Team Virginia Spring Cleaners — 2019 Clean-a-Thon Chat

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This is a place where we can get to know each other, ask questions (by posting an answer this post), tell what areas we are working on and cheer each other on.

Feel free to post and introduce yourself to the others on the team.  

Here are some links you may find useful:

• 2019 Space page for Virginia Spring Cleaners 
• 2019 Spring Clean-a-Thon
• Spring Clean-a-Thon/Video Chats Schedule

I hope to see you in the video live chats.  

Thank you for volunteering to clean up profiles on our shared family tree. Check your Team Tracking page to see how your team members are doing.

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The Team can't do anything, and Ales is busy or sleeping and hasn't responded. He has his hands full on these weekends!

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Status server is back up!!

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Wow - 5th place. Way to go Team Virginia

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The Nor'easters are catching up, but we are still in 4th place right now and have almost 3,000 Suggestions fixed. Way to Go Team Virginia!!!

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We're in 4th place with 4,238 Suggestions fixed!!! Way to go Team Virginia!!!

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Wowsa!!!

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For your individual totals right now check the Team Tracking page.

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Heading over to the in-laws for Sunday dinner soon (they don't Wiki so I can't skip it lol).

The Team is over 8,000 WooHoo and WikiTree is almost 105,000. Wow!!!

Keep cleaning, or stretch your legs, or step away for a bit if you need to. You guys really rocked this and I'm proud to be a part of this team!

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Getting time out errors again today. I suspect that means that too many people are working at the same time. Not a bad problem to have, but still frustrating.

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It could just mean the servers are being rebooted.  It seems to be working fine now.  (I was getting timeouts too before.)

Answer 1

We are coming down to the final Sunday hours (or past it depending on where you are) of the Clean-a-Thon. I want to say 

Thank You!!! to each and every one of you for making this such a Fabulous cleaning experience! Team Virginia is at 7,673 right now and WikiTree passed 100,000. It's been a blast cleaning with old and new friends and I hope you all return in the fall for the Source-a-Thon. Until then.... Rock on!!!

Answer 2

I was on this team last year It will be my second Clean-a-Thon, and I've participated in the other Thons since then. I'm looking forward to working with y'all   GO Team Virginia!!

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Great to have you as a co-captain Mindy!

Answer 3

Hello Virginia I registered. Got room for one more. Sorry Nor-easters.

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Thanks for joining us Rosetta!

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No worries. You didn't list who and you didn't sign in. So I put your wiki-ID, and asked if you were going Virginia again or wanted to try a different team. At least I LOOK unlike other teams that just beg everywhere. LOL

Good luck, have fun, and let me know if the leaders want to have a team tab on the spreadsheet.

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Thank you Steven Tibbetts , Good Luck to you to.

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You're doing great Rosetta!

Answer 4

I just left a message to register. Too early to know how much time I will have, but I’ll do my best to contribute. I know Captain Foster will do a great job!! Question: Do I need a Data Doctors Badge to participate? - Bill

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Yay! Thanks for joining us again Bill! I'll get you signed up shortly.

Cheers, Liz

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No Data Doctors Badge required to participate.

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Glad to see you joining us again Bill

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Thanks, everyone. Team Virginia has wonderful people.

Answer 5

Hello team Virginia. Working list Ky 203-510 , 713-785 but will work on any really. Good Luck everyone.

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Thanks for your help Rosetta.

Answer 6

Hi All - I just posted on the Registration Page to signup for Team Virginia/West Virginia.  Unfortunately, I can only help out on Friday but I will focus on West Virginia Errors and DNA Errors.

Thanks!  Sandy

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Thank you Sandy! Every little bit helps 

Go Team Virginia!!

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Stop by on our chat page, and watch our progress on the Team page!

Answer 7

Just wanted to drop by the chat and say hey & wish everyone a FANTASTIC 2019 Clean-a-Thon experience. I'm not going to be online the first 2 days of the thon, and it's starting to get crazy for me already, so I thought I'd better do some advance cheerleading :D

Cheers, Liz

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Thanks Liz, we look forward to seeing you on Sunday.

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Thank you Liz! Looking forward to working with you again. Any and all cheerleading appreciated! 

Answer 8

I registered asking for Team Virginia. I can only clean on Friday for sure. I might be able to help a little on Sat. or Sun.

