Challenge of the week: Clean up GEDCOM-generated data

Question

Hi WikiTreers,

Will you join our "Data Doctor" Challenge of the week?

This week we're improving profiles whose biographies were automatically generated through GEDCOM imports. Our ancestors deserve better bios.

Here is the list of profiles that could use some TLC.

Will you join us?

If you're participating, please post here to let us know. It's nice to cheer each other on. Or post if you have any questions about how to participate.

Thanks for helping!

P.S. For more of an introduction, see "Would you like to help improve GEDCOM-created profiles?"

Comments

Challenge is active.

Answer 1

I've only done Gedcom clean up once or twice. This will stretch my skills...I'm in!

Answer 2

I'll do a few to help out

Answer 3

I'll do some.

Answer 4

I'll help clean up a few of these.

Answer 5

I’ll work on it, with a focus on profiles with Jewish Roots!

Answer 6

I'm up for checking out some of these.

Steph

Answer 7

I will do some!

Answer 8

I’ll help!

Answer 9

Always willing to help on this challenge

Answer 10

I will work on some

Mickey

Answer 11

I'll do a few.

Answer 12

I'm happy to help with these.

Completed:

1. Theo Blanchard
2. Daisie Beeler
3. Georgiana Parker
4. James Albert Nichols
5. Genevieve Barrow
6. Joseph Gilreath
7. Walter Hare
8. Norman Kenney
9. Mary I Kane French
10. William Borngesser ...  Sad story. He enlisted in the Army, got married while he was stationed at Fort Brady, Michigan. Six months after getting married and while in the service, he got sick and died of pneumonia before he was 22. 
11. Thomas W Blankenship
12. John V Blankenship
13. Jay Allen Joiner
14. Sampson Shelton
15. Thomas P White
16. Uriah Varnell
17. Lenora Varnell Terry
18. Joseph Terry
19. Amanda Varnell Radford
20. Nancy Varnell Finegan
21. Mahala Smith Varnell Foreman
22. Lydia Butler
23. Anna Betha Parks
24. Sarah Whitaker
25. Mary Pierce
26. Henry Landis
27. John Schnoor-Scnorl
28. Harry McCusker
29. Elizabeth Bell
30. George Peirce
31. Edwin J McGuire

Answer 13

I'm in. I will do some.

Answer 14

I will do some! Thanks for the challenge.

Answer 15

Count me in, I'll try to work on a few this week.

Answer 16

I will try and get some done.

Answer 17

I'm in.  I'll give it a try.

Update: I've now done a couple of Warning 851; needed to find source document to effect correction, but no worries.

Just a comment.  I tried to do Warning 852 - GEDCOM uncleaned Parse Lastname.  Alas, I ran into difficulties as not on Trusted List.  It's a shame, because it would seem a sizeable percentage of the 2,660 errors could be easily cleaned up by someone with a (limited) Trusted List override.

Onwards and upwards.

Answer 18

I am late but I will do some.

Answer 19

I'm in.

A real challenge. I know from experience that a lot of those GEDCOM imports need significant TLC.

Answer 20

helping ..