Graham's notes

Date: 17 Sep 2023 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]

Notes created for Graham when sorting out the profile for Lucy Louisa Ward (abt.1868-1921).

Contents 1 Background 2 First change 3 Second change 3.1 Style 3.2 Wikimark up 4 Original contents of profile of Ward-21253 5 Biography 5.1 Notes 6 Sources

Background

I saw that Graham had merged two profiles but the resulting profile had GEDCOM junk in it that needed cleaning. I offered to help and as Graham felt he was not very accomplished with the references and how best to deal with them in cases such as this, we agreed to treat it as a learning exercise. I decided to document what I was doing so that Graham has a record of where to find things. Graham is obviously not a beginner, but as I am uncertain of his level of knowledge I will assume zero so I may document stuff already known. I have made Graham co PM so that he can take over this free space page and turn it into a resources memo, or whatever.

First change

I have added a temporary warning not to edit the profile until we have sorted it out, estimated to be complete Wednesday 20th.

To make a table like this you can use thi web siteor Wkikmarkup as described here.

Second change

''A Given name was found in addition to a first name in the NAME tag.''

Remove this line. This is a warning from the GEDCOM converter. Wikitree has three name field (four for married women); First name, middle names, last name at birth. It expects only one name in the first field. Check this is so and if not move any other names to the middle names field.

Style

Style is a big topic, There are various styles in use on Wikitree but there are style recommendations that can be found starting here and here

A common style is to use events such as birth, baptism, residence, etc and have these as bold headings (bold is achieved by encapsulating the word (or phrase) in a pair of triple single quotes, e.g. '''heading'''. GEDCOM output is often like this. The preferred profile style is a narrative like a book, but this is hard to do, here is an example. Many profiles instead extract what they can from a source and put that into a narrative form followed by an inline source reference. The life of the person is worked through chronologically. This gives a reasonable profile, easy to read which can be expanded further later. There are profile assist apps. There is a free standing one at https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/shipley1223/Bio.html. This needs a few tweaks (if there is only one parent it spells following with only one l), There is also the bio builder in the browser extension but I have never used this yet. These work from the profile.

Wikimark up

There are several short cuts to text enhancement, such as bold text mentioned above. These are described [1].

Original contents of profile of Ward-21253

Biography

Louisa was born in 1850.

Name: Lucy Louisa Ward. Given Name: Lucy Louisa. Surname: Ward. Source: S53331795 The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911 </ref> ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} A Given name was found in addition to a first name in the NAME tag.

Born 1868 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. ^{[5] [2] [4]}

Baptism: 28 SEP 1868. Bordesley,Warwick,England ^[6]

Residence Relation to Head: Daughter. 1871 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. ^[2] Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife. 1911 Hunslet, England. ^[5]

Note: (N0083).

Marriage Husband John William Nunns. Wife Lucy Louisa Ward. Marriage October 1893. Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England. ^[7] Child: Annie Nunns. ^[8] Note: (N0909).

Notes

Sources

1. ↑ Source: S53422663 The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; War Office: Soldiers’ Documents, First World War Wo363
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Source: S53423133 The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 3106; Folio: 122; Page: 16; GSU roll: 839574
3. ↑ Source: S53456501
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Source: S53365994
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1}
6. ↑
7. ↑ Source: S53456501
8. ↑ Source: S0000

• Pete's GEDcom file
• Source: S18281805 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: #N2359 16 JAN 2022 Time: 20:16:11Ancestry Family Tree