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checklist to track progress with WikiTree’s “15 for 15” event in 2023, the year that WikiTree turns 15. More details and tips on how to complete each of these missions can be found HERE at Help:15 For 15. The goal over the course of the year is to complete 15 of the missions. Participants who reach that milestone will receive a "15 For 15" sticker they can add to their profile to show off their accomplishment.

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summary for the year

I gave up recording progress but By 31 December 2023 I had made 19416 contributions; 9682 of these during 2023.

My CC7 number incresed from 1106 (starting number) to 1813 (added 707). I hope to add another 200 during 2024.

My top surnames were Surname Profiles Edited

  • MAINWARING #1 contributor 186
  • CUDMORE #1 contributor 103
  • CHAUNCY l #1 contributor 51
  • HUGHES #8 contributor 40
  • DAWSON #6 contributor 36
  • BEGGS #1 contributor 24
  • CHAMPIONDECRESPIGNY #1 contributor 21
  • YOUNG 20
  • MACHIN #1 contributor 19
  • CROSS 19

Not sure how many thank yous I received but by end of year it was 743 (recorded ot compare ot next year)

I have 3005 profiles on my watchlist but I am trying to reduce the number

“One and done” missions:

  • Add a photo of yourself to your profile. Previously done
  • Add a biography to your profile.
  • Take a DNA test (if you haven’t yet) and add your results to your profile. Previously done
  • Done Increase your CC7 number from 1106 (starting number) to 1256 (add 150).
    • Reached 1500 connections 18 May 2023
  • Create a free-space profile about something that interests you.
  • DoneTry out the WikiTree Browser Extension.
  • Attend WikiTree Day 2023.
  • DoneStart or join a One-Name Study. Joined Cavanaugh Name Study 5 Jan
  • Start or join a One-Place Study.
  • Join a geographical project.
  • Join a topical project.
  • Join a functional project.
  • Done FebStart a free-space project: Eureka State Trials
  • Help another WikiTreer to break down a brick wall.
  • Add a book to the Source Library.
  • Learn how to include inline references

January achievements

  • Completed challenges:
  1. Joined Cavanaugh Name Study
  2. Increase connections from 1106 to 1346 (goal is 1256)
  3. Installed the WikiTree Browser Extension
  4. Uploaded 15 photos
  • Monthly challenge progress
  1. Earned Club 1000 badge
  2. Thank 15+ fellow wikitreers
  • Progress towards challenges
  1. Improved 3 profiles from anniversary list
  2. Improved 1 early profiles from watchlist
  3. added at least one source to 1 profiles from the Unsourced Profiles Category
  4. improved these 2 random profiles
  5. connected 1 unconnected profiles to the big tree
  6. improved 12 profiles of individuals who died young
  7. participated in 2 weekly challenges
  8. participated in 1 monthly challenges
  9. answered 5 questions from the Genealogy Help category in G2G
  10. awarded Wonderful WikiTree recognition to 1 WikiTreers
  11. watched 1 Saturday Roundup videos on YouTube and left a comment
  12. watched 1 WikiTree Wednesday videos on YouTube and left a comment
  13. watched 1 videos from WikiTree Day 2022 and left a comment
  • Yet to make any progress
  1. Resolved 0 profiles in needs biography category
  2. Resolved 0 profiles in needs GEDCom cleanup category
  3. improved 0 profiles to completeness using David Randall’s Checklist
  4. solved 0 Unknowns from my Watchlist or the tree at large
  5. Add 77 profiles (but goal was 150) during the Connect-a-Thon and increased my CC7 count by 219 to 1339
  6. participated in 0 Weekend Chats but did participate in a challenge chat
  7. awarded Generous Genealogist badges to 0 WikiTreers
  8. awarded Family or Community Star badges to 0 WikiTreers
  9. invited 0 people to join WikiTree:
  10. shared 0 Question of the Week images on my social media account(s)
  11. shared the shareable family tree image for 0 ancestors on my social media account(s)

Answered at G2G

February achievements

  • Joined
  • Increase connections from 1339 to x
  • Earned Club 100 badge
  • Thank x fellow wikitreers
  • Uploaded x photos
  • Improved x profiles from anniversary list
  • Improved x early profiles from watchlist
  • Resolved x profiles in needs biography category
  • Resolved x profiles in needs GEDCom cleanup category
  • added at least one source to x profiles from the Unsourced Profiles Category
  • improved x profiles to completeness using David Randall’s Checklist
  • improved these x random profiles
  • connected x unconnected profiles to the big tree
  • improved x profiles of individuals who died young
  • solved x Unknowns from my Watchlist or the tree at large
  • participated in x weekly challenges
  • participated in x monthly challenges
  • Add x profiles during a-Thon and increased my CC count by
  • participated in x Weekend Chats
  • answered * questions from the Genealogy Help category in G2G
  • awarded Wonderful WikiTree recognition to x WikiTreers
  • awarded Generous Genealogist badges to x WikiTreers
  • awarded Family or Community Star badges to x WikiTreers
  • invited x people to join WikiTree:
  • shared x Question of the Week images on my social media account(s)
  • shared the shareable family tree image for x ancestors on my social media account(s)
  • watched x Saturday Roundup videos on YouTube and left a comment
  • watched x WikiTree Wednesday videos on YouTube and left a comment
  • watched x videos from WikiTree Day 2022 and left a comment
  • started Eureka State Trials

