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Poland, Volunteer Tasks

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Welcome to the Volunteer Task Page! Please meet our Poland Project Leaders and Coordinators:

  • Skye S: Leader, Categorization, Project Development and Betterment
  • Tina K: Coordinator, Categorization, Project Development and Betterment
  • Maggie N: Coordinator & Admin, Project Development and Betterment

Before Joining a Team

  • Be a full member of WikiTree, having signed the Honor Code
  • Have been on WikiTree at least 30 days.

Membership Responsibilities

  • We are a very "hands-off" Project, so everyone is expected to be self-regulated given the information needed about how they can help. We may check in periodically to see how everyone is doing, and we will always update the Poland Project Update Page with anything new that we have discovered or have contributed.
  • The only requirements for ongoing membership in the Poland Project are that you join a team, respond to the periodic check-ins from the Project Leaders/Coordinators and help the Project satisfy it's goals. We recognize that people lead busy lives and are grateful for any and all contributions they can make.
  • All members should be cleaning up the database errors within their own watchlist. Their personal watchlist can be found by selecting the "My Wikitree" drop down menu at the top right of the page, and then "Suggestions". If errors/warnings are listed, they should be corrected.

Volunteers may want to bookmark this page in their browser, as it nests nearly all links needed to navigate tasks.

  • Poland Project
  • Poland.
  • For the most recent updates, please see: Poland Project Updates.
  • You may use the Google Group to ask the group questions at any time, please be mindful of others and keep conversations on topic (about Wikitree, Poland Project or your team). If you have not been added, please message Skye or Tina.

Note: (GG) = Google Group

Contents

Wikitree Challenge Team

Responsibilities:
1. The volunteers are people who participate the in challenges. See Help:Challenges for an up to date list of challenges and how you can get involved.
2. Please make sure you have added the “Challenges” to your followed tags. This is how you will ALWAYS receive the most up-to-date information about challenges around Wikitree.
3. It is recommended that you use Google Chrome and add the Wikitree+ extension. This is where we generate reports and lists for you.
4. Lists of various challenges will be posted on the Poland Project Update page. Anyone is encouraged to get involved.

Report Lists:
1. Sourcerers Challenge: Poland, Unsourced Profiles
2. Data Doctors Challenge : Data Doctor Suggestion List
3. Connectors Challenge : Poland, Unconnected Profiles

Suggestion Error Team

Responsibilities:
1. The Suggestion Error Team works on the database errors and warnings generated through the location category of Poland.
2. Please use the Poland Project's Data Doctor Suggestion List.

Team Recommendation:
1. Read about the Date Doctors of WikiTree Project Suggestions Guidelines for WikiTree Members and Data Doctors
2. Check out the Data Doctors Videos Videos
3. Read about the Data Doctor Project Project Data Doctors
4. Practice by participating in Worldwide Data Doctors Challenges Data Doctor Challenges
5. If you have questions, ask Ales in G2G [1] . There's a new one every month or join the project as a volunteer if you want to have more fun fixing profiles.
6. Poland Project will have a Data Doctor Challenge in the fall. It will be announced in Poland Project News.
7. You can also look for Poland Profiles that need some Data Doctoring at this link > Suggestions List for Poland Profiles

Cemetery Team

Responsibilities:
1. The cemetery team identifies Wikitree profiles which contain information about a cemetery in Poland, and places them in the following category: Category: Poland, Needs Cemetery Category.
2. The cemetery team may also look for profiles that can be nested in newly created (or old) cemetery categories. See: Category: Poland, Cemeteries. You will want to search using Chrome, add the Wikitree+ extension. If it is your first time using Wikitree+, you may want to bookmark it in your browser.
3. Members of the Cemetery Team may create categories. Contact your team leader for training in this area. See: Space:Categorization_Structure_for_Poland_Cemeteries for step by step instructions. Ask your team leader for questions or assistance. 4. The cemetery team may identify Polish cemeteries located in North America and add them to his list: Space:Polish_Cemeteries_in_North_America.
5. The cemetery team may identify Jewish Cemeteries located in Poland and add them to this list: Space:Cemeteries,_Jewish_Cemeteries_in_Poland.
6. The cemetery team may identify Military/War Cemeteries located in Poland and add them to this list: Space:Cemeteries,_Military_Cemeteries_in_Poland.

