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 (1800-1899), i.e. 19th century mother-child connections.

Look in the Relation (Rel.) column for any child-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 want to be part of the team.

Answer 2

Great, I'll do a few this week.

Answer 3

I might have an opportunity to work on some.

Answer 4

I did a few WikiData suggestions. One of them I could find no evidence that there was a marriage - even in the cited Geni tree! I marked it as false. The non-"wife" named one of her sons after the non-"husband", but there is no other evidence. I want to correct the WikiData, but still hesitate just a little.

Comments

I know that not everybody can afford it, but I find that Ancestry is a good go-to resource for many missing sources that the free FamilySearch doesn't list.  My original app MyHeritage (integrated with GENi) is also very good for my family tree but writing good source citations from it to transfer to WikiTree from it can be frustrating once one gets used to WikiTree Sourcer.

Answer 5

Oops.  I did a couple of linkages but there wasn't a challenge button.  I probably should have signed up first.  Mea culpa.

BTW, fixing up FindAGrave (FG) from the correct WikiTree profiles and connecting parents and children on FG can be quite satisfying.  A challenge like this could also make FG that much better, too.