Profile Improvements Progress Report

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Progress Reports

Beside your name below, please keep track of what you're currently working on for the Profile Improvement Project. This is both for your own reference, and to aid collaboration amongst the project participants. If you are going to be temporarily inactive in the project (eg. on vacation), please note that here. Thanks!

Please note: This list is in alphabetical order. Please insert your own information in alphabetical order according to your surname as displayed. (Also, please consider dating your entry.)

• Darrell Abbey - I am working on cleaning up my Gedcom files and looking for standards in writing biographies. I would be happy to help where ever needed.
• Marty Acks - Trying to cleanup gedcom crud and source the Porterfield surnames (200+) and other Scottish surnames. This lead me into Dal Riada and old Scottish and Irish royalty. Did hundreds of merges in this area. The area was ripe for duplicate elimination.
• Leigh Adams - I am currently working on the profiles within my watchlist which are part of my The Irish Settlement mini-project, cleaning them up, and adding biographies and sources. The majority of these profiles are part of the Irish Roots project as well.
• Marj Adams - If I come across it, I do it. Working mainly on Greens (who could possibly be my husband's line where we have a wall at 1820 in OH). I check my Wiki Genealogy Feed daily and almost always find profiles to improve. Also do Adams, my maiden name, when it appears (often) on the suggestion pages.
• Thom Anderson - maiden voyage
• Roland Arsenault - writing tools to help find profiles needing attention.
• Anne B - I just keep finding profiles and whole families that need help, everywhere I turn. Doing double duty, I spend a lot of my time improving Puritan Great Migration profiles, Founders of Hartford and the Signers of the New Haven Covenant plus there wives and children. I'm also working on my ancestors who are already present on Wikitree. Sep. 2017
• Gerald Baraboo de Barbeau dit Boisdore - I am studying the WikiTree rules, style and standards for profile protocol. I have finished my first goals to implement the WikiTree protocols. I am continuing to improve profiles within my watch list. I am improving merges and using our protocols when helping other profiles find sources. I have finished adding sources to all my gedcom profiles. I have sourced more then 400 unsourced profiles during October. I have corrected all d b errors on the 1783 profiles I have the privilege to take care of. Baraboo-1 15:28, 24 October 2016 (EDT)
• Leo Barhorst - Started with cleaning up the profiles I manage. Clean up Gedcom's and adding bio's for my nearest relatives from first hand. When merging I mostly directly clan up the profiles. Added Oct 11, 2017.
• Dorothy Barry - Cleaning up and adding sources to Barry profiles especially those that are a part of the Barry_Name_Study and those Barry profiles that have no manager.
• Richard Belcher - Fixing typos and things like that when I see them.
• John Bentley I'm working on many Bentley profiles as part of the Bentley Name Study.. Currently, I am trying to clean up the profiles of the first Bentleys in America.
• Michele Bergin - Currently working on profiles from England
• Filip Beunis - I am working mostly on adding (primary) sources for profiles related to Belgium.
• Liat Boucher - I've been cleaning up messy profiles whenever I come across them, mostly by adding inline citations and paring down copy-pasted bios. I also add a brief biography when I find profiles that are completely empty, even if it's just a date of death and burial information. I mostly focus on profiles connected to Maine; lately I've been editing a lot of Chutes, Mayberrys, Libbys, Larrabees, Foggs, Harmons, and Quinbys.
• Tom Bredehoft - Since completing the entering of the Pettibone Registry, I've been merging (and cleaning up) random merges from the 'ready to be merged' pile. Also rejecting some of same and reducing my overly-large watch list. (30 Sep 2015)
• Erin Breen
• Jessica Burgoyne I'm working on sourcing and cleaning the Owens family from Cameron, NY during the 1700s and 1800s.
• Karen Butler - currently working through my watchlist improving my profiles
• Dale Byers - I am working on the Dyer GEDCOM that was uploaded in 2010 and not touched after that.
