Hi WikiTreers,
Will you join our Data Doctors Challenge for this week?
Aleš does something extraordinarily clever as part of his WikiTree+ data analysis: When a profile on WikiTree can be connected to a memorial on Find A Grave, the data here is compared with the data there. If there's a discrepancy, he alerts us to it. Sometimes Find A Grave has a birth date or location or a death date or location that's missing from WikiTree. These are golden nuggets for those of us who are obsessed with making profiles as complete as possible. This isn't mechanical, thoughtless work. This isn't like fixing typos. A genealogist needs to look at each one of these items and consider whether the information on Find A Grave is reliable. A lot of the information there isn't better than what we have here. Often it's worse. Just like on WikiTree, the information on Find A Grave all comes from its members.
Generally speaking, if there is a photo of the grave and you can see the information written in stone it's worth using. Even then, gravestones aren't always correct. If the gravestone is the source for a date, location, etc., make that clear in a source citation. What do you say? Will you help us sift through the mountain looking for the golden nuggets? Here is the table of suggestions to investigate. Please post here to say you're participating. That helps avoid working on the same items at the same time, and gives us the opportunity to cheer each other on. Also post here if you have any questions. Find A Grave suggestions aren't as easy to use as some of the other types, so if you're not sure about something, just ask. Thanks! P.S. Here's a tip: There is an easy way to put a link on a WikiTree profile to a Find A Grave memorial that will always work, even when Find A Grave changes their website (as they did recently). It's like this, where 1234 is the Find A Grave memorial number: == Sources == <references /> See also: * {{FindAGrave|1234}}
https://tinyurl.com/weekchallenge spreadsheet link
All updated and ready to go. Below is a link on the G2G post explaining how to do Data Doctor Challenges with screenshots.
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/631771/data-doctor-challenge-guide
Challenge Tracker
I'll be participating. Thank you
Not sure how to link but here goes: http://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTWebUser/Suggestions.htm?UserID=17902436 It's the top one - Hampton
Thank you. It's been driving me nuts!
Mark it as a False error.
There isn't a check done of the details on the FindAGrave website done every week. So the FindaGrave suggestions are checked against a list from the FindAGrave website that may not have been checked since https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22179198 was updated with the correct 1791 date.
I will do some. Thanks.
