June 2023 Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Profile Challenge: Names starting with "J"

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Our theme for this month for the Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Profile Challenge is PGM project profiles with names starting with "J." This means the usual suspects: John, James, Joseph, Jane, Joan and Johanna...or some of the more unusual: Jesse, Job, Josiah, or Judith, Jenet, Julian.

If you can work on some of PGM's profiles, please be sure to follow PGM's Editing Guidance and remember to collaborate with the profile managers. 

To participate, please read the material in this post about the PGM Profile Challenge, let us know you plan to participate, and then report your progress here as well. We are keeping count and will be awarding the first achievement stickers soon!

Thank you very much for your help!

Challenge Specifics:

You are limited to profiles which are PGM-project managed (ie. have the PGM Project Box 500px-Puritan_Great_Migration_Editing_Guidance-1.jpg at the top.)

You are not limited to PGM Profiles which Need Biographies

Please be sure to follow PGM's Editing Guidance 

Abbrieviated PGM Checklist: (full editing guidance linked above)

Data Section:

  • birth date/place
  • names of parents, if known
  • marriage date/place and spouse name
  • names of children 
  • death date/place

Biography Section:

  • Full written sentences stating the facts above, adding inline sources for each fact;
  • Immigration information;
  • Is the profile '''Genealogically Defined?''';
  • Please write biographies in your own words; don't copy/paste;
  • Baptism, immigration, marriage, burial, civic, and other life events with inline sources;
  • List of children with at least one pertinent fact each;
  • Explanatory remarks, if needed (e.g. disputed persons information, Research Notes, whatever needs extra explaining);
  • Interesting fact about the person, such as career or avocation with sources;
  • Appropriate Categories;
  • If applicable, merges initiated for duplicate profiles;
  • Links to other mentioned persons/profiles;
  • Historical context as related to the person's life (please don't add timelines);
  • PGM Reliable Sources; general information about Sources

Any Questions? Please respond with a comment below.

To let us know you will join us, please answer this question, and also be sure to come back and report the IDs of the PGM profiles you have finished.

Good luck and Thank You!

in The Tree House by M Cole G2G6 Mach 9 (91.2k points)
I forgot to add...we know that many people have hundreds of PGM ancestors that it can be hard to find time to work on other profiles.  So, we are adding an "Ancestor Track" for the profile challenges.  That means you can choose to follow the theme, or you can work on a profile in your own tree.

1 Answer

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I am starting to clean up/sourced  Joane Fowle. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fowle-17

Is it only first name with J, or does in include surnames with  J?
by Chris Hoyt G2G6 Pilot (873k points)
Sure, we can do last names, too! And thanks for joining in!

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