Quest for Great-Grandparents: Orbital Edition (Stage 1)

Question

For this week's great-grandparent challenge, I have chosen space travellers. And, yes, I've already posted "Can you help connect a space traveller?", and thank you very much to all of you who have gotten so many of them connected to the main tree. All of these astronauts are connected to the main tree now (thanks to you), but none of them have a full set of great-grandparents listed on WikiTree. In order for us to add a list to the Relationship Finder Quick Links page, each person on it needs to have at least one line going back as far as their great-grandparents (and preferably all eight great-grandparents). (If you're wondering why Neil Armstrong and Gus Grissom aren't on this list, they both already have full sets of great-grandparents listed on WikiTree.)

The task is to seek out, source, and add profiles for as many missing great-grandparents as you can find. As you take on an astronaut, and add a new great-grandparent, please post a message here, so we can keep track of how we're doing.

If you can add sources, photos, or biographies, add siblings, children, aunts, uncles, etc., or improve the profiles of these astronauts or their family members in other ways, so much the better!

If you run across an unsourced profile which is already on WikiTree and add one or more sources to it, you can count that source towards Sourcerers Challenge, if you're taking part in that. (And, if you happen to find an additional connection path for an astronaut whose family you're working on, that makes them all the better as a relationship finder!)

Name	Great-grandparents	Working on
Alan Bean	8!	Karen Tobo
Charles Brady	8!	Jennifer Robins
David M. Brown	6
Scott Carpenter	7
Sonny Carter	8!
Laurel Clark	2
Pete Conrad	8!
Gordo Cooper	4
Donn Eisele	4
Ronald Evans	4
C. Gordon Fullerton	1
John Glenn	8!	Margaret Summitt
Dick Gordon Jr.	2
Stanley David Griggs	8!	Isabelle Martin

Comments

P.S. I'm not a WikiTree Leader, and have no authority to assign points, credit, or anything like that. My intent with these challenges is for them to be a fun little break from whatever you're doing regularly. (Well, that, and preparing lists of different kinds of notables for the Relationship Finder Quick Links page.) There's no time limit, there are no prizes, and if you have fun finding and adding relatives, then you win. (And WikiTree wins in any case, because the more connected profiles we have, the better the tree is for everybody.)

P.P.S. If this challenge intrigues you, and you think you might like to try finding great-grandparents for other notable people so they can be added to the Relationship Finder Quick Links page, you can find other threads in this series on the How to increase a country's presence on WikiTree page.

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Donne Eisele's great grand-parents should not be private. Their Child was born in 1880, they must have been born before 1869.

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Their profiles have been opened up.

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Somebody found a second great-grandparent for Stanley David Griggs, leaving this challenge in 7th place in terms of percent complete at 42%. In terms of great-grandparents still to find, it's also in 7th place with 65.

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David M. Brown now shows another great-grandparent, and now Pete Conrad shows a full set, so that boosts this challenge into sole possession of seventh place, both in terms of percent complete, at 69.6%, and in terms of great-grandparents still to find, at 34.

Answer 1

John Glenn has his maternal ancestors ready to be connected; it's just that his mother's profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sproat-1 needs to be opened.  I have tried to contact the PM numerous times and gotten no response. 

Comments

Thank you for putting in that effort, Margaret. 

Have you gone through the Unresponsive Profile Managers procedure? 

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I have submitted the Unresponsive Profile Manager request today.

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John Glenn now has all 8 great-grandparents.  I adopted his mother's profile.

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Excellent! That moves this challenge up to fourth place in terms of percentage completed. (I put up a free-space profile with a chart so I could track them.)

Answer 2

Alan Bean has eight great-grandparents now.

Comments

Cool beans! (If you'll pardon the pun.) Thank you.

Answer 3

Working on Charles Brady 

•  added two more paternal great grandparents
•  Both Maternal Great Grandparents have been added

Comments

Thank you for that, Jennifer. Have you tried to contact the profile manager?

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No not yet, will work on that now

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I wasn't sure if there were any living children, so instead of opening the privacy, this morning I added the parents myself. All of them are open.

I thought about adding you to the trusted list. That would have been the better answer I think. Sorry if I spoiled your fun, Jennifer.

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Getting Charles up to the full set of great-grandparents boosts this challenge up to fifth place in terms of percent complete, at 47.3%. In terms of great-grandparents still to find, it's tied for third place, at 59.

Answer 4

Stanley David Griggs has the full set now.

Comments

Thank you, Isabelle! That leaves this challenge in eighth place (because several challenges have pushed past it).

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3 more great-grandparents added to David M. Brown. The remaining 3 are sort of identified, but because of the lack of sources on their LNAB (two were Norwegian immigrants, and the last is a woman with a completely unsourced maiden name), I'm refraining from creating their profiles.

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Thank you again, Isabelle! That leaves this challenge in eighth place in terms of percent complete, at 55.4%. In terms of great-grandparents still to find, it's in seventh place, with 50.

Answer 5

Sonny Carter has the full set now. Also added two for Scott Carpenter, who still has a great-grandmother missing (could not find a decent source for her maiden name).

Comments

Merci beaucoup, Isabelle! That leaves this challenge in eighth place in terms of percent complete, at 63.4%. In terms of great-grandparents still to find, it's in seventh place, with 41.

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Thanks. Can you please remove my name from opposite David M. Brown because really, I have done what I could, it would be much better if someone else (preferably with ability to research Norwegian immigrants) could take it from there.

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I have removed your name from David Brown. Should I add it to Sonny Carter?