Let others know what locations you are working on

I started over again on the English counties, because so many weren't up to five unconnected branches. And then I realised why. For a long time, I would keep going down the unconnected list in some jurisdictions, no matter how small the branches were, just to find five unconnected branches for each. But honestly, who's going to put in the work connecting a branch with seven people in it, when connecting a branch with hundreds of profiles in it accomplishes so much more for the same effort?

So I'm trying to remember to stick to a lower limit of 50 for branch sizes. If I can't find unconnected branches with open profiles of people born in that jurisdiction, then I'll just leave it. And if a jurisdiction gets down to the point where there are no qualifying unconnected branches anymore, I'll just delete it. In those cases, all the "low-hanging fruit" has already been picked, so it's time to look somewhere else. That doesn't mean that nobody else can add smaller branches. And I won't delete the section for a jurisdiction if it has unconnected branches with fewer than 50 profiles, but I'm going to try to focus the limited time I have for WikiTree on branches that people are going to want to work on, rather than just trying to fill out every jurisdiction in the world, no matter what.

Hi, I just connected France's 2nd largest branch (Chabriol-1) through total serendipity!

I am entering all births and deaths for the Italian village of Loseto in Bari. I am beginning with the Italian records in 1809 and entering each person born in 1809 -1900. Obviously this will take a while. After that I will enter deaths and marriages for the same period. As I begin entering the births, these people will be "UNCONNECTED" I will be able to connect them later. I am keeping an excel file of all the entries I am doing for this purpose.

So if you run into any births in Loseto, Bari, Puglia, Italy, I am working on those. Please be patient. I try to enter 1 year of births each day. Thanks much!

Hi I was just checking how things were going over here and I found out than Anthony Burke's branch is actually connected!

(I took no part in it though)

I am trying to link up the most unconnected profiles I can and have already worked my way through the LARGEST UNCONNNECTED page.

Can anyone tell me how often this here page gets updated ? OR how to access the latest unconnected branches by largest size ?

On this page I have already worked my way down to a branch of 170 unconnected profiles which I just linked up. Many of the profiles were in the Bahamas which does not show up on this list. There were some profiles in New York city, but a branch of 170 does not show up in the New York category above either. So I am trying to access the most recent & largest unconnected branches. Thanks

My Garaud branch reached almost 250 profiles, but I just connected it with the help of Bernard Vatant!

I will try to connect as many unconnected trees and profiles as possible in Kalmar county focusing mostly on southern Öland first. Recently connected the tree tree551274.

I have linked the Barnett-11616 branch with 105 profiles

Not sure how to take it off list, or who to update with this info, but feeling very pleased.

I'd like to try to bulk up this page before the Connect-A-Thon. If you would like to add an unconnected branch to any jurisdiction, please do so. I listed the steps that I go through in a G2G thread at https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/728660/ but you don't have to go through all those steps if you don't want to. I'd prefer to have at least six unconnected branches for each jurisdiction, so I'd love to see more branches added to the jurisdictions with fewer unconnected branches listed, but any jurisdiction is fine. (And yes, you can add your own branch if you haven't connected it to the main tree yet, but please use an Open profile as the linking profile, so that Connectors can work on that branch. [There are branches in the largest unconnected branches report which I haven't added to any lists, because none of the profiles in those branches are Open, so there's nothing anybody except the profile managers can do with them.])

Hi, I've been working on a French branch that is still unconnected, and right now it's at 133 profiles, so I think it should be up there in case someone wants to help out. I don't know whether I should edit this page directly and I don't really know how to deal with tables, so I figured it was safer to just comment!

My starting point was: Hector Eugène Joseph Garaud (1897-1940). You can see the connections here: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special%3AMyConnections&w=garaud-18

Though the branch is vastly French there are also a couple of German profiles and I'm not able to do research on them, if someone wants to try it out (namely Susanna (Mangold) Bauthier (1830-))

I am working on the list at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Automated:DD_Unconnected_List_All and just linked up the branch called Buchholz-653 with 193 profiles which will show connected on 2021/12/19.

