Jan/ Feb 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)
edited by Bob Keniston
Dealing with GEDCOM data -

I try to clean this stuff up, but I have been putting a section in the Profiles "==GEDCOM Data==" under the sources to hold the source of the file.

but maybe it just needs to be another list under the ==Source== heading as one of the sources?

The GEDCOM info usually has links in it and I take them and format them as additional sources, but the original GEDCOM and source should be preserved somewhere since some can be tracked back to the origins.... ?

11 Answers

+7 votes
Okay, I'm in. This will be my first time as a Connector and my first Challenge. I may not be able to do a lot as I'm in the middle of moving, but I'll try to do a few. Looking forward to it.
by Robin Shaules G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
Robin,

Every little bit helps.

Bob
+6 votes
Count me in.  Is there a help page on how to properly record connections?
by Rick San Soucie G2G6 Mach 3 (30.6k points)
+6 votes
I'll have a go again.
by Peter Cameron G2G6 Mach 2 (24.9k points)
+5 votes
The tracker link is wrong. I tried changing the date and it didn't work. Can you please fix it ? Thanks
by N Gauthier G2G6 Pilot (286k points)
Problem has been fixed.
+5 votes
I’ll do it. Count me in.
by Gurney Thompson G2G6 Pilot (442k points)
+5 votes
Is it a terrible thing to orphan these profiles after doing the research and writing the bio?  

Since we are connecting people with no close relationship to us (not on our branch) and have no emotional connection, is it okay to orphan them in the hopes that a family member may adopt unhindered?

After I finish the bio, I have no interest in knowing if someone else makes changes to any of these profiles.  Or is orphaning someone seem as a terrible thing?
by Kathy Rabenstein G2G6 Pilot (315k points)
Kathy,

First of all, you don’t need to write a bio. Just source the info you do put in. Secondly, don’t feel bad about orphaning an unrelated profile. If you kept every profile you’ve worked on, your watchlist would be huge.
Thanks, Bob.  OCD compels me to write a bio.  These are souls who deserve to be remembered.  But you made me feel a lot better about abandoning them.
+3 votes
I am in for this sorry for being away since the source a thon but a lot had happened in real life for the Barnetts. Hopefully this year will be a lot better know since I have moved beside my sister in her old house on her 13 acre land.
by Living Barnett G2G6 Pilot (498k points)
+3 votes
I'm in again this month. I only came into last months challenge in the middle so will be good to be part of it from the beginning.
by Sarah Black G2G6 Mach 1 (12.6k points)
+3 votes
I'm in.  I am resuming Wikitree involvement and this is a good way to get more involved with this community as I am also in the Cemetery project as well.
by Kathryn Penner G2G6 Mach 6 (60.7k points)
+3 votes
I'll join the challenge for this month.
by Star Kline G2G6 Pilot (707k points)
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I just connected Cordelia Lutz Geist (Lutz-2244) by creating a profile for her husband's mother (Bertha Rustay Geist (Rustay-39) and linking her to her connected father, James Rustay (Rustay-38). I do not see any way to connect to the Challenge Tracker from the page where you add a parent or child, so I edited Bertha's bio so I could get to the Tracker.  But I get the message "For this challenges profile doesn't officially qualify."  How do I record that I made this connection?  Or is it not possible when you are creating a new profile to make the connection?

As I understand it, the actual connection doesn't trigger the counter.  Usually it is counting the people added to get to the link.  So when you created Rustay-39 that counts.  But the final connection does not.

Thanks for the explanation, Kathy.  I have not used the tracker for this challenge before, so I was not sure how it worked. I appreciate your response.
+2 votes
I'm very slow at this but I'd like to try again this month. I have a feeling that this will be something I try to do even when there is not a challenge. I love a good mystery and boy is this ever one.
by Lucy Robinson G2G6 Mach 2 (22.1k points)

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