Challenge of the Week: Add missing Find A Grave connections between existing profiles

Question

Hi WikiTreers,

Aleš's WikiTree+ data analysis has found thousands of people who are connected as parents and children or spouses on Wikidata pages or Find A Grave memorials, but are not connected on WikiTree even though they both have profiles.

The Wikidata hints can be difficult to address. The Find A Grave hints are much more abundant and easier to handle.

For example, here's how to handle items on the table for FindAGrave - Possible mother (1900-1999), i.e. 20th century mother-child connections.

Look in the Relation (Rel.) column for any child and mother pair and click the links to open their WikiTree profiles. Then click the links below those to open their Find A Grave memorials. You might want to right-click the links and keep all four open in separate tabs to review them.

Not all the information on Find A Grave is reliable. If there is a photo of a single gravestone that connects the mother and child, you can use that as your only source to connect them. Otherwise, either look for other sources to verify the connection, or mark the relationship as uncertain and add a Research Notes section on the child's profile saying that the relationship is based on Find A Grave and has not been independently verified.

Will you work on some of these with us? If so, or if you have any questions, please post below.

Thanks for helping!

Comments

Challenge is active.

Answer 1

I will work on a few this week. It is satisfying to connect them in this way, or otherwise clear the suggestion report.

Thanks!

Answer 2

I'll try to work on some of these!

Answer 3

Yes, I'll try to get a few done.

Answer 4

I'm in and will look at ones from Virginia in the 1800s!

Answer 5

I will try to connect some people up.

Answer 6

This is a  good connection challenge. I will work on some this week.

Answer 7

Count me in.  I have had a few in regular suggestion list that I found sources for. That was fun.

Answer 8

I would like to try to participate this week.

Answer 9

2 days late but I’m jumpin in.

Answer 10

I will work on some as well Donna

Answer 11

I’ll give it a try! I hope I can be helpful.

Answer 12

I have already been doing this for my own relatives and friends.

Answer 13

I will try to help. Question: If a connected profile has a FindAGrave memorial, but the location says, "Burial Details Unknown", do you still want the FindAGrave citation added? Should we have a category for Bural Details Unknown?

Answer 14

I will work on this

Answer 15

There also looks like a ton of duplicates. Should we propose mergers as well?

Answer 16

Okay; on it for a little while.

Answer 17

Good grief, there are thousands of them. I'll be connecting some.

Answer 18

As punishment for each and every time I failed to connect a spouse, parent, or child to a profile I created from FindAGrave, I shall work on connecting possible spouses. Mea Culpa. 

Answer 19

I have a couple of Norwegians who emigrated to America on my Special List that I don't know how to begin to deal with. I created the couple a long time ago as a response to a question here on G2G.

If anybody would like to help me resolve this issue, I'll gladly assist in any way I can. But Find A Grave suggestions is far out of my comfort zone.

Comments

Thank you to whoever fixed this issue for me. I like to keep my Suggestions list clean, so I am very grateful.

Answer 20

I will try to connect some for the mid-west.