Looking for history of Polonia (Poland) specifically what is now Nowe, Poland but was once Neuenburg, Schwetz (on the Vistula). (https://www.inyourpocket.com/gdansk/Gdansk-History) (Also James Michener's "Poland")

• (Early - 500 BC) Stone & Bronze Age people, Baltic peoples, Germanic peoples, Veneti peoples
• (500 BC - 500 AD) Iron Age peoples
• (500 AD - 960) Dark Ages people, West Slavic tribes, Vikings
• (960) Civitas Schinesghe (Cities of the Dike) Polish Duke Mieszko coverts to Christianity
• (980, officially 997) Gdansk founded as stronghold for Christianized Poland
• (1054) Great Schism Western Christian (Catholic) & Russia (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
• (1125) Teutonic Knights (Crusaders) invited by King of Poland to live in Chelmno (after being evicted by the Kingdom of Hungary) to quell pagan raids (probably Lithuanian) from the north. (1308) Knights assault Gdansk & crown Malbork their capital.
• (1219 - 1263) Lithuania King Mindaugas (1203-1263) (Only Catholic Duke of pagan Lithuania)
• (1236-1569) Grand Dutchy of Lithuania
• Autumn 1362/3 Battle of Blue Waters - Grand Duke Algirdas defeated the Golden Horde in one of many battles, eventually removing the Golden Horde's control over Rus lands.
• (1410) Lithuanian & Polish alliance defeats the Teutonic knights which halts eastward expansion of Germany.
• (1432-1438) Lithuanian Civil War (Lithuania wanted control of Podolia).
• (1480) Muscovy (Moscow) fought the "Great Stand on the Ugra River ridding itself of the "Tatar Yoke".
• (1500's) Golden era (multi-cultural) of Gdansk
• (1517) Martin Luther - Poland/Pomeralia (Catholic & Pagan) & Prussia/Pomerania (Protestant)
• (1569-1795) Union of Lublin (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Multi-cultural)
• (1734) Russian Tsar Peter the Great (Eastern Orthodox) beseiged Gdansk (Protestant)
• (1772, 1793, 1795) Austria (Galacia), Prussia (East Prussia & Poznan) & Russia (Russian Poland) partitioned Poland ending Polish independence & wiping Poland off the map. (Late 1700s) Refugees poured into powerful France. Napoleon dissolved the partitions & held Poland as the "Duchy of Warsaw".
• (1815, End of the Napoleonic era) Poland partitioned anew between Prussia & Russia (Austria kept boundaries of 1772). Multicultural Gdansk, Sopot & Gdynia "given" to Prussia. Austria (kept Catholic Galacia, few changes), Prussia (received East Prussia & Poznan predominantly Protestant) & Russia (received Eastern Orthodox "Russian Poland" including the Warsaw district).

Hi, Greg! I see that my maternal uncle Koeraus-4 from Argentina is on the list on "large unconnected branches". He's been connected recently to the tree through his maternal line (Hilbert/De Fin/Auersperg). I'm working on the rest of the Koeraus/Köraus/Kehraus line and the Hilberts. There's still a lot of Köraus to add from Carinthia/Austria but I have to search church by church in Matricula and solve the puzzle.

Finding unconnected branches which contain people who were born in Arizona is incredibly hard. In most cases, people were born somewhere else, and died in Arizona. Clearly, Arizona is an extremely dangerous place, and should be avoided at all costs. ;-)

Knight-9735 is now connected via Porter family in US South!

I just connected Stallard-181! All the top Essex groups are now connected.

And I just connected Wakeman-4552 via US colonial ancestors.

Happy New Year everyone! I just connected Nixon-1704.

Ironically, I just connected Rickwood-146. Finishing up the family and moving on to the next tomorrow!

Connected Ardley-21 last week! I wasn't sure if the updates were automated or not. Currently working on the Rickwood-146 section which has been trickier.

Connected Cox-2252 today through a connection in the Netherlands. Will show as connected tomorrow. :)

I connected Phenix-66 (finally!). Should show as connected tomorrow. :)

I connected William Eustis Russell (Governor of Massachusetts) today. I'll update tomorrow when he shows as connected. :)

Hello to all. I just joined the Connectors Project. My specialty area is Kentucky, and specifically south-central Kentucky. Hope I can be an asset to the project. - Bill

I connected Woodhead-287. I'll update it tomorrow when it shows as connected. :)

Connected Matthew Cradock, first Governor of Massachusetts. :) I'll update the table tomorrow.

