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Challenges
52 Weeks
Bio Builders
- June 2022 Biography Builders Challenge
- Biography Builders Challenge
- Genealogically Defined
- Biography Builders Challenge Tracking Spreadsheet
Connectors
- Connectors Challenge
- Connectors Chat
- Unconnected Tool
- Unconnected Profiles
- Unconnected by Location
- Places to find unconnected profiles
GEDI
Integrator
Sourcerer
- June 2022 Challenge Tracker
- Sourcerers Challenge
- Unsourced Profiles
- DBE Report for Unsourced Profiles
- Orphaned Profiles
- Reliable Sources
USBH Connecting
Handy References
Frequently Used Wikitree Shortcuts
- FamilySearch Connection Utility
- Category Templates
- US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal
- Profile Improvement Project Biography Standards
- Wikitree Bee
Utility
- WikiTree to FamilySearch Connection
- Wikitree Cemeteries
- DAR Genealogical Research
- SAR Genealogical Research
- 1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Smith County, Texas
- APA Citation Examples
- US Bureau of Land Management General land Office Records Search
- Find a Grave Memorial Search
- Find a Grave Cemetery Search
- Billion Grave Person Search
- Billion Grave Cemetery Search
- Old Maps Online
- Acre Value, to visual identify land for legal description
- Military Records (many free with registration, more behind paywall
- Ship Passenger Lists 1660-1670
- Connect Profile to FamilySearch ID
- BULK Match WikiTree Watchlist to FamilySearch Family Tree
- Google Maps
- The Portal to Texas History (includes newspapers)
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
- Historical U.S. Counties
- Section Township Range Maps on Google
- Topographic Maps of the US and Canada
- Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps
Specialized References
Old History Books
- History of the Ball Family: Genealogy of the New Haven Branch, Allen Ball and Some of His ...
- History of Madison County, Illinois: With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers
- History of Noble County, Ohio: With Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men
- History of Tennessee
- Lanier:A geneology of the family who came to Virginia and their French ancestors in London
- History of St. Charles, Mongomery, and Warren counties, Missouri.
- Kentucky Troops in the War of 1812
- From Needmore to Prosperity : Hoosier place names in folklore and history
- Indiana Historic Print Collection
- Historic Maps of Southern Indiana
- The Five Civilized Tribes
Old Record Books
- US National Archives Catalog
- The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. XI - 1776, and Supplement - 1730 to 1776
- The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. XXII - Miscellaneous
- The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720-1789
Handy Cut & Paste Samples
Profiles Undergoing Renovation Place the following text at the beginning of the Research Notes page:
Major reorganization and sourcing for this profile is underway. Any assertion not accompanied by a source reference is noted with the following reference[1] to mark where citation is needed as the profile is reorganized and sourced over time. If you can cite a source for an assertion so marked, please replace the reference tag with the appropriate source. Please give preference to online references and references not behind a paywall. To identify an assertion that needs a source citation, please place the following tag[1] to mark it. <ref name=scn> This assertion needs a source citation</ref>
Find A Grave for Profile
<ref name="gravesite">{{FindAGrave|0000000000}}</ref>
Find A Grave for Someone Else
<ref>{{FindAGrave|0000000000|sameas=no}}</ref>
Google Maps
<ref>Google (n.d.). [First James Gentry land tract near Folsomville, Indiana] (https://goo.gl/maps/Nn8wBSizpViEkJSCA). Accessed 17 May 2022.</ref>
Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha LLC, 2018. Wolfram|Alpha. WolframAlpha["<query>", "URL"] (access Feb 24, 2018).
