Dec/Jan 2018/2019 Connectors Challenge

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Hello Connectors!

Let's begin another month of connecting the unconnected across WikiTree. We'll get the project page updated soon with last month's tallies, but for now, it's time to start connecting!

Thanks to all of you who participated in last month's Challenge. If you haven't checked out the Connectors Chat page, you should! There is a lot of chatter there about what everyone is working on.

Now on to the Connectors Challenge Rules:

  1. Answer here to let us know you're in for this month, but use the tracker to record your connections.
  2. Pick any WikiTree profile which is not connected to the main tree. (In other words, that profile does not have a box at the bottom of the page, showing the degrees of separation from Queen Victoria etc.) You can find unconnected profiles using the Unconnected People tool, the Unconnected Profiles category, the Unlinked_Profiles category, or you may run across an unconnected profile in the regular course of your research.
  3. Add a new or connect an existing profile for a first degree relative (parent, spouse, sibling, or child) of the person on that profile as a link toward a connected profile.
  4. Add a source to the profiles involved in the connection showing the relationship between the two profiles. This could be a census record listing a family, a marriage record, a death record listing the spouse and/or parents, a birth record listing the parents, or any source which demonstrates that the two profiles should be connected to one another. Your source needs to be cited as closely to the style recommended on our Sources help page as possible to count towards your tally.
  5. If you are adding a new profile, it is a good idea to add a second, independent source for that profile. (For example, if you add a spouse because of a marriage record, then look for a birth or death record for the spouse you're adding.) (Note: The reason for this rule isn't to discourage you from adding people. But as you have probably already learned, even official documents frequently misspell names, so adding an independent confirmation of the name helps to save other researchers time in trying to find records that don't exist, because the person's real name was not the same as showed up in the linking document.)
  6. The tally is of branches/unconnected profiles connected to the WikiTree tree, not sources or profiles added. That said, if you can add a number of sources to a profile, all the better, and sometimes a connection will take a number of profiles to get added. Every one is different, and each one makes our tree better. 
  7. If either or both profiles you connect did not have good sources before and were already on WikiTree, then you can also count those sources towards the Sourcerers Challenge.
  8. All participants who do not already have a Connectors Project badge, will get one. Winners each month-the person with the most connections made to the tree-will get the Connection Challenge Winner badge, and the Top Connector each month with get a spiffy template to wear on their profile page. Stats will be kept on the Connectors Challenge page, just like we do for the Sourcerers Challenge.            
     

Ask questions in the comments section here. Thank you! 

 Follow your standings in the Connector Tracker.

WikiTree profile: Space:Connectors_Challenge

in Requests for Project Volunteers by Bob Keniston G2G6 Pilot (258k points)

Bob, the link to the tracker leads to the tracker for April/May. Here's the correct one: http://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/connectorschallenge/20181215/User.htm

I would like to participate in this challenge.
I do not have the time to participate in this one, but I have a profile that you can work on:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Miller-37788

I live in rural northern California, in the redwoods. He has a grave here, that is not in any of the local graveyards. I found the grave when I was about 12 years old, and asked the local "old timers" about it. Only one knew anything, and he said that supposedly, the guy died of syphilis and they were afraid to bury him in the graveyard, for superstitious reasons.

The headstone is redwood, and is getting really hard to read. I will go by, and copy off the info, and post it on his profile sometime this week. My memory is "William D. Miller, born in Maine. Died (something, something) 1890, aged (something, something, something). I found some sources for him as an adult; he voted; he lived in logging areas, so he may have been a logger. Have not been able to connect him to any family.

Not joining in but those who are I would love to get this family connected. A remarkable military history That was noted in Rockford paper a few years ago and one of the first women doctors in Missouri.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunter-12980

Not joining in the game, but regularly find children to connect to their parents, or vice-versa.  laugh

There appears to be a problem. When I made a new profile a link to FamilySearch was made which when clicked takes you to my FamilySearch profile. I spoke with another project member and the same thing happened to her. It does give the correct ID number for the new person but the link doesn't take you there. Thanks for the help - Lucy
Hi, Lucy,

Can you post a link to the profile that you're having a problem with?

20 Answers

+5 votes
Please count me in.
by Peggy Moss G2G6 Mach 2 (26.0k points)
+4 votes
Also count me In too.
by Living Barnett G2G6 Pilot (498k points)
+5 votes
I'll see what I can get done this month.
by Deb Durham G2G Astronaut (1.1m points)
+5 votes
Count me in. I need something new.

Judy
by Judy Bramlage G2G6 Pilot (208k points)
+3 votes
I'm giving it a try.  Not knowing any better on 15 Dec I responded on the Nov/Dec request, which probably didn't count so I'll try again to get in.
by Jennifer Lapham G2G6 Mach 1 (16.3k points)
I just finished connecting Lapham-305 to Lapham-275 by creating Lapham-698 and -699.  I don’t see any way of getting to the tracker after making the final connection.  Did I miss something?
+3 votes
Count me in :)
by Frances Weidman G2G6 Mach 5 (53.2k points)
+2 votes
I'm going to work on this in my spare time, haha.  We'll see how many get done.
by Randall Gardner G2G6 Mach 3 (36.6k points)
I'm having trouble finding the tracker for this.  How is this challenge tracked?
+2 votes
I'll have another go. I don't think I really got the hang of it last month.
by Peter Cameron G2G6 Mach 2 (24.9k points)
+2 votes
Is it to late to volunteer?
by E J Gooden G2G6 Mach 1 (12.7k points)
No it isn’t.
+2 votes
I'm willing to try some.!
by E J Gooden G2G6 Mach 1 (12.7k points)
+2 votes
I'll take part again this month. Thanks
by Corina Seal G2G6 Mach 1 (12.2k points)
+2 votes
I'll give it a go
by Pat Kelynack G2G6 Mach 4 (46.4k points)
+2 votes
This is hard!  The first two I looked at are still-born children with living parents.  The third is locked--untouched since 2010.

Added:  After two more fails, I picked an orphan and added his sister and both parents (all new profiles--lots of reserach and writing that has taken me all day and I'm still not finished).  That counts as one connection of unconnected, right?
by Kathy Rabenstein G2G6 Pilot (315k points)
edited by Kathy Rabenstein
+1 vote
Late to the game but I will see what I can do.
by Kandita Post G2G6 Mach 4 (46.6k points)
+2 votes
I have gone as far as I feel comfortable with the Cadwallader line in Delaware, York and Northumberland counties, Pennsylvania.  Can someone tell me how I can remove myself as profile manager?  I am totally uninterested in this family other than having done a lot of work.
by Kathy Rabenstein G2G6 Pilot (315k points)
Kathy,

On the profile page, hit the Privacy tab, go down the page and hit the Remove yourself button.

Bob
Thank you so much.  I tried many different ways and just couldn't find it.
+2 votes
Count me in please : )
by Jayme Arrington G2G6 Pilot (180k points)
+2 votes
Please count me in. This will be my first time so till working out how it works. So from what I understand I only count it once it has be able to connect to the existing tree.
by Sarah Black G2G6 Mach 1 (12.6k points)
Sarah,

That’s right.

Bob
+2 votes
I'm going to try this.
by Lucy Robinson G2G6 Mach 2 (22.1k points)
+2 votes
I'm new but I will try some.
by Ginger Lawton G2G6 Mach 2 (22.1k points)
+2 votes
I will try again, and I’m finding it very hard to connect any of my own family!

Any help with the Kunst line ( I am Kunst-114) or the Moeckel line (Grandma is Moeckel-64) is very appreciated!

Trisha
by Trisha Kunst G2G2 (2.4k points)

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