Wikitree+ Reports:
1. (7003-preferred parameter missing, Don't worry about the case errors as many in Poland will have lower case words, so those are false suggestions.) Automated:DBE_Categories_Suggestions
2. https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTWebCategoryNavigate/Category.htm?category=Poland,%20Cemeteries

Team Suggestions:
1. Future Lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polish_war_cemeteries, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cemeteries_in_Poland

Military and War Team

  • Volunteers:

Responsibilities:
1. This team is for those interested in building/sourcing profiles for those who served in the Polish Army (military) during the wars. If people are interested in this team, the Poland Project will work to build a relationship with WWI and WWII Projects. People on this team may also need to join those projects respectively. The goal in this relationship will be to interconnect Poland's categorization of places and military personnel associated with the wars and military. People on this team may also need to work with the other projects to help them develop/broaden their category system.
2. If a village category has not been created for a person or page, please place said person or page in the corresponding voivodeship or powiat so the category will be made for you (or message any of the coordinators at the top of the page.)

Category List:
1. Category: Poland, World War II
2. Category: Polish Army, World War II
3. Category: World War I
4. Category: Poland, World War I
5. Category: Polish Armed Forces

Nobility Team

Responsibilities:
1. The Nobility Team's responsibility is creating Wikitree profiles for persons who are from nobility. These persons work on building the families, their ancestries and descendancies with credible sources Try connecting them to the big WikiTree. Refer to pre-1700 Source List
2. At some point, those who are a part of this team may want to become pre-1500 certified in order to work on or build profiles from early time periods. See: Help:Pre-1500_Profiles for more info.
3. Make sure categories are being added to the profiles (village categories, (ex) House of Czartoryski, etc.) If a village category does not exist, please use the powiat/county or voivodeship category.
4. Check for pages with a Wikipedia link that the Wikitree ID has been added to the Wikipedia page. This can be done under the Tools section.

Category List:
1. Category: Polish Nobility
2. Category: Poland, Notables.

Notables Team

Responsibilities:
1. The Notables Team's responsibility is creating Wikitree profiles for persons who are notable (famous). These persons work on building the families, their ancestries and descendancies with credible sources.

Category List:
1. Category: Poland, Notables.

Migration Team

Responsibilities:
1. This team is for those who are interested in tracking migration patterns of people moving through Poland or historical Poland at any point in history. They may pick or choose any specific area of interest.
2. They will be responsible for maintaining the Category: Poland, Emigrants category. Profiles within this category need to be moved to a more specific category. If the category does not exist, please message Skye or leave a comment for member Steve Thomas on his page.
3. Remember to use the historical migration categories Galicia and Congress Poland for profiles who immigrated before World War I. Use the present day voivodeships if it were after. Prussia historical category is before WWI or before WWII depending on the area; otherwise use the present day category. When in doubt, just use the present-day category. The profiles within can always be corrected/sorted later by a future member with more interest in that specific area.

Operation Vistula Team

Responsibilities:
1. This team works on finding or creating profiles (usually extended family) who were affected by the relocation. Operation Vistula was the forced removal of Ukrainians from Southeast and East Poland to the newly possessed Prussian lands after WWII. This occurred in 1947. Areas affected: Malpolskie, Podkarpackie, Lublin and Podlaskie Voivodeships.
2. See: Category: Operation Vistula (1947), Victims for categorization of profiles.

