2023 February Connectors' Monthly Challenge [closed]

Question

Hi Connectors! The February Connectors Challenge is up and running. :D

This is a monthly challenge and open to everyone. The goal is to connect parents, create profiles or propose merges, etc. to connect unconnected branches to the main tree. Scoring is of branches connected to the tree, not individual profiles. So whether a branch consists of two people or ninety-two people, it still counts as ONE connection. Unlike the Connect-a-Thon, only actual connections made are counted, not the number of profiles created to get to a connection.

The Connector’s Challenge Rules:

 1. Pick an existing profile (created before this month’s challenge began) that is not currently connected to the Global Family Tree. (Hint: If you are a member of the Connectors Project, you’ll see a yellow puzzle piece icon next to that person’s name at the top of their profile if they aren’t connected.)

2. Add a profile for any first degree relative for that profile (a parent, spouse, child, or sibling). Continue adding first degree relatives until you run into a profile that is already connected to the Global Family Tree that you can attach to. Remember to use good sources to support the creation or connection of every profile you make! Please be aware that it takes 24 hours for the tree to update and show the connection.

3. ANSWER this post. This lets us know that you’re participating in this month’s challenge. It’s easiest for us to track your trail if you post it here, but you can also use the Challenge Tracker. Just be sure you comment “Connected to Smith-000” when you make the connection to the already existing, already connected profile. Replace Smith-000 with the actual profile ID of the starting profile you were trying to connect. And there can be only ONE connection per branch!

4. Remember the tally is not of profiles created (like the Connect-a-Thon) but of actual connections made to the Global Family Tree. You might connect a whole branch of profiles and make 100 new profiles in the process of making a connection, but the connection only counts as 1.

5. If you enjoy challenges, keep in mind that adding good sources to any existing profiles you run into while connecting or fixing errors on those existing profiles might count towards the Sourcerers or Data Doctors Challenges.

6. Let us know if you’d like a Connector’s Badge for participating. That will also make you a part of our project and we’d love to have you! Stats are kept and updated on the Connectors Challenge page. The link to the tracker will follow.

Comments

Challenge Tracker

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Hi

When will the tracker include everyone please?

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Do only those using the Challenge Tracker go on the board?  The post said it would be better to put them on the G2G post....

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Merged Hamilton-5960 to Hamilton-4283

Edit: (sorry! posted this in the wrong place!)

Answer 1

I will definitely be participating again. I managed to get most of the unconnected Canadian Victoria Cross recipients connected in January but still have a couple to go.

Comments

Connected O'Dowda-3 to his wife, Mace-1987.

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Connected Hoey-473 to his maternal aunt's husband's brother, O'Dowda-3.

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Connected Mahony-767 to his sister-in-law's mother, Worley-3606.

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Connected McLeod-7625 to his maternal grand aunt's husband's paternal grandparents, Hughes-8067 and Burns-5160.

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Connected Croak-291 to his father's second wife, Furey-142.

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Connected Rayfield-231 to his first wife's second husband's parents, Strating-55 and Buning-42.

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Connected Tilston-92 to his paternal uncle's wife's paternal grandmother, Edgington-346.

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Connected McKenzie-10066 to his son-in-law's brother-in-law, Turner-19412.

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Connected Kinross-47 to his maternal aunt, Hull-6785.

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Connected Dinesen-73 to his parents, Dinesen-56 and Westenholtz-1.

Answer 2

I'll be participating.

Answer 3

I will be participating.

Answer 4

I'm in for February :)

Answer 5

I'm participating.

Answer 6

I will participate

Answer 7

I'm in this month. I'm slowly adding profiles to an orphan I found with only one connection - up to 81 now so hopefully the connection is close.

Answer 8

I would like to participate

Comments

Connected Robert Leslie Evans to grandparents Alice Ann Anthony and Robert Johnson Harris 

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connected Margaret Patterson to her father Charles Patterson --already in tree

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Connected Mildred Vanhooser to her great-grandfather John Vanhooser

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Connected Ignatz Ebach to his grandparents Ignatz I Bosch and Melonia Huber

Answer 9

I'll give it a go!

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I've done several - I was able to use the tracker for some. But I just connected John Ralph Van Cleave (Van_Cleave-198) to his parents. They both had existing profiles so the challenge tracker didn't come up. His parents are Vancleave-271 and Brown-70040.

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I connected Major Samuel Woodfill (Woodfill-56) to the main tree by adding his parents, Daniel Woodfill (Woodfill-68) and Julia Ann French (French-15304) then connecting them to existing profiles for his grandparents.

Answer 10

Sign me up for this month!

1. Connected Richard Morledge to his great-grandfather John Morledge.
2. Connected Presbyterian missionary and martyr W. Don McClure to his maternal grandfather Joseph McNaugher who is already connected.
3. I know this probably doesn't "count" but I take personal satisfaction in connecting Don McClure's wife Lyda Boyd to her previously unconnected but already on WT father, Jay Calvin Boyd -- while she was still unconnected... that is, before I connected Joseph McNaugher to the McClure branch I was working on.
4. Alexander Kelly McClure is now connected to his grandfather William McClure who is already connected

Answer 11

Yes, we're back. Was connecting 6 new branches branches yesterday and forgot to check the post. So here goes!

