Project: United States
Categories: United States Projects | US History | United States Project | Pre-1700 Projects
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Mission
The United States Project aims to build profiles and free-space pages for those places and people who have explored, settled, founded, and built the U.S., both as a geographic area prior to nationhood and as an established nation.
How to Join
Project participants need to be full (not guest) members of WikiTree. If you are not yet a WikiTree member, see Help: How to Use WikiTree to get started.
- Project Leaders: Ellen Smith and Darlene Athey Hill
- Coordinators: Linda (Carruth) Peterson
- Answer our G2G welcome post to join the United States project and get a badge.
- Add united_states to your followed tags.
- We use G2G for communication.
- Check out our maintenance categories for our project needs, then jump in and start helping!
- Here is the United States project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.
- Look at one of the United States 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.
- United States Project Member List.
- Here is what our members are working on.
Goals
The mission of the United States project is to create, source, connect, and improve profiles and free-space pages related to the people and places in the building of the USA. It also serves as an umbrella under which many sub-projects can be started to cover events and places throughout the country's history. Our goals include:
- All duplicates merged into lowest number, using G2G to discuss LNAB issues as they arise. Be sure to tag the discussion with the surname(s) of the profiles involved as well as states that may be involved and with united_states.
- PPP added to final profile if it meets Project Protection Guidelines. A Leader can help with this.
- Appropriate categories added, discussing with the Categorization Project as necessary for creation of categories without precedent.
- Project templates added if the person needs to be PPP'd or managed by the project.
- Biography cleaned up and written using the WikiTree Style Guide (can work with Profile Improvement Project for help).
- Attached family meets these goals, even if they are not part of the project (templates excluded).
- Attached to the main WikiTree family tree (ask the Connectors Project for help).
- Free-Space pages built to represent important events and linked with associated state pages.
- Nothing created without reliable sources added -- No Ancestry.com or Geni.com trees!
Project To-Do List
We use maintenance categories to develop lists of what needs done. Each state and specific sub-project has its own category for what needs done. Here is the link to the main project category, with the states as sub-categories.
Project Box Template
This template is for use on profiles that are part of a sub-project of the main United States Project. They should only be used on profiles that are of importance to the project or need to be protected (PPP'd) and managed by the project. They are not for every single person from that region. A sticker might be used in that circumstance. See Category: United States Project Stickers for some available stickers.
Currently accepted values for the sub-project parameter are:
- any US State*
- Sample usage: {{United States|sub-project=Iowa}}
- Result:
| ... ... ... is a part of Iowa history. Join: Iowa Project Discuss: Iowa |
- *Note: A few states have their own project box templates. For Arkansas, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, use the state name to display the state-specific project box template (for example: {{Connecticut}}).
Sub-Projects
State Projects
Contact the United States project leaders if you have an interest in helping with one of the state projects:
- Alabama, led by Lisa R. Franklin
- Alaska - This project needs a Wikitree Leader or Project Coordinator. Please contact Darlene if you would like to help.
- Arizona - coordinated by Russ Gunther
- Arkansas coordinated by Jimmy Honey
- California - coordinated by Robin Coles
- Colorado - coordinated by Mary Richardson
- Connecticut - led by Anne B
- Delaware - led by Jim Angelo
- Florida - coordinated by Tricia (Payne) Aanderud.
- Georgia led by Paula J., Coordinators Mary Richardson
- Hawaii - coordinated by Pam (Bushong) Holzman
- Idaho - This project needs a Wikitree Leader or Project Coordinator. Please contact Darlene if you would like to help.
- Illinois - coordinated by Joelle Colville-Hanson
- Indiana - This project needs a Wikitree Leader or Project Coordinator. Please contact Darlene if you would like to help.
- Iowa - This project needs a Wikitree Leader or Project Coordinator. Please contact Darlene if you would like to help.
