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Appalachia Project Challenges
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15 for 15 WikiTree Challenge
- We have great ideas for the 15 For 15: Appalachia Project Activities!
December 2023 Challenge: Make Appalachia Shine on WikiTree
This month, you choose what you want to work on!
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- Pick any profile or any task or any item in our Maintenance Categories aka Connecting/Sourcing/Bio Writing.
- Maybe you have an OPS or ONS in Appalachia that you want to work on.
- Cemetery Categories on profiles? Sure!
- Give our Appalachian Notables some love. Most still need connected and their CC7 increased.
- Pick ANY of the previous Challenges, below, and help us finish them.
- Want to start a new Sub Project (aka Project Related to Appalachia)? Let me know!
- Are you great at transcription? A member is in need of help adding the information from this PDF document on a space page.
Sticker for this Challenge:
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November 2023 Challenge: WV National Cemetery, Pruntytown, West Virginia
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- We can work on connecting throughout 2024 and CaT's (but many will probably only need one additional profile to connect to the Global tree).
- Add stickers and this category: [[Category: Appalachia, Needs Profiles Created]]
- Please add the appopriate stickers and categories to recognize their service. See this Help page for details: Help:Stickers for Veterans
- Please add the appropriate Appalachia Sticker: Appalachia Stickers
> ALSO: There are still several that need added to the Arizona Memorial Popup
The August RAWK Event has arrived! It last all month and we could use your help! Our very own Project member, Doug Leeper Jr. was selected to be RAWKed. Our Project will be focusing on increasing Doug's CC7 throughout the entire month of August. He currently has a CC7 of 948.
September 2023 Challenge: Back to school
The event will start on Friday, September 8th and run until next Friday, September 15th, 2023
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Just like educators have served an integral part of growing our minds, we ask that everyone chooses among the pre-selected educators and grow, grow, and grow their trees.
Pick a name and start working on adding profiles to get them connected to the Global Tree.
| School | Representative |
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| Univ of Alabama - AL [[Category: University of Alabama]] | Frederic Dorrance Ogden (1915-2005) Henry Tutwiler (1807-1884) Nagy El-Kaddah (-2014) Obit John William Ross (1939-2016) Obit Dr Ronald Bevill McCarver PhD (abt.1947-2013) Obit |
| Piedmont University - GA [[Category:Piedmont University]] | Rev Dr Mary Charlotte Lane PhD (1915-2007) Obit Lillian Eugenia Smith (1897-1966) |
| Eastern Kentucky University - KY [[Category: Eastern Kentucky University]] | John Grant Crabbe (1865-1924) Bio Alden Ottinger Hatch (1909-1996) Thomas Corwin Herndon (1898-1987) |
| Frostburg -MD [[Category: Frostburg State University]] | A.Franklin Parks II 1948-2014 Obit Nelson Prescott Guild (1928-2004) Obit |
| Mississippi State - MS [[Category: Mississippi State University]] | Glover Moore Bio Janos Radvanyi Obit Ernest E. Russell Sr Obit Rebecca Kaye (Besselsen) Toghiani (1957-2013) Obit |
| New York State College of Ceramics-NY [[Category: Alfred University]] [[Category: New York State College of Ceramics]] | Charles Fergus Binns (1857-1934) Wikipedia Robert Snyder Obit Daniel Rhodes (1911-1989) Wikipedia |
| Appalachian State - NC [[Category: Appalachian State University]] | Claude Howard Dorgan PhD (1932-2012) Monica Pombo Obit |
| Marietta College - OH [[Category: Marietta College]] | William H. Gerhold Obit Robert Leslie Jones (1907-1989) In memoriam |
| Allegheny College - PA [[Category:Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania]] | Robert Cupper Obit Archer Kent Blood (1923-2004) Wikipedia Obit |
| Furman University - SC [[Category:Furman University]] | David Wells Morgan (1959-2013) Obit Wallace C. Fallow In memoriam |
| Maryville College, in Blount County, Tennessee [[Category:Maryville College]] | Thomas Jefferson LaMar (1826-1887) Arthur S. Bushing Obit |
| VMI - VA [[Category: Virginia Military Institute]] | Col Thomas S Baur (-2018) Obit James Henry Lane (1833-1907) Francis Henney Smith (1812-1890) |
| Marshall University in WV [[Category:Marshall University]] | Jean Edward Smith (1932-2019) James Elmore Morrow (1837-1904) Bio Morrow Library |
August 2023 Challenge: RAWK + .....
