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

+19 votes
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Hi WikiTreers,

imageAleš'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 (1800-1899), i.e. 19th 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!

in The Tree House by Eowyn Walker G2G Astronaut (2.5m points)
reshown by Aleš Trtnik
Challenge is active.
I will work on these also.
That has been my project for quite a while.

14 Answers

+12 votes
I will try to do a few.
by Wendy Taylor G2G6 Pilot (138k points)
+12 votes
I will work on a few of these.
by Debra Akin G2G6 Mach 2 (21.7k points)
+13 votes
I will do some...thanks!
by Sally Kimbel G2G6 Pilot (106k points)
+11 votes
Sure, I'd like to give it a try and link a few profiles.
by Lisa Traynor G2G6 (7.1k points)
+13 votes
I have fixed a few
by Liza Gervais G2G6 Pilot (396k points)
+11 votes
I'm on it. Most of these are easy, just lots of typing.
by Jo Gill G2G6 Pilot (168k points)
+12 votes
Yes. I will do some
by Elsie Hagley G2G6 Mach 1 (12.4k points)
+10 votes
I will give it a try.
by Alice Thomsen G2G6 Pilot (239k points)
+11 votes

 I will work on some.

by Connie Goos G2G6 Mach 1 (14.6k points)
+10 votes
I will try to work on some of them too.
by Paula Franklin G2G6 Pilot (109k points)
+10 votes
I do this all the time....
by Roy Lamberton G2G6 Mach 8 (82.8k points)
+8 votes
I think I found one! :-)
by Judy Weggelaar G2G6 Mach 2 (20.7k points)
+6 votes
It's raining, I'll do some.
by Walter Horowitz G2G6 Mach 1 (17.0k points)
+5 votes
I can do a few.  Just tried one, where parents are obvious from FAG.  The son in this case (Witherstine-5) died in 1863, yet when I tried to connect, I got a message saying I am not on the trusted list.  That surprised me a bit, given the age of these profiles.  Solution?
by Jack Schaffer G2G6 Mach 1 (13.5k points)

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