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Jelena Eckstädt ist ein Mitglied des Deutschland-Projekts (Germany Project).
Jelena Eckstädt contributed a biography to the 2021 Canada Project Notables Biography Challenge.
Jelena Eckstädt solved 10 or more Unknowns in the October 2022 Unknowns Project Skeletons in the Closet Challenge.
When I don't know, I don't type in. End of discussion.
A basic profile with one source is better than no profile.
I am completely for sources, but sometimes, you don't have primary sources. Secondary sources are good too, as long as you type in where you found the stuff you claim.
When you message me about a profile, please add the WikiTree-ID of the profile you are talking about.
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My Space Page Vital Records of the British Churches on Madeira If you want to add profiles or connect existing profiles, go ahead
Jelena Eckstädt participated with Mighty Maple Leaves during the 2018 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 115 previously unsourced profiles.
Jelena Eckstädt participated with Legacy Heirs during the 2019 Scan-a-Thon, scanning and uploading 58 items to profiles.
Jelena Eckstädt participated with The German Genies during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon, and added 249 connections.
Jelena was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!
Jelena earned 9 Blue Milestone Owls while participating in the 2019 Monthly Sourcerers' Challenges
Jelena Eckstädt participated in the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and added 338 connections.
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The annual Source-a-thon is coming up. It will be from September 29th to October 2nd.
Registration has begun!! I would be so blessed if you go to: Register now for the 2023 Source-a-Thon! - WikiTree G2G and answer that you are in and are a Legacy Heir!!!!
Re: John August Saam, I saw that you had edited the first and middle names by combining them into the first and preferred names. At first I was taken aback mostly because I spend a lot of time separating the first and middle names on American profiles that were gedcom creations (not this profile) from back when they were allowed, and first and middle names were often combined in the first name field. Since you didn't leave any explanation for what you did, I went ahead and changed it back to the original. Then, after further research as to why you would make that alteration in the first place, I learned the reasoning behind your work, and have since redone your edit. I like it when I learn new things. Thanks.
I only followed the Germany Project Name Field Guidelines, which clearly say: "All given names should be entered in the Proper First Name field in the order listed on the birth document. It is common in Germany for a person to have multiple given names - the German culture does not have the concept of middle names." So this is the valid point here.
Hi! Just a reminder - if a profile is managed by the Germany Project, it needs to display the project box. See the German Roots table here for profiles that don't (or which have the project box but aren't managed by the project, but there aren't any of those to fix this week).
I've been working on these in the past, but I'm trying to reduce my "WikiTree time", so I won't be looking at these in the future. As PC for Managed Profiles of the Germany Project, please check weekly for new problems (it's fairly easy to maintain, but took me a couple of months earlier this year to clear them).
Just a reminder: I am not the Project Leader. If you have stuff that only the leader can do, please post your message on Dieter Lewerenz' profile (Lewerenz-9)
You don't have to be a leader to monitor this & you don't have to be a leader to fix the problem unless (1) the profile is not open or (2) the project DOES want to manage the profile and you are not a profile manager (meaning you cannot add the project account as a manager).
None of the profiles that I listed appear to me to need project management and all of them are either open or managed by you (which means you can fix the problem). As the project's PC for managed profiles, I thought that you would be the person to determine whether or not a profile should be managed by the project & could then refer any profiles that need a Leader to add the project account to the Germany Project's leader.
Project Boxes can be only put on the profiles by the Project Leaders (see here). And I am no Leader. I only told you to go to the Project Leader Dieter Lewerenz, when the task is something a leader has to do. Nothing else.
At least the 4 von Schirach-profiles need Project Management, because all of them are living Notables that have to be managed by a Project to be visible.
I deleted all links I could work on. The Predecessor States... FSP is green-locked. I wrote a comment, saying that the cats project waits for the category to be deleted and requested that at least the Germany Project can edit the page, since we're working on categories currently anyway. I hope he gives us access.
Jelena
Edit: Germania is now deleted everywhere, the GP is now manager of the FSP.
it's annual check-in time 2023. If you still wish to remain a member of the Germany Project, please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. In this case please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help, with researching your German ancestors, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with Germany in order for knowledgeable people to see them.
If you wish to remain a member, we would like to learn more about your perception of the Germany Project in order to achieve a future development according to our members needs and wishes. For this, we created a survey, which we kindly ask you to fill-in.
In case you want to communicate, discuss and receive help about WikiTree in German, you might want to check out the WikiTree category at Compgen’s Discourse as well as the German Discord server Ahnenforschung.
Of course there’s still the official WikiTree Discord server, where we usually talk English. Feel free to learn more about Discord and the server at Help:Discord.
