Nottinghamshire Team
Surnames/tags: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ENGLAND
Welcome to the Nottinghamshire Team page! Feel free to browse and check out the links below.
- Nottinghamshire Category Page
- Nottinghamshire Research Resources
- England Counties Team Page
- England Project Page
- England Sources
If you are interested in helping out in Nottinghamshire, please look at how to join the England Project. If you have any questions about Nottinghamshire, please contact the team leader below.
The goal of the Nottinghamshire Team is to make all Nottinghamshire profiles the best that they can be. It is our desire to leave a lasting legacy of work for future generations and current researchers that can facilitate their quest for family history, and bring them one step closer to discovering the myriad of people it has taken for them to draw breath.
Team Members and Specific Interests
- Team Leader: Derrick Watson : Suggestions List and Nottinghamshire Cemeteries
- Tracey Bent
- Helen Flight : Sourcing, Southwell and Nottinghamshire Notables.
- Susan Jackson : Eastwood
- Susan Mellor:
- Pat Reynolds: Sourcing and the Dukeries area.
- Jean Blane
Topics
In order to achieve our goal, there are a number of things on which we are currently working. There is always room for more ideas and always room for extra help.
Over the last couple of years we've been busy working on sourcing up the unsourced profiles in the County. That's going very well, when we started we had over 1200 unsourced profiles, we are now down to less than a hundred. A big thank you to everyone who has chipped in with these.
The current (Sep 2024) Status of these is that we have:
- cleared all the "recent" onces, that's post 1700
- had a hardcore of less than 20 17th century ones which were probably correct - these have now been sourced thanks to a visit to Nottingham Archives
- have a residue of about 50 pre 1600 profiles - many of which may unfortunately be the result of wishful thinking rather than good genealogy.
- new ones are identified every week, but these tend to get sorted very quickly
On suggestions within the county we've also made great inroads. Just about all historic "errors" have been corrected with the exception of external link errors which attract little interest. Again, new ones crop up every week and there is an occassional change to the search strategies which show new batches, but this is largely a maintenance operation now. There are a number of "suggestion" types (wikidata) which are of dubious value and attract little attention.
We still have more than our fair share of Unlinked and Unconnected profiles. Here we are victims of our own success in the number of cemetery projects that we have which have added single person profiles. These are now the main focus of our efforts. Thanks go to Carol Keeling for setting up the Unconnected Trees Progress page. We could do with more help in this area - growing trees from these seeds is good fun in itself.
Any help in keeping up with Suggestions and Sources as they come in is very welcome as is all help in connecting all those invidual standalone trees that we have.
The table below has been modified recently to be more in line with the one being used by the England Data Doctors team and shows how we've done over the last six weeks. Basically, anything in green is good, anything in red means we're getting issues added faster than we're dealing with them. It shows the weekly change up or down, and the current total for each category. The colour shown for the totals will change depending on the six week trend.
To see these figures in context, have a look at one of these pages:
- England Regional and County Statistics Page - the numbers for England as a whole and all the individual counties
- Nottinghamshire Stats - this link jumps straight to our table on the above page
- Commentary and highlights on how we are doing
Nottinghamshire Maintenance Statistics, Changes over the week
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- ↑ Errors = Exludes wikidata hints, but includes stuff that we need other people to fix themselves, like project related faults.
- ↑ Single, stand-alone profiles from Nottinghamshire
- ↑ Minitrees unconnected to the global wikitree which have a minimum of one connection to Nottinghamshire
- ↑ Suggestions = Wikidata + Unique Names + FindaGrave.
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Would anyone be interested in building Freespace pages for Nottingham Forest and Notts County football clubs, that I can link to in my Football Clubs index page?
So far as I can tell the only football club with its own page is Newcastle, which I built. Sunderland for some reason is the only club with its own category. I think every major football club should have its own page so people can find/research their players, managers, directors and other associated figures.
I also think club pages should be managed by people who have a passion for those clubs. Perhaps this describes someone in your project?
Please feel free to edit my index page to add any prominent Nottinghamshire football figures you can think of.
Thanks!
After finding this page this morning, I thought I'd better make the Nottinghamshire team aware so my activities don't cause you any unnecessary effort.
Really good to see our County in the top three in getting profiles sourced, and leading the way in keeping suggestions down.
Well done and a big thank you to all of you who have helped put us in this position.
We're now making inroads into getting our Unconnected profiles linked into the main tree. If you'd like to join us in this work please take a look at the page that the Connections team has put together for our benefit at: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Unconnected_Nottinghamshire_Trees
That sounds fascinating. Can you tell me if "Jephson" alternatively, "Jepson" were any of the surnames that you have covered? best regards, Chris Jephson
best regards, Chris
Cliff
Over 300 existing unconnected profiles got woven into the fabric of the tree and in the process we added 400 more profiles in the County than we would normally see.
A big well done and thank you to everyone who took part.
Derrick