Join US Black Heritage Connecting Challenge--July 2022

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      US Black Heritage Project's

        Connecting Challenge

In order to meet the US Black Heritage's goal of adding enough profiles to get our database to 150,000 African-American profiles in the year 2022, we will continue the 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 strong 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 "needs profiles created" category. (this means a source exists on that profile with family named who need profiles created)
• If you know how to process slavery documentation, check out the "needs slave profiles created" category.
• Check out the project's managed profiles list (notables). (look for notables who need family added)

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

Thanks for growing our tree!

• Our June challenge total: 3238
• Total count of profiles as of June 26 : 113,066
• June Winners: Nanette Pezzutti, Kate Schmidt, Emma MacBeath, Denise Jarrett, Katie Bryant

Answer 1

Don't forget that profiles you create during the July Connect-A-Thon will also count for this challenge if they meet the criteria and you either use the challenge tracker or list them on this post. However, all profiles must be attached to family to count for the Connect-A-Thon (slave profiles linked to slave owners won't count)

Answer 2

I'll be working again this month, especially during the Connect-A-Thon. :-)

Comments

thanks, Karen!

Answer 3

Sign me up. Hope to get more done this month. Was finishing up some things on the Unknowns project. But somehow the profiles I did do for USBH did not show up for June. Not sure why. As long as they show up this month.

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Did you use the challenge tracker Terry? You can always list them on the post and I'll count them by hand. Several people did that for June.

(if you did use the tracker, make sure the Wiki-ID is the correct one)

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I do use the tracker. I wont worry about it. Just hope this month it is working, will have more time to work on them.

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If you see it's not working again, let me know and we'll figure out what's going on.

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I'm having a hard time finding the link for the tracker for this challenge. How do I find it, and how do I record the profiles that I've added over the last few days? Thanks!

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Hi Georgette. Sorry, I just saw this message. Here are the step by step instructions for using the tracker:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage:_Connecting_Challenge#Points

Any profiles that you didn't count using the tracker, you can list here for me in a comment.

Answer 4

Add me please! Thanks!

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Thanks, Elaine!

Answer 5

You know I'm in!  Got to!  Can't stay away!

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Thanks, Bartley!

Answer 6

I'm always in!

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Thanks, Carolyn!

Answer 7

Count me in for July! Knocking down a few brick walls that need to be added to our tree. Yes, my head is all bruised

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LOL, Kay. But it's so great to see those walls come crashing down!

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LOL, True!

Answer 8

Been super busy the last few months, but I'm in for this month!

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thanks, Randall!

Answer 9

I will also do some this month.

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Thanks, Roger!

Answer 10

I'm in and adding already!

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Thanks, Katie!

Answer 11

Hi Emma, I'm planning to continue. Sue

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Thanks, Sue!

Answer 12

I'm in again!

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Thanks, Denise!

Answer 13

I'm in! Hopefully I'll make more progress than I did in June :-)

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Thanks, Amy! We'll at least get a few created for Archie this week 

Answer 14

I plan to join this challenge by beginning to add my ancestors. Since I'm new here I don't know how many family members I'll be able to add this month, but I'm going to try to add as much as I can about my known Grand and 2nd Grand Grandparents. My long term goal is to find out who their enslavers were and to fill in any information that I can about their emancipation.

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Welcome, Georgette! The best way to grow your tree is to add as much as you know so others can help by bringing in new information. We are adding new connections every day. Let us know if you have any questions.

Answer 15

Now that we've returned from the cabin-in-the-woods-with-no-internet, I'm in! Still working on the family of John Conna a Black founder of Tacoma, Washington and Washington Territory Pioneer.

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Thanks, Valorie! Glad you're back :-)

Answer 16

I'm in again, of course. I'm not sure if this profile is being counted since I added it to the tracker before I answered this post: Herod-246.

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Thanks, Miyako! The tracker starts counting from the first day of the month whether you sign up on the post or not.

Answer 17

I'm definitely in! Thank you!

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Thanks, C! Great to see you again

Answer 18

I’m late learning about this but would like to participate for July. I’ve added some already.  Will those I’ve added in July count or just those after today?  Thanks

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Any you previously created in July and didn't use the challenge tracker for, you can list them here and I'll add them to your total at the end of the month. Thanks!

Answer 19

I will get some done this month!

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Thanks, Tara!

Answer 20

I would like to join this project

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Thanks, Ursula!