Answer 12

Ill try to do some connections

Answer 13

I believe I've attached McClure-3123 and McClure-3122 to the main tree. I went down generations until I found a private profile. Then I started building ancestors. After that, I found a child, McClure-5430, who connected to the main tree through her husband, Wolcott-1783.  I don't see Wolcott-1783 on the unconnected list.  Is any further info required?

Answer 14

Sign me up, please.

Comments

tree204765 / Sullivan-16565 via Bagley-1399 CONNECTED

tree1459639 / Simmons-19439 via Stanbury-179 CONNECTED

tree1933600 /Prosser-1474 via Prosser-1121 CONNECTED

tree2012499 /Swell-4 via Whittaker-1712 CONNECTED

Speight-571 via Speight-118 CONNECTED

Bain-3914 via Bain-81 CONNECTED

Willis-13609 to Riddiford-44 CONNECTED

Stringer-2233 via Bramley-878 CONNECTED

Haddow-360 via Hounsell-169 CONNECTED

Philp-647 via Greaves-1728 CONNECTED

Kennedy-17808 via Kennedy-12665 CONNECTED

Chisholm-2007 via Chisholm-1213 CONNECTED

Retemeyer-1 via Retemeyer-5 CONNECTED

Sutton-10601 via Sutton-9148 CONNECTED

Chisholm-2041 via Cotter-999 CONNECTED

Slater-4072 via Slater-5771 CONNECTED

Frederiksen-Holst-1 via Yuill-56 CONNECTED

Jarvis-3749 CONNECTED to Jarvis-2395

Hardy-6398 CONNECTED to Hardy-6248

Edwards-23893 CONNECTED to Edwards-33451

Baxter-6844 CONNECTED to Sims-3504

Gulland-15 CONNECTED to Gulland-16

Cross-8573 CONNECTED to Oughton-55

Dean-15380 CONNECTED to Dean-6808

Woods-5128 CONNECTED to Woods-7431

Jolly-887 CONNECTED to Jolly-471

Gillies-1609 CONNECTED to Waldie-218

Hawdon-38 CONNECTED to Humphreys-231

Withers-2829 CONNECTED to Borrow-157

Dyer-12387 CONNECTED to Hill-39174

Money-1670 CONNECTED to Hieatt-22

Archer-7296 CONNECTED to Archer-7084

Ormond-327 CONNECTED to Baldwin-7725

Tiney-23 CONNECTED to Nelmes-101

Maisey-213 CONNECTED to Maisey-191

Grammer-379 CONNECTED to Sawtell-478

Hosking-1234 CONNECTED to Doig-118

Knox-6352 CONNECTED to Bain-3914

Sutton-10124 CONNECTED to Carrington-1020

Hargest-33 CONNECTED to Sleeman-300

Farrell-1392 CONNECTED to Harty-138

Neale-2641 CONNECTED to Mangos-8

Pauley_Williams-1 CONNECTED to Williams-39513

Oughton-122 CONNECTED to Calvert-3310

Blampied-37 CONNECTED to Blampied-22

Nosworthy-251 CONNECTED to Nosworthy-130

Southen-11 CONNECTED to Southen-4

Leabourn-24 CONNECTED to Leabourn-10

Feek-59 CONNECTED to Feek-60

Answer 15

I'm in. I found some new people to look for connections.

Comments

I've connected some unconnected profiles:

Robert Singleton Maccauley-220
Robert's wife: Elizabeth Phillpe Magalya-3
Elizabeth's mother: Martha June Petty-2836
Martha's mother: Hettie Holingsworth-12
Hettie's father: Zebulon Hollingsworth-5076 (new profile)

To Zebulon's connected father:
Abraham Hollingsworth-2458

Answer 16

Count me in this month!

Answer 17

Here is my first connection for this month: John Walter Mott is unconnected. I created his daughter Mable and her husband Cleveland. Cleveland's father Dempsey Herbert Reed is connected.

Comments

While sourcing I found a profile for Ellenor Ellen Milne and one for Ellen (Milne) Laird. I iniciated a merge for them, which will connect Ellenor with the Big Tree.

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I started with unconnectedCharles F Ilsley. His mother is Ellen (Deering) Ilsley. Her sister is Elizabeth M (Deering) Sabine. Her husband is Lorenzo (Sabin) Sabine. His father Elijah Sabin is connected.

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I started with unconnected Helen (Faris) Sweeney, created her mother and connected Mary with her father.

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I initiated a merge between unconnected Christopher McIver and connected Christopher McIver

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Unconnected Caroline Margaret (McDonald) Francis got connected to her mother Mary Ann (Whiteway) McDonald

Answer 18

I struggle with this one but I’d like to give it another shot

Comments

Connected Campbell-56211 to Campbell-13506

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Connected Pacheco-536 to Pacheco-808

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Connected Chavez-1420 to Baca-401

Answer 19

I'll give it a go this month.

Answer 20

Count me in. Yesterday I connected Victoria Cross recipient Paul Andre Triquet VC