Feb/Mar 2019 Connectors Challenge

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Hello Connectors!

Sorry for the late start, sooooo.

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 (263k points)

8 Answers

+7 votes
I'll try to do a few. Looking forward to it.
by Robin Shaules G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
+5 votes

I will try but I might not be able to use the tracker I wish I can put here on this answer here. This is my problem:

This is what I get every time for chrome, google, internet explorer, and Microsoft edge too.

This site can’t be reached

wikitree.sdms.si took too long to respond.

I have the same thing since I moved and it started when I got a new email address I think it started at the end of December or first of January of this year and I get all the time when I try to use the tracker. I cannot even get a list of what needs to be corrected even the list of errors even.
by Living Barnett G2G6 Pilot (502k points)
edited by Living Barnett
Linda, I'm guessing that your new ISP doesn't have very good DNS service.   There are a number of other options that you could use for DNS queries, and a number of them will give you faster connections than many ISPs do. Wikipedia has a list of options at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alternative_Internet_DNS_services
+6 votes
Sign me up again.
by Gurney Thompson G2G6 Pilot (452k points)
+6 votes
I'll have another go.
by Peter Cameron G2G6 Mach 2 (25.4k points)
+6 votes
I will try and do a few. Working on cemeteries atm and there may be some connections I can make to profiles already connected as I work to add the appropriate cemetery category to current profiles.
by Lianne Trevarthen G2G6 Mach 4 (46.6k points)
I’ll work on connecting some.
+5 votes
I do this all the time. I might as well start tracking.
by M Cole G2G6 Mach 8 (89.4k points)
+4 votes
Ah! I finally figured out how get the tracker to track a connection. I have to make the note on the unconnected end of the path, not on any of the profiles that I added to build the connection, and not on the connected end.

So I'm back.
by Greg Slade G2G6 Pilot (678k points)
+3 votes
I'm getting a late start, but I'll do some!
by Traci Thiessen G2G6 Pilot (294k points)

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