncles, whom I have photos of,so I'm busy with that, too.  I have to run, but I'll be back in a little while.  The weather is bad here today, so a good day for computer work!  

Shannon Caruso

Tijeras, New Mexico

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Going through piles of old family documents and albums. May end up being outside the Northeast, but I'm looking to add some quality stuff.

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That's no problem. We tend to cater to our area but the bigger goal is enriching the whole tree. And it all counts.

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Many of my dad’s side are in the Vincennes area, and I ran across this page in the Vincennes paper talking about 1924 factories which I found interesting from the perspective of industrial revolution. I dunno if that makes people curious like it does me, but here you go http://knoxcounty.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/GetPdfFile?36041098#pdfjs.action=download - I love reading old newspapers.

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From the leaderboard:

• Dawn Ellis: 72
• Marion Walter: 35
• Amy Wiemer: 21
• T. Crewe: 16
• Shannon Measaw: 16

Go, Nor'Easters!

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Help!!  I am too tired to be doing this and I put a photo on the wrong Elias Murray (there are a number of them and I mixed them up).  What do I do???

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Can you delete the one that is wrong and re-upload it to the right one???

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Look at what Brian has done!

• Brian M. Lamothe: 166
• Dawn S. Ellis: 72
• Marion Walter: 41
• Amy Wiemer: 26
• Anonymous T. Crewe: 23
• Shannon Measaw: 23
• Caryl E. Ruckert: 17

Go Nor'Easters. I'm back in action now for a couple hours myself.

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That's what I mean - I can't find any way to delete it. Maybe this morning I can find it....

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Still working, but I am a tortoise compared to some of the folks in the scan a thon. I don’t know how a person adds that much. I have to be methodical.

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Howdy y'all, yeah, I know, but most of my ancestors/relatives are from the Northeast! Sorry I'm late, life had other plans for me the past two days!

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You are probably like me and get distracted. Get the horse blinders on. LOL

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I want to make a page for unidentified photos, but I'm not sure how to name it - with my surname since they are my photos? Or do I use the surname of the family from which the photos came - Pike, my great-grandparents?

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I'm guessing either would work but if you make it with your name and leave it open you could get help from people with ANY photos you upload there instead of needing a new space page for every family.

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Thanks, I was kind of thinking asking those lines

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How did we do yesterday?

Thx,

Shannon

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http://prntscr.com/m78z2c  Link for screenshot

	7	884
Brian M. Lamothe - Lamothe-185 History	1	289
Chris I. Whitten - Whitten-1 History Captain	2	256
Dawn S. Ellis - Ellis-6095 History	3	77
Amy Wiemer (Forstrom) - Forstrom-18 History	4	54
Anonymous T. Crewe (Helderman) - Helderman-102 History	5	52
Shannon Measaw aka Alderson, Caruso - Measaw-4 History	6	50
Marion Walter (Moore) - Moore-9352 History	7	41
Caryl E. Ruckert (Short) - Short-3582 History	8	24
Robin D. Kabrich - Kabrich-1 History	9	23
Karen L. Fuller (Maher) - Maher-273 History	10	8
Scott F. McGrath - McGrath-1683 History	11	4
Judi A. Stutz - Stutz-25 History	12	4
Tina M. Chase (Schoonover) - Schoonover-723 History	13	2

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Thanks!!

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You realize that is from the team and user tracker link at the top of the page right?

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Nope, I didn't!  But I can truly say I learned a LOT about this website this weekend!!

Thx!

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sourcing_Primer_-_Instructional

Is an excellent sourcing primer. Hope that helps.

Answer 1

The page says only the first 10 pictures count in the challenge.Help page

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Only 10 images per profile

WikiTree isn't meant for storing large collections of family photos. If everyone scanned all their childhood photos and put them on WikiTree we couldn't remain a free website. Other websites are designed for photo storage. We are a genealogy website.

Therefore, we have made the rule that only the first 10 uploads to a profile count. That is, if you're uploading more than 10 photos of the same person, only the first 10 will count toward your Scan-a-Thon score.

Thus a tactful way of saying "please don't upload your whole album of photos to your own profile." Yes, you can put 11 or 12 or 14. But only the first 10 will count to avoid 50 on each profile.

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10 per profile, I believe.

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My gosh, Steve. That was fast! Beat me by seconds.

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how do we know our photo uploaded is counted?

Is it any public ie do green padlock open profile or just white padlock open and what if I change profile status after I upload? 

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I have the same question because I've uploaded more than one photo today.

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If it successfully uploaded it should count up to 10 per profile or space page. The 11th photo uploaded to the same profile by you won't count.

The user and team tracker link is at the top.

Answer 2

Here's a Big ole Howdy Y'all, 

from the 

Southern Super Sweepers!

Happy Scanning!!!

Answer 3

please add me to your team. Thanks

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Cabin assignment has been made. Welcome aboard.

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Hi Dawn. Thanks for participating as a Nor'Easter! What are you going to be working on?

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Hi Chris, I am starting on Woodlawn Cemetery, PEI, then an assortment of family photos, most of which are east coasters.

Answer 4

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/747828/did-you-see-the-calendar-for-the-scan-a-thon-video-chats

This is the link to the G2G post about the video calendar.

So far we have 18 members listed.

Answer 5

 

Legacy Heirs would like to wish you a super Scan-a-thon! We are glad to be participating with you all.

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Good Luck Everyone from Team Missouri!

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 The Flying Dutchmen -Vliegende Hollanders wish you all a lot of fun and good luck this weekend !

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I have a box of family photos I'll be scanning. I'm tired of it taking up space on my desk and this event is the perfect way to encourage me to finally upload them for posterity.

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Sorry I have been so slow to start on the scan-a-thon.  I seriously misunderstood the rules when I signed up!  I am going to my mother's house in the morning and I will see if there are any photos that I can scan in tomorrow afternoon.

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Just do what you can when you can.

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... and away we go! (Sorry - Just got home from work!)

-Scott

Answer 11

Sadly, my neighbor just died so I'm going to be a little busy helping to get things sorted out. Best of luck on the Scan-a-thon.

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my mother in law just died also, and I had to put our elderly dog down. We were besieged with emotions, but I was glad I could do something to get outside of myself

Answer 12

You all are doing so well! I've discovered virtually everything I want to add images for are profiles that need serious cleaning up. I feel like I'm reinventing the wheel, but at least the profiles will be vastly improved. If not for the encouragement of this challenge I would have continued to procrastinate.

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I hate to encourage procrastination but Images, lady, THEN go back and fix them. LOL

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I'm actually having to create profiles! I'm not doing a "good" clean up, but some of these are flagged as having no sources and other artifacts from GEDCOM uploads when WikiTree was started. That's a LOT of procrastination.

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Good job so far everybody.  I think I'm done for this challenge.  I still have more unidentified photos and more recent snapshots that I could add, but I'm feeling a bit burnt out from staring at my computer screen all weekend.

Most of what I've added are professional photographs from between about 1850-1920.  I've tried to create and source profiles as I go; I feel like I've created a lot of connecting work for the future.

It's amazing to see what we've been able to do as a team so far and what the whole of WikiTree has accomplished.

Answer 14

Congrats on a fine finish and an amazing number of improvements to our global tree, from Team Acadia!

Answer 15

Congrats on a fine finish and an amazing number of improvements to our global tree, from Team Acadia!