Team Virginia — 2019 Connect-a-Thon

Profile managers: Liz Shifflett [send private message], Deena Cross [send private message], Sandy Patak [send private message], Gurney Thompson [send private message], Elizabeth Coltrane [send private message], Mindy Silva [send private message], Pam Fraley [send private message], Michelle Rhodes [send private message], Lydia Holland [send private message], Ellen Steger [send private message], Rosetta Link [send private message], Janie Kimble [send private message], Dorothy O'Hare [send private message], Amanda Torrey [send private message], and Rhonda Smith-Payne [send private message]

Virginia Connectors

Welcome to the 2019 "Summer Connect-a-Thon"!

The Leaders for the 2019 Virginia Summer Connectors Team are:

• Co-Captain: Mindy Silva
• Co-Captain: William Foster

We're your head cheerleaders, but I encourage everyone to play cheerleader to fellow members of Team Virginia! You can chat and cheer on our Google Chat Group.

The purpose of the Connect-a-Thon is to connect all the loose branches around WikiTree to our main Global Family Tree, which is what the Connectors Project does all the time.

Check out the main Team Virginia Summer Connect-a-Thon page for details on scoring and prizes.

Last update Monday 8am EDT / 12pm UTC

Stickers

{{Recognition Sticker|category=team membership |image=US_State_Flag_Images-49.png|imagetext=Connectors |text={{#profile:RealName}} is a member of the Virginia Connectors Team for the [[Project:Connectors|Connect-a-Thon]] Challenge, Summer 2019}}

produces this: (just copy and paste to your profile)

... is a member of the Virginia Connectors Team for the Connect-a-Thon Challenge, Summer 2019

The "official" Connect-a-Thon sticker is out now also:

{{Connect-a-Thon|team=The Virginia Connectors|year=2019|profiles=123}} will create this sticker:

... ... ... participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon, and added 123 connections.

Are you working on West Virginia or Kentucky? Use this flag image instead:

West Virginia: US_State_Flag_Images-51.png

Kentucky: US_State_Flag_Images-20.png

Connect-a-Thon Links

• Team Virginia Google Chat Group.
• Main Team Virginia Summer Connect-a-Thon page. (This has information about the Connect-a-Thon in general)
• Team Virginia's Summer Connectors 2019 page (Book mark this page you are on to see updates during the Thon)
• Team Virginia's G2G Chat
• WikiTree Video Chat Hangouts schedule

Members

1. Mindy Silva, Co-Captain: registration post
2. William Foster, Co-Captain: registration post
3. Rhonda Smith-Payne: registration post
4. Sandy Patak: registration post
5. Gurney Thompson: registration post
6. Liz Shifflett: registration post
7. Elizabeth Coltrane: registration post
8. Lydia Holland: registration post
9. Pam Dale: registration post
10. Robin Rainford: registration post
11. Janie Kimble registration post
12. Dorothy Truslow registration post
13. William Vaughan registration post
14. Rosetta Link registration post
15. Ellen Steger registration post
16. Terry Rae Underwood registration post
17. Deena Cross registration post
18. Linda Simmons registration post
19. Mike Patak registration post
20. Michelle Rhodes registration post & 2
21. Amanda Moyer registration post
22. MaryAnn Thomas registration post
23. Thomas Bruce registration post
24. Sarah Dunn registration post
25. Karol Jacob registration post

Goals

(Name, Goal, Needs help, Offering help)

1. Thomas Bruce
2. Elizabeth Coltrane
3. Deena Cross Personal Watchlist, No
4. Pam Dale Find-A-Grave account with 300 people. Goal 150/300, No, No
5. Sarah Dunn
6. William Foster Surnames from Marriages of Some Virginia Residents, No, Yes
7. Lydia Holland
8. Karol Jacob
9. Janie Kimble
10. Rosetta Link Personal Watchlist, No
11. Amanda Moyer
12. Mike Patak , WV Names - Hamrick Gregory Bennett - Goal 100, No
13. Sandy Patak WV - Webster/Randolph/Lewis Counties Cemeteries 500+ names, No
14. Robin Rainford
15. Michelle Rhodes
16. Liz Shifflett Noland surname in Virginia, No
17. Mindy Silva Add family to existing Fairfax County marriages, Yes, Yes
18. Linda Simmons
19. Rhonda Smith-Payne
20. Ellen Steger Hodges connection, Yes, No
21. MaryAnn Thomas
22. Gurney Thompson Cemetery Study, 400+ names of 1500 added, many unconnected, Yes, No
23. Dorothy Truslow
24. Terry Rae Underwood
25. William Vaughan Add Bedford Boys family members

Plan of Action

The cut-off date for registering is midnight on Wednesday, July 10, 2019. This means there is plenty of time to tell a friend and grow our team (wink, wink). It's going to be a fun weekend adding profiles to the existing ones. Check out the tutorial!!

