USBH Weekend Sprint: Home for The Holidays Dec 2023

Question

Welcome to US Black Heritage Project's Weekend Sprint!

This was such a great sprint last year, we're going to do it again. 

Who can pitch in? Everyone!

How much do you have to do? As little or as much as you can. It all adds up.

the weekend is over. Thank you for the help!

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Goal #1: To work together as a project to add as many birth locations as we can in 3 days to profiles with the African-American sticker. This will help us to prevent duplicates and to run more complete location reports.

Goal#2 To add family members to our lonely single profiles.

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Instructions Goal #1:

• Post an answer below and tell us which of the 76 pages on the report  you will be working on. Each page has 100 profiles. (to get to your page on the report, change the last number in the URL to your page. It starts on page 0) This will help us prevent tripping over each other.
• Use sources to find the birth location. If the profile has no sources, find and add some. (Hint: US Census records are an easy way to find birth locations)
• If you cannot find at least the state of birth, make a best estimate based on sources, mark the location as uncertain, and add a research note.

Pages 1, 3, 9, 13, 16, 24, 29, 50, 53, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76 have been claimed. 

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Instructions Goal #2:

• Go to the category called Family Tree Size One and choose a person to add family to. If it's a yellow locked notable, please skip that person unless you are on the USBH Notables Team.
• Research that person and add as many family members as you'd like to. Please don't forget sources! And you can add maintenance categories for others to continue working on the profiles.
• Remove the Family Tree Size One category from the profile.

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Thank you for helping us bring family home for the holidays and improve our profiles!

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Goal #1 Before: 7510 profiles missing birth locations

After: 7371 (As of Dec 14th. Will check again next week since Sunday's work isn't counted in this number)

Goal #2 Before: 1739 profiles needing Family added

After: 1651 (88 profiles now have family!)

Answer 1

I'll start on page 29 of the locations report since it's my favorite number. I'll also be adding family for the tree size ones.

Answer 2

I'll help. I'd like to start with Unnamed Infant Butler, whose profile is managed by you, Emma, unless you want to do that one.

Comments

If I manage a profile and it doesn't have a birth location, it probably means I adopted it at some point and haven't been able to find the birth location. If you find it, that would be amazing! Thanks for the help!

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Oh, I see you mean tree size one. I have the mother named in that profile, but I think I had been unable at the time to figure out who she was.

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I was thinking of her for the family size one list. I'll do my best!

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Okay, I wasn't able to figure that one out. I will move on to Ella Cary, an orphaned profile.

Answer 3

I'm in. I'll start on page 1.

Comments

Thanks, Gina!

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pierre-August-2 cannot be corrected as it is orphaned, has no sources or birth date/location and is likely a living profile.

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Thanks, Gina. I've sent that on to the Team for deletion.

Answer 4

Sign me up for page 9! This will be fun to work on!

Comments

Thanks, Taneya!

Answer 5

I'm going to start with a few living notables in the Tree Size One category. I'll also work on some missing birth locations from page 13 at some point this weekend.

Comments

Awesome. Thanks, Christy!

Answer 6

I've been tempted to try one of these sprints, but I'm likely to manage only a couple hours of work. If I sign up and do that, am I somehow interfering with the process or keeping someone else from working? If not, I'll work on page 72. I actually already did the first one on that page, Bennett-40982, just to get an idea what's involved. And if someone would check what I did to make sure it's acceptable, I would appreciate it.

Comments

Hi Rudy, there's always plenty of work to go around, so going at a slower pace won't interfere with anyone's work. Your first profile looks great. You could also add the "US Black Heritage, Needs Sources" category to it so someone could come along later to add more sources. Thanks!

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Thanks, Emma.

Answer 7

My personal life workload is comically insane right now, but I'll try to help out. This is SUCH a great sprint and I remember from last year how rewarding it is to do.

Comments

It's a crazy busy time of the year! Any help is great. Thanks!

Answer 8

Dear Emma,

    I'll try to check out some Tree Size 1 people.  Busy weekend, but maybe I can get a few families.  -NGP

Comments

Thanks so much, Nanette!

Answer 9

I'll work on page 16 of the birth locations goal.

Comments

Thanks, Miyako!

Answer 10

Got family visiting but will try to add some family to Tree Size 1 folks, won't be as many as I'd like to do!

Comments

Everything helps. Thanks, Katie!

Answer 11

I can fill in a few. Last page first, 75!

Comments

Thanks, Janet!

Answer 12

I'll work on page 61 for the locations. I can also try some of the lonely singlets.

Comments

Thanks, Lucy!

Answer 13

I'll work on some size ones.

Comments

Thanks, Cossy!

Answer 14

I'm starting on page 76

Comments

Got it. Thanks!

Answer 15

I'll start with page 50.

Comments

Thanks, Katherine!

Answer 16

I will work on page 53

Comments

Thanks, Randall!

Answer 17

Now working on 74 and 73. Can I say this is fun?

Comments

It's totally fun! I love cleaning up data :-)

Answer 18

How does one claim a page?

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Just pick a page number and reply here saying you'll work on it. It looks like 1, 3, 9, 13, 16, 24, 29, 50, 53, 72-76 have already been claimed, so just pick any other number below 76.

Answer 19

I'll work on pg. 24. (My birthday is December 24, so I figured it was a fitting number to choose!) Lots going on this weekend, but I'll do as much as I can. Thanks!

Comments

Thanks for the help, May.

Answer 20

I'll pick up page 3 and see how much I can get done.  Thanks for arranging these bite size projects.

Comments

Thanks for the help, Leah!