Hello WikiTreers!
We mixed things up for #11 of the WikiTree Challenge. This one was a special Year of Family Connections challenge focused on the world's most famous connection anchor, Kevin Bacon. His ancestry was already well-developed on WikiTree, but remarkably, his wider connections were not. There were hundreds of collateral relatives that could be added. We adjusted our scoring for this challenge so that points were awarded for every profile added within six degrees.
To make things interesting, we recorded every single member's connection distance to Kevin Bacon at the start of the week. Then we recorded it at the end of the week. Watch for those results! Whose connection distance shrunk? Whose shrunk the most? Were any members within six degrees? We've had a lot of fun with this.
The week officially began on Thursday, June 2nd at noon EDT (4pm UTC) and ended at noon EDT (4pm UTC) on June 9th. You didn't need any particular research skills to help! Live chat occurred in Discord. So much amazing collaboration went on during the week!
As usual, you guys rocked the week!!! Watch the G2G for the announcement of the next set of video shorts to come out for the challenge. See you next challenge week!