• Joelle Colville-Hanson Hello there. I keep finding ways to improve my own watchlist, going back to profiles I did earlier and adding census sources for example. For the Civil War Project, I like go through the large category and try to put them in their specific regiments if I can, and also beef up the profile while I'm there if I can. I like to use a narrative style. I have a subscription to Geneology bank so I use obituaries when they are available. I'm also on the Illinois history project so again, when I go through Winnebago County (My area of study) category I try to beef up the profiles. I'm also making a cemetery free space Gulford-Union Cemetery and making sure everyone buried there as a nice biography and well sourced profile.
• Gaile Connolly - Adding my husband's family as a surprise Christmas gift for him and concentrating on Holocaust victims in my "adopted" gedcom family
  
• Guy Constantineau Working on profiles from Quebec, in french and english. Also trying to connect Quebec profiles with families from New England
• Joanne Coombs - Tidying profiles on my watch list, adding estimated date templates where needed, cleaning up profiles as I adopt them and adding sources to unsourced profiles as I come across them.
• Pat Credit - I am trying to clean up profiles made by GEDCOM from Ancestry starting with my watchlist, my ancestors, any orphaned profiles I notice.
• Laurie Cruthers - For now have switched from the Barron Family GEDCOM in England to working on unsourced profiles of the sarah roblin2.ged in Ontario, Canada.
• S D I recently completed OT 1 as part of the England Project, and I'm looking forward to getting back to my own ancestors who are much in need of attention. While on OT 1, I completed: Lavina Daisy Gorsuch, Bertha Barefoot Harvey, Simeon Owtram Manlove, James Sheppard, and Charles Bendall. I hope to complete OT 2 when a mentor becomes available.
• Pam Dale I graduated the voyage and have been working from my anniversaries list to clean up the profiles I previously made and also doing the Bio-Builders Challenge.
• Shirley Dalton Working here, there, and everywhere. Working on Unknowns, Womack, Luttrell, Dills. In between trying to add more of my own Strutton line. Also check into profiles needing sources 2 or 3 times a week.
• Diane Darcy Revisiting the profiles on my Watchlist (via Anniversaries) and checking if profiles need improvement. Helping others who contact me to add sources and improve their profiles. When time permits work as a Data Doctor on the Australian Suggestion List.
• Stephen Davies I have finger in many pies. I am trying to add my own family tree to WikiTree. I also dabble in Notables in Gloucestershire. I also do sourcing for Team Gloucestershire in the England Project. I also dabble with Data Doctors (not much good at that). I also love helping others to find sources and citations so feel free to contact me if you think I can help (UK is my best area). I have passed a Genealogy Diploma recently and have been doing genealogy now for over 28 years. In process of doing orphan trail 2 on English project.
• Susan DeFoe Continuing to source profiles in my tree, participating in weekly DD challenges, Clean-a-Thon, and other challenges
• Elyse Doerflinger - I'm especially interested in working on profiles for ancestors from Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
• Sally Douglas I am currently working on Bio Building in profiles on my own watchlist and as part of the England Project. In the England Project I am on the Managed Profiles, Devon County, and Cornwall County Teams, and have recently taken on the role of co-Team-Leader of the England Biobuilders. I've recently written the biography of the poet John Donne on behalf of the England Managed Profiles Team, and am now slowly working through his family.
• TC Duran I am currently studying the WikiTree profile standards, and have been working on a cousin's orphaned GEDCOM import.  I still have a lot to learn, but I enjoy cleaning up messy biographies and messy sources.  The current lines that I'm working on are Byrds and Hartzells.
• Alex Elliott - I am currently working my way through my 2000+ Family profiles cleaning up the Gedcom junk and adding biographies.
• Bob Fields -
• Jacqueli Finley I am currently working on abandoned profiles, as well as well sourcing my watch list profiles.
• Sue Fitzpatrick - I'd like to help since I know that some of mine have the garbled info from my GEDCOM import
• John Floyd - Working on profiles in my watch list, any thing that needs cleaning up, and anything during merger. Finished Jabez Crippen any comments? Be sure to add dates if you have them, thank you for your hard work.