For genealogy, I think more people should have two surnames like the Spanish. I am looking at Tamez_Galindo-1. It is very easy to see that his son, Antonio (Tamez_Bermea-2), had a father with the first surname "Tamez" and his mother's first surname was "Bermea".
Hi Jelena, I see you've changed some location names for my relatives including Stanislaus Derdzinski (1868-1955) and Katherine (Coda) Mlodzik (1854-1935). Can you tell me where to find the guidance for this so I get it right? It's distressing to see these changes happen without understanding the rules under which they're being changed. ~ Also, you've change the first and middle names on my relative Jerome Charles Dretzka (1881-1963). Again, I would appreciate a link to the Wikitree guidance. His middle name comes from a USA document, as far as I know he didn't have that middle name in Poland. Thanks, Deb
Hi Deb, the Location Field Style Guide says this: "We aim to use the name that was used in that place, at the time of the event you're recording." At the time of the birth of both Stanislaus and Katherine, their birth town was part of Prussia. This means that according to the Style Guide, the town names should be recorded in German.
Neither in Poland nor in Germany there is the concept of "middle names". All given names come into the First Name Field. "Karl" or "Karel" is the German or Polish version of Charles and was not only used as "call name", the name a person was known with, but also as a following name. We can't prove it, since you don't have documents that originate in Poland, but I suppose that it is a name he already had in Poland. That's why I put it out of the Middle Name Field. Jelena
Took me 2 months to get back to my German profiles. Thank you Jelena ... I truly appreciate the new category and expect to use it when I do status checks on "connected" profiles for my husband's family once Life 101 gives me some time.
Jelena Eckstädt reached the Golden Achievement milestone by sourcing at least one profile in every month of the 2022 Sourcerers Project Sourcerers' Challenge.
We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!
Hi Jelena, these categories have links on pages, profiles or other categories, that need to be removed before the categories can be deleted. See the "What Links Here" link on each category page:
Danke für Deine Initiative zur Orts-Kategorisierung nach (Samt-)Gemeinden. Ich habe meine Heimatgemeinde Gellersen mal erstellt: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gellersen_%28Samtgemeinde%29%2C_Niedersachsen
Lass mich wissen, ob das so in Deinem Sinne ist, oder ob ich was übersehen habe. Dann mache ich entsprechend weiter (LK Harburg, Lüneburg, Uelzen).
Hi Jelena. I think you have incorrectly edited some profiles I manage like Gottlieb Pfitzner (1827-). You have added Deutscher Bund to the birth field when Posen was not part of the Deutscher Bund. Apart from Posen, I appreciate the corrections you are making. Regards, Steve.
According to the German Wikipedia-entry, the Provinz Posen existed from 1815 to 1920. With these categories I refer to the German Wikipedia rather than the ones in other languages. Also other websites like the "Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen", which is supported by the German government says on its website that "already in 1815 the Prussian King named the first Oberpräsident for the area of Posen". Here is the website of the Kulturstiftung https://kulturstiftung.org/zeitstrahl/das-besitznahmepatent-fuer-das-grossherzogtum-posen
I did not choose to enter the Integrators-Challenge. I don't even know of which profile I worked on you are talking about. Please tell me the profile ID that I might be able to reconstruct what I did. Probably it was a profile I chose to source or connect to the Tree. I recently connected a branch that was only created in July. But I did not intend to join the Integrators Challenge.
Hi Jelena! Thank you for joining the Germany Genies for the April Connect-a-Thon. As a team, we created 5,602 new profiles, coming in 4th place overall and 1st place by normalized (average) score! We couldn't have done it without your help! Best regards, Traci
Registration for the April Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 22 Apr 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster.
Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392037/have-you-registered-for-the-april-2022-connect-a-thon-yet?start=0#a_list_title
Thank you for your contributions to the December 2021 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
Registration for the January Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 14 Jan 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster.
Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341478/have-you-registered-for-the-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-yet
Registration has begun!! I would be so blessed if you go to: Register now for the 2023 Source-a-Thon! - WikiTree G2G and answer that you are in and are a Legacy Heir!!!!
Jelena, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.
I've been working on these in the past, but I'm trying to reduce my "WikiTree time", so I won't be looking at these in the future. As PC for Managed Profiles of the Germany Project, please check weekly for new problems (it's fairly easy to maintain, but took me a couple of months earlier this year to clear them).
Profiles that need corrections this week:
Cheers, Liz
None of the profiles that I listed appear to me to need project management and all of them are either open or managed by you (which means you can fix the problem). As the project's PC for managed profiles, I thought that you would be the person to determine whether or not a profile should be managed by the project & could then refer any profiles that need a Leader to add the project account to the Germany Project's leader.
At least the 4 von Schirach-profiles need Project Management, because all of them are living Notables that have to be managed by a Project to be visible.
