Looking for a Rabbit hole this weekend?

Question

Do you have a few hours spare this weekend to jump down a Rabbit Hole? Please help finding the LNAB of an "Unknown".

A Weekly Report of all Unconnected Orphaned Profiles with NO family Links

Just select one from the list and get researching.

Sometimes clues hide in plain sight in the biography, or you might have to dig a bit deeper under the Changes Tab.

Adopt the profile, change the LNAB and add your sources.

Then orphan the profile again if you do not want to keep it on your Watch List.

Comments

LOL! I just found a pair of these yesterday!

Such a unique last name, and I made profile #2 of them... took a look at who was #1 - sure enough, it was a pair of profiles, husband and wife, out there all disconnected. I had to build about 4 profiles to reach them, but that was fairly easy and now they're connected. :)

Answer 1

I'm in! 

Just did the first one Unknown-371751, sourced and connected 

Going down the rabbit hole is exciting!

Answer 2

Worked on an unknown Mrs. J W Schuring, now Peoples.  I forgot to note the original ID.  Interesting profile of a woman crushed by her house in a tornado.

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Oh - so sad, but gratifying to complete their identities  The LNAB search, does take us down interesting detective journeys. I stumbled upon one that had been murdered, per news article on the profile, possibly by her hubby, so after finding her LNAB and sources added, went on google search for the rest of the story.  He was convicted and spent rest of his years in prison.

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Wow!  I hope he has a profile now, too.

Answer 3

Just did my first one, who is now Buchanan-6271; sourced.  Going down rabbit holes is a good way to spend a chilly Friday.

Answer 4

I'm in!

Got the first one done Arthur G Allen sourced and connected

Answer 5

Oh no.  This is super fun!  I have a feeling my house isn't going to get very clean this weekend.

Unknown-339780

Unknown-353264

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Unknown-371068 is Now Emily Miller (best last name EVER)

Answer 6

The clues provided in the unsourced FindAGrave profile were used to find sources which proved that Unknown-357169 was really Abbeline (Baumgartner) (Pearce) Markham. It took access to both FamilySearch and Ancestry to do it because her marriage to Markham isn't at FS. All the sources are now on the profile, the LNAB has been updated, and categories for Needs Profiles, Needs Bio, and the cemetery have been set. A request for a photograph of the gravestone was also submitted to FAG.

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A WikiTree user has added thousands of Markham (and Farrington, and another surname I forget right now) profiles from FAG and a lot of spouses are entered as unknowns.  Quite a few have their maiden name at FAG (FAG has been updated since the profile was added here).  I worked on the Farrington unknown spouses last Unknown weekend challenge and have done a few of the Markham unknown spouses this weekend.  I was using the google search "site:www.wikitree.com Markham unknown" to find them as they are typically easy to do once you find them. If they are unattached typically the spouse is here as well or their children.  As there are so many, please join the fun.

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There are also more than 500 added from Ireland with the bare minimum details. It seems that it was just added from the front page of findmypast.co.uk

https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTWebProfileSearch/Profiles.htm?Query=Unknown%20orphan%20unlinked%20ireland&MaxProfiles=5000&SortOrder=LNAB&pagesize=50&pageIdx=2

Mostly LNAB - Hawthorn & Flack

Someone with access to findmypast might be able to solve some of these mystery profiles.

Answer 7

Unknown-364568 is now Leighton.  Found a photograph on Find-a-Grave of a bench with her and her husband's names and the date of marriage.  

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Dorothy Unknown Kirby was surprisingly Dorothy Kirby (Kirby-5334).  Not sure how that happened.

I haven't been remembering to say anything here on most.  I hope that is okay.

Answer 8

I decided to try one so I somewhat randomly picked Pauline "Unknown - Schott-2" (now Pauline Rieger). The family was all unsourced, but pretty easy to find on FamilySearch. I fleshed out a biography for her, and couldn't help but add sources to the whole family. I even found her husband's birth and baptism records in Germany. I'll be adding biographies to all of them. I need to wrap up work on this family before my husband notices I'm working on people who are totally unrelated!

It was a fun exercise and has been a great distraction. At one point I probably had 50 windows open... rabbit hole indeed! 

Comments

I'm glad you had fun.  You can always say you were working on "very distant cousins."  We are all related somehow.

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LOL I'll try that but I think he's wise to me by now! 

Answer 9

Mary Jackson was formerly  Unknown-369986 and she's been added to the needs profiles created category

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Margaret Meikle was Unknown-394985

(correcting previous wiki id & link)

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Unknown-369983 is now Maggie Campbell 

(and fixed this link - think I need some food!)

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Unknown-369980 is now Jane Hutchison

Answer 10

Unknown-372630 (Mrs. Addie Jones) is now Greenway-536 as Addie Rena (Greenway) Jones.  I found another article about the train wreck that gave her age and where she was buried.  I added parents, husband and a couple of siblings.  Still not connected, though.

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I am waiting for a response to a Trusted List Request that would connect Addie to the tree.  Turns out she and Mrs. Rosie Gantt (nee Cannon), another victim of the train wreck, were connected by marriage, so the request is a two-for-one.

I found another Unknown who is now Alexander-15986, Mrs. Maurine Hendrix, another victim.  I have successfully connected her.

Answer 11

I am doing a few from Iowa. I am seeing profiles made from an old obituary (which lacks a birth name). These profiles will still be unconnected but at least they will be getting a birth name

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I didn't change the LNAB for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-352593 because she was born in 1829 in [Germany], married in about 1852 and in immigrated about 1869 and I only have US records. I am unsure if Cook is an Americanized version of a German name.

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The German for Cook is Koch.

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Thank you

Answer 12

Mandy Not-Sure-152 is named and it only took 4 hours!  Waiting for the PM to update LNAB.  The rabbit hole is deep, dark, and wide

Answer 13

Thank you very much for all the great contributions that you all made this weekend.

It is such a nice feeling to give an Unknown their rightful name.

Answer 14

I’ve just reunited Ada Mary Tye with her maiden name and created a husband for her. Fortunately the 1939 register contained their (approximate) birth dates and I worked back from there.

Answer 15

I've been working on Mary's and Sarah's and Lydia's....it is SO satisfying when you can find the LNAB and even better if you can figure out who her parents were!!