• Leandra Ford - Improving the profiles I manage for my own relatives - predominantly South Australia pre-Federation and England, adding profiles for the inhabitants of a local cemetery, cleaning up suggestions and unsourced profiles throughout England and South Australia, improving project managed profiles and notables in England and Australia, improving profiles for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Candyce Fulford - I am adding biographies to my Jackson Family members, beginning with Jeremiah Jackson, a slave who became free after the Civil War. Also added "Died Young" stickers to applicable profiles, as well as working with the BIOBUILDERS Challenge for this month (June marriages).
• N. Gauthier Working on general profile improvements such as ...
  • Adding & resolving Unsourced templates
  • Finding and proposing merges & followup
  • Cleaning up GEDCOM and post-merge duplications
  • Adjusting bio info chronologically
  • Adding inline citations for sources
  • Suggesting LNAB improvements.
• David Grawrock - I am working on general cleanup from my GEDCOM import and working through adding all of the families from Lesja, Norway. It's going to be a long slog.
• Martyn Grifhorst - 44
• Russ Gunther - I clean up profiles as I come across them, and like learning to use the tricks to make profiles more informative and look attractive, especially recognizing our veterans.
  • adding links
  • adding Categories
• Julie Guthrie
  • Adding biographies and sources to profiles on my own watchlist
  • Adding Guthrie family members to the Guthrie Clan pages
  • Attempting to link the de la Corneille and Guthrie profiles
  • Adopting orphaned profiles with no biography or source
• Cindy (Ring) Hanrahan - I check my Anniversary page daily and try to improve at least one profile from that list. Also have been checking the Suggestions page.
• Michelle Gerard Hartley - Working on Gerard, Hansen, Kool, Westfall, Straw, surnames presently.
• Debi McGee Hoag - Cleaning up my regrettably large GEDCOM import, all sourced in some manner thank the PTB. Cleaning up GEDCOM imports and sourcing profiles as part of Team Cornbread Catchers and the Sourcerers. Adding the Unsourced template and GEDCOM Cleanup Needed category as needed on any profile that is open or whose manager has not been active in 2019. Initiating merges and cleaning up the resulting profiles. 18:21, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
• Eric Hoffman - Primarily working my own GEDCOM import and family lines, committing random acts of Improvement along the way (bios, inline citations, replacing import sources, etc.)
• Helen (Thornton) Holt I have been going through family in my line, up dating and adding to their biography’s. Up dating them with new records from FamilySearch and Ancestry.com. If needed Merges are done. I have been updating the Thornton line. I have just finished James Hamilton Thornton-5688 and wife along with their 10 children and their families. I have followed my Thornton all the way back, along with maternal lines and family’’s. Adding new sources and redoing biography's.
• Chris Hoyt - Trying to source and clean up some early profiles b. ca 1600-1650, often PGM or their descendants in New England, mostly concentrating on MA, but sometimes neighboring states.
• Maryann Hurt - adding sources and formatting bios following current style guide.
• David James - Like Marj Adams, "when I see it, I do it." Mostly working with Washington County, Maine profiles, transfering my research to WikiTree. Trying to bring at least the profiles on my watchlist into compliance, but keep getting distracted by profiles that need improvement that are encountered along the way.
• Bill Jennings - Encouraging cited sources. Encouraging dialogue on conflicting information in primary and secondary sources.
• Merissa Jensen - Just adopted a few profiles of distant relatives, gaining new information, adding some and cleaning up the auto-generated ged-com that it was created from.
• Ron Johnson - starting to clean up the profiles on my Watchlist, in addition to working o others as I come across them. My primary database currently has well over 40,000 names, and only a couple hundred on Wikitree, that I know of. I've got a LOT of work ahead of me!
• Rodney Jones Jr
  • Creating Biography for W D Jones missing a few citations and his military units, but have taken steps to get them.
  • Have almost completed William Murphy have some more resourcing and compilations to create.
  • Created Biography for Ida (Murphy) Dobyns - profile ready for review.
  • Sourcing and compiling research notes and vitals on Lucinda (Leftwich) Murphy
• Jennifer Jordan I’m currently working on cleanup of my Gedcom files, thankfully I didn’t dump too many. I’m also working with the Quaker Project on correctly categorizing Monthly Meetings. While in these Quaker profiles I’m adding sources and indicating maintenance categories if needed. In my spare time, I’m learning all I can about proper usage of Wikitree Style Conventions as they apply to Biographies, Profiles, Citations, DNA Confirmation...still a Newt with a lot to learn!