Are we assigned sections? I have never understood the spread sheet that data doctors uses. I'm pretty unschooled about some computer things.

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Hi Nancy, 

Glad to have you on the team! Every little bit helps, so just work on it when you can. No, you are not assigned sections. You can just message me and let me know where you want to clean, or post it on the Team page. If you send me your email I can add you to that page.

Mindy - Virginia Spring Cleaners Co-Captain

Answer 9

As a reminder to our new members, any profile containing one of these can not be edited for the Clean-A-Thon:

Tomorrow is the big day - I'm so excited!! 

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If you guys want your individual totals kept up on the Team page let me know. Right now I'm just updating the Team total and the WikiTree total. Just look for the numbers under this pic:

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Everything is working again. Check out the Virginia Team Tracking Page to see your individual score.

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Note to self:    

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LOVE it!

Answer 10

I'm getting ready for this now.  It is good to meet all of you.  I will be working from Colorado even though my roots are very Virginian/Marylander.

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Great to have you on the team Gurney!  I'm in California with most of my lines coming from Virginia.

Answer 11

Hi everyone...Unfortunately I'll be out of pocket all day Friday, but rearing to go for the weekend...

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We'll see you Saturday!

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Congrats again on winning the t-shirt!!

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Yay Calvin! Just saw Mindy's note that you won a t-shirt - pretty cool! And well-deserved! Last update I saw, you were 14th (individual ranking) with 1,428 dbes cleaned! Color me impressed (and SO behind LOL).

Answer 12

About 4 hours to go. Wishing your team all the best in the mad scramble for the next 72 hours. Just remember to have fun while we help make WikiTree better.I know Nor'Easters will be really busy.

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Thanks Steve!

Answer 13

Good morning Liz, Cal and Gurney - I see you all beat me to it  I had a last minute appointment this morning and am on a roll cleaning now

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Way to go Mindy!

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Hi William - glad to see you here

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Today is a work day for me, so I won't be around too much.

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No worries William - we'll see you over the weekend   Happy Friday!

Answer 14

Go Team Virginia! I was hoping to watch the kick-off but got distracted (lots to do today, which is why I'm supposed to be offline!)

Next Video Chat is 11, and I might try to sit in on that one. See the schedule at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Spring_Clean-a-Thon/Video_Chats

And I did contribute 1 (one) dbe correction... got an answer from the project about one of the profiles I manage & was able to resolve my last dbe (project box w/out project account - the box is now a sticker).

The table with links to check progress is at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Spring_Clean-a-Thon#Tracking_progress ... my favorite to track progress is

http://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/CleanAThon/TeamUser.htm

(Mindy - I sent an e-mail to Eowyn & Aleš asking to move "Captain" from my name to yours.)

Good luck & have fun everyone!

Answer 15

How do I join?

Pat

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Pat - I am SO sorry! It looks like you didn't register for the CAT this year (deadline was midnight the 24th). We'll miss you as a contributor to Team Virginia, but you can still work on cleaning database errors & watching the video chats etc.

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Will do!  Sorry I missed the deadline!

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No problem. See you next year! 

Answer 16

I think I finally have this figured out. I am tackling problems under "Biography". I will be able to work intermittently over the weekend. Good luck and happy spring cleaning to everyone!

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Every little bit helps Angela!! Glad to have you on the Team.

Answer 17

Awww, Aleš is so thoughtful!  
 

Answer 18

Oh My!! I was SO happy to have gotten my suggestions down to zero. Then this morning I see oodles of corrected DBEs in my Family Activity feed. What? Off to look at the changes. Oh definitely, those profiles needed correcting. How'd I miss them?

I figured it out. Did you know that the Suggestions returned when you click the link in the dropdown list under "My WikiTree" in the mini-menu at upper right on your profile only returns suggestions for profiles that you manage? I didn't! I'm off to check my watchlist for profiles that I'm only on the trusted list for to see what other suggestions I've missed!

Cheers, Liz

Answer 19

That's all tonight. Gotta get kids to bed for school. See everyone in Morning. Go Team Virginia!!

Answer 20

Well, another Clean-a-thon is past and we put a serious hurting on the suggestions. Nor'Easters would like to thank one and all for your participation. Good job all around.