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Challenges for the Year of Family Connections 2022
2022 is the WikiTree Year of Family Connections. The Australia Project is participating in the activities this year by working on reducing the numbers of unlinked and unconnected profiles that we have. We'll be having monthly challenges as well, if you want to 'mix-it-up' and do some different activities.
April
ANZAC Month
This is the list of Unconnected ANZACs. There are 1198 ANZACS who are unconnected at the beginning of April. Can we connect any of these men and women who served Australia to the global tree?
There are also 5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island heroes who are unconnected. It would be excellent if we could extend their families and hopefully connect them up.
This is some information provided by the Australian War Memorial on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ANZACs. There is information on the site about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men below. I don't think any of them are on WikiTree. It would be great to double check if they are there, add them if they aren't, and connect them up. Make sure not to cut and paste the biographical information from the AWM as that breaches copyright.
- Albert Knight (1894-1973)
- Alfred Hearps (1895-1916) Connected
- Douglas Grant (abt.1885-1951)
- Gilbert Williams (1892-)
- Harry Thorpe (1886-1918)
- Lawrence McKenzie (1887-)
- Richard Martin
- James Dickerson (1883-1915) Connected
- Harry James Dickerson (1896-1969) Connected
- Alfred Lovett and his family - Alfred Lovett (1880-1962) Connected
- Walter Christopher George Saunders (1895-)
- William Allan Irwin
- William Punch (abt.1880-1917)
- William Reginald Rawlings (1891-1918) Connected
March
Let's look after our Convicts!!
Add them! Connect them! Improve them!
Tasks:
1. Improve the profiles for convicts in your own family (adding categories and stickers, new sources, working on the biography).
2. Add more descendants to your own convict ancestors.
3. Add new convicts and connect them up.
4. Connect up existing convicts: Unconnected convicts. There were 904 unconnected convicts when at the beginning of March.
- Many of the unconnected convicts may be quite hard to connect, so below are some suggested convicts to try to connect. Add your name beside any that you want to work on and mark as connected if you are successful. It's fine to just add some additional family even if you don't actually achieve connecting success!
- Ann (Harris) Paddon (abt.1826-1906) connected
- Julia Maher (abt.1810-1883)
- Michael Cody (1844-1922) DONE
- Louisa (Witham) Hack (1826-1898) DONE
- Patrick Mason (abt.1766-abt.1853) Merge initiated
- Michael Hennessy (abt.1807-1859) Son's Profile Merge initiated DONE
- Richard Chapel (abt.1802-abt.1872)
- Philip Butcher (abt.1793-1863) DONE
- Samuel Scattergood (abt.1818-)
- Thomas Constable (abt.1828-1911) DONE
- Hugh Brown (abt.1817-1879)
- Matthew King (1812-1878)
- George Kilminster (abt.1821-1861) DONE
- Patrick Honan (1810-1891) DONE
- Jonas Laver (1819-1880) DONE
- Hannah (Mountford) Breedon (1813-1876)
- William John Agnew (1837-1911)
- John Francis (abt.1820-1885)
- Denis B Cashman (1842-1897) DONE
- William Vardy (1787-1860) DONE
- Robert (Moor) Moore (abt.1802-1874)
- Mark Wright (abt.1788-1870) DONE
- John Flood (1841-1909) DONE
- Robert Newman Bright (1815-1899) DONE
- Francis Morris (1803-1870)
- Timothy Slater (1813-1869) DONE
- William Hammond (1798-1879) Profile merged DONE
- Robert Campbell (1808-1891)
Additional option for Convict Team members:
- Focus on the First Fleet: Add, improve or connect up First Fleet Convicts - First Fleet, and First Fleet Category
ALL YEAR
Our Year-long challenge: Reducing the number of Australian Unconnected profiles:
NB. The numbers of unconnected or unlinked profiles for some colonies / states, particularly South Australia, may be inflated as the search results picks up profiles from other regions. We'll see if we can fix this up!
Region | Name | Start - Jan 2022 | Progress | Monthly Difference | Total Difference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australia - Unconnected | Amanda | 60 168 | 60 009 | - 197 | - 159 |
Australia - Unlinked | 12 814 | 14 088 | +1066 | +1276 | |
ACT - Unconnected | 140 | 139 | - 1 | - 1 | |
ACT - Unlinked | 48 | 49 | +3 | +1 | |
New South Wales - Unconnected | Gillian | 20 083 | 19 441 | - 494 | - 642 |
New South Wales - Unlinked | Veronica | 4 650 | 4 917 | +240 | +267 |
Norfolk Island - Unconnected | 63 | 18 | - 2 | - 45 | |
Norfolk Island - Unlinked | 12 | 7 | 0 | - 5 | |
Northern Territory - Unconnected | 84 | 101 | +21 | +17 | |
Northern Territory - Unlinked | 30 | 32 | +2 | +2 | |
Queensland - Unconnected | 8 611 | 8 867 | +404 | +256 | |
Queensland - Unlinked | 1 103 | 1 248 | +167 | +145 | |
South Australia - Unconnected | Karyn, Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis | 3 958 (resetting total due to unreliable original total) | 3 958 | 0 | 0 |
South Australia - Unlinked | Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis | 624 (resetting total due to unreliable original total) | 624 | 0 | 0 |
Tasmania / Van Diemen's Land - Unconnected | 2 589 | 2 750 | +286 | +161 | |
Tasmania / Van Diemen's Land - Unlinked | 868 | 995 | +159 | +127 | |
Western Australia - Unconnected | 3 281 | 3 133 | - 139 | - 148 | |
Western Australia - Unlinked | 674 | 801 | + 100 | + 127 | |
Victoria - Unconnected | Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis | 28 028 | 23 625 | +316 | - 4 403 |
Victoria - Unlinked | Sharryn (Bolitho) Nankervis | 4 401 | 4 456 | +374 | +55 |
January
Connecting up profiles of people linked to the Eureka Rebellion:
- Connected: Robert Bruce, Michael Tuohy, George Black
February
Using: The Australian Suggestions List, work on the following Find A Grave and Wikidata suggestions: (Some of these link to parents from other countries, so they aren't always Australian)
Find A Grave | |||
Suggestion | Name | Number at start | Progress |
591 | Possible father | 160 | 106 |
592 | Possible mother | 215 | 198 |
593 | Possible spouse | 138 | 131 |
Wikidata | |||
541 | Clue for father | 170 | 149 |
542 | Possible father on Wikidata | 23 | 27 |
543 | Clue for mother | 91 | 75 |
544 | Possible mother on Wikidata | 66 | 30 |
546 | Possible spouse | 10 | 4 |
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Catherine
The Japanese transport ship, Montevideo Maru was sunk in 1942 with over 1000 POWs mainly Australians. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Montevideo_Maru_Sinking%2C_1942
Mark did a fantastic job creating the profiles but many of these men are not connected. If anyone has time to work on them.
Amanda