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.

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Sounds fun. I'll do some.

Answer 1

I've tried clicking on some of these and get message 

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

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It was working for me a couple of hours ago. I just got two finished.But now, same message as above.

The requested URL was not found on this server.

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I’m see the same “Not Found”….

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I just found it depends on which link you choose. The “some of these” works better.

Answer 2

I will participate!

Answer 3

I'll tackle a few.

Just a warning to participants - you may grow your 'Unconnected' list. I participated in the Connect-a-Thon and was surprised I had quite a few unconnected profiles on mine, which I'm pretty sure came mostly from a previous Find-A-Grave hunt. Of course, growing the world tree is a good thing.

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I hear you, Jim. I'm in the same boat. :)

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Yes and I understand we can post the name on G2G for adoption, or on the Name Study.  Then you can remove yourself from the Profile Manager.

Answer 4

I'll help with some. :)

Answer 5

I am eager to work on this challenge.

Answer 6

I do these suggestions quite a bit to find profiles that need connection to the main tree quite a bit. Of course I will continue helping.

Answer 7

I enjoy doing these. I would like to participate.

Answer 8

I will work on some 

Answer 9

I will work on some too. I had a data doctor suggestion myself for a possible first wife for a profile that I manage due to a FindAGrave entry. I could not prove it, and the man and woman are not buried in the same cemetery, but will definitely be looking closer at that possibility!

Answer 10

I will participate. Is there somewhere we need to report what we have connected?

Answer 11

I’ll work some….

Answer 12

I will try to work on some. Strangely, I am manager of one of the profiles in question . I was looking at the profiles for his brother and family just yesterday.

Answer 13

I would love to join in. Hoping to get several done today.

Answer 14

I will definitely work on this when I’m well enough!

My personal goal, is to look for all the connections between burials in Fairville Baptist Cemetery ( Fairville, Saline, MO), and find as many living descendants as I can.

A wonderful, energetic friend has almost single handedly cleaned up the cemetery…but it is still, technically abandoned.

Answer 15

Greetings - I note there are long list of profiles requiring attention.  My prefered place to start is to search for members of my paternal family, then to search for members of my maternal family then my grandmothers families.  Could the Manager explain how can I search for persons who have a specific family name. Many thanks Paul

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If you open the long list of profiles  press Ctrl + f (Find in Page). Enter the family name you want in the Search box. It will highlight all of those names on the page. Then you can click the 'up' and 'down' arrows to quickly go through them.

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Many thanks Patrick for your helpful, information.

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You will have to do that on each page like I do. But it does accomplish what you are looking for.

Answer 16

The links do not appear to be working. I am receiving an error: 

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

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Click the link that says “some of these”. You should have better success.

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That works, thanks Eric!

Answer 17

I connect people all the time on Find a Grave, even those I don't know, so I will be happy to work on this. I especially work on finding children of large families, as I have seven children myself. 

Answer 18

First time trying this.  I'll help out with some of these.

Answer 19

Did a few of these yesterday before I saw this!! I just keep working on them.

Answer 20

How do you get past the URL not found indication?

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Click the link that says “some of these”. You should have better success.