Help?

To talk to "just us", post a comment to this page or, use our G2G post where we can chat. You can post separately to G2G for a wider audience: tag your question with virginia and connectors at least. For questions about the Connect-a-Thon, use the tag connect-a-thon.

How Does this Work?

• Try the tutorial: Click HERE (This isn't a "walk-through." It's various help sections to make adding profiles easier)

• Check your own Unconnected Profiles

• Work from your Watchlist (My WikiTree menu in upper right then Watchlist). Click on "Edit Date" to move the oldest to the top and start looking for profiles that need parents, siblings or children!

• Work from the Virginia Unconnected list. You don't need to connect anything here but it is a good place to find Virginia ancestors. These aren't connected to our Global Tree so they most likely don't have children and siblings attached. (Also: West Virginia, and Kentucky)

• Work from an Unsourced List:
  • for Virginia
  • for West Virginia
  • or for Kentucky.

Hey - this way you get to help two things at once!

• Help out other states with DBE 611 (Birth location in lower case)

• However you do it just add, add, add! As long as you are connecting a relative to any existing profile on WikiTree you get a point for each one.

• Check out the main Virginia Connect-a-Thon page for ideas, scoring, prizes and winners.

• Additional pointers in the Participation Instructions section of the WikiTree Connect-a-Thon help page.

2019 Connect-a-thon Team Virginia MEMBERS & STATS

If you are new and come up with a nickname of your own you want to use let Mindy or William know. If you are returning and want a new nickname for this Thon, let us know as well. If you have a picture you want used and it isn't on the chart let us know. It doesn't have to be your profile picture, it just needs to be on WikiTree somewhere. Let's have fun again!

List Number	Photo	Name	Position	See your contributions	Total Profiles added
1		William Foster	Captain Cool	See your work	240
2		Mindy Silva	Gedcom Granny	See your work	401
3		Rhonda Smith-Payne	Gurusgal	See your work	37
4		Sandy Patak	Steady Sandy.... Speedy Sandy	See your work	1,152
5		Gurney Thompson Jr	Gentle Gurney	See your work	237
6		Liz Shifflett	Cheerleader	See your work	87
7		Elizabeth Coltrane	A fun 'nic'	See your work	10
8		Lydia Holland	Fabulous Lydia	See your work	138
9		Pam Dale	Profiler Pam	See your work	690
10	Image:Rainford-19-1.jpg	Robin Rainford	Rainy Robin	See your work	20
11		Janie Kimble	A fun 'nic'	See your work	15
12		Dorothy Truslow	A fun 'nic'	See your work	0
13	Image:Vaughan-3997.jpg	William Vaughan	Gallant Will	See your work	34
14		Rosetta Link	Racing Rosetta	See your work	178
15		Ellen Steger	Elegant El	See your work	205
16		Terry Rae Underwood	A fun 'nic'	See your work	18
17		Deena Cross	Dazzling Deena	See your work	97
18		Linda Simmons	Lovely Linda	See your work	112
19	Image:Patak-6.jpg	Mike Patak	Mikey	See your work	160
20		Michelle Rhodes	Magical Michelle	See your work	89
21		Amanda Moyer	Amazing Amanda	See your work	83
22		MaryAnn Thomas	Marvelous MaryAnn	See your work	42
23		Thomas Bruce	A fun 'nic'	See your work	21
24		Sarah Dunn	Smilin' Sarah	See your work	1
25		Karol Jacob	A fun 'nic'	See your work	0

Note: These totals are updated manually by me - once an hour as I can (if I'm awake). On the hours there are Video Chats I may not update these. They are not automatically updated, see the Tracking Page if you want your current total. Thank you for your patience! And Rock On Team Virginia!!!

Last updated: Monday 8am EDT / 12pm UTC (Final Points)

(If the main tracker isn't updating: As long as you are adding profiles they will count - and will show up when Aleš restarts the main tracker.)