Here are missions where you’ll want to count:

I earned Club 100 badges in these 5 months:

I earned Club 1000 badges in these 5 months:

  1. January

I uploaded 15 photos or headstones to these profiles:

  1. Francis Beggs (1851-1921)
  2. George Beggs (abt.1817-1879)
  3. Constance (Chauncy) Kirkpatrick (1859-1907)
  4. Hugh Lyons Montgomery Beggs (abt.1815-1885)
  5. Catherine Beggs (1854-1939)
  6. Charlotte (Beggs) McKissock (1855-1898)
  7. Alice (Young) Fish (1859-1935)
  8. Sally (Plaisted) Hughes (1826-1900)
  9. Hugh Norman Beggs (1863-1943)
  10. Robert Gottlieb Beggs (1861-1939)
  11. Maria Lucinda (White) Beggs (1826-1914)
  12. Maria Beggs (abt.1856-1902)
  13. Clamina (Beggs) Savage (abt.1857-1918)
  14. Elizabeth Persse Beggs (abt.1853-1908)
  15. Francis Beggs (1812-1880)

I improved these 15, 30 or 45 profiles from my Anniversaries list:

  1. 4 Jan: Philip Champion de Crespigny (1850-1927)
  2. 13 Jan: Alice (Young) Fish (1859-1935)
  3. 28 Jan: Hedwig Anna Berta (Bertz) Boltz (1885-1961)
  4. 1 Feb: Thomas Crewe (1564-1634)

I improved these 15 early profiles from my Watchlist:

(Sort by oldest edit)

  1. Sydney Ernest Plaisted (1888-1889) last edited 2014 - was previously unsourced

I resolved these 15, 30 or 45 profiles in the Needs Biography Category:

Category:Needs_Biography

I resolved these 15, 30 or 45 profiles in the Needs Profiles Created Category:

Category:Needs_Profiles_Created

I resolved these 15, 30 or 45 profiles in the Needs GEDCOM Cleanup Category:

Category:Needs_GEDCOM_Cleanup

  1. John Peapell (1838-)
  2. Sarah (UNKNOWN) Peapell (1838-)
  3. Joseph Torrey (1798-)
  4. John Walsh (1910-)
  5. Henry Armatage (1823-1897)

I added at least one source to these 15, 30 or 45 profiles from the Unsourced Profiles Category:

  1. Herbert Chisholm Plaisted (1881-1927)

I improved these 15, 30 or 45 profiles to completeness using David Randall’s Checklist:

I improved these 15, 30 or 45 random profiles:

Using the Random Profile feature in the WikiTree Browser Extension or this app: https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/nelson3486/random/ to find and improve 15 random profiles

  1. Jan: Ruth Bowen (1870-1872)
  2. Jan: David Lindsay (1455-1528)
  3. Feb: James H Kendall (1803-1877)
  4. Feb: James Parnel Kendall (1827-1911)

I connected these 5 unconnected profiles to the big tree:

  1. Violet Constance (Jessop) Lewis (1887-1971)

I improved these 15, 30 or 45 profiles of individuals who died young:

Remember the children: Space:RTC_-_Guides

  1. Sophia Beggs (1866-1866)
  2. Gertrude Beggs (1855-1859)
  3. Frances Champion de Crespigny (1793-1793)
  4. Unnamed Champion de Crespigny (1901-1901)
  5. Ruth Bowen (1870-1872)
  6. Robert (Sharpe) Sharp (1881-1881)
  7. William Sharp (1884-1884)
  8. Bertie Redman (1894-1894)
  9. Walter G Croker (1903-1907)
  10. Gwendolyn Phyllis Sullivan (1933-1935)
  11. Margaret Jane Cudmore (1869-abt.1869)
  12. Emil Oswald Manock (1914-1914)
  13. John Joseph Monksfield (1821-1822)
  14. Dorothea Champion de Crespigny (1799-1800)
  15. William Hensley Symes (1887-1888)
  16. Jessie McNaughten Trevor (1842-1842)
  17. Edward Rowland William Mainwaring (1843-1843)
  18. Edward Philip Charles Mainwaring (abt.1844-1849)
  19. Laura Adelaide Mainwaring (1875-1875)
  20. Unnamed Mainwaring (1840-1840)
  21. Mona Robina Snell (1905-1905)
  22. Jane Skerrit (1833-1835)
  23. George Dawson (1862-1863)
  24. Alexandrina Budge (1844-bef.1851)

I solved these 15, 30 or 45 Unknowns from my Watchlist or the tree at large:

https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=LastNameatBirth%3DUnknown+orphan&MaxProfiles=8000&PageSize=1000

I participated in these 15 weekly challenges:

(Examples: 52 Ancestors, Data Doctors Challenge, Saturday Sourcing Sprints, WikiTree Challenge)

  1. The WikiTree Challenge 2023 Challenge 2
  2. Space:Cemetery_Challenge#Collector.27s_Mini-Challenge

I participated in these 5 monthly challenges:

  1. Sourcer's challenge in January
  2. GEDI challenge in February GEDImprove

Add or source 150 profiles each during a Connect-a-Thon or Source-a-Thon, respectively.