• Susan Keil - I certainly contribute to profile improvement as often as possible. I originally joined the Profiles Project at the indirect suggestion from a WT Leader while working on Unknowns. I still tackle those but more easily perform general clean up and sourcing (as opposed to re/writing biographies). Recently I've become interested in the Anthony surname as I appreciate Susan B Anthony and randomly came across a profile of a woman (Elizabeth S Anthony) who's obituary said she was a cousin to her. Since Elizabeth's surname was Anthony, that didn't really make sense. As I tried to make this connection, I discovered the "cousins" were really Elizabeth S Cole's spouse Benjamin Anthony and Susan B Anthony. One thing led to another and I found myself in the confusion/conflation/contradictory scene descending from William Anthony of Cologne, Germany who relocated to London sometime in the latter half of the 1400s. At the moment I'm hoping my work on the Anthony line may be the arena where I can contribute adequately to make my first application attempt to become pre-1500 certified.
• Nicole Kelly Working with profiles on my watchlist to clean up, add sources, and write biographies. I have also started volunteering for the Bio Builders challenge.
• Bob Keniston - Working mainly on pre-1850 profiles in Massachusetts, also
  • Doing Sourcerers Challenge
  • Doing Connectors Challenge
  • Doing Biography Builders
  • Working as a Data Doctor
• Virgil M. Kester III
  • Cleaning up Profiles - for any and all issues ... GEDCOM, Merge, No Bio's ...
  • Sourcing
  • Connecting
  • Merging and proposing merges
• Star Kline
  • Adding the Unsourced category to Orphaned (and other) profiles as appropriate
  • Adding the specific region to Unsourced categories to encourage Sourcerers to work on those profiles
  • Adding sources to Unsourced Profiles as part of the Sourcerers project
  • Asking questions in the G2G forum to encourage others to look at and improve profiles
  • Adding project templates to appropriate profiles
  • Identifying duplicates and proposing merges
  • Merging profiles and cleaning up the merged biographies
  • Cleaning up the profiles in my own watch list
• Sue Knifley Working from my anniversary list to improve profiles on watchlist.
• James Knighton I am going through the profiles of my direct ancestors and giving them a complete profile based on all the records I have for them. I am doing this by generation; my 8 great-grandparents, my 16 great-great-grandparents etc. I have just started on my 32 great-great-great grandparents.
• P Kreutzer I try to improve profiles that haven't had anything done to them. Also, try to find duplicates to merge, and connect.
• Leif Biberg Kristensen - I'm mostly working with my own One Place Study of Solum, Telemark, Norway. But I'm of course running into already existing profiles all the time, most of them apparently abandoned Gedcom imports.
• Nan Lambert - In addition to my own watchlist, working with orphan profiles primarily in gedcom cleanup, current last names, and estimating birth dates.
• Eowyn Langholf - I'm in the process of cleaning up my own Gedcom and will help correcting typos and other such things.
• Langridge-71 Working with family to expand and improve our tree branches.
  • Database Errors project - Leading the England Data Doctor Team, working on the Surrey County Team sourcing from unsourced categories generally and at county level
  • Biobuilding my own managed profiles
  • Adding unsourced template, Country Sticker, location and maintenance categories to any profiles needing these, as I come across them in my work
  • Working to make sure location names are correct for the time period.
  • Cleaning up GEDcom and merge left overs on profiles I come across in my work
  • Taking part in Data Doctor, Sourcerer and Bio building Challenges
• Kerry Larson - Working on sourcing and formatting for any profile in my ancestry, or any others needing help I come across.
• Kasey Lee (KC) - currently assisting a one-name study to improve profiles that are in dire need and finding many others that need help along the way - I find it satisfying to add improvements others can then enjoy and relate to.
• Scott Lee - Biobuilders February 2021. See my My Biobuilders Page.
• Shanna Leeland
  • currently working on the profile for Gennario Martini. Finding sources, and sorting through the "four" Jerry Martini's that are all related to each other to make sure I have the right records.