Connected Thomson-5322; should show as connected tomorrow. : )

Edit: I also connected Haley-1506 today; I will update the table tomorrow once the profile shows as connected.

I connected Rankins-66; it should show tomorrow. :)

I have connected Fournier-2254 and he should show as connected tomorrow. :)

Connected Shelnut-73, should show as connected tomorrow.

Connected Keller-3545 today, should show as connected tomorrow.

Wauw, B.W.J., ik zie dat je heel snel aan die premiers werkt!

Thank you for working on those, Dallace.

Hi Greg,

I have been working on connecting Governors and Senators.

Yes, part of my plan is to add and connect every (deceased) former head of state and former head of government for every country in the world, to build out a sort of "spine" to connect other profiles within that country to. There are other jobs that can be connected together by succession boxes, too. (I decided to add national archivists (where I can find them), because our work here depends so heavily on archives, so they're sort of genealogical superheroes. ;-) ) There could be plenty of others. I'd like to do the same for chief medical officers, but they seem to be even harder to find than archivists!

Hi Greg! I see where you are going :D

I took your lead and connected the next couple of Dutch prime ministers. Johan Rudolph Thorbecke now has two succession-boxes and needs a third. Thank you for starting this journey.

Thank you, Taylor. I have added Fritz and Ripley entries for you at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Let_others_know_what_surnames_you_are_working_on

Thank you, Karen. I have added your name under Hampshire, and am in the process of building out a new section for the Isle of Wight.

I will work on Hampshire/Isle of Wight profiles xxx

I am working on connecting Ripley's and Fritz (one name Study).

Taylor

I got up to Alabama (so the US states and territories have all been done, at least on the first pass), and then discovered a new largest unconnected branch, which is over twice the size of the Chinese one that's been at the top of the list for years. Ozimek-1 is the connecting profile, and the branch has 7,311 profiles.

There should now be at least 5 unconnected branches in each jurisdiction from the bottom of the list up to Idaho. I have also added a section for Egypt, so we now have sections for the 13 largest countries in the world by population.

I have now gotten up as far as Massachusetts in terms of adding unconnected branches.

I have added sections for more German Länder, and a section for the Philippines. We now have sections for all 12 of the largest countries by population.

Okay, there should be five unconnected branches and two unconnected notables from the bottom of the list as far up as New York. (Except in places where I couldn't find five unconnected branches with more than a handful of profiles in them.)

Okay, I have spun out a section for Baden-Württemberg, one of the Länder in Germany. I also removed some branches from the Germany list where I couldn't find anybody in the Family List who was actually born in Germany. That shortened up the Germany list considerably. (I had been thinking that it was getting so big that people would find it intimidating.) So there should be more sections to come. (Not necessarily speedily.)

Also, since we have hordes of unconnected branches from Germany, I've been thinking that it would probably be a good idea to divide them up by lands (I believe that's the correct name for divisions of Germany), but I don't know enough about the subject to know how many there are, what their names are, or which cities and towns are in which land. Have we got an expert on Germany who'd be willing to take on the task of dividing up those German branches and notables?

The goal is to have at least five unconnected branches and two unconnected notables for each country, county, province, state, or territory, so as you work up or down the page, just skip over any jurisdiction that already has that many unconnected branches or notables listed. (Although it would probably be a good idea to check and see if any of the existing branches or notables have been connected since the last time anybody checked.)

Ah. With sections for 47 countries and 80 counties, provinces, states, or territories we have 127 lists to maintain. No wonder I can't keep up. So yes, some help finding and adding unconnected branches would be very welcome.

If people want to start in the middle and work up or down, that would help, too. That way, we could have four people stocking lists, rather than one. So if somebody wants to start at Argentina and work down, somebody else wants to start at Romania and work up, and somebody else wants to start at Russia and work down, I'll keep trying to work up from Zimbabwe.

Okay, I officially need help adding unconnected branches. I simply can't add them as fast as people are connecting them. That's a wonderful problem to have, but I do feel that it's important to keep these lists "stocked" with unconnected branches, so that people who come here wondering about what this whole "Connectors" thing is all about will be able to find branches to work on, wherever they want to work on them. I'm still trying to work up from the bottom of the list, and I thought I had finished as far as Rhode Island before I found a bunch of branches that have been connected, so it would help if somebody could start down from the top.