Can I proceed with editing this Norwegian family's profiles?

Question

Just wanted to check in on some work I have started and make sure that I should proceed. During my data doctor work I came across this name error: Astrid Petrine (Bernhardsdatter) Freding Bernhardsdatter-1

I put in a request and the profiles of this manager were orphaned and I changed the typos in the names (they had / in them from the GED import). Then I cleaned up some of the profiles after their GED import including for Eliasdatter-37 where I removed a "category: Gedcom cleanup required" 

After that, I did some digging and found some Norwegian census info and added that (as well as Canadian sources for two of them). But then I thought I had better check before doing more.

Can someone have a look at the work I have done for some of the family and let me know if I should proceed or if you have any suggestions on this.

Thanks and sorry the long-winded question. (By the way, I am new to Norwegian genealogy but have been doing some for my son's paternal family tree.)

Peggy

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Leif's answer is great for your specific question on Norwegians. He's a good guy like that ;)

As for your general question, "Is it okay to add/correct these orphaned profiles"? Of course it is! Even if they're not orphaned! As long as you're adhering to good ethics and practices and contributing as a good faith effort, no one should have a problem with it. Notice I said should ;)

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Oh, don't worry -- I edit lots of profiles!

My biggest concerns were that I am still figuring out the Norwegian stuff and also did not want to step on any toes if these particular profiles were already on someone's radar.

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It is good to edit them. I have made  Norwegian ancestors that I need to edit and still add. I it is always helpful when others are also correcting and cleaning up the Norwegian orphans.

Deb

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I added a source for death date and funeral. Note that the name on gravestone is spelled differently.

Harald

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Thanks, Harald. I am going to check out that site, too for my other profiles!

Answer 1

I think it looks good. It's not how I'm doing biographies, but as long as you've got sufficiently detailed and precise sourcing, you can do it pretty much any way you want for me

I'd like to put the census data in a table, which I think would look a lot better than your linear and quite longish layout. Maybe I'll come around to give it a try.

It seems like you're quite familiar with Norwegian naming culture. Still, you may want to read our Naming Conventions guide.

regards, Leif

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Thanks, Leif. Can you point me to one of your profiles with a census table. Curious to see what it looks like!

Peggy

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I haven't used censuses like that. The only "real" nominative census in my period of research (1650-1850) is the 1801 census. I'll usually just pull individual data from it, not entire households, in a narrative form. That may change in the future.

I edited Bergitte's profile and made a table out of the 1891 data there, as an example. There's a very good help page for Wiki tables here at Wikipedia.

As you had marital status for the parents only, I filled out that column with the non-breaking space HTML entity, the   character.

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Thanks again! I had a look and it looks good, makes the info more compact. May have to give this a go for now on.

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wow! much cleaner looking than the html tags that I have been using for the same effect.

Answer 2

I try to do much the same for Icelandic profiles that I run across. Clean up name spelling errors, add Icelandic census data sources. GEDCOM imports can add quite a lot of garbage.