• Cindy Williams Lesure - From my anniversaries list, since I try to post cousins, etc birthdays on Facebook, I work each of the birthdays and wedding anniversaries to try to improve all the profiles in my watchlist. I go through each of them to make sure I gather all the sources possible and include them and from those sources add as much of the information as I can. I love doing it, but it is exhausting sometimes!  :-)
• Ashley Lloyd - I'm adding sources and formatting bios in my tree and also ones that I come across.
• David Loring Currently working on early Lorings 1600+
• Jaav Lucas I'm working on merging profiles and finding duplicates. As well as working on cleaning up profiles on my watchlist. Also looking for sources for older profiles.
• Emma MacBeath
  • Database Errors project
  • Biobuilding my own managed profiles
  • Adding unsourced template and maintenance categories to any profiles needed as I come across them in my work
  • Working to make sure names are in the correct fields and location names are correct for the time period.
  • Suggesting merges on duplicates and completing said merges when they go into default
  • Cleaning up gedcom gook on profiles I come across in my work
  • Adding estimated birth or death dates based on Biography info when possible
  • Working on finding duplicates for the Davis Surname. Currently on 7000 of 36,000ish
  • Working on finding duplicates for the Moon Surname About 2/3 finished
  • Suggesting to PM how to correct surnames when gedcom uploads have made a mistake or when surname has multiple names and should only be one. Updated 29 Nov 2017.
• Steff Mandarino - when I participate in weekly data doctor challenges I look at the entire profile and fix everything that I can, including adding sources and citing them in the bio. This means a lower number of challenge errors fixed, but more overall improvement in individual profiles. It's pretty much how I approach any profiles I come across as a coordinator for the Louisiana project, category liason for the Acadian project, and member of the profile improvement team for the Black heritage project. My hope is that profile managers will be inspired to both add to what has been done and use the improved profile as a model for their own watchlists, much as I was inspired early on by Vickie Norman!
• Carolyn Martin - I am working as a sourcerer and data doctor. I spend most of my time sourcing and correcting data errors, sometimes in the weekly and/or monthly challenges, sometimes just own my own. I also started writing biographies for profiles on the needs biographies lists. I also work on the Bahamas Project adding profiles and sources for people who were born. married or died in the Bahamas. I also love to add profiles for spouses, children, or other relatives to a profile I may am working on. I go through my own watchlist from time to time to expand biographies with more detailed information and/or more sources.
• BK McDonald - Interested in improving profiles if I can help, but am also interested in making wikitree more open. I would rather have someone add a daughter or second husband to one of my relatives and be wrong than for them to say, "screw it, I will just make a duplicate." I guess the reason for the restrictions is in how irreversible some merges are, but I believe fewer padlocks is an important goal.
• Tamara Miles -- Among other things, I am working on the Briscoe profiles in my family. Today, I have shared a letter from Mary Lou Briscoe, my great-grandmother, to my grandmother, Dollie Jeanette Hyatt Moon. I have recently updated the profile of Mary Lou's father, John Jasper "Burle" Briscoe, an interesting character who consecutively married three sisters. There are also family legends and rumors about Native American ancestry in this line, but I have not yet found firm evidence for this, so that's something on my mind. Burle Briscoe's mother, Winnie T. Bowman Briscoe, has been identified with a variety of names around Ancestry.com, so I'm trying to clear that up, but there's more to be done. She has been described as Native American, and her portrait does show unique characteristics, but I don't know anything for sure. I would like to write more about her husband, Martin Van Buren Briscoe, who was a blacksmith. This family lived in the Arab, Marshall County, Alabama area. There are some incorrect profiles for Martin Van Buren Briscoe on Ancestry --- two hundred years off base, for example.
• Dallace Moore Learning how to improve my profiles.
• Maggie N - Anything that floats my way !
• Vicki Norman - Working on adding sources and cleaning up Coffey family gedcoms and merges. 11/23/2015. Will try to work on one long profile every couple of days.
• A O'Brien Working on improving profiles of my own direct ancestors.
