How can I create a catagory for "1775" Culpeper Minute Men unit - a sub-set of Virginia Militia in Culpeper County?

Question

DAR/SAR Culpeper Minute Men are working on a project to identify all descendants of the 1775 Culpeper Minute Men for a reunion event in 2025.
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We'd like to create a Wiki page for every identified soldier AND be able to tag them in some way that differentiates them from other eras AND is easy for people to find and track.  This is a BIG project with lots of helpers - so hoping to make it as simple and easy as possible (with prep work like this) so that I can train all of the volunteers for standardized tagging/category formatting.

A sticker would be ideal - but that might be a little too advanced.
 

This unit includes soldiers from Orange and Fauquier counties as well, so not a direct sub-set of Culpeper County militia

Something like:
[[Category:Culpeper Minute Men (1775), Virginia Militia, American Revolution]]

Comments

I probably should have mentioned that it would be a good idea to tag your question with military and war and categorization, so that members of those projects will be alerted to your question. I would hold off on categorizing person profiles until you are certain of the formatting of the category name. Do you have an idea of how many total profiles you guys will be placing in a Culpeper Minutemen category? It may make a difference if you want to leave it as a single category or create a category for each company.

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Hi Lucy -

I started (saved anyway?) this category - Culpeper Minute Men (1775), Virginia Militia, American Revolution after I posted the question.  This appears to meet my needs; unless it needs to be approved for public use?


For our project - right now we have about 150 soldiers identified, but there should be 300 or more.  We just don't know who they were and are hoping a big project will help shake them loose.  Most of the list of identified soldiers is from pension/dar/sar - so soldiers who didn't survive, claim a pension or have descendants in those societies are still out there.

We have 10 Captains, but the research is not yet solid enough to organize privates by Capt at this point.  Once we have our list into wikitree we can start sorting them into small pieces with references to confirm.

Answer 1

Currently, all the Minutemen categories are not only from Massachusetts, but their name includes their commander:

[[Category: Capt Abiel Clap's Middleborough Company of Minutemen]]

In the hierarchy they fall under [[Category:Minutemen, Militia, American Revolution]]

Are the Virginia Minutemen organized the same way? Are they known by their captain or just their county? I think that maybe the Category Project and the Military and War Project may want to look at inserting a category for [[Category: Massachusetts Minutemen]] and [[Category: Virignia Minutemen]] into the hierarchy or something like that.

In the meantime, you can start a free space and fit it into [[Category:Virginia Militia, American Revolution]]. It is easier to change a free space in the hierarchy than a category, but I think eventually your free space will go in both the Culpeper County Militia and the Minutemen categories.

Also, in case you don't know, categories should only have minimal information on them. If you want to create lists of the men (I recommend), then you'll need to do that on a free space. I'm currently doing that with the 55th Massachusetts. I stole Andrew Simpier's idea of creating a page for each company which he did for NY's 106th.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:55th_Massachusetts_Infantry_Regiment_Company_A

If you use a similar chart, edit it once a profile is created so everyone will know the profile has been created because the soldier's name is a link!