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If you would like to volunteer to help those being RAWKED, click here. It is a lot of fun!! Don't worry if you forgot to sign up... you can still help out!
Also in August:
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This month, the Appalachia Project is connecting Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Nascar profiles... or you can add profiles that are not already on WikiTree.
Don't forget to click the big green "Challenge Tracker" button after you add a profile! Then select "Appalachia Challenge". (Edits do not count.)
July 2023 Challenge: Connect Appalachian Notables
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To be a Project with a number on WikiTree, it has to have 200+ Notables. Since May, several Project members worked together to create, find, and clean up over 200 Appalachian Notables BUT we didn't have the time to connect many of them. Connecting Notables is extremely important so we can share their entire story with all of WikiTree as well as researchers who use the likes of Google.
- How do you connect the Notables? Add to their family lines. While some Notables may already be connected, they may not have great grandparents, for example, added. We want their family trees to be full and rich with sources and biographies.
- We have so many awesome Notables: musicians, historians, miners, authors, painters, activists, and more. Go to this list and pick one! Pick five to work on... pick as many as you would like. All of your work helps us make Appalachia shine a little brighter.
- Use Ian's CC7 App to find some pockets where ancestors can be added!
- Leave your Interesting Finds on the G2G post.
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1601764/help-connect-appalachia-project-notables?show=1601764#q1601764
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June 2023 Challenge: Appalachians are RAWKING
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We are asking all interested Appalachia Project members to join in on the fun! The four members are John Tyner, Nancy (Cox) Wilson, Donna Lancaster, and Kathy (Urbach) Nava (adopted profile) + Kathy (Sharp) Nava (biological profile). Each have family to add across the globe. It is super easy to participate. All you have to do is go to their profile, click up to Grandparents and start adding profiles that connect to them. Totals will be kept all month long.
Interesting Finds Links:
Donna | Nancy | John | Jutta | Kathy Biological | Kathy Adopted
Thank you to everyone that helped us find Noteworthy Appalachians. We only had a handful on May 1st but now have over 200!
We do have a few Pop Up Challenges now and again. Make sure to check out our Appalachia Project Challenges Page for details. The next pop up will be something to do with Trailblazers.
- Memorial Day Weekend PopUp Challenge: Add US Arizona Profiles to WikiTree
- Review the list here: USS Arizona Casualties
May 2023 Challenge: Noteworthy Appalachians
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- I have identified Appalachians that were notable in their lifetime. These Appalachians need added to WikiTree. But wait... these are not just an "add and grab sources" type of Profile. These individuals require a full Biography with additional non-traditional sources that you don't find on FamilySearch (such as newspapers/magazines articles, Wikipedia/Wikidata, interviews, youtube interviews, Spotify music clips, etc.) Ex Profiles: Roselea Arbana Maddox and John Marsden Ehle Jr. (1925-2018).
These Profiles need to be fully documented with detailed, rich Biography & complete sources and categories."
Required for ALL Notables on WikiTree:
In the "See Also" section:
{{Wikidata|Q5687875|enwiki|sameas=yes}}
Keep in mind that you replace the number with the number assigned to your Notable by WikiData.