Genealogically Defined
'''[[Space:Genealogically Defined|Genealogically Defined]]'''
Free Space Pages
[[Space:Mount_Tabor_Indian_Community|Mount Tabor Indian Community]]
Useful Table Samples
Status
| Ancestors | Ancestor Children | Ancestor Children++ | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen | Ancestors | Stubs | Pct IDed | GD | Bios | Brickwalls | Children Known | Stubs | GD | Bios | Children Known | Stubs | GD | Bios |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 100 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| 3 | 4 | 4 | 100 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 4 | 8 | 8 | 100 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 16 | 16 | 100 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 6 | 32 | 22 | 69 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 7 | 64 | 22 | 34 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 128 | 29 | 23 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 9 | 256 | 27 | 11 | |||||||||||
| 10 | 512 | 35 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 11 | 1024 | 47 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 12 | 2048 | 49 | 2 | |||||||||||
Excludes living cousins
Count of Genealogically Defined Profiles under Management: 3
Surnames
Depth: 16 generations[note]
- A: Akin-Allen-Anstie-Ashton-Audley-Austin-Ayers
- B: Ball-Ballard-Barker-Baskerville-Bassano-Bayley-Beason-Bellingham-Benskin-Birdsong-Blair-Bock-Boger-Bone-Brabon-Brisbane-Brock-Brooks-Bruce
- C: Cage-Cammack-Campbell-Carlyle-Carraway-Charlton-Childers-Chisholm-Church-Collet-Cook-Coppinger-Cox-Crichton-Crocker-Cunningham
- D: Davenport-Davie-Davis-Day-Dobell-Dowis-Downman-Draht-Druitt-Drummond-Drury
- E: Easley-Eason-Ector-Edwards-Elmore-Enger-Evans-Everett
- F: Farley-Finch-Ford-Forrester-Foster-Fritsch-Fuller
- G: Gabhart-Garland-Gentry-Godard-Göttlothin-Gower-Graham-Griffin-Grindall-Grob
- H: Hall-Hancock-Harris-Hastings-Heyrich-Hicks-Hooker-Hopkins-Hoppringle-Horsington-Houston-Huddleston-Hudson-Hume-Humphrey-Hunt
- I: Irvin-Isham
- J: Jackson-Johnson
- K: Kelly-Kennedy-Ketcherside-Krämer
- L: Laciter-Lassiter-Lanier-Leathco-Leery-Lindsay-Littleberry-Livingston-Lorenz-Lowe
- M: Mächtlin-Maxwell-McBee-McClain-McClung-McWilliams-Mitchell-Mohlburger-Montgomery
- N: De Nazzi-Nichols-Newman-Norcum
- O: Oesley-Oliver-Orr
- P: Parker-Patten-Perkins-Peterson-Pfau-Pickering-Pumphreys-Purtle
- Q:
- R: Raven-Reese-Riddick-Roberts-Ross-Rotan
- S: Saunders-Scott-Sempill-Shaw-Shelton-Shepherd-Simmons-Simons-Sinclair-Smart-Smith-Soane-Sprouce-Stamps-Stanyerne-Stevens-Stewart-Stirling-Strickland
- T: Theiss-Travers
- U:
- V: Vardry
- W: Wadde-Wade-Warham-Warren-Watson-Weatherstone-Whittinghill-Wilheit-Willett-Williams-Wilson-Womack-Worger-Worsham
- X:
- Y:
- Z:
Color Key: Paternal, Maternal, Both, Multiple Ancestral Lines
Idea repurposed from Katie (Collins) Goodwin.
Priorities
- Complete the Profile Improvements Project (PIP) Voyage
- Try out each of the monthly Challenges
- Manually migrate my MyHeritage family tree to Wikitree
- Connecting oldest generations in family tree to WikiTree
- Sourcing, sourcing, sourcing!
- Flush out bios and data on oldest ancestors while doing previous priority
- Standardize section headings on any non-protected profile touched
- Add categories to any profile touched (religion, occupation, location, military, cemetery)
- Get pre-1500 certified
- Flush out first 64 slots in family tree on WikiTree
Tasks
- Determine if Allen-37, Allen-15234, Allen-15960 need to be merged?
- Sort out the William Allens of 17th century Virginia (there were multiple and not currently documented correctly on WIkiTree).
Genealogy Library Tasks
- Research obituary of Joseph Andrew Fresco Leathco (died 22 Jun 1892, Dale, Spencer County, Indiana)
- Find will for William Allen
- Search Oklahoma records for Beulah Warren / William Clark marriage
Someday / Maybe
- Get Ancestry and genealogy library access (locally) - then came the pandemic :(
- Add "Doomsday Book" Gentry (PREREQ: Pre-1500 Certification)
- Dispel Huguenot myth based on "Doomsday Book" Gentry
- If Peter White in lineage, work out 17th century Irish White family tree on WikiTree.
- Publish on G2G Wiki table templates for each US census year
- Link all names mentioned in managed profiles back to their WikiTree profiles, creating new profiles as needed
Endnotes
NOTE - These 16 generations include me and ancestors back to, and including, my 15th g-grandparents.