Welcome to US Black Heritage Project's weekend sprint!
In conjunction with the Cemeterist Project's month of challenges, USBH would like to complete all of our cemeteries that are 50%+ complete. That means a profile for each memorial has been created.
This Sprint has been completed
Goal: To work together to finish creating profiles for all the USBH cemeteries that are 50%+ completed.
Cemeteries help us connect families together.
Instructions:
- Post an answer below and tell us you will be participating.
- Go to the Google spreadsheet and put your Wiki-ID next to the first memorial you will be creating.
- The Find A Grave Memorial is linked to each name.
- Find at least 1 more source in addition to Find A Grave. Especially try to find a source to prove they should have the AA sticker and to find an LNAB for the women. Not all family buried in Black cemeteries were/are Black.
- Create the new profile and put the new Wiki-ID on the spreadsheet.
- If they have Black heritage, make sure they have the {{African-American Sticker}}.
- Add the category for that cemetery using the category picker.
- If we complete all the memorials before the weekend is over, please go to tab #4 and begin working on the New Hill Cemetery in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, chosen to kick off our new USBH Louisiana Team.
- Hint: You can add these maintenance categories as needed: [[Category: US Black Heritage Project, Needs Sources]] (which means it needs MORE sources), [[Category: US Black Heritage Project, Needs Profiles Created]] (which means you found a source with more family, but don't have time to create them right then).
- We will not be tracking individual scores, but you can keep track of your own contributions and comment on your post at the end of the weekend just for fun.
Thank you for helping us meet our goal of 250,000 profiles in 2023!
A note to USBH Connecting Challenge participants: The first profile in the family unit is your anchor profile and doesn't count toward the challenge. Every family member you attach does count.
States represented in this sprint: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia
Before: 296 Profiles Need to be created
Supplemental goal (Louisiana Cemetery): 331 profiles needed
After: 100% of the cemeteries have been completed!
118 out of 331 profiles from New Hill Cemetery completed.