All WT Notable profiles should have the Notable Project added to the Trust list: wikitree-notables-project (at symbol) googlegroups.com
Pick a name and add yours. When you have fully completed the Profile, Please submit your Notable Profile to the Appalachia Project via this form.
| Name | WikiData Number | Wikipedia URL | Taken By | Reason |
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| Mary (Bullman) Sands (1871-1949) | Q6780676 | Mary Sands on Wikipedia | Margaret | Singer known for singing English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (Cecil Sharp) |
| Martin Douglas Wallin | Q23751639 | Doug Wallen on Wikipedia | Donna | Singer preserving Appalachian Folk Music |
| Lloyd Chandler | Q6662326 | Lloyd Chandler on Wikipedia | Donna | Singer preserving Appalachian Folk Music |
| Jane Hicks Gentry | Q46996919 | Jane Hicks Gentry on Wikipedia | Donna | an Appalachian folklorist and singer |
| Rebecca (Caudill) Ayars | Q7301692 | Rebecca Caudill on Wikipedia | Erin Robertson | Appalachian Writer |
| Simeon Free | Q21069851 | Simmie Free on Wikipedia | Donna | South Central & Southern Moonshiner recipes used today |
| Jim Webb | Q6198839 | Joe Webb | Donna | founding member of the Appalachian Writers Cooperative |
| William Bradley Kincaid | Q897022 | Wikipedia | Donna | Appalachian Folk Singer |
| John B Stephenson | Q6220132 | Wikipedia | Tabor | a sociologist and scholar of Appalachia |
| Name | WikiData Number | Wikipedia URL | Taken By | Reason |
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| Popcorn Sutton | Q12409514 | Popcorn Sutton on Wikipedia | Donna | Appalachian Moonshiner |
| May Stone | Q57532041 | May Stone on Wikipedia | Donna | Appalachian Settlement School |
| W Graham Claytor | Q7945601 | W Graham Claytor on Wikipedia | Karen | Helped build the Railroad throughout Appalachia |
| May Justus (1898-1989) | Q6796527 | May Justus on Wikipedia | Erin Robertson | Appalachian Children's Books |
| Amos Owens | Q21069791 | Wikipedia:Amos_Owens | Donna | Early Maker of Moonshine taught/sold South Central & Southern App |
| Joe Dabney | Q16203929 | Wikipedia:Joe_Dabney | Donna | Author. Appalachian Foods, Paths, Moonshine |
| Maggie Bailey | NPR Story | Donna | Southern Appalachia Moonshiner | |
| Karl Dewey Myers | Q117756464 | FS WP | Donna | American poet known during his lifetime for his portrayal of rural Appalachia. |
| George Korson | Q5541419 | Wikipedia | Donna | Pioneer of Industrial Appalachian Folk Music |
| Homer "Pappy" Lee Sherrill | Q1626029 | Wikipedia | Donna | American Old Time and Bluegrass fiddler. |
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HELP! There is a Cemetery in Appalachia that has over 400 Profiles that NEED the Cemetery Category! Can you spare an hour or two this week to help us out???
Visit this Cemetery Report Scroll down the page until you get to the section for Winchester Cemetery and look for No Category. Basically, it will be the first really large table section you come to.
Each of those listed Profiles need this Category: [[Category:Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Kentucky]] Just add that above the ==Biography== line and save. The change explanation is "Adding Cemetery Category"
Can we clear this list????
April 2023 Challenge: Connect-A-Thon
- In an effort to help Improve Profiles throughout Appalachia, this Month's Challenge is to add the existing cemetery categories to profiles that are missing it.
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| April 2023 Connect-A-Thon |
- The Connect-a-Thon is coming up soon! The goal of our 72-hour marathon: bring the world closer together by adding missing relatives to existing profiles [more participation info].
The event starts Friday, April 21, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC) and runs until Monday, April 24, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC).
To Register, click here
- Our goal is to add as many Appalachian Profiles, with our Project Sticker, as we can.
March 2023 Challenge: Cemetery Categories
- In an effort to help Improve Profiles throughout Appalachia, this Month's Challenge is to add the existing cemetery categories to profiles that are missing it.
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- How do you find those profiles? There are several different ways but probably the easiest way is to pick the County in Appalachia that you do the most work in. For example, I do a lot of work in Upshur County, West Virginia. A sub-category of Upshur County, West Virginia is Category: Upshur County, West Virginia, Cemeteries.
