Hi all!
On the genealogy front, gee, what am I not doing? After the Source-A-Thon 2 weeks ago, I started RAWKing 5 ladies from around the world. I have taken my trusty sledge hammer & busted walls for the last 10 days, I think I am somewhere around 500 brick walls I have busted between the singles & the doubles.
Not only is that being seen in the expansion of the cc7's we are RAWKing, but my own rose as well. On 3 Oct when we started this, my cc7 was 1,477; it is now 1,854. I'm probably going to pass 2,000 here soon with all of this.
I have also been adopting Brunson profiles & squaring them away. 1 of my Brunson adoptees was Adam J. Brunson. He was a CSA soldier with Hilliard's Legion out of Alabama. When I was putting his CSA sticker on his profile, that I did for the first time via that nifty little automatic template maker button, I noticed that there was an option to use the image of the actual standard that the units followed, so I went looking for Hilliard's Legion's standard. I found it in the Alabama Archives Department. They have taken all the standards of the Alabama units that fought in the Civil War & restored them; Hilliard's was 1 & I wanted it for Adam's profile.
So, I took myself over to Contact Us page of the site, told them who I was, what I wanted, why I wanted to use it & sent the request. I got an ADAH use agreement to use the standard for Hilliard's Legion on the profile stickers from that unit. The only thing is, it needs signed & I am not an authorized representative of WikiTree. So, I sent it to "The Team" & put the ball in their court; they are the 1's with the might pen.
There's a story behind this standard. It seems Hilliard's wife donated her trousseau & made the standard out of that. This standard is a The Lone Star/Bonnie Blue Flag, except the single star is the ring of 11 stars representing each succeeding state.
Shaking my Tree has shaken another relative out of it. My niece Gina Lynch (that should sound familiar to you, Pip, you Greeted her) is now a member of the Tree with a signed Honor Code. My only gripe, laughingly, is that she has been on for like 3 days & has already gotten her 1,000 CC7 Badge that took me 3 months to achieve & she will get her 2,000 when I get mine. 
After I adopted the orphans, I started to clean them up. Amos Brunson's profile was the 1st profile I got to as he was at the top of the list & I used that other little nifty tool that tells you what's missing in a given set of family members; it lies! It told me there were only 11 missing family members from that family unit. 10 hours later I was STILL connecting family members. I think it was 60 or 70 & I didn't put them all on because not everyone had sources other than trees.
In looking through all those profiles I didn't create due to lack of sources, I found this line goes all the way back to 1298; too bad they aren't sourced. I also found out exactly where this Brunson line shifts names & why. This line is from Sweden & their last name was spelled Brunsson for a reason. It's because he was really, literally, Bruns son. It seems they don't have names over there that far back as we know them now, they are literally someone's son or daughter; that's where the dotters come from. If the boys are Bruns son's, then the girls are Bruns dotters, hence Brunsdotter, a new last name that will change with every generation depending on the name of the father. What a nightmare!!!
I'm also on the PIP Voyage which I have been on for awhile now. I get everything & how things are done except for the in-line sources made from the sources you take from the source sites. 1 of the problems I have when learning new things, is that I have learned that I can't rely on my brain for memories; it changes too much. I have to use other means to remembering. One of those ways is cellular memory. When you do something long enough & often enough, your body remembers the actions.
When I sent Ian a message about how Sourcer was acting, he wrote back & asked "If this on the Add Person page when doing "Set Fields from..."." I understood the add person page part, but "Set fields from...?" Come to find out, that was the wordy explanation of what I was doing with cellular memory, but that's a detail & I'm not good with them as I normally don't see them as something to focus on & understand; I just get lost in them. I have to be above the frey to "see" anything.
So, that's my week. Hope everyone had a good week & is doing well & good in whatever they are doing.
Guten Morgen, guten Tag, guten Abend, gute Nacht, wo auch immer Sie auf der Welt sind, passen Sie auf sich auf.
