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Who / What are the Toddlin' Tortoises?
- A non-regional "challenge" team — the intention of which is to enhance the overall health of the Tree, using a "whole profile approach", where speed is not a factor. (See the Toddlin' Tortoises Main Page for more information.)
- If you like to participate in the 'Thon events, but no longer sign up because you feel "guilty" at dragging down your Team's score — then this just might be the Team for you!
- If you have never participated in any 'Thon because you are "slower than a wet week" — then consider how slowly tortoises move!
- The Team is committed to a "whole profile approach" ideal — where we don't just add a source to satisfy requirements, and think "I'll come back later and fill the rest in" (because we almost never do — due to rabbits and squirrels and shiny things).
- Everyone is welcome, especially people who just like to work at their own pace, not bothered if the Team comes "last", so long as what they do is the best that can be done at the time. (No profile is ever "finished", as there are new resources released all the time, or new information that surfaces.)
- Remember — the goal is to HAVE FUN while enhancing the overall health of the Tree. It doesn't matter if we come last. In fact, if we DO come last, we'll have made every other Team look good! (Who could ask for more?!)
How Do I Join?
- ✩ You need to register in advance — and each 'Thon has a separate registration, so signing up for a Clean-a-Thon does NOT mean you are registered for the Source-a-Thon, or the Connect-a-Thon, NOR for any subsequent Clean-a-Thons.
- ➢ Go to the signup post in G2G and click on the "button" (a link will be added once the date is announced, and the registration thread is posted). In your answer, say something like "Please sign me up for the "Toddlin' Tortoises", or "I'd like to join Hertyl and Spertyl", or just "Tortoises, please", or anything similar that identifies this as your chosen Team, and you will be added to the team list.
- ★ Be sure to click that large answer button, and not the comment link, as that won't count – and don't reply to someone else's answer, as that won't count, either.
- ☆ Just remember : the cut-off date for registering is midnight (USA Eastern / GMT 5 am Thursday) on the Wednesday right before the Thon starts. (This means there is plenty of time to tell a friend and grow our team (😉). It's going to be a fun weekend.)
- ✩ REMEMBER : You need to register in advance in order to participate.
On what can I work?
- Start with your own extended family members — aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings and other offspring of grandparents, siblings and offspring of great-grandparents, etc. Make sure they have no errors suggested for correction, and — as our goal is to make each profile as "complete" as possible — check to see if there is source for each major event while you're there).
- Work from your Watchlist. (My WikiTree menu in upper right then Watchlist).
- Check your "suggestions" list. (My WikiTree menu in upper right then slide down to suggestions).
- Check the suggestions list/s for the area/s of your interest.
- Look for gedcom imports. Oftentimes things get terribly messed up during import, and that can go unnoticed for quite a while.
- Any other people you like, and check to see what needs doing.
- Check out the tutorial. (This isn't a "walk-through." It's various help sections to make adding profiles easier.)
Current 'Thon
- A link will be here once there is a Clean-a-Thon.
- ➢ For those who like working on ged-imported profiles, you could check out the GEDI challenge page, as they have a spreadsheet laying out which gedcom imports are currently in need of improvement. If going this route, be sure to follow the requirements, and any instructions, listed on the page.
- Want a sticker for your profile? Check out the Clean-a-Thon template — or just add your number of created, or attached, profiles to the template code as shown here : {{Clean-a-Thon|team=Toddlin' Tortoises|year=2022}}; which will give you:
- Don't forget to check the times for the video Video Hangouts. This is your chance to win a t-shirt, or other great prizes! Here is a time zone calculator if you need help figuring out the right time in your part of the world. All 'Thon times are based on the United States Eastern time zone (GMT -5 / GMT-4 during summer).
- Want to see how the Team is doing so far? Are we still in last place? Are you a Hare among the Tortoises? A link to the tracker will be posted once it is available.
- ✬Thanks so much for considering us. ✬ Thanks even more for joining our Team. ✬
Scoring
- Even though we're not all about making it to first place (remember, if we come "first at the wrong end", we've made all the other Teams look good!) — we do still like to know how we as individuals working in a Team are doing. So there will be a tracker (see point 1/, below).
- 1/ * Don't forget to click the tracker after you save, but before you leave the profile. It's in the huge banner thing that pops at the top of a profile after you have saved your edit. On the Challenge Tracker, select the Clean-a-Thon checkbox, if it's not automatically selected. It doesn't matter if you make other corrections after you've saved your initial edit, the profile only counts once — even if you make multiple edits. One profile = one point.
- 2/ Want to see how the Team is doing so far? Are we still in last place? Are you a Hare among the Tortoises? A link to the tracker will be posted here once it is available.
Team Members
Toddlin' Tortoises — Hertyl and Spertyl Slowsky |
- Melanie ☙ Data Doctor, Connector, Sourcerer, pre-1700 qualified, participant in the WikiTree Challenge 2021. ☙ Project Member of — Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England, Remember the Children, Black Heritage, Notables, ANZACs, Military & War. ☙ Intends to work on — not really sure at this moment, mostly, I guess, it'll be wherever the rabbits lead me.
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How Do We Communicate?
- Primarily on G2G, in the specially designated thread for the 'Thon — although if there are those who wish to use Discord the link is below; or some other method - just ask for it and we'll see what can be done.
- : (a g2g thread link will be here once the 'Thon is announced)
- : https://discord.gg/9EMSdccnn3 - just look for the Toddlin Tortoises channel.
