Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland Team
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Surnames/tags: CUMBRIA CUMBERLAND WESTMORLAND
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Welcome to the Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland Team page!
Team Leader: Anon Cormack
Team Members: Anon Cormack | Chris Little|Nick Kennedy | JB Majors | Dwight Ray|John Machell
Goal
The goal of the Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland Team is to make all Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland profiles the best that they can be. It is our desire to leave a lasting legacy of work for future generations by sourcing, connecting and growing our County branches of the tree.
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Topics
In order to achieve our goal, there are a number of things we are currently working on:
- Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland Profiles managed by the England Project
- Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland notables
What to do
We handle the responsibility of improving the profiles of people from Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland along with several other tasks, which include:
- Oversight of the Cumbria and the Westmorland Category Page's to ensure that our information is up to date and is consistent with the other England county pages.
- This also includes the revision of our categories, adding correct categories and deleting incorrect or unnecessary categories as needed.
- Monitoring the Cumbria and the Westmorland Category Page's to ensure that all profiles are placed into the most accurate sub-category possible and not into any of the parent categories.
- Continual updating of the templates on Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland profiles such as "Unsourced" and "Estimated Date".
- Focusing on the improvement of Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland profiles including sourcing, connecting, merging duplicates, correcting database errors, and writing biographies.
- Creating profiles for prominent or notable Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland-based individuals and connecting them to our global trees.
- Researching and updating profiles on WikiTree which are relevant to prominent Cumbria, Cumberland and Westmorland families.
County Resources
Communication and Collaboration
If you want to work together, go for it, amazing profiles can be sourced and written as a team! You can communicate with everyone by posting to this page, joining us on discord, through the Google groups: England Project, or by messaging individual members.
Keep in mind that we will largely be working on profiles that are managed by other people—always endeavour to discuss any major changes you may wish to make to a profile with the profile manager/s involved.
Team Member Specific Interests and what we're currently working on
| Team Member | Interests | Currently working on |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Little |
Stapleton Parish, Little ONS, Y-DNA & mtDNA |
Scotland, Dumfriesshire and Cumberland Littles |
| Nick Kennedy |
Sources, particularly early ones | |
| Anon Cormack |
Sourcing unsourced profiles particularly for Westmorland | |
| JB Majors | ||
| John Machell |
Machell One Name Study, |
Creation of profiles for the Machell One Name Study unsourced profiles, profile improvements, and completing the England Orphan Trail |
| Dwight Ray |
Team Challenges We have one Challenge team connected to the England Project. Members of the England Counties teams are encouraged to join as a member of The Mighty Oaks and participate from time to time in WikiTree challenges for England.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Mighty_Oaks
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- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
there will soon be a Source a Thon coming up at the end of September and it would be good if we could have a go at our unsourced profiles Cumberland https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Cumberland%2C_Unsourced_Profiles or Westmorland https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Westmorland%2C_Unsourced_Profiles perhaps listing on this team page as a comment which dates and areas we’ll be concentrating on
Good luck
Chris
I'll look at Westmorland from 1700 onwards
I will choose them randomly from the lists.
I was doing some connecting and came across some Cumbrian profiles added by someone whose first language is perhaps not english. This is a birth location: Egremont, Cumberland, Inglaterra, Reino Unidomap.
It occurred to me that it would ensure these are missed from the County stats as well. The family are all unsourced.
Here is one person: Jeremiah Gunson (1827-1912) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gunson-432 but there is a whole tree.
Rather than marking them all unsourced I thought I'd just let you know. I sourced and changed the one I came across.
I'm in the middle of another project and was worried I'd have forgotten them by the time I finished so thought I'd let you know.
All the best, Alison
"Access to volumes after 1897 may be restricted outside the United States."
If you have not resolved this access problem, you could try using a VPN connection, and connect via a US based server?
Wendy
I am pretty sure we can't change the URL without recreating and merging the page.
Wendy :)