• Iain Old Adding biographies and sources to profiles on my own watchlist including Old, Oal, McAusand, Scott, Bingham, Selkirk, Kidd, Watt, Drysdale etc. Adding biographical details for profiles who should be in the Category: Members of Parliament, Scotland
• Summer Orman - currently focusing on GEDCOM clean ups; sourcing as able; Particular focus is on Surnames Binkley, Shotwell, Stover, Mayo, Hudson, all of which I have name studies.
• Andrea Pack I have been working on profiles for such a long time wherever I see that needs it and adding sources and correct headings as well adding unsourced to a profile when I see one and couldn't find a source. I never thought to ask for the Profiles Badge!!!
• David Peter - Started with my family list: Daniel W Allen improved!; 14 March 2017, profiles for Elizabeth Van Houten, Marshall Allen, Edward Augustus Allen, and George Henry Allen.
• N. Phillips - Working on adding biographies to profiles to make them good for people trying to make a family history book, like I am.
• Lundie Pinner - Cleaning up my own GEDCOM and a distant relative's merge, as well as seek out duplicates that resulted.
• Katie Pyle - I am trying to clean up profiles I either created or am involved with. Currently working on the Baldwin family originating in and around Buckinghamshire, England, and emigrating to the US in the 16th century.
• Mary Richardson when I find time, I just pick up a profile that needs work.
• Julie Ricketts
  • Tracking down birth dates for profiles in the Estimated Birth Date category.
  • Identifying duplicates and proposing merges
  • Cleaning up flotsam-filled biographies after aforementioned merges
  • Working on my own watch list to add sources and connect the Unconnected
  • Adding sources to Unsourced Profiles
  • Tracking down last names of the Unknowns (Very satisfying ... if you haven't tried it, you should!!)
• Joyce Rivette - I participate in the monthly Biography Builders challenges. I'm slowly working on importing more ancestor families from my personal database, and use the Bio Builders challenges to focus the cleanup work needed on profiles in my Watchlist. (The initial raw imports are not pretty!) I also work on Louisiana profiles in general as part of the Louisiana Project. My current long-term goal is to identify all unsourced Louisiana profiles with appropriate categories in preparation for the annual Source-a-thons. There are thousands of them, and it will take a massive collaboration effort to get them all sourced!
• Patt Roche - Currently staying busy merging profiles, participating in the monthly Biography Builders challenge, working on Data Dr. suggestions report, and the annual improvement review of the profiles on my Watchlist, but am year behind on that task :(
• Lynden Raber Castle Rodriguez - Currently on long-term work on the Magna Carta Project; Have been doing more work on improvement on these and my own family profiles.
• Sarah Rojas - I am going through my Wiki Genealogy Feed daily finding profiles that need some help and I'm also working on 'Callis' profiles.
• Karen Rollet Lorenz Besides cleaning up my watchlist and finding profiles on Wikitree that need merging, I am working on finding names for the unknowns we have on Wikitree. My main focus is mostly 19th and 20th century profiles in the United States. 9-6-2020.
• John Rosser Working on building, sourcing and categorising the profiles on my watchlist (mainly Australia, but growing numbers for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland). I am comfortable with merging and cleaning as required. I also get caught in 'rabbit holes' from time to time and improve small stuff as I find them.
• J. Salsbery - I am currently working on the Magna Carta Project and I am also trying to clean up any other needy profiles I find along the way.
  • I haven't been real active lately, as I am working hard at writing a family history book. But I pop into Wikitree at least once or twice a day to see if anything needs my attention. I work quietly with several projects, making additions and improvements wherever I find the need, adopting, merging and improving profiles.
• Robin Shaules - After being in the project for six months, I'm continuing to work on cleaning up those on my Watchlist. I'm happy to say that I've made a successful journey through the Voyager program and have now moved on to become a Voyager Guide assisting others on their Voyager journeys.
• Teresa Shinn - working on sourcing my ancestors and other pages, also sourcing etc. I believe that wikitree can be a legacy rather than just pages of facts.
• Cheryl Skordahl I usually volunteer with the monthy Biography Builders Challenge, working on biographies for the multitude of PGM children's profiles I added during the last "thon," I upgrade PGM profiles.
• Jillaine Smith - monitoring Native American profiles for inaccuracies; dating and sourcing and where possible connecting dateless, sourceless, disconnected profiles. UpdatedMarch 2022.
