Team Virginia — 2021 Connect-a-Thon

Profile managers: Jack Graham [send private message], Nancy Thomas [send private message], Gurney Thompson [send private message], Sandy Patak [send private message], Mindy Silva [send private message], Crystal Dodd [send private message], Mary Gulish [send private message], Helen Rice [send private message], Cheryl Hess [send private message], Bill Vincent [send private message], Deena Cross [send private message], Pam Fraley [send private message], Sherrie Mitchell [send private message], Chris Brady [send private message], Mary Hatcher [send private message], Ashley Jones [send private message], Ellen Steger [send private message], Mike Patak [send private message], Karen Stewart [send private message], Sam Scott [send private message], Allen Jensen [send private message], Amanda Torrey [send private message], and Billie Keaffaber [send private message]

Virginia Connectors

Amended Sticker Template

{{Recognition Sticker|category=Virginia Challenge Teams |image=US_State_Flag_Images-49.png|imagetext=Connectors |text={{#profile:RealName}} is a member of the Virginia Connectors Team for the [[Project:Connectors|Connect-a-Thon]] Challenge, Summer 2021}}

Welcome to the 2021 "Summer Connect-a-Thon"!

The Leaders for the 2021 Virginia Summer Connectors Team are:

• Captain: Mindy Silva
• Captain: Sandy Patak

We're your head cheerleaders, but I encourage everyone to play cheerleader to fellow members of Team Virginia! You can chat and cheer on our Google Chat Group.

The purpose of the Connect-a-Thon is to connect all the loose branches around WikiTree to our main Global Family Tree, which is what the Connectors Project does all the time.

Last update Monday 8am EDT / 12pm UTC

Stickers

{{Recognition Sticker|category=Virginia Challenge Teams |image=US_State_Flag_Images-49.png|imagetext=Connectors |text={{#profile:RealName}} is a member of the Virginia Connectors Team for the [[Project:Connectors|Connect-a-Thon]] Challenge, Summer 2021}}

produces this: (just copy and paste to your profile)

... is a member of the Virginia Connectors Team for the Connect-a-Thon Challenge, Summer 2021

The "official" Connect-a-Thon sticker is out now also:

{{Connect-a-Thon|team=The Virginia Connectors|year=2021|profiles=123}} will create this sticker:

... ... ... participated with The Virginia Connectors during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and added 123 connections.

Are you working on West Virginia or Kentucky? Use this flag image instead:

West Virginia: US_State_Flag_Images-51.png

Kentucky: US_State_Flag_Images-20.png

Connect-a-Thon Links

• Team Virginia Google Chat Group.
• Team Virginia in Discord (Contact your captains if you need access)
• Main Team Virginia Summer Connect-a-Thon page. (This has information about the Connect-a-Thon in general)
• Team Virginia's Summer Connectors 2021 page (Book mark this page you are on to see updates during the Thon)
• WikiTree Video Chat Hangouts schedule

Members

1. Mindy Silva, Captain: registration post
2. Sandy Patak, Captain: registration post
3. Bill Vincent registration post
4. Karen Stewart registration post
5. Nancy Thomas registration post
6. Ellen Steger registration post
7. William Foster registration post
8. Gurney Thompson registration post
9. Mary Hatcher registration post
10. Sam Scott registration post
11. Amanda Torrey registration post
12. John Graham registration post
13. Crystal Dodd registration post
14. Sherrie Mitchell registration post
15. Cheryl Hess registration post
16. Chris Brady registration post
17. Deena Cross registration post
18. Pam Dale registration post
19. Allen (Woodard) Jensen registration post
20. Billie (Bright) Keaffaber registration post
21. Mike Patak registration post
22. Ashley Jones JD registration post
23. Mary (Gulish) Gi registration post
24. Helen Rice registration post
25. Anne Guglik registration post
26. Robin Baker registration post
27. Crystal Boylen registration post
28. Noma Eddings registration post
29. Traci Hill registration post
30. Sydney McGurn registration post
31. Kristi Hancock registration post
32. Ann Phillips registration post
33. Kris Shepherd registration post

Goals

Our goal is to decrease the number of profiles that are not connected to our big tree by adding relatives to existing profiles.

Plan of Action

The cut-off date for registering is midnight on Wednesday, July 23, 2021. This means there is plenty of time to tell a friend and grow our team (wink, wink). It's going to be a fun weekend adding profiles to the existing ones. Check out the tutorial!!