- ➢ Note: If you are new to Discord and are taken to the registration screen, continue with the registration process and get signed into your account, then return here and click the link again.
Have Fun!!!
- Most of all, have fun with your team! Every little bit that you do improves the health of our global tree. This way you get to meet new friends, and chat with current friends, in the process!
Links to Handy Apps
- Ancestry Citation Builder for Image
- A form you can use to create a citation for a record/image/media found on Ancestry.com that can be used as a Wikitree citation. Also adds a link to a free-to-view image so that non-Ancestry-subscribing Wikitreers can view the original source. (Highly recommended!)
- Link to profile built with above app (so you can see how it works): (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marcoux-401)
- A form you can use to create a citation for a record/image/media found on Ancestry.com that can be used as a Wikitree citation. Also adds a link to a free-to-view image so that non-Ancestry-subscribing Wikitreers can view the original source. (Highly recommended!)
Whole Profile Approach
- Q : What do we mean by "whole profile approach"?
- A : Every person has, at minimum, two recorded life events — their birth, and their death. So we chronicle those events, with backup sources (primary, where possible, secondary, if not; or a combination of sources that verify the event (newspapers can be good for this)).
- Sometimes, however, only the birth, or only the death can be verified in documents. This is when it is most important to be as thorough as possible in clearly documenting every other aspect of the person's life that can be done.
- • Large numbers of people also have other recorded events: baptisms, funerals/burials, marriages, children, education, religious professions, and so on. Sometimes there were no recorded births, but there were baptisms, so the one can be used in place of the other. The same for deaths before registrations were normal, or required; so the burial record takes the place of the death registration.
- • For each event in a life, we add whatever we can in the way of sources/citations that support our claims. We also use citations full enough that anyone else can find that same source. Source citations do not require a link to some online repository, but when they exist they can be helpful.
- • We write as narrative a biography as we can, in chronological order. (If biography writing isn't your "thing", that's ok. Just chronicle the live events in chronological order, with their citations, and it should be fine.) Chronological order can be important for aligning sources to statements/facts, especially if the citations are in list form under the Sources header, and not attached to the related statement in the biography area.
- Chronological order also makes much more sense than having birth and death, followed by education, followed by burial, followed by a list of the children, followed by migration, followed by marriage. Sometimes it isn't possible to keep everything to a strict chronology — such as listing the children as an attachment to the marriage event. Mostly life intervenes, and children's births are actually interspersed between those events; but it's not always the best way to present such facts. It really depends on what the overall aim is meant to present — strictly chronological, or a narrative that flows.
- • It is also helpful to add categories to profiles, as part of the "whole profile" ideal. Grouping people by location, or occupation, or migration, may help someone else find someone they have been looking for.
- • For this same reason, it is helpful to other researchers to transcribe as fully as possible any census records there may be. It may take longer than some like to spend, and "clog up" a biography text area, but we don't do this for us, but for a future researcher who just might be looking for their "great-grand-uncle George H Smith, who had been a miner", and not finding him until they see "date of census, Geo. Henry Smith (43), coal miner, resident as a lodger in the household of Jas. Conquest, place name".
- • Everything we can add, should be. For the sake of completeness, and for that future researcher.
- • In addition, stickers can be a nice addition, but be careful if adding to profiles you do not manage. The rules regarding stickers mean that they can be removed at any time, and not replaced. There is also a limit of "5, but is better", so be very choosy regarding which stickers you wish to use to highlight life events. The "migrating ancestor" sticker is always a nice addition, as can be the veteran recognition stickers. Many countries also have the equivalent to a "born in" sticker - although the non-migrating ancestor sticker can also be used for this purpose.
- • If using images in the biography text box, do consider those who use screen readers and cannot, therefore, see the images except as a blank space. Both {curly braces} and [square brackets] image codes have a parameter for "on mouseover 'floating' text", which allows for a description of the image to be presented in a form that a screen reader can pick up. Images within the body of this text box all have "alt text" added for that reason.
- If there are a number of images, and there is no wish to have them on the profile's right side causing what many refer to as "double vision", then consider a free space page to hold the images so they can be linked in the biography. (An example profile with an attached space page.) If you don't wish to create your own space page, feel free to utilise this one : No Double Vision, a home away from home for profile images. (NOTE: you cannot remove the Primary Image from the profile's right side pane, as that is the only image that must be on a profile.)
- Also be judicious in the use of primary images, and background images — particularly background images, as many have expressed extreme dislike of seeing them on profiles. Where possible, to minimise the "jarring" effect backgrounds can have for some folk, they should tile seamlessly. There are a number of images pages on Wikitree, where there are seamless images of varying colours and designs.
- • A few examples of "whole profile approach" edits from the 2021 Source-a-Thon.
- • Elizabeth (Smith) Bird (abt.1853-1944)
- • Edward (Tate) Hills (1883-1950)
- • Bessie Margaret (Turner) Berry (1882-)
- • William Goodrich (1846-1938)
- • Annett Emma (Wynn) Perman (1829-1913)
- ✩ If you frequently copy and paste text that has tabs, or extra wide spacing, and you don't use one of the wonderful apps that does the formatting for you but manually remove all those tab indents and so on, consider using this wonderful web-based tool:
- • Text Fixer: Remove white spaces
- ✩ The same thing applies to if you manually re-case text from all upper case to sentence case, or all lower case to sentence case, or the reverse; consider using this wonderful web-based tool:
- • Convert Case
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