Appalachia Project Challenges Page

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Appalachia Challenges

Appalachia Project | |Appalachia Project Challenges Page |Appalachia Roots Team Page| Counties of Appalachia | 2023 Appalachia Project Challenges

Back to Appalachia Project

Contents 1 2024 Challenges 2 Appalachia Project Challenges 2.1 May 2024 Challenge: Celebrating Appalachian Mommas and Grannies 2.2 March 2024 Challenge: Sourcing Unsourced Appalachians 2.3 February 2024 Challenge: Lovely Biographies 2.4 January 2024 Challenge: Connect-A-Thon

2024 Challenges

Appalachia Project Challenges

Add our Challenge Participant Sticker to your personal profile:

One Sticker for all of our Challenges

... is participating in the Appalachia Project Challenges.

{{Recognition Sticker|text={{#profile:RealName}} is participating in the [[Space:Appalachia_Project_Monthly_Challenges_Page|Appalachia Project Challenges]].|image=Background_I_Profile_Graphics-51.png}}

---

BIG EVENTS FOR 2024 Including Thons!

16 for 16 WikiTree Challenge We have great ideas for the 16 For 16: Appalachia Project Activities!

---

The Kick Off of our Special Event: 100 Days of Appalachia

Starts May 1st, 2024. Check out all the details here!

---

May 2024 Challenge: Celebrating Appalachian Mommas and Grannies

It's Mother's Day this month in the US and in Appalachia! Did you know that an Appalachian was the force behind making Mother's Day a holiday? Read all about Anna Marie Jarvis

This month's goal is not a quick one or one that is easily tracked with the challenge tracker: Improve on the Appalachian Mom and Granny WT Profiles. This includes biography, categories, sources, gedcom junk, low CC7, adding profiles to theirs. Anything that can make their profiles beautiful.

Go straight up your maternal lines to work every Mom and Granny ancestor.

May 2024 Appalachian Mother's Day Challenge

Some suggested details to add:

1. Include a recipe in the memories section
2. Share a special moment or memory you have of the Moms and Grannies in your life, in the memory section.
3. Add photos. If there is a photo on the internet, ask if you can use it on WT.
4. Tell us who they were! We all have stories to tell of our own moms and grandmas and even some great grandmas!
5. Provide details where they grew up (Hint: use Wikipedia for location details)
6. Add Categories for where they lived, their occupation and hobbies
7. Add ONS and OPS stickers
8. Add DNA Confirmations

May 2024 Appalachia Challenge Sticker

... is participating in the May 2024 Appalachia Project Appalachian Mother's Day Challenge.

{{Recognition Sticker|text={{#profile:RealName}} is participating in the ''May 2024'' [[Space:Appalachia_Project_Monthly_Challenges_Page| Appalachia Project]] '''Appalachian Mother's Day Challenge.'''|image=Background_I_Profile_Graphics-51.png}}

---

March 2024 Challenge: Sourcing Unsourced Appalachians

Let's Clear the Unsourced, Appalachia Category

Lucky Sources March Challenge

How do you find those profiles? Look at these Profiles: Appalachia, Unsourced Profiles category

Want to add Sources to Profiles that only have one or basic one? We have over 1500 in here: Appalachia Project Needs Sources category

Make sure to add some categories and biography tidbits. Auto Bio is great for that!

The great news is by doing this, ....it counts towards your mission 16 for 16 WikiTree Challenge!

February 2024 Challenge: Lovely Biographies

Now that the January 2024 Connect-A-Thon is over, let's improve the Biographies! February's Appalachia Challenge is to improve (or add) Lovely Biographies to your Ancestor's Profiles. Start with your parents and keep going. Or, work on any profiles you manage.

February 2024 Lovely Biographies Challenge

Some suggested details to add:

1. Tell us who they were! (Jokester? Master of the BBQ? Good/Bad Cook? Shade Tree Mechanic? Tinker? Knitter? Baker? Reader? And more!)
2. Provide details where they grew up (Hint: use Wikipedia for location details)
3. Add Categories for where they lived, their occupation and hobbies
4. Add ONS and OPS stickers
5. Add Photos of their life

Be the Storyteller of your Family!

February 2024 Appalachia Challenge Sticker

... is participating in the February 2024 Appalachia Project Lovely Biographies Challenge.

{{Recognition Sticker|text={{#profile:RealName}} is participating in the ''February 2024'' [[Space:Appalachia_Project_Monthly_Challenges_Page| Appalachia Project]] Lovely Biographies Challenge..|image=Background_I_Profile_Graphics-51.png}}

January 2024 Challenge: Connect-A-Thon

In an effort to help Improve Profiles throughout Appalachia, this Month's Challenge is to add the existing cemetery categories to profiles that are missing it.

January 2024 Connect-A-Thon

The Connect-a-Thon is coming up soon! The goal of our 72-hour marathon: bring the world closer together by adding missing relatives to existing profiles [more participation info].

The event starts Friday, January 19, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC) and runs until Monday, January 22, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC).

To Register, click here

Our goal is to add as many Appalachian Profiles, with our Project Sticker, as we can.

Appalachia Roots Team Page