Kathy's 15 for 15 mission

Date: 5 Jan 2023 to 12 Dec 2023
Location: [unknown]

To help celebrate WikiTree's 15th Anniversary in 2023, we are kicking off a year-long event: 15 For 15! Go here to find a list of "missions" participants can choose to complete. The goal is to complete 15 of the missions over the course of the year. Participants who reach that milestone will receive a "15 For 15" sticker they can add to their profile to show off their accomplishment.

Bonus: For participants wanting to go beyond 15, there are also milestone stickers for 30 For 15 and 45 For 15, for completing 30 and 45 missions respectively.

To accept this mission of missions, first reply here with an answer. Something as simple as "I'm going to participate!" works fine.

Then, choose missions from the list that you want to complete and work on them throughout the year. When you complete a mission, reply to your G2G answer here with a comment stating which one you've finished.

When you've completed 15 missions, post an answer in this separate G2G post to get the sticker for your profile. If you go on to complete 30 or 45 missions, you can answer in the same post to get those stickers as well.

Betsy Ko created this excellent free-space page with a tracker you can copy and paste elsewhere to document your progress throughout the year.

What is 15 For 15?

Below is a list of "missions" participants can choose to complete. The goal is to complete 15 of the missions over the course of the year.

Participants who reach the objective will receive a "15 For 15" sticker they can add to their profile to show off their accomplishment. Bonus: There are also milestone stickers for "30 For 15" and "45 For 15" for participants wanting to go beyond 15.

How to Participate To accept this mission of missions, first go to this G2G post and reply with answer. Something as simple as "I'm going to participate!" works fine.

Then, choose missions from the list below that you want to complete and work on them throughout the year. When you complete a mission, reply to your G2G answer with a comment stating which one you've finished.

When you've completed 15 missions, post an answer in this G2G post to get the sticker for your profile. If you go on to complete 30 or 45 missions, you can answer in the same post to get those stickers as well.

Betsy Ko created this excellent free-space page with a tracker you can copy and paste elsewhere to document your progress throughout the year..

List of Missions About You Add a photo of yourself to your profile Add or improve the biography on your profile If you haven't yet, add your DNA test info to your profile, add your GEDmatch ID (if you have on) and your mitoYDNA.org ID (if you have one) Increase your CC7 number by 150 (helpful tips on how to do this) Earn 5 Club 100 badges (make 100 contributions in a month) (or 1000) Learn how to include inline references

Profiles -- Note: For the missions that have 15, 30 and 45 as options, you do not have to restart a count for each one. Once you have completed 15, you can complete another 15 to hit the 30 mark and another 15 to hit the 45 mark.

Upload 15 photos of a person or a headstone to the relevant profile(s) Sort your Watchlist by oldest edit and try to improve 15 of those profiles Improve 15 profiles from your Anniversaries list ( (or 30 or 45)

Resolve 15 profiles in the Needs Biography Category (or 30 or 45)

Resolve 15 profiles in the Needs Profiles Created Category (or 30 or 45)

Resolve 15 profiles in the Needs GEDCOM Cleanup Category (or 30 or 45)

Improve 15 profiles of individuals who died young (See how to find profiles and what all can still be added to the profile even though their lives were short here) (or 30 or 45)

Use David Randall's Checklist to improve 15 profiles to completeness (or 30 or 45)

Using the Random Profile feature in the WikiTree Browser Extension or this app to find and improve 15 random profiles (or 30 or 45)

Solve 15 Unknowns in your Watchlist (or find orphaned ones here if you have none of your own (or 30 or 45)

Add at least one source to 15 profiles from the Unsourced Profiles category (or 30 or 45)

Connect 5 unconnected profiles in your Watchlist (or click View All to find 5 if you don't have any in your Watchlist) Create a free-space profile about something that interests you

Features Try out 3 apps that you have not used before Try out the WikiTree Browser Extension Send out 15 E-Cards

Challenges/Events Participate in 15 weekly challenges (52 Ancestors, Data Doctors Challenge, Saturday Sourcing Sprints, Friday Date Night, WikiTree Challenge)

Participate in 5 monthly challenges (check the challenges tag to find the most recent ones) Add 150 profiles during a Connect-a-Thon

Source 150 profiles during the Source-a-Thon

Attend the WikiTree Day event

Projects Start or join a One-Name Study / Start or join a One-Place Study / Join a geographical project / Join a topical project / functional project / Start a free-space project/

Community Participate in 15 Weekend Chats/ Answer 15 questions from the Genealogy Help category in G2G

Award 1 Wonderful WikiTreer in G2G each month for 12 months Give 15 thank-yous each month for 12 months/ Award 5 Generous Genealogist badges/ Award 5 Family or Community Star badges/ Invite 5 people to join WikiTree / Help another WikiTreer break down a brick wall/ Add a book to the Source Library (here's how) /

Social Media Share 15 of the Question of the Week images on your social media to get your friends and family talking

Share the shareable family tree image for 15 of your ancestors on your social media

Watch and leave a comment on 15 of the Saturday Roundup videos on YouTube Watch and leave a comment on 15 of the WikiNews Wednesday videos on YouTube Watch and leave a comment on 5 of the videos from WikiTree Day Send a short video telling why you love WikiTree to eowyn-at-wikitree.com

Event Award Stickers