Help?

To talk to "just us", post a comment to this page or, use our Google Group where we can chat. You can post questions to the G2G for a wider audience: tag your question with virginia and connectors at least. For questions about the Connect-a-Thon, use the tag connect-a-thon.

How Does this Work?

• Try the tutorial: Click HERE (This isn't a "walk-through." It's various help sections to make adding profiles easier)

• Check your own Unconnected Profiles

• Work from your Watchlist (My WikiTree menu in upper right then Watchlist). Click on "Edit Date" to move the oldest to the top and start looking for profiles that need parents, siblings or children!

• Work from the Virginia Unconnected list. You don't need to connect anything here but it is a good place to find Virginia ancestors. These aren't connected to our Global Tree so they most likely don't have children and siblings attached. (Also: West Virginia, and Kentucky)

• Work from an Unsourced List:
  • for Virginia
  • for West Virginia
  • or for Kentucky.

Hey - this way you get to help two things at once!

• Help out other states with DBE 611 (Birth location in lower case)

• However you do it just add, add, add! As long as you are connecting a relative to any existing profile on WikiTree you get a point for each one.

• Check out the main Virginia Connect-a-Thon page for ideas, scoring, prizes and winners.

• Additional pointers in the Participation Instructions section of the WikiTree Connect-a-Thon help page.

2021 Connect-a-thon Team Virginia MEMBERS & STATS

If you are new and come up with a nickname of your own you want to use let Mindy or Sandy know. If you are returning and want a new nickname for this Thon, let us know as well. If you have a picture you want used and it isn't on the chart let us know. It doesn't have to be your profile picture, it just needs to be on WikiTree somewhere. Let's have fun again!

List Number	Photo	Name	Position	See your contributions	Total Profiles added
1		Mindy Silva	Gedcom Granny	See your work	338
2		Sandy Patak	Speedy Sandy	See your work	1,798
3		Bill Vincent	Bad Boy Bill	See your work	861
4		Karen Stewart	Nickname	See your work	138
5		Nancy Thomas	Nickname	See your work	101
6		Ellen Steger	Elegant El	See your work	219
7		William Foster	Nickname	See your work	35
8		Gurney Thompson	Gentle Gurney	See your work	58
9		Mary Hatcher	Nickname	See your work	17
10		Sam Scott	Nickname	See your work	2
11		Amanda Torrey	Amazing Amanda	See your work	7
12		John Graham	Nickname	See your work	520
13		Crystal Dodd	Nickname	See your work	216
14		Sherrie Mitchell	Nickname	See your work	35
15		Cheryl Hess	Nickname	See your work	10
16		Chris Brady	Nickname	See your work	412
17		Deena Cross	Dazzling Deena	See your work	97
18		Pam Dale	Patiently Profilin Pam	See your work	257
19	Image:Woodard-2490.png	Allen (Woodard) Jensen	Q	See your work	105
20		Billie (Bright) Keaffaber	Nickname	See your work	30
21	Image:Patak-6.jpg	Mike Patak	Marine Mike	See your work	610
22	Image:Jones-102730.jpg	Ashley Jones JD	Nickname	See your work	44
23		Mary (Gulish) Gi	Lingering Mary	See your work	9
24		Helen Rice	Nickname	See your work	45
25		Anne Guglik	Nickname	See your work	74
26		Robin Baker	Nickname	See your work	306
27		Crystal Boylen	Nickname	See your work	61
28		Noma Eddings	Nickname	See your work	70
29		Traci Hill	Nickname	See your work	28
30		Sydney McGurn	Nickname	See your work	24
31		Kris Shepherd	Nickname	See your work	0
32		Kristi Hancock	Nickname	See your work	0
33		Ann Phillips	Nickname	See your work	74

Note: These totals are updated manually by me, as I can (if I'm awake and at home). On the hours there are Video Chats I may not update these. They are not automatically updated, see the Tracking Page if you want your current total. Thank you for your patience! And Rock On Team Virginia!!!

Last updated: Monday 8am EDT / 12pm UTC was post-Thon

Congrats Team Virginia! 2nd place with 6,601 profiles connected!

(If the main tracker isn't updating: As long as you are adding profiles they will count - and will show up when Aleš restarts the main tracker.)

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