Jelena, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
Thanks for your help, regards, Margaret
Jelena
Edit: Germania is now deleted everywhere, the GP is now manager of the FSP.
edited by Jelena Eckstädt
I've changed the ones that you added to the profiles that weren't managed by the project.
Cheers, Liz
Many thanks, regards, Margaret
it's annual check-in time 2023. If you still wish to remain a member of the Germany Project, please reply to this post, by stating this intention. If we don’t hear from you in the next 30 days, your membership badge will be removed. In this case please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time. Please also note, that in order to receive help, with researching your German ancestors, membership is not mandatory. Just ask your questions in the G2G forum and tag them with Germany in order for knowledgeable people to see them.
If you wish to remain a member, we would like to learn more about your perception of the Germany Project in order to achieve a future development according to our members needs and wishes. For this, we created a survey, which we kindly ask you to fill-in.
In case you want to communicate, discuss and receive help about WikiTree in German, you might want to check out the WikiTree category at Compgen’s Discourse as well as the German Discord server Ahnenforschung.
Of course there’s still the official WikiTree Discord server, where we usually talk English. Feel free to learn more about Discord and the server at Help:Discord.
Kind regards from Black Forest
Jelena, thanks for your sourcing efforts this month.
Jelena, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
You’re a trooper. :-)
Thanks, regards, Margaret
edited by Deb (Langsdorf) Gunther
Neither in Poland nor in Germany there is the concept of "middle names". All given names come into the First Name Field. "Karl" or "Karel" is the German or Polish version of Charles and was not only used as "call name", the name a person was known with, but also as a following name. We can't prove it, since you don't have documents that originate in Poland, but I suppose that it is a name he already had in Poland. That's why I put it out of the Middle Name Field. Jelena
Jelena, thanks for your work to improve our shared tree.
Thanks, Margaret, Categorization project.
Many thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization project.
Jelena, thanks for your work to improve the tree.
This category has 2 links that need deleting and is still on 2 profiles, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gr%C3%BCnhagen%2C_Niedersachsen, need to be removed for category to be deleted.
Thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization project
We appreciate your consistent work in improving WikiTree through the Sourcerers Project in 2022!
Happy New Year, Jelena, and thanks for your continued sourcing.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Hannover%2C_Preu%C3%9Fen
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Stralsund%2C_Pommern
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Greifswald_%28Kreis%29%2C_Pommern
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Grimmen_%28Kreis%29%2C_Pommern
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Anklam_%28Kreis%29%2C_Pommern
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Altes_Amt_Ebstorf
Many thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization Project volunteer.
edited by Margaret (Gale) Haining
Danke für Deine Initiative zur Orts-Kategorisierung nach (Samt-)Gemeinden. Ich habe meine Heimatgemeinde Gellersen mal erstellt: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Gellersen_%28Samtgemeinde%29%2C_Niedersachsen Lass mich wissen, ob das so in Deinem Sinne ist, oder ob ich was übersehen habe. Dann mache ich entsprechend weiter (LK Harburg, Lüneburg, Uelzen).
Grüße! Oliver
edited by Oliver Stegen PhD
Gruß! Jelena
Hi Jelena. Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
I noticed you recently chose our Integrators Project Challenge for this month (September 2022), thank you!
Could you go here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1463526/wikitreers-join-join-integrators-challenge-september-2022 to sign up officially please. And if you can please add your question that you will be working on the profiles marked "needs profiles created" for the challenge or working on questions asked in the G2G Forum ablut family, Thanks!
Got a question, see this page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge#How_the_Challenge_Works
Thank you and Good Luck!
David ~ G2G Integrators Project Leader
edited by David Selman
I did not choose to enter the Integrators-Challenge. I don't even know of which profile I worked on you are talking about. Please tell me the profile ID that I might be able to reconstruct what I did. Probably it was a profile I chose to source or connect to the Tree. I recently connected a branch that was only created in July. But I did not intend to join the Integrators Challenge.
Thanks Jelena
Jelena, thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
Thanks for your efforts to improve our shared tree.
Thanks for your contributions to the June Sourcerers Challenge. We appreciate your work!
Registration for the April Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 22 Apr 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392037/have-you-registered-for-the-april-2022-connect-a-thon-yet?start=0#a_list_title
Great work on the March 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving our tree.
WikiTree Appreciation Team
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Thanks for sourcing, Jelena.
Nan, WikiTree Appreciation Team
Thanks for sourcing.
Congratulations on adding sources to 58 profiles during the January Sourcerers Challenge! Thank you for improving the health of our One Tree.
Nan, WT Appreciation Team
Thank you for your contributions to the December 2021 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
Nan, WT Appreciation Team
Registration for the January Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 14 Jan 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341478/have-you-registered-for-the-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-yet
And here is our team Chat page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341305/legacy-heirs-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-g2g-chat