Project: Titanic

Categories: Maritime Disasters | Titanic Project | This Day In History April 15 | Disasters

The Titanic Project is a sub-project of the Disasters that covers the passengers and crew of the RMS Titanic, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, on its maiden voyage.

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How to Join

Project Coordinator: Donna Tucker Baumann

For a full list of participants, see the badge report.

If you would like to be involved in the Titanic project, please do the following:

  1. Add titanic to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all of our discussions in your G2G Feed.
  2. Respond to our G2G post G2G sign up so we can award your project badge
  3. Check out our To-Do list for ways you can help and add yourself under the Volunteer column (let Donna Baumann know if you need help with this.)

Goals

The primary goal of the Titanic project is to have everyone aboard the ship, as well as those people who are associated with it-possible builders, designers, rescue people- represented on WikiTree with full, well-styled profiles. We also want to build pages to represent any events, items, research missions, etc, that are associated with the Titanic.

Here are some specific goals we're using to meet that primary goal:

For each person:
  • All duplicates should be merged into the final profile ID. PPP should be added if there are known duplication problems/or the person is considered notable.
  • Titanic template included on the page
  • Project account added as profile manager
  • All relevant categories are added; discussion with the Categorization Project as necessary to create new categories as needed
  • Biography is cleaned up and free of any GEDCOM leftovers, Ancestry trees with no links, etc. and styled according to Category:Styles and Standards. Use of inline citations is encouraged, and please do not copy large swaths of text from elsewhere. Paraphrase and link!
  • Each individual should have a quality source or reference to their association with the Titanic - i.e. a website or published biography
  • Create and attach immediate family
  • Connect to the main WikiTree tree

To Do

If you have a special interest in a profile or group of profiles, add yourself to the table the profile is listed on at the end of the Profiles row. Want others to join you? Start a G2G conversation, tag it with "titanic", and add the link to the table, as well.

This list is a WIP and is currently less than 25 percent completed. You are free to work on any person. If you connect someone or update a profile, please update their entry on the approrpriate table.

Note: the women on this list are listed with the surname they had at the time of the Titanic's sinking as well as their maiden name and future surname, if known, to aid in research. If you are looking for their maiden name, it is available (if the profile is created) on the RSM Titanic page.

One thing that really strikes me about the sinking is, in a sense, it's easy to look at a list of 1500 people who died on the Titanic. That number is actually meaningless, it's so large that it's meaningless, it's 1500 numbers... It's only when you stop to think that every single solitary name on that list of victims was a human being, just like you or I... had dreams and hopes and wishes and happiness and sadness and they were all cut short by the Titanic disaster. ~ George Behe, Vice President of Titanic Historical Society, Titanic, the Complete Story (A&E Documentary)


Victims
Space Page LInk - Complete Victim List
As per Titanica Britanica 		Category Page Link -
Wiki Profiles Already Created Only 		Parts completed Items needing work Volunteers and
what they are working on
All Passengers on the Titanic RMS Titanic
1st Class Passengers 410 persons including
Adults, Children & Servants 		316 Profiles on WT
All 1st Class starter profiles are created
(if a DOB is known) 		76 unconnected
existing profiles
Many Need biographies 		Cathy Brandstetter is working on family members to make connections
2nd Class Passengers 319 persons including
Adults, Children & Servants
286 Profiles on WT All 2nd Class starter profiles are created
(if a DOB is known) 		138 unconnected
existing profiles
Many Need biographies
3rd Class Passengers 711 persons including
Adults, Children & Servants 		495 Profiles on WT Still Need about 225 starter profiles
328 unconnected
existing profiles
Many Need biographies
Servants of Passengers 43 Servants
 36 profiles on WT All servant starter profiles are created 23 Unconnected
existing profiles
Many Need biographies
Children on Titanic 128 Children
143 profileson WT All children starter profiles are created 48 Unconnected existing profiles
18 Need biographies 		Bek Bliss is working on family members to make connections
Crew Members 1243 Crew Members
466 profiles on WT Needs starter profiles for all 357 Unconnected
existing profiles
Many Need biographies 		Bek Bliss is working on creating starter profiles - started 1 Nov 2021
Orchestra Members 8 Orchestra Members 8 profiles on WT
Survivors of the Titanic List of Survivor Profiles on WT
French on the Titanic French on the Titanic
51 persons 		All French starter profiles are created 35 Need Connected
Many need Biographies
Possible Shipbuilders of the Titanic Possible Shipbuilders of the Titanic
Titanic's Just-Missed-It Club Titanic's Just-Missed-It Club
Notable Relation to Titanic Notable Relation to Titanic
White Star Line White Star Line

Related Category Pages

  • RMS Titanic category page.
    • Add to profile bio at top [[Category:RMS_Titanic]]
      • This category is automatically added when the project template is added to the profile.
  • White Star Line category page.
    • Add to profile bio at top [[Category:White_Star_Line]]

Project Pages

Project Sticker

Please go to the page Template:Titanic Sticker to find the appropriate sticker code that you then can add into the Biography section of the profile.

Useful Links

Main Link

This is the website I came across that inspired this project. It has biographies and photos on all the passengers and crews of the Titanic, broken down by class and other topics.

Other Helpful Links

Videos & Documentaries

Books



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