Join the first ever Locators Challenge! March 2024 [closed]

Question

Welcome to the 1890s Locators Challenge!

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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. 

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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.

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These searches include the country or region in the marriage and/or death location:

• Country: country=Canada open birthlocation=missinglocation 1890s not 1880s
• Region: region=Maryland open birthlocation=missinglocation 1890s not 1880s

Some searches using a WikiTree sticker: 

• USBH Project specific profiles 1890s Missing Birth Location African American Sticker.
• Appalachia Project specific profiles 1890s  Missing Birth Location Appalachia Sticker. 
• Jewish Roots Project specific profiles 1890s  Missing Birth Location Jewish Roots Sticker. 

(You can replace the sticker query above with any sticker used on WikiTree)

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Please be patient as we work out the kinks in this new challenge. Let's improve the Tree!

Comments

I'm in and will work on Florida.

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I'm not surprised Thanks, Debi.

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Oh, I am so glad to see this challenge happening! There are now 3,195 profiles listed in the Unlocated Profiles category, so hopefully, we'll now start to see that number going down instead of up.

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I didn't know that category existed, Greg. We'll see if we can incorporate it into the challenge.

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Emma ... you were bored and needed something more to lead?! :-)  This looks terrific. Maybe we need a Locators project and badge to parallel Connectors, Sourcerers, etc.

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Greg ... If you click on the TABLE button, you will see those profiles that need editing to remove the tag because someone has entered a location but failed to remove the category tag.

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We ran this for Scotland in January.  People are still working on them, since we didn't limit it to any decade.

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Haha @Chris. I was actually tired of the duplicate finder have 50% of profiles with no birth locations to compare to. When a pet peeve gets too much for me, I start a challenge 

Answer 1

Participating. I'll work on my ancestor's surname profiles with missing places in the time specified. I'll be using the WikiTree Browser Extension to accomplish this task when on the surname genealogy page in table view (which allows for the sorting of the dates).

• starting on the Buch profiles

Note: This is what I have been doing ever since the CC7 app rolled out.

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Thanks, Tommy!

Answer 2

I'll work on Appalachia-Kentucky

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Thanks, Judith!

Answer 3

Will add locations to USBH related profiles, though I think we are doing pretty well there.

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Haha, I wish. We still have about 7000 without locations. The search above is just for the 1890s. Feel free to go to the larger list here. 

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I've been working on pages 6, 5 and now on page 4 of the 1890 list.

Answer 4

I'll try doing some in Ohio.

Comments

Thanks, Jody!

Answer 5

Hi Emma

Sign me up - I'm working through New Zealand related profiles with this exact Issue

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Yay! Thanks, Graeme

Answer 6

Ik doe mee met de profielen van Noord-Holland, Nederland

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Thanks, Margreet!

Answer 7

Ik doe mijn best op

Location="Amsterdam Netherlands" open BirthLocation=Missinglocation sql="([Default].[Birth Date num].AsNumber in 18110101..18991231)"

Comments

Thank you, Sjaak!

Answer 8

I will start with the 6,  I found in Peel County, Ontario

Comments

Thanks, M!

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Emma, I got the 6 done, that's all I have time for this month.

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That's wonderful! Thanks so much.

Answer 9

I will work on Black Texans

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Thanks, Randall.

Answer 10

I will work on Canada on the 2nd page of the link above.

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Thanks, Carol-Lynn!

Answer 11

Sign me up.  I will be doing profiles from Zuid-Holland, Nederland

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Thanks, Coen!

Answer 12

I'll work on Michigan for once (I live here).

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I forgot to use the challenge counter for the first few I did: Hoste-1 and Peters-259.

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Thanks, Miyako!

Answer 13

I have done a few for Hampshire, England.

Comments

Thanks, Hilary!

Answer 14

Thanks for organising this, Emma! Excellent challenge. I’ll do some Australian ones too.

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I’ll start from the last page in the Australia search.

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Thanks, Gillian!

Answer 15

I can't resist the challenges -- sign me up! I'll work on USBH.

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Thanks, Amy! Here's a link to the full list for USBH. The one above is just 1890s.

Answer 16

I will make a goal to do 100 this month focusing on USBH. maybe more but lots of other good work to do in other places!

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Thanks, Katie! Here's a link to the full list for USBH. The one above is just 1890s.

Answer 17

I'll join in on this challenge. I'm starting on my watchlist.

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Great idea! Thanks, Emily

Answer 18

I'll take OHIO

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Thanks, Anne!

Answer 19

Hi, I've been working on sourcing for Wisconsin and adding locations when I see there are none. So, I'll help with Wisconsin.

Joan

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Thanks, Joan!

Answer 20

I will work my Watchlist first, then New York.

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Thanks, K!