Welcome to the 1890s Locators Challenge!
Goal: To add a birth location to every WikiTree profile
Why? Birth locations help prevent duplicates. When looking at two profiles side by side, you can quickly look at the birth location to see if they are match.
When? This challenge will run monthly starting March 1, 2024
Who? Every WikiTreer who has signed the Honor Code can join this challenge.
We are beginning with people born in the 1890s as generally records for this decade are easy to find. However, any BIRTH location you add for any profiles with a missing birth location counts toward this challenge.
How to get started
- Click the Answer button below and tell us which location you will be working on.
- If you see another person is already working on that location, tell us which page of the search results (after running your search) you will be starting on so we don't trip over each other.
- Modify one of the searches below to get profiles from a specific country or region (state, province, county etc.). Change the name of the location in the search box, then click the blue "get profiles" button. If you need help, ask in your answer below.
- Use the sources on the profile to find the birth location. Do not attempt to add a birth location without checking sources first.
- If the profile is completely unsourced find some! If you add sources to any unsourced profiles, you can also count it for the Sourcer Challenge. Please sign up separately for their challenge.
- If you can't find a sourced birth location, please see the information on our help page about how to estimate a birth location. Do Not simply guess!
- Use the challenge tracker every time you add a birth location to a new profile. See our help page for more information on the tracker.
- Each profile with a newly added birth location counts as one point.
These searches include the country or region in the marriage and/or death location:
Some searches using a WikiTree sticker:
(You can replace the sticker query above with any sticker used on WikiTree)
Please be patient as we work out the kinks in this new challenge. Let's improve the Tree!