Project: Rhode Island
Categories: Rhode Island | Rhode Island Project | Rhode Island Projects
This project is part of the United States Project.
Welcome to the Rhode Island Project!
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The purpose of this project is to coordinate all Rhode Island related projects and resources and combine that information into one place.
Rhode Island Counties | Bristol | Kent | Newport | Providence | Washington |
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How to Join
It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of Rhode Island or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:
- Project Leaders: T Stanton
- Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Rhode Island project and get a badge.
- Add Rhode_Island to your followed tags.
- We use G2G for communication.
- Here is the Rhode Island project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.
- Look at one of the Rhode Island project's example profiles to see what we hope for in profiles that are part of our project. Other excellent examples from our project and others can be found in the Examples Gallery.
For a full list of participants in the United States Project, see the badge report.
Please see our list of goals and tasks below for ways you can help.
Templates
The template is {{United States|sub-project=Rhode Island}} which will give you:
| ... ... ... is a part of Rhode Island history. Join: Rhode Island Project Discuss: Rhode Island |
This above template is for use only on profiles that are of importance to the project or need to be PPP'd and managed by the project.
It is not for every single person from Rhode Island. The following sticker might be used in that circumstance:
- Rhode Island Sticker Directions
- Deceased persons {{Rhode Island Sticker}}
... ... ... was a Rhode Islander.
- Living Persons {{Rhode Island Sticker|living=y}} ... ... ... is a Rhode Islander.
Members List
To view the list of Rhode Island Project members and/or add your name to the members list, please go here.
Goals
The overall goals of the US History Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in Rhode Island and the other states in the union. To meet these goals:
- Add Rhode Island-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
- If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
- Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
- Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
- Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
- Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.
List of Things To Do
- If you have any Rhode Island state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the Rhode Island Resources Page.
- If you live in Rhode_Island, please consider adding Catalog: Rhode_Island Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.
Ongoing List of Things to Do
- Cemeteries in Rhode Island need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the Rhode Island Cemeteries Project
- Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Rhode Island state tribes.
- Work on Rhode Island's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
- Create new profiles for people of Rhode Island who are documented in a family member's profile, but might not have their own profiles yet. See Needs Profiles Created
- Work on Suggestions for profiles from Rhode Island, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
- Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from Rhode Island in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.
Historical Projects
State Resources
- Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. , Providence, R.I., 1895)
- Rhode Island genealogical register (Beaman, Alden G.; Princeton, Mass., 1978-1996)
- a periodical that ran from 1978 until 1996. Notably contains abstracts of select Rhode Island probate records
- The Rhode Island Historical Magazine (Newport Historical Pub. Co., 1882)
- a periodical that ran from 1880-1887, including a variety of records and family genealogies from Rhode Island. From 1880-1884 it ran as the Newport Historical Magazine and focused primarily on Newport.
- Rhode Island Land Evidences (Providence, RI 1921)
- Abstracts of Rhode Island land records from 1648-1696 were compiled by Dorothy Worthington and published by the RI Historical Society.
- A series of eight manuscript books held at the Rhode Island State Archives containing many land and notarial records that cannot be found elsewhere. Dorothy Worthington's Land Evidences above are abstracts of the first volume of the Public Notary and Land Records.
- Abstracts of genealogical information from over 1000 court cases.
- Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (J. H. Beers & Co., 1908)
- Genealogies of Rhode Island Families:
- Genealogy of the Cornell family : being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell https://archive.org/details/genealogyofcorne00corn
- Reed, William Field. The descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth, R.I. (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1902)
- Rhode Island GenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Erigenweb/
- Portsmouth, RI Historical Society: http://portsmouthhistorical.org
Related Rhode Island Categories on WikiTree
- Rhode Island Category page
- Rhode Island Projects page
- Rhode Island Cemeteries
- Rhode Island Colleges & Universities
- Rhode Island Governors
- Rhode Island Federally Recognized Native American Tribes
- Rhode Island, Politicians
- Rhode Island Religious Congregatons
- Rhode Island Research Assistance
- Rhode Island Genealogy Resources
- Rhode Island Source Records for this state.
Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree
- Native Americans Project
- US Governors Project
- Rhode Island in the Great War
- United States in World War II
- Rhode Island Sources
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