- Kansas - led by T Stanton; coordinated by Russ Gunther
- Kentucky - coordinated by Pam (Dale) Fraley
- Louisiana led by Stephanie Mandarino
- Maine - led by S Willson
- Maryland - coordinated by Jack Day
- Massachusetts - coordinated by Bob Keniston, supported by Ellen Smith, leader.
- Includes the Nantucket Founders and Descendants Project, led by Darlene Athey Hill.
- Michigan -coordinated by Thomas Fuller
- Minnesota - coordinated by Caryl Ruckert
- Mississippi - This project needs a Wikitree Leader or Project Coordinator. Please contact Darlene if you would like to help.
- Missouri - coordinated by Michelle Enke
- Montana - This project needs a Wikitree Leader or Project Coordinator. Please contact Darlene if you would like to help.
- Nebraska - led by Sarah Mason
- Nevada - coordinated by Mary Richardson
- New Hampshire - led by S Willson, coordinated by Chris Ferraiolo
- New Jersey - led by Jim Angelo and coordinated by H. Husted
- includes Patentees of Monmouth project: coordinated by Kari Lemons
- New Mexico - led by Eowyn Langholf
- New York - led by Susan McNamee
- North Carolina - coordinated by Paula J, Mary Richardson, and Eric Daly
- North Dakota - coordinated by Travis Dykhoff.
- Ohio - led by Maggie Nagy
- Oklahoma - coordinated by Robin Coles
- Oregon - Coordinated by Stephanie Stults
- Pennsylvania - led by Jim Angelo and coordinated by Cindy (Williams) Lesure
- Rhode Island - led by T Stanton
- South Carolina - coordinated by Paula J and Mary Richardson
- South Dakota - coordinated by Travis Dykhoff.
- Tennessee - coordinated by Nan Starjak
- Texas led by Darlene Athey Hill and coordinated by Mary Richardson
- Utah - coordinated by Terry Wright.
- Vermont - coordinated by Bobbie Hall
- Virginia - led by Scott McClain.
- Washington - This project needs a Wikitree Leader or Project Coordinator. Please contact Darlene if you would like to help.
- West Virginia - led by Sandy Patak, Coordinated by Cindy Lesure
- Wisconsin - coordinated by Brian Zalewski
- Wyoming - This project needs a Wikitree Leader or Project Coordinator. Please contact Darlene if you would like to help.
See the United States Project Table of States and Counties page for a summary of project activity at the county level.
United States Projects not specific to one state
- Appalachia Project led by Sandy (Craig) Patak
- US Black Heritage led by Emma MacBeath, Denise (Harden) Jarrett, and Elaine (Weatherall) Martzen
- Mayflower Project led by Bobbie Hall and Anne B
- Nantucket Founders and Descendants Project led by Darlene Athey Hill.
- Native Americans Project - led by Eowyn Langholf
- New Netherland Settlers Project led by Ellen Smith
- New Sweden Project led by Jim Angelo
- Puritan Great Migration Project led by Jen Hutton and S. Willson
- Southern Pioneers led by Darlene Athey Hill
- US Governors Project coordinated by David Randall
- United States Immigration coordinated by Steven Harris
- US Presidents Project led by Robin Lee
- US Southern Colonies Project led by Darlene Athey-Hill
- Westward Ho! - led by T Stanton; coordinated by Bart Triesch
- William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers led by SJ Baty
- Special project: The WikiTree 1950 Census Indexers Group - Help index the 1950 U.S. Census after the records are released in April 2022.
Resources
- United States Resources Bookshelf - Always under construction. Please add your content!
Related Projects and Groups
- US Cemeteries Project
- LDS Project
- Nueva Espana (New Spain)
- One Place Studies
- Military and War Project, specifically the United States' involvement in:
- Roll of Honor for Veteran Military Honors
- French and Indian War
- 1776 Project for the American Revolution led by SJ Baty
- War of 1812
- The US Civil War
- Spanish American War
- World War I, The Great War
- World War II
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Palatine Migration Project
- Puerto Rico, a sub-project of Latin American Roots
- Quakers Project
- Worldwide Disasters
- Worldwide Mining Disasters
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