G Sawtelle

Hello,

I have noticed several profiles have recently been created with all lower case Last Names. Please only use mixed-case for Last name with the first character being uppercase. Each of the profiles created with all lower case will have to be merged into a profile with mixed case last name so this is causing extra work for a few people.

Thank you!

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Hi there G and welcome

Thanks for taking the Pre-1700 Quiz just to add a little more to Kay's message. You have moved very quickly into an area where it is more complicated and difficult to find good sources. Also as Pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, working within the projects coordinating them is essential. Please ensure there is a location and that the location data matches dates of profiles, avoid abbreviations, add citations & links for sources to support the data, please review these pages   Reliable Pre-1700 Sources  and   Help Sources   for Pre-1700 as well as United States reliable sources. Just adding the statement Cemetry record is not a source, there has to be a viewable open link to the document

The United States Project and its subprojects for each state, would be of interest. Adding the tag UNITED_STATES will connect you  Follow this link for  your tags I would also recommend adding surname tags your surname, your mother and grandmothers maiden surnames

SAWTELLE

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Congratulations in getting back before 1700! Since you are now back in the time period where many people can be descended from those ancestors, we need more details in your source area. As collaborative genealogists, we need to tell each other our sources so that we can work together to assess the relative reliability of the source and the evidence it contains. See the help page here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Pre-1700_Profiles

You will find more information about reliable sources here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:United_States_Project_Reliable_Sources

Also, we all share these ancestors. So you don't want to create duplicates (or reject possible matches) but rather connect to existing ancestors. Here is the help for duplicates https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Duplicates and information about merging https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Merging

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