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Introduction

(Note: This page is a sub-page of the Connectors Chat page. For more details about what's going on here, please read the Connectors Chat page. Also, please post any messages about what's happening on this page on the Connectors Chat page.)

There are many places to find unconnected branches to work on:

Categories

There are a number of categories listing unconnected profiles, or which include unconnected profiles, including:

  1. Alton Federal Military Prison, Alton, Illinois (Profiles with surnames starting from A to C are newly added and unconnected.)
  2. Canada Project Notables, Needs Connection
  3. Notables Project, Managed Notables Need Connection

Reports

  1. If you click on the "Find" menu in the top right of the WikiTree screen and select "Unconnected People", you will see a list of the people on your watchlist who are not yet connected to the main tree. You can sort that list several ways, and also limit it to a particular surname. If you click on the highlighted word "total" in the first paragraph on that page, you will see a list of all unconnected profiles on WikiTree, which works the same way.
  2. The DBE Unconnected page lists reports for different countries in the world, showing unconnected branches with at least one profile which says that the person in the profile was born or died in that country.
    • If you find that the connecting profile is private, you can click on the "T" link after the profile ID to see a relative search page for that person on WikiTreePlus. Hopefully, at least some of the profiles in that branch will be open so you can work on them.
    • You can also click on the "S" link after the profile ID to see a full list of all the profiles in that branch.
    • If you find that a branch in that report is already connected, please send the details to Aleš so he can fix the problem.

Pages

  1. The Let others know what locations you are working on page has lists of the next-largest unconnected branches for different countries in the world.
  2. The Largest Unconnected Branches page lists the largest branches on WikiTree which have not yet been connected to the main tree, sorted in descending order by size (although you can set it to sort by any of the column headers).
  3. The Unconnected Notables page attempts to list at least two unconnected notables for each country in the world, and for each subdivision of larger countries (states of the USA, counties of England, landes of Germany, provinces of Canada, etc.). There are also pages and categories for specific groups of unconnected notables:
  4. There are also free space profiles which different people have put up, asking for help connecting profiles. Those lists which still have people left to connect include:
  5. The Notable Profiles in Need of Improvement (Silver) section of the Notables List lists whether each notable's profile is connected to the main tree or not. There are similar sections in the List of Notables Born Before 1500 and List of Notables Born Before 1700 pages.
  6. The How to increase a country's presence on WikiTree page lists a number of "Quest for Great-Grandparents" threads. Many (but not all) of those threads include notable people from various countries who are not yet connected to the main tree.

G2G Threads

If you follow the connectors and unconnected tags in the G2G Forum, you should see lots of threads where people are asking for help to connect individuals or branches to the main tree. In particular, there are occasional threads asking for help in connecting people who have something in common. Threads which still have people left to connect include:

Subject Notes People in List Unconnected Percent Complete
Help connect military heroes to overall global tree 3 2 33.3%
Can you help connect the “100 Greatest African Americans” to the global tree for Black History Month? 91 22 75.8%
Can you help connect a goodie maker? 15 2 86.7%
Connecting Nobel Prize winning Physicists to the world tree 5 2 60%
Can you help to connect an unconnected notable? Collected from old G2G threads. 17 1 94.1%
Can you help connect a head of state? (Afghanistan to Finland) 14 10 28.6%
Can you help connect a head of state? (France to Israel) 12 10 16.7%
Can you help connect a head of state? (Italy to Portugal) 13 6 53.8%
Can you help connect a Rhode Island Congressional Representative? 11 7 36.4%
Can you help connect a British Columbia Premier or Lieutenant Governor? 15 1 93.3%
Can you help connect a patient unconnected notable? (April 2017) Drawn from the April 2017 Notables Monthly thread. 11 2 81.8%
Can you help connect an Indian scientist? 7 5 28.6%
Can you help connect a Notable Slade? 15 4 73.3%
Можете ли вы помочь подключить космонавта? 20 20 0%
Can you help connect a great-grandparent-less notable? Drawn from Quest for Great-Grandparents: Archivist Edition and Quest for Great-Grandparents: Hymn Writer Edition. 17 9 47.1%
Can you help connect another patient unconnected notable? (July 2017) Drawn from the July 2017 Notables Monthly thread. 9 4 55.6%
Sink me! Can ye help connect a pirate? 18 17 5.6%
Can you help connect a medical hero? 14 3 78.6%
Can you help connect a fast food founder? 14 6 57.1%
Can you help connect an explorer? 14 10 28.6%
Can you help connect a computer pioneer? 14 4 71.4%
Can you help connect a composer? 14 6 57.1%
Can you help connect a head of state? (Romania to Zimbabwe) 11 10 9.1%
Can you help connect a head of government? 12 9 25.0%
Can you help connect a space traveller? (Stage 2) 12 5 58.3%
How cold is it? 14 4 71.4%




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New Mexico governors and US Senators could use some help.

Governors: starting with https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/McDonald-8551

Senators: starting with https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jones-39100

posted by Mark Burch
Mark, if you want to put together a list like the ones that are already completed ( https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/742127/can-you-help-connect-a-delaware-governor https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/751018/can-you-help-connect-a-texas-governor and https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/753845/can-you-help-connect-a-connecticut-governor ) and post them to G2G, I suspect that you might well get a good response. The https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/753640/can-you-help-connect-a-rhode-island-governor challenge kind of bogged down because many of the governor's ancestors were from Ireland and couldn't be traced, but on the basis of the other governor challenges, I suspect that most state's governors could be connected up fairly quickly.
posted by Greg Slade

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