History of the Virginia Project

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Surnames/tags: Virginia Project_Histories Projects

The Virginia Project was created 9 May 2016 by Alison Andrus as a sub-project of the US History Project, which she led; it expanded to cover pre-USA profiles when the US Southern Colonies Project went dormant in 2018; and it reverted to post-1776, under the now renamed United States Project, in 2020, after the May relaunch of the US Southern Colonies Project.

As a sub-project, the leader of the Virginia Project was originally called a project coordinator, and could be led by any WikiTree member in good standing. Subsequently, sub-projects were required to have a Project Leader for logistical reasons.

Project Coordinators & Leaders:

• Liz Shifflett, founder (11 May 2016-March 2019)^[1]
• William Foster (PC October 2018-January 2019; Leader January 2019- )
• Maggie N. (PC for Bollings surname, January 2019- )
• Kathie Forbes (PC for G2G, May 2019-)

The project account, WikiTree-41, was created 18 May 2016.

A dedicated project box for Virginia was created 22 March 2018, replacing the one based on the US History project box:

• {{US History|sub-project=Virginia}} - which no longer exists, replaced by {{United States}}
• {{Virginia}}

Even before the dedicated project box, adding a location category with the project box was encouraged:

• then - {{US History|sub-project=Virginia|category=Stafford County, Virginia}}
• now - {{Virginia|category=Stafford County, Virginia}}

Otherwise, the project box adds Category: Unknown County, Virginia.

The {{Virginia Sticker}} was created 15 November 2018.

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Liz temporarily rejoined the leadership team as PC for Membership on 8 April 2023.