Team Suggestions:
1. I'm pleading for a sticker to be created that when added to a profile, it will automatically nest it in the above category: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1613446/categorization-structure-help-operation-vistula 27 July 2023

Researching and/or Sourcing Team

Responsibilities:
1. The purpose of the researching team is generally to help others by researching, creating and sourcing ancestries from a specific area (outside of your own direct lineage.)
2. First, make sure you add “Polska” and “Poland_Europe” to your followed tags. Help answer questions in G2G when people are looking for research information. You also need to update the settings on your navigation homepage (link found on the bottom of the page) so you will see G2G posts requesting assistance.
3. Add the village category to the profiles you create. If there is not one add powiat/county or voivodeship categories.
4. (Optional) Research profiles from the following list: Category: Poland, Emigrant Unknown Birth Location to see if you can narrow down to location. Once a location is found, add the village category, powiat/county or voivodeship. Any Wikitree user is welcome to use that category on their emigrant ancestor if they do not know the location (that is part of “Requesting for Help” on the Project Page.)
5. (Optional) If you are at an advanced level and know where to look for records in Poland, work on the following list: Category: Poland, Needs Birth Record.
6. (Optional) Work on sourcing “Unsourced” profiles: Category: Poland, Unsourced Profiles.
7. (Optional) Profiles added to the following category: Category: Poland, Needs More Records typically have a source, but either the location is unknown or too vague to be categorized. You may work on profiles in this category and if a location is determined, please place the profile either in the village category, or at the powiat/county/kreis/voivodeship level (if a category needs to be created.)
8. (Optional) The Researching Team can also run searches on Wikitree by village, and find profiles that can be categorized into existing villages or powiat/voivodeship for categorization and sourcing. The best way to search via location is through Wikitree+, please make sure you are using Chrome and have added the Wikitree+ extension. Open the link and put the name you are are searching in the "text" box.
9. (Optional) Researching teams can also provide any new resources to the the Project: Poland/Resource Library or new information of interest to the Voivodeship Space Pages.

Researching Teams Area of Interest notes:

Greater Poland Voivodeship aka województwo wielkopolskie

Holy Cross Voivodeship aka województwo świętokrzyskie

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship aka kujawsko-pomorskie

Lesser Poland Voivodeship aka województwo małopolskie

  • Justyna Rutkowska (GG): Lives in the south of Poland has a large amount of archive from 1600-1950 around the Limanowa parish -sowliny charity mordarka Stara Wieś and many others. Polish is her first language, may speak a little English.
  • O. McGrath (GG)

Lower Silesian Voivodeship aka dolnośląskie

Lublin Voivodeship aka województwo lubelskie

Lubusz Voivodeship aka województwo lubuskie

Łódź Voivodeship aka województwo łódzkie

Masovian Voivodeship aka województwo mazowieckie

Opole Voivodeship aka województwo opolskie

Podlaskie Voivodeship aka województwo podlaskie

  • Dan Lechefsky (GG): "Familiar with vital records from the Wiżajny parish (north of Suwalki), the Lubowo parish (present day Liubavas, Lithuania)."
  • Maggie (GG) : Working on categorizing Zambrów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship locations. Assist Wikitree profiles in that county with categorization, maybe some sources, profile improvements.
  • Daniel Dickson (GG): knows how to use the batch categorization feature and learning to create categories as he transcribes material.

Pomeranian Voivodeship aka województwo pomorskie

Silesian Voivodeship aka województwo śląskie

Subcarpathian Voivodeship aka województwo podkarpackie

Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship aka województwo warmińsko-mazurskie

West Pomeranian Voivodeship aka województwo zachodniopomorskie



Help Page Translation Team

  • Leader: vacant
  • Volunteers:

We are looking for bilingual Polish and English speakers to translate the Category:WikiTree_Help pages into Polish. If you are interested in helping, please contact Skye. According to Wikitree Admin, there needs to be several individuals on this project.

Bilingual Proofreaders

  • Magdalena Bożyk has offered to help proofread items from time to time.
  • Tomasz Sączawa (GG) has been Skye's go-to for advice on Polish grammar and proofreading items.
  • Tommy Jantarek (GG) Native Polish speaker, very quick to lend advice on Polish grammar and answer questions.

The proofreaders support the coordinators with some proofreading they may need from time to time. Bilingual demonstrates high degree of fluency in Polish and Polish grammar.

Other

If you have another way that you can contribute and it is not listed above, please let us know as we are open to ideas.





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