• Weldon Smith - Working on my own newly-imported profiles (hundreds of them), checking evidence and standardizing style. Also collaborating on the connecting profiles, where my lineages meet the global tree, assisting with merging.
• Zachary Smith - I am working on adding sources and biographies for my ancestors. I'm currently on my 3rd-great-grandparents.
• Astrid Spaargaren - I am recycling and finding Dutch "unknowns" profiles that needs sources, biographies, and clean ups.
• Amy Sparks - I've got loads of messy profiles out there, so I'm digging through the Help screens to see how I can clean them up. I work on some of my family profiles for the Welsh project, particularly for those from Glamorgan. I will research unsourced profiles as I encounter them and like participating in the Sourcerers challenges.
• Christina Spiker - Working on building the biographies and completing profiles within my own tree while also contributing to other profiles with similar surnames in the Polish Roots Project. My goal is to write at least 10 new biographies a month.
• Steinbach-86 I am currently working on adding complete profiles with bios and sources for my family tree as well as adding sources to unsourced profiles I come across, and adding "unsourced" to appropriate profiles.
• Michael Stills - Working on American Founding Fathers and Early New England Families
• Sally Stovall - Working on any profiles cleaning the merging, bio cleanup, categorizing, along with Mentoring.
• Lena Svensson - Cleaning up members of the Swedish royal families, Swedish nobility and my own ancestors.
• Becky Syphers I keep a list of profiles that need work. I am also working through my watch list.
• Alicia Taylor I am currently working on profiles on my list married in February. Next, I will work on people in my families in the military, as well as trying to take part in monthly challenges.
• R Teschner I am mostly cleaning up Norwegian stuff (database errors, unsourced profiles, merge hunting, bad spellings, the drill) and building my family.
• Sara Thibault
  • Adding Unsourced, Unknown and other maintenance categories as needed when I come across profiles in need
  • Cleaning up GEDCOM messes as well as long profiles and post-merge duplications
  • Finding and proposing merges
  • Building bios for profiles I manage
  • Cleaning up data field errors, particularly in profiles on my watchlist and in my primary surnames, Québécois project, as well as profiles in the New England area
  • Adding sources where they are needed, as well as appropriate categories such as cemetery categories once sources are found
• Traci Thiessen - I'm adding sources, writing or expanding bios, cleaning up gedcom and merged profiles and fixing data errors when I find them.
• Pat Tidwell I find a number of profiles that require editing and updating by using the suggestions area and looking at all associated profiles. Hope this makes sense.
• Becky Troth| Starting with Shropshire profiles, gedcom cleanups, sourcing and writing a biography for profiles in the maintenance categories, correcting errors working from the automated reports
• Natalie Trott Gedcom I'm currently working on: Wordens For Sure.ged.
• David Urquhart - I try to help out and work on any profile that I stumble across. While I am also working on my own tree I have been working on the Urquhart Name Study where I have been adding all about the Urquhart Family, which is my paternal line and the Powney and Mayo Name Studies, which are my maternal lines and also working on the Ravenswood Place Study, (which is in Queensland and not to be confused with the other two Ravenswood's that are in Australia) and is a little over a hour away from where I live, so I have offered to lookup Ravenswood graves and photograph them and have a copy of the Ravenswood Burial Register which I can also lookup. I am also working on the Gedcom Improvements Team, The England Project - West Midlands Team, The Australia Project - Australia - Assisted and Bounty Immigrants team and The Queensland Team where I am Team Leader. I have also been working on a Burdekin Space Page, which is where I live. I am also working Augustus Alt with the Managed Profiles Team and helping out with the Trailblazers Team. I have also been exchanging emails recently with a descendant of second husband of one of my first cousins, thrice removed, she, Augustia Day who shot her first husband in self defence and then married this second husband, who was the son of a convict. So I have found my first relative, their daughter, who was descended from a convict and another who was a murderer in just one week.
• Joop van Belzen, Working on profiles in my watch list, improve and add sources to unsourced Dutch profiles.
