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Contents 1 Appalachia Project Index 1.1 Appalachia Project 1.1.1 Team Pages 1.1.2 People Profiles 1.1.3 Templates and Stickers 1.1.4 Categorization Hierarchy 1.1.4.1 Maintenance Categories 1.1.5 Workspace Pages

Appalachia Project Index

Five Regions of Appalachia

The project's geographic scope is the Appalachian Region, which today includes 423 counties across 13 states, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission.^[1]

This page includes links to the Appalachia Project's Regional Team Pages, category pages for People Profiles, Sticker page, and Maintenance Categories. Appalachia Project Organization includes a description of leadership roles and lists additional team pages.

See also the project's page Counties of Appalachia, which has tables with links to WikiTree's county categories, by state, for Appalachian counties. See also Category: Appalachia Counties. Tables with links to space pages are on the Workspace Pages (still being created, September 2022).

A separate page about Categorization is being developed. A basic outline of the project's Categorization Hierarchy is below.

Appalachia Project

Project page: Appalachia Project

Project category: Category: Appalachia Project
The Appalachia Project caetgory is for project pages, project members (no other people profiles), and Team categories (see Team Pages, below).

Non-project WikiTree pages related to Appalachia can be added to the project category at the discretion of the project's leadership.

Team Pages

Profile Improvement Team includes project members who focus on a specific issue across the project, such as unsourced profiles and other profiles collected under the project's maintenance categories.

Regional Team members can add their team's category to their profile, in addition to Category: Appalachia Project. No other people profiles should be categorized to these pages. Non-project WikiTree pages related to a particular region can be added to the relevant Team category, at the Team Leaders's discretion. Counties of Appalachia includes tables of current Appalachia counties by state.

1. Northern Appalachia Team
   Category: Northern Appalachia Team
   Maryland
   New York
   Ohio
   Pennsylvania
   West Virginia (Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio)^[2]
2. North Central Appalachia Team
   Category: North Central Appalachia Team
   Ohio
   West Virginia
3. Central Appalachia Team
   Category: Central Appalachia Team
   Kentucky
   Tennessee
   Virginia
   West Virginia (Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wayne, Wyoming)^[2][3]
4. South Central Appalachia Team
   Category: South Central Appalachia Team
   North Carolina
   Tennessee
   Virginia
5. Southern Appalachia Team
   Category: Southern Appalachia Team
   Alabama
   Georgia
   Mississippi
   South Carolina

People Profiles

Profiles of Appalachians should be categorized by the state where they were born, lived and/or died (e.g., New York Appalachians and North Carolina Appalachians) and, when appropriate, as a Notable (i.e., under Category: Appalachia, Notables).

The Appalachian categories are only for people profiles of Appalachians.

• Category: Appalachia, Notables

1. Category: Alabama Appalachians
2. Category: Georgia Appalachians
3. Category: Kentucky Appalachians
4. Category: Maryland Appalachians
5. Category: Mississippi Appalachians
6. Category: New York Appalachians
7. Category: North Carolina Appalachians
8. Category: Ohio Appalachians
9. Category: Pennsylvania Appalachians
10. Category: South Carolina Appalachians
11. Category: Tennessee Appalachians
12. Category: Virginia Appalachians
13. Category: West Virginia Appalachians

Profiles by location. In addition to the one of the 13 project categories for Appalachians, the county category or categories appropriate for the period the person lived there should also be added. For example, Category: Berkeley County, Virginia Colony (pre-USA), Category: Berkeley County, Virginia (pre-WV), or Category: Berkeley County, West Virginia (on or after 20 June 1863, when West Virginia was admitted to the union). See the project's Category: Appalachia Counties and Space: Counties of Appalachia page.

Notes

Project members who were born in or live in Appalachia should add the appropriate Appalachians category to their profile. Project members who are not Appalachians should only add the project category and appropriate team category/ies.

Templates and Stickers

See the Templates section of the main page for the Appalachia Project & the project's Stickers page. The following links are to the template pages for the main project stickers.

Project Stickers

• Appalachia (stand-in Project Box)^[4]
• Appalachia Sticker (has lived in/lives in & born in options)
• Appalachian Roots

Member Sticker: Template: Member
{{Member|Appalachia}}
{{Member|Appalachia|team=[[Space:Northern Appalachia Team|Northern Appalachia Team]]}}
{{Member|Appalachia|team=[[Space:North Central Appalachia Team|North Central Appalachia Team]]}}
{{Member|Appalachia|team=[[Space:Central Appalachia Team|Central Appalachia Team]]}}
{{Member|Appalachia|team=[[Space:South Central Appalachia Team|South Central Appalachia Team]]}}
{{Member|Appalachia|team=[[Space:Southern Appalachia Team|Southern Appalachia Team]]}}

Notables Sticker: Template: Notables Sticker
{{Notables Sticker|Appalachia, Notables}}
- add this sticker to profiles of Appalachians who qualify to be labeled a Notable (see WikiTree's qualifications). Adding "Appalachia, Notables" does not change the sticker's text, but it does add Category: Appalachia, Notables.

Categorization Hierarchy

Click here for the "live" hierarchy. The basic structure is

Category: Appalachia Project ->

Category: Appalachia ->

Category: Appalachians (people)

Category: Appalachia Counties (places)

Categories of note under the main project category include

Appalachia, Notables see above

Maintenance Categories see below

Team Categories see above ->

Appalachians Categories (by state) see above

The project's Categorization Guidance has more detailed information.

Maintenance Categories

Only "needs" categories that can be added using the "needs=" parameter with the Appalachia template are listed here. See Category: Appalachia Project Maintenance Categories for others (such as Category: Appalachia, Unsourced Profiles).

• Category: Appalachia Project Needs Biography
• Category: Appalachia Project Needs GEDCOM Cleanup
• Category: Appalachia Project Needs Research
• Category: Appalachia, Needs More Records

To propose an additional needs category, please post to the Project's Google Group (not Discord or G2G). If you are not a project member, you can post a comment on this page and a project leader will bring it up in the Google Group.

Workspace Pages

The five regions of Appalachia cross state lines. To help coordinate state-level work between teams, and as a reference for space pages of Appalachia counties, the project has state-level workspace pages, which are still a work-in-progress as of October 2022. For example, the Workspace for Tennessee is mostly done, while the Workspace for North Carolina is still in development, and others do not have much more than the table for county space pages. The 13 Workspace pages can be found categorized under Category: Appalachia Counties#W.

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1. ↑ As listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (here) as of 30 June 2022.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wikipedia's article on West Virginia has an 1861 map of the counties that "Voted on Statehood for West Virginia" (accessed 1 July 2022).
3. ↑ In 1861, Lincoln and Mingo counties did not exist. Lincoln County was created from Cabell County and Mingo County was created from Logan County. (Compare the 1861 map with the map of regions on this page.)
4. ↑ See the Templates section of the Project page.