Use the ‘Thon tracker to find out your count and record it here:

  • Connect-a-Thon: January 77 profiles connected
  • Source-a-Thon:

I participated in these 15 Weekend Chats:

I answered 15 questions from the Genealogy Help category in G2G:

(Suggestion: Record a short synopsis of the question to jog your memory.

  1. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1520465/how-can-i-find-my-australian-gt-grandmother
  2. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1515151/question-strategy-converting-possibles-verified-information
  3. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1514897/sgt-benjamin-dishaw-1841-1915-106th-co-married-christmas-day
  4. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1514360/can-anyone-find-passenger-list-australia-england-about-1857
  5. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1523025/how-do-i-know-if-they-are-huguenot

I awarded Wonderful WikiTree recognition to these WikiTreers:

  • January: Mindy Silva [1]
  • February : Margaret Haining [2]
  • March:
  • April:
  • May:
  • June:
  • July:
  • August:
  • September:
  • October:
  • November:
  • December:

Tally your thank yous given each month:

Your goal is 15 a month!

  • January:
  1. 1st Jan John Hughes [3]
  2. 1 Jan John Hughes [4]
  3. 2 Jan Amelia Utting [5]
  4. 3 Jan Margaret Haining [6]
  5. 5th Jan Betsy Ko [7]
  6. 6th Clare Spring [8]
  7. 7th Amanda Myers [9]
  8. 7th A J Hatfield [10]
  9. 10th Kevin Conroy [11]
  10. 11th Paul Shepard [12]
  11. 12th Laura White [13]
  12. 12th Tony Kerrison [14]
  13. 13th Kenneth Evans [15]
  14. 13th Rick Pierpont [16]
  15. 17th Mindy Silva [17]

not counting beyond 15 each month

  • February :
  1. 1st Scott Kendall [18]
  2. 2nd Guillaume Porlier [19]
  3. 2nd Helen Honeysett [20]
  4. 3rd Chris O'Connell [21]
  5. 3rd Margaret Haining [22]
  6. 4th DerrickWatson [23]
  7. 5th Helen Rice [24]
  8. 5th Melanie Paul [25]
  9. 8th Kristina Wheeler[26]
  10. 9th Charles Senrick [27]
  11. 10th Andrew Millard [28]
  12. 10th Bernard Vatant [29]
  13. 11th Margaret Haining [30]
  14. 11th Nathan Johanson [31]
  15. 20th Rhys Fogarty [32]
  • March:
  1. 3rd Clare Spring [33]
  2. 14th Margaret Miller [34]
  3. 14th Kevin Conroy[35]
  4. 17th Lauraine Syrnick [36]
  5. 18th Martin Styan [37]
  6. 21st Victor Paul [38]
  7. 22nd Mary Richardson [39]
  8. 22nd Steve Thomas [40]
  9. 25th Karen Boxall [41]
  10. 31st Alan Purchase [42]
  11. 31st Francesca Murphy [43]
  12. 31st Duane McDonald [44]
  13. 31st Duane [45]
  14. 31st Melanie Paul [46]
  15. 31st Fellow Toddlin Tortoise [47]
  • April:
  1. 2nd Paul Smith [48]
  2. 2nd Claire Spring [49]
  3. 3rd Scott Davis [50]
  4. 14th Kevin Sweet [51]
  5. 20th Pete Toemmes [52]
  6. 23rd Azure Robonson [53]
  7. 29th Clare Spring [54]
  8. 30th Helen Rice [55]
  • May:
  1. Nathan Johansen[56]
  2. Frances (Jones) McCarthy [57]
  3. Paddy Waldron [58]
  4. Chris Jephson [59]
  5. Neil Croll [60]
  6. 31st Clare Spring [61]
  7. 31st Clare again [62]
  8. 31st Tim Breden
  • June:
  1. Daniel Bamberger [63]
  • July:
  • August:
  • September:
  • October:
  • November:
  • December:

I awarded Generous Genealogist badges to these 5 WikiTreers:

I awarded Family or Community Star badges to these 5 WikiTreers:

I invited these 5 people to join WikiTree:

I shared these 15 Question of the Week images on my social media account(s):

I shared the shareable family tree image for these 15 ancestors on my social media account(s):

I watched these 15 Saturday Roundup videos on YouTube and left a comment:

I watched these 15 WikiTree Wednesday videos on YouTube and left a comment:

  1. WikiTree's 15 Nation Global Tour: India Wrap-up
  2. 2023 WikiTree Challenge 2 - Society of Australian Genealogists

I watched these 5 videos from WikiTree Day 2022 and left a comment:





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