- Once you get to the main category page for a County's Cemeteries, select a Cemetery. All Cemeteries probably need profiles added to them or you could pick one that your ancestors are buried in.
This image shows the specific Cemetery Category Page. Click on the line that I highlighted with yellow: Detailed Report on profiles and related FG Cemeteries.
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This image shows the Detailed Report that WT+ provides. Notice the section that I highlighted that says "No Category". That section of profiles all need the cemetery category added to them. The category is located on the specific Cemetery Category Page: [[Category:Indian Camp Cemetery, French Creek, West Virginia]]
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Go through the Profiles in that section, one-by-one, and add the Cemetery category. Once you finish the cemetery, move on to the next one..... for the Month of March.
The great news is by doing this, you will easily get your 1000 contributions for the month ....which counts towards your 15 for 15 WikiTree Challenge!
NOTE: Appalachia Project's Cemetery Categories Guidance
February 2023 Challenge: Mini Challenge
- February 25th through February 28th
- A few new Project members have agreed to let us help increase their CC7 by adding profiles to connect to the Global Tree. The goal is not to complete their entire family lines but to offer a small bit of help and provide Complete Profiles as examples.
Pick a Project Member and try to connect to the main tree:
- Peg Hill 145
- April Stacy, especially Lem Nolan (1890-1916) 298
- Cindy (Worley) Beam 554
- Jeremy Stone 826
- Cynthia (Bryant) Crafton 2350
- Tara (Smith) Bentley 742
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February 2023 Challenge: Frontier Nursing Service
- Frontier Nursing Service is a subproject of the Appalachia Project. This month, we are asking Appalachia Project Members to help add the nurses of the Frontier Nursing Service
- The event will start on Wednesday, February 1 and run until Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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- Watch these videos for the historical visual history of the Frontier Nursing Service.
- Add Frontier Nurses, from 1925 through 1929, to WikiTree to completeness & fully connected, See: Completed Profile Checklist - Quarterly Bulletins of the Frontier Nursing Service - 1925 through 1929 AND Quarterly Bulletins of the Frontier Nursing Service - 1930 through 1939
- Add Original Members (aka donors), from 1925, to WikiTree to completeness & fully connected, See: Completed Profile Checklist - Frontier Nursing Service Members
- Please review the Frontier Nurses Categories and Stickers that are required on all Frontier Nurses profiles.
- This isn't a competition but a Project-wide effort to increase the Frontier Nurses on WikiTree.
- Add the Name of the Nurse or Member you are working on here, along with your name: We encourage you to work on more than one. :)
- Sandy (Craig) Patak - President Willia, J Hutchins, Berea
- Sandy (Craig) Patak - Hiram Montgomery Brock Sr (1877-1963)
- Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson - Mrs. Mary Breckinridge Maltby, Lexington
- Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson - Robert Kinloch Massie (1864-1932), DD, Lexington
- Karen Stewart - Dorothy Farrar Buck
- Karen Stewart - Frances Breckenridge Steele Horton Mrs. Jeter Horton
- Karen Stewart - Ada Worcester
- John Powers - Dr. Waller O Bullock, II, i.e., Dr. Walter Bullock, Lexington
- Erin (Soltysiak) Robertson - Dr. Alice N Pickett, Louisville
- Margaret Meredith- Eunice (Kitty) MacDonald Ernst
- Margaret Meredith - Doris Park
- Margaret Meredith -Barbara Yelch Edwards
WikiTree February 2023 Challenges
- 1 February - 28 February (1 month) Cemetery Challenge, Add original gravestone photographs to existing profiles. SEE: Calendar Cemetery Challenge 2023
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January 2023 Challenge: WikiTree's Connect-A-Thon
- Many Appalachia Project Members will be joining Team Virginia — 2023 Connect-a-Thon during the January 2023 Connect-A-Thon.
- No matter which Team you choose, make sure to Register Today!
- The event will start on Friday, January 13, at 8 AM EST (1pm UTC) and run until Monday, January 16, at 8 AM EST (1pm UTC).
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