• Sherry Wells - I read through my daily emails and if I find an Unknown LNAB, I add the category, if it's unsourced and there is a profile manager I add the Unsourced category, if it's unsourced and there is no profile manager, I will try to add some sources, I also add the married last names because I'm hoping that it will help with some of the duplicates from the Unknowns. I also will also fix database errors that I see when I'm already in a profile as I'm a data doctor as well. I also update my profiles by going to my watchlist and sorting it according to the oldest edit date and update sources or fix the gedcom.
• Terry Welshans
  • Cleaning up GEDCOM entries for PGM profiles
  • Created a category page for members of the Rev. Hull company
  • Adopting orphaned profiles and linking them in as I find them
• Joan Whitaker Most of my profiles and well sourced and have biographies. I now spend a lot of time cleaning gedcoms and orphan profiles.
• Bea Wijma - Still working on sourcing and improving profiles (for the Dutch Roots and other projects) , trying to find names for the many Dutch and other Unknowns, cleaning up gedcom or merged ones, cleaning up and straightening out very long , many times merged ones for different projects and so on. Also adopting abandoned Gedcom ones for the project so these will get some attention soon as well, working on my own and the projects watchlist . So might take some time but we'll get there ! :P
• Williams-81019 - I recently joined Wikitree and I decided to jump right in and I have joined a few projects because I feel it will be the best way to gain some experience in collaborating with others. I think it is a great way to improve my skills. However, I just hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew because at times, it can be a little overwhelming. So, please be patient with me while I am going through what I have identified as my "on-the-job" training phase. I just know as each day I get better, so will the profiles I have chosen to manage. I believe with improvement in my own personal Wikitree skills, it will eventually benefit Wikitree as well since it will contribute to our profiles' improvement. As such, I have seen some profiles on my personal watch-list which also need improvement. So, I have decided I am going to prioritize those profiles and I will be working on dividing them into smaller groups in order to avoid being so overwhelmed and I can be more focused on the tasks at hand. The first group I have decided to work on are my veteran ancestors. Currently, I just completed the profile for my grandfather who was a World War II veteran. I chose him as my first profile to be reviewed because I want his profile to be the best it can be and I am anxiously awaiting for its review and all the suggestions and corrections that come along with it. I know we're all volunteers and I value everyone's time, especially the input provided by others. Consequently, I was wondering if there is another project on Wikitree where anyone can "occasionally" submit certain profiles to "reviewers" in order to improve our skills as well as our profiles. Maybe there could be a sticker showing a certain profile was "reviewed" or "review requested" at the request of the profile manager in order to improve the quality of the profile which is what this project is all about. In fact, maybe there could be two stickers assigned for reviewed profiles. The first sticker would be one that the profile manager has voluntarily placed on the profile page in question to show that a review has been requested and and after it has been reviewed the sticker can be upgraded to show the profile is in compliance. I am not looking for any merit stickers. For example, I would just like to know that a profile I manage is in compliance with Wikitree's standards and this "compliance" sticker is only issued after a profile manager has initiated a request for a review for a certain profile. I don't want to open a "can of worms" and waste all the protein with this suggestion, I just think it would be a great way to contribute to the improvement of our profiles. The reason I think this "compliance-requested/reviewed" sticker should only be requested at the profiles manger's request is because, if it became a merit sticker with certain levels to achieve, I really think it could turn into a mess. So, I think a compliance-reviewed sticker that is only issued upon request could help a lot of us who are new to this program. The sticker doesn't have to be anything fancy. Perhaps, just a graphic similar to a check-mark emoji would suffice with the name of the reviewer and the date it was reviewed. Once again, I don't think the sticker would reflect any status other than the profile is considered to be in compliance and it just means that someone other than the profile manager who is part of a team of reviewers has reviewed the profile only after it has been requested. I understand we are all volunteers and I value everyone's time. That is why I used the word occasionally because I don't want to take up too much of anyone's time and there would obviously be a limit placed on how many reviews can be requested. However, since the purpose of this project would be to focus on improving the skills of new Wikitree participants, there may be a limit associated with how how long someone has been a participant with Wikitree. I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on this. So, please feel free to contact me through the message system. I am excited to be a part of this team. Thank you.