US Black Heritage: Connectors Page
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[send private message] and US Black Heritage Project WikiTree [send private message]This space page is for members of the US Black Heritage Project to facilitate connecting profiles to the Global Tree.
General Connecting Information
You do not have to be a member of WikiTree's Connectors Project to help connect profiles, but if you do join the project you will be able to quickly see the profiles that are unconnected. For members of the Connectors Project, a yellow puzzle piece is displayed at the top of any unconnected profile.
Some good general tips on connecting can be found at the Connectors Project Chat Page. Since many of the USBH profiles now have the African-American sticker on their profile, it can be helpful to include "African-American" on WikiTree+ searches to find others that may already be connected in a certain area and/or with a certain surname. For instance, if you enter "connected wilmington 'north carolina' african-american" in the WT+ text search field, you can see what other African-Americans that were born or died in Wilmington, North Carolina are already connected and perhaps work your unconnected profile towards one of those.
Connecting Challenge
Any family members that you attach to existing profiles can count toward the Black Heritage Connecting Challenge.
The G2G post for the current month's challenge, November 2024, can be found here: 
Featured Unconnected Birthday Notables
Every month, 10 Unconnected Notables with birthdays in the current month are selected and posted on G2G, so that the project and the wider WikiTree community can work together to connect them.
The featured Notables for the current month, Dec 2024, can be found here:
USBH Project Notables Wish List for Connection
The following unconnected Notables are ones that USBH Project Leadership would REALLY REALLY like to connect to the Global Tree!! These are not in any particular order (tree sizes as of 7 May 2023):
- Ray Charles 8 profiles
- Robert Johnson 83 profiles
- Shaquille O'Neal 1 profile
- Notorious BIG 5+ profiles (tree size not accurate due to private profiles in tree)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat 26 profiles
- Sojourner Truth 3 profiles
- Bessie Smith 6 profiles
- Etta James 4 profiles
- August Wilson) 12 profiles
- B.B. King 114 profiles
- Tupac Shakur 16 profiles
- Dred Scott 42 profiles
- Charles Barkley 3 profiles
- Neil deGrasse Tyson 21 profiles
- Magic Johnson 101 profile
- George Washington Carver 4 profiles
- Percy Tyrone Sledge 25 profiles
Unconnected Notables With Over 200 Family
The following Notables have over 200 family members attached but remain unconnected to the Global Tree:
- Lawrence Crossley: 224 profiles
- LaWanda Page, Delia Pettway Bennett and 6 other Notables (all same tree): 314 profiles
- Whitney M. Young Jr.: 209 profiles
Unconnected Notables With Over 100 Family
The following Notables have between 100 and 200 family members attached but remain unconnected to the Global Tree:
- Dr. J: 138 profiles
- Moreese Bickham : 130 profiles
- Denny Greene: 112 profiles (this tree includes 1 other USBH Notable)
- Albert Louis Young: 110 profiles
- Phillipe Wynn: 109 profiles
- Henry Lee Fambrough (1938-2024):100+ profiles
Other Large Unconnected Branches
For the largest unconnected branches that contain USBH profiles, please refer to the list on the US Unconnected Profiles - USBH Project Space Page. This list is updated weekly courtesy of Aleš Trtnik and the Data Doctors.
The Connectors Project has a space page for the Largest Unconnected Branches on WikiTree. Once an unconnected tree hits ~275 profiles, it will eventually make its way onto this list (which is updated on a roughly monthly basis) and attract the attention of the wider Connectors Project on WikiTree. Several of our Notables have been connected in this way. Getting an unconnected tree to approximately 300 profiles is therefore a good goal.
WikiTree Members Needing Connection
If you are a WikiTree member and would like help connecting your tree or someone you are assisting, please identify at least one profile in the current tree below. For member privacy, please do not work at the living family generations.
Tyre Nichols, Police violence victim (the following profiles are in his hidden mother's side to assist in connecting: Goodman-7785, Hunter-23809
Notes
For Notables who are related, only one person from the unconnected tree is on the list.
The WikiTree+ methodology being used does not count private profiles as part of the tree.
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Hello! We've been trying to update Graves family profiles on WikiTree and there's a wonderful notable who could use some help getting connected to the rest of WikiTree. Graves-10325, the jazz musician, artist, and martial arts master. We've got the name of his parents from one of his many obituaries and tributes but not much else available to keep the genealogy going. All help would be most welcomed!
Update: I got super lucky and was able to connect his father to an existing line from Gloucester County, Virginia! I have added an intro to his profile which is our standard for USBH Notables, but feel free to rewrite or edit.
edited by Katie (Cooper) Bryant
Can anyone help connect a recently deceased victim of police violence, Tyre Nichols-20532 ?
I have already added about 20 relatives through his hidden living mother and many of them had 2 marriages. A couple of profiles in his relationship tree are Goodman-7785 & Hunter-23809
Thanks