Can you help some Unsourced Smiths?

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Hi all,  I have been slogging along trying to add sources to the Unsourced Smith Profiles, but I need help.  The list of Unsourced Smiths is now at 11 and a half pages (roughly 2500 profiles) and growing.  Any assistance with these profiles would be most appreciated.  Just click this link: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Category:Unsourced_Profiles&from=Smith-1 and choose any profile(s) on the next 11 pages to improve with sources. 

If the profile is locked for edits, please post the source on the Public Bulletin Board/message board on the profile and ask that the source be added to the profile.  Ask also that the {{Unsourced}} notation be removed once the source is added.  

If you need an idea how to find sources to add, please read this earlier G2G article. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/307735/my-sourcing-safari-for-an-unsourced-profile?show=307735#q307735 Thank you for any assistance with this.  

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Have you had any luck approaching the Profile Managers of all of these Smith's?? Perhaps they would be able to fill in some blanks?

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Not really, but then, I rarely ask.  Everyone knows they are supposed to add sources. It is in the Honor Code.

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Hi Kitty,

Keep up the fight...you have a real challenge. I'm working on the Boughner's right now...many not even showing the "unsourced" designation (though unsourced). Love your comment "Everyone knows they are supposed to add sources". (So true)  I know Smith's don't compare to Boughners as a project. Keep your chin up.

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Granted.

However, I see how I started out on WikiTree and if I knew then what I know now, my profiles would look a heck of a lot different.

When I found WikiTree, I was so eager to get started, make profiles, download GEDCOMs, acquire badges, etc, my contributions were truly quantity over quality. Now I have so many profiles it's difficult to sit down to the task of sourcing them all, even though I know I have to get them done. Never mind the fact that I am so easily distracted onto other side projects :)

I think it would not be terribly unreasonable to reach out to Profile Managers and seek their assistance.

It never hurts to ask!!

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Please Christine...not disagreeing. Always worth a try. Communication is the commodity that is usually most lacking.

Answer 1

Just taken a look as I have Smiths in my tree. None matching my lot but saw a couple of Leicestershire ones so I'm sourcing those, then I'll take a peep to see if there are any others I can source. The first one I did was a 1738 birth, found a christening source in 2 seconds flat that named the parents and place of christening, so that was a pleasure compared to normal 18th C profiles, let alone being Smiths lol

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Well the second one had green privacy so I left a little message:

"Please can you add some primary sources (it's a requirement of the Honour Code you agreed when you signed up) or alternatively, open the profile so other Wikitreers can? Here's one to get you started :) ........

<familysearch.org citation for England and Wales Census, 1901>

Happy Wikitreeing, Gillian"

Is that friendly enough? I wanted to remind them of the code without seeming officious but not sure if the tone is right.

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This is great, Gillian!  Thank you so much for your help!

Answer 2

Happy to help.  I worked on the family of Daniel Turner Smith of Edgar, IL and Allen, KS and also on a few of his siblings for a couple hours last night and this morning.

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Thank you very much!

Answer 3

Little drops of water, little grains of sand......I revisited my Smiths and managed to remove the one I had, with newer information now on line.
Not a big help but everyone counts to decrease the pile.