Is there a way to keep family groups together in a One Name Study?

Question

There are a couple of us that are working on the Curtis One Name Study and now that we have them divided by States, the family groups have been separated as well, and what a few of us want to know is if there is a way to create a category(ies) within our Curtis One Name Study that would allows us to have a family group together. (Not every Curtis Family that migrated to the United States is related to each other.)

In my particular Curtis Family it would be small, but there are others that are larger and it would be easier for ancestors of those families.

Answer 1

You can make a descendants of category for lines and use the name study in the category name. Something like [[Category:Curtis Name Study, Descendants of Curtis-1234]] or [[Category:Curtis Name Study, Descendants of Joseph Curtis]].

Comments

That's exactly what I did with my One Name Study for Family Groups! Start with the earliest person in a family group with the surname in your study.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Descendants_of_Andr%C3%A1s_Stermenszky

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Thanks Natalie and Maggie :)

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Shouldn't it be the other way around? i.e.

Unsourced Profiles, Stermenszky Name Study

rather than Stermenszky Name Study, Unsourced Profiles

otherwise all the subcategories will end up under 'S':
Stermenszky Name Study, Unsourced Profiles
Stermenszky Name Study, Hungarian Profiles
Stermenszky Name Study, English Profiles
Stermenszky Name Study, Prussian Profiles

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Well, other "Unsourced Profiles" categories for places are [[Category:Place, Unsourced Profiles]] and [[Category:Project, Unsourced Profiles]] is also the way they're named.

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Absolutely.  If you look at the England Project's category page, they are ALL under E:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:England

But if you look at the Haywood Name Study, they come under their own letter, i.e. B for Bedfordshire, D for Devon, G for Gloucestershire etc:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Haywood_Name_Study

And in fact, that says to do it that way on the ONS Project page, which has been there forever (I think it was written by Alison Andrus a long time ago)
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:One_Name_Studies#Categorization_that_combines_a_surname_and_location

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Thanks for pointing that out, Ros and Natalie!