Join US Black Heritage's Connecting Challenge--July 2021

Question

US Black Heritage Project's

Connecting Challenge

In order to meet the US Black Heritage's goal of creating 50,000+ new African-American profiles in the year 2021, we have started a connecting challenge. It will be similar to the WikiTree Connect-A-Thon with a few exceptions. Please read our challenge space page for all the rules.

Who can participate? Any WikiTree member who has upgraded from guest and has signed the honor code. 

Start/End: This Challenge is a month long. We begin on the first of each month and end at midnight EST on the last day of each month. 

A participant sticker will be available to all members who join in for at least one of the months. Special stickers will be awarded to all participants who create at least 25 profiles in a month. A Winner's sticker will be given to the top contributor each month.

To Partipate:

• Read the rules please!
• Click on the "answer" button below my name on this post to declare you want to participate.
• Start with an existing profile and create a family member attached to that profile. Keep adding as many family members up, down, and sideways on the tree as you can. Each new profile is one point.
• Make sure the research is correct! Use primary documents to find and prove relationships.
• Add the {{African-American Sticker}} to any profiles of Black Americans who lived in the USA, so the project can keep track of the profiles and honor their heritage.
• Add at least one good source to every profile.
• Use the Challenge Tracker to keep track of every new profile you create for this challenge. It will count the total for you automatically. If you discover you forgot to track some, you can list them here to count.
• Repeat.
• If you are working on enslaved ancestors, every new slave profile you link to a slave owner using the USBH Project's guidelines, counts as a connected profile. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information.

Have questions? Please ask.

Only have time for a few profiles? Please join us! Every contribution gets us closer to our goal.

Do you need some profiles to get you started? 

• Check out the project's managed profiles list (notables).
• Check out the Project's "needs profiles created" category.

If you are already on the WikiTree Discord server, you should have access to the US Black Heritage Connecting Challenge server. If you can't access it, please send me a message.

Thanks for growing our tree!

Our June total: 2299

Our total for 2021: 17,666 Yay!

Comments

As usual, I'm not actually joining the challenge, but have added a few profiles.  Am currently stuck trying to figure out if the wife of one is black passing as white, or white -- but I shall continue looking for clarification.  (One of the extended family married a Chinese-Hawaiian, so that adds to the fun.) 

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Thanks, Melanie. Sometimes I have to go back several generations to confirm the heritage of a family. Even then I'm sometimes still confused, such as in the case of a family who lived in Virginia and was often enumerated as both Black and Native American. I have no idea how to confirm if they truly were Native American and if so, what tribe.

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Well, there is the "fact" floating around that Clarence Williams III was of Creole and Choctaw Indian heritage.  I can believe the Creole, given his known paternal ancestry, but have yet to find anything that verifies the Choctaw.

This more recent family seem to fluctuate between census enumerations - and even military records - as sometimes white, sometimes Black, and sometimes - rarely - Mulatto.  I can only record what the records say. 

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I Connected Fred McKinley Jones to the Tree -- and small-c connected a bunch of others along the way. (Some of them were white!   And I ventured into the Scandinavian-Minnesotan area of people.  Fun.)

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I love when people get connected!

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So do I.  I'm just sorry it took me so long to find the link, that he missed being one of the support anchors for this week's EPOW.   

Still, I take comfort in knowing he will be Connected for some future EPOW where he fits the theme.  

Answer 1

I'll be adding as many profiles as I can this month. 

Any profiles you create during the Connect-A-Thon July 23-25 count toward our challenge. However, they must meet our guidelines and you have to use the tracker to count them (or list them here). 

Comments

Emma,
Yes, I will make time to participate - also in the Connect-a-Thon.

What is the name of the team for the Connect-a-Thon?
US Black Heritage . . . or??
Mary G.

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Hi Mary, We don't have a separate US Black Heritage team. You would need to join one of the existing teams. However, many of us are on my team--Team Roses--if you'd like to join for the Connect-A-Thon. You need to sign up here:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1253349/have-you-registered-for-the-2021-connect-a-thon-yet

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Thanks Emma.  I will sign up for Team Roses.  Mary

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Not in challenge but added 12 - this profile spouse and decendents - July 25th - feel free to claim them. Started with an orphaned profile that was child of this father.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Anderson-61388

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Fabulous! thanks, Allen

Answer 2

Count me in too!

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Yay! Thank you, Carolyn

Answer 3

Yes I have already started.

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Fabulous! Thanks, Margaret

Answer 4

I'm participating.

I am continuing to add to my start person of Carla Hayden.

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Wonderful! Thanks Tommy!

Answer 5

I'll be participating in July.

I'm going to be making a big push to add profiles to soldiers from the 55th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War. I probably won't be able to add as many profiles as I would like because it's hard to even find relatives of these guys, but that's the plan.

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that will be great to add more soldiers. I know we have quite a few, but so many more to go! Thanks

Answer 6

I'll be adding as many as possible.  Will be out of town next week, but back in the swing for the second half of July.

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Awesome! Thanks, Karen

Answer 7

I would like to participate, please.

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That would be wonderful. Thank you, Cheryl!

Answer 8

I'm going to try to do a couple - this will be my first try adding enslaved persons. It's a lot to learn, but if I get it right, I'll be able to do more in the future.

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Thanks, Mel! If you have any difficulties creating the profiles, you can ask questions on this post:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1222212/announcing-the-usbh-heritage-exchange-program

Answer 9

Count me in, thanks!

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Fabulous! Thanks, Elaine

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Profiles I added but forgot to click the tracker button .....

Emanuel V McNair

Elnora (Branch) Huff

Emma (Huff) Johnson

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I got these 3 added to your total. Thanks!

Answer 10

I will add a few this month!

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Great! Thanks, Patty

Answer 11

I'm participating and will continue adding.

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Thanks so much Anita!

Answer 12

Want to get a few more done this month. Sign me up. :)

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Wonderful! Thanks, Terry

Answer 13

I will contribute!

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Thanks, Bartley!

Answer 14

Count me in for another month.  The Negro League ball players families have fascinated me.

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Wonderful! Thank you, Pat!

Answer 15

Please add me as participating.

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Fabulous! Thanks, Alexis

Answer 16

Right now I'm bouncing around between working on connecting Walter White and one of the Golden Fourteen women.

Is there going to be a July Notables list?

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Our PC for Connectors has been away, but she said she would get something posted soon. Thanks, Kate!

Answer 17

Hi, I would like to join up for July.

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Fabulous! Thanks, Elizabeth

Answer 18

I'm in; I'm going to keep on with the chain of relatives I'm finding for one family and see if any of *these* in-laws have relatives on the tree already.

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Great! Thanks, Sharon

Answer 19

I am also going to participate,

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Thanks, Roger!

Answer 20

Yes, I'll try to add a few.

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Merci, Isabelle!