Only a Wikitreer would think writing grandfather's profile is fun.

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I just spent the last few hours finding sources for  my grandfather's profile and learning how to imbed them in his biography. I am grateful for my mother's memoir from 1994 that gave me the info that I confirmed tonight.
WikiTree profile: Melvin Field
in The Tree House by Nancy Wilson G2G6 Pilot (147k points)
I know of what you speak: in the last week (almost) I have created what feels like 100 profiles but is actually more like 18-20, and I have redone research, and have two or three lines of bio, and so many sources to support that one person was born in one year. And as I write the profile, it looks like I'm doing so much and then I get it out of edit mode, and see I wrote three very accurate sentences with lots of documentation, or I wrote many interesting  sentences, in which I'm asking the reader to engage with me, and have two or three resources; last of all is the desperate call to add more family to your tree (and you've already done the research), but you want that person out there, so you write a bland, and short bio, and provide two-four sources, and know you have to go back.

The above was telling you I know how you feel, but, while it does take hours to redo research or to reconfirm it, you need to step back and feel good about yourself and what you have done. It's essential that we spend time confirming resources, and that and writing a bio for one of your ancestors (or for an orphaned person, who is orphaned because the manager of the profile--for whatever reason--is no longer able to work on the profile) is one of the most beautiful things you can do,

And you're doing it--and it takes a lot of time--but you're doing something for your grandfather that he would never have expected. Good luck, and pat yourself on the back for taking the time to find and document those sources.

My curse is the curse of the typo. :)
Tamara and Nancy keep up the good work.  It does take time to research properly and try to add as many sources as you can find, but I think it is better to go slow and add the profiles manually, so you can check on sources and relationships properly.  I spent many hours yesterday adding one grandparent who seems to have disappeared from sourcing for 20 years and then re-appeared, but in checking things, I removed 'in my computer and on ancestry' a set of parents that I had for my grandparent because he wasn't with those people in an earlier census when he should have been and I found a death source that had different parents.  Research and sources is definitely the way to make sure things are correct.

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Welcome to Wikitree Nancy - keep having fun

Suggestion - on your profile bio, the text starts

Bold text== Biography == Born in etc

Apart from any Categories above the word Biography you do not need the words bold text - however if you do wish something bold highlight the text & click on B top left OR ''' before & ''' after.

Also ==Biography== followed by hard return

Clear as mud ??

by Roger Davey G2G6 Mach 3 (36.3k points)

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