April 2019 Biography Builders Challenge

Question

This month’s Bio Builders Challenge theme is people who were adopted, or people who adopted someone. PLEASE NOTE: Biographies of living individuals are restricted to the Biographer only.

Thank you for your support.

Here's our checklist:

Data Section:

• birth date/place
• names of parents
• marriage date/place and spouse name
• names of children, if any
• death date/place

Biography Section:

• Written (full) sentences stating the facts above, adding inline sources to each fact.
• Is the profile '''Genealogically Defined?'''
• As a general rule biographies should be in your own words. Paraphrase and rewrite, don't copy/paste.
• Baptism, burial, military, and other life events with inline sources.
• Something to "humanize" the person, such as career or avocation with sources.
• List of children with at least one pertinent fact.
• Some list siblings. (I think this takes up real estate.)
• Explanatory remarks, if needed (e.g. disputed persons information, Research Notes, whatever needs extra explaining).
• Photos or pictures, background. Not a must, but nice (you need to own the copyright unless they are in the public domain).
• Categories.
• Connection to the Global Tree.
• All duplicates merged or initiated.
• Links to persons and events, perhaps from Wikipedia.
• Historical context as related to the person's life.
• Sources, Sources, Sources.

You can see some ideas on where to find some of this information on the Biography Builders space page.

Use "comments" below to ask questions.

NOTE: Biography Builders will not show on the tracker. Please add a list to your answer.

Comments

We had some major BioBuilding last month.

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Do these need to be formal adoptions? I may have some that were informal, where a person was raised by a relative after their parents died, or were raised by a step-parent, but have almost none who were formally adopted.

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Joyce, it has to be a formal adoption.

Bob

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I'm out for this one, sorry.

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Yeah we did!  I thought I did well with 30 something, but someone got 100!  Wowsers

Answer 1

How does one find people who were adopted?  Oh, I found it:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Adopted

Comments

Yeah - that will work for people where the profile managers tagged them as adopted. I wonder if there is a way to find them if they haven't been tagged?

Answer 2

I am sure I can find a few in my tree!  Count me in!

Comments

I know of at least one in my tree - Me :)

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  But does your own profile count?

I'm thinking of my great x2 grandfather whose sister and brother died together (cholera I think), he ended up raising their four children from infancy and according to his will had adopted them in a legal sense.  It's a bit of a mare's nest but it will make for a pleasant challenge to get my points in this month.

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I was told my profile counted.  Since my dad is alive, his won't. My husband adopted my sons, but their profiles won't count. My uncle and his wife adopted my cousin, but she is alive, so her profile won't count, but theirs will since they are not living. That's all I know in my watch list though.

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So how does adoption work on Wikitree?  Presumably you cannot connect to two sets of parents.  Do you connect to one set and then reference the other?   For the ones in my family that I mentioned, I plan to connect them to their original parents and then link across to their aunt and uncle who brought them up and later formally adopted them.  But if you'd asked them who their parents were they would have said the ones who brought them up from being very young children.  It's a pleasantly difficult task for the month.

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Wikitree will allow a special exception of having two profiles for those who are adopted and want to link to both of their families. It really depends on your goal, as long as you spell it out in your biography.  Wikitree has a code you can put on an adooted person's profile so you can link to both parents. Take a look at my profile to see what that looks like .

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Very beautiful profile, lovely writing.  I particularly sympathised with the moving to get teenagers out of bad environments.  We did that too, moving to Johannesburg for three years to get my daughter back on track.  Worked a treat!

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Thank you.  Yes.  Environments are so important for kids. I just wish I had done it sooner .

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Finally...  A bit of a struggle. as I had to build across to get to them.

1. Daniel Warren Brickell. Doctor, educator and all round hero.  Hardest profile I've ever had to write. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brickell-134

2. Anastasie Welham. His wife. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Welham-210

3. Elizabeth Brickell.  Daniel's sister, dies young just before the Civil War. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brickell-157

4. Charles Hamer. Elizabeth's husband, dies as a result of the war. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hamer-691

And the four young daughters left behind by Elizabeth and Charles, taken in and later adopted by their aunt and uncle:

5. Addie DeLeon Hamer. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hamer-694

6. Medora Hamer. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hamer-695

7. Susan Franklin Hamer. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hamer-696

8. Clara Brickell Hamer. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hamer-697

Answer 3

I will try this for this month.

Answer 4

Hmmm... the challenge for me is that all the people in my family that were adopted - or adopted someone - are still living, and therefore, unlisted profiles. But, I will work on them and share them here. 

1. Me :) I was adopted: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bonner-1839
2. David Taylor: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-53311 (Adopted Daniel Tilley and Josh Tilley)
3. Susan Cline: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cline-4336
4. Steven Inglett: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Inglett-157

Answer 5

I'll try to find some, but I don't know of any right now.

Answer 6

Count me in, please! :)

Answer 7

I'm in!

1. Going to develop the profile of Margaret (Cooley) Baty; she adopted the 6 children of her husband.  Her profile is sourced but without a bio.

2. I'm going to also develop her adopted kids, starting with Newton Walter Baty.

Answer 8

Looking at adopting more orphaned Langridge profiles, adopted several last month I am still working through.

Although not sure this meets the croteria for this months challange.

Working on Georges for St Georges Day

1.https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langridge-27 Adopted profile - needs a little more work

2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langridge-132 Adopted profile needs a little more work

3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langridge-30 Adopted profile - is proving difficult to source as no dates and conflict with father on potential date - will get there eventually merged profile into https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Deane-512

4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hudson-3434 husband of the above, added some source still not able to prove marriage marriage proven after merge

5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langridge-29 Father or not the father of the above.....

6. ://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langridge-182 recycling this one as no dates or location or connections on profile

7.https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pearsall-607 fixed errors and added more data she is the wife of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langridge-132 details above