Mighty Oaks

Profile managers: Joan Whitaker [send private message], Janet Wild [send private message], and England Project WikiTree [send private message]

This is the page for the Mighty Oaks, the England WikiTree team that competes in the Clean-a-thon, Source-a-thon, Scan-a-thon, Connect-a-thon and other profile improvement challenges throughout the year. This is the team for everyone who loves England. We were formed in June 2020.

Mighty Oaks

Thon Project Co-ordinator: Janet Wild

The team captains are Janet Wild & Joan Whitaker, supported by Maddy Hardman. If you would like to join, please register for the Thon and contact us.

Current and Forthcoming Challenges

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.

Check your stats for the last Thon here https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectaThon/202401/TeamAndUser.htm

The event starts Friday, April 12, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC / 1pm BST) and runs until Monday, April 15, at 8 AM EDT (12pm UTC / 1pm BST)

To register, find your team's answer and comment on it Click here

For Information go to - Help page Help Page

Team Communication

Mighty Oaks will have a chat post on the G2G for each challenge, where we update progress, encourage each other and answer any questions. G2G Chat

We also have a chat space on Discord, which we can use leading up to, and during challenges, and any other time we want! If you are not on Discord and want to join us please let Joan know.

Help Page and other useful links or points

Help:Connect-a-Thon

Connecting How to

England_Useful_Links_Index:

County Unconnected Lists

England Largest unconnected branches

You can also use this table of links to England County Unconnect pages

England Counties Unconnected Lists

Click the county name in the table below to go to the county's unconnected list

Bedfordshire	Berkshire	Bristol	Buckinghamshire	Cambridgeshire	Cheshire
Cleveland	Cornwall	Cumberland	Derbyshire	Devon	Dorset
County Durham	Essex	Gloucestershire	London	Manchester	Hampshire
Herefordshire	Hertfordshire	Humberside	Huntingdonshire	Isle of Wight	Kent
Lancashire	Leicestershire	Lincolnshire	Middlesex	Merseyside	Northumberland
Norfolk	Northamptonshire	Nottinghamshire	Oxfordshire	Rutland	Shropshire
Somerset	Suffolk	Surrey	Sussex	Staffordshire	Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire	Wiltshire	Westmorland	West Midlands	Worcestershire	Yorkshire

Participation: Adding new profiles to existing profiles

Participating means removing profiles from the Unconnected lists

All new profiles must have a valid source including census records, BMD records/index references, military documents, land documents, wills, etc. A source cannot be another user-generated family tree, such as Geni, Family Search or an Ancestry family Tree.

• Remove the Research Note Box tag and/or the unconnected category.
• Comment then Save the profile then:
• This Challenge is Auto Tracked
• On the Challenge Tracker, you can monitor your contributions and your team's progress.

Also to keep it on our work list add a maintenance category for example in square brackets Category: England Project Needs Biography This is a top-level category so please use the county category when possible. Thanks

Our Team

As team members are from different countries, please remember, that you do not need to work on English profiles new profiles count as long as it connect to an existing profile and has at least one source

Mighty Oaks
Name	Badge No / Area / County
Janet Wild Captain	Cheshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Surrey
Joan Whitaker Captain	Yorkshire, Mainly West Yorkshire Mining families.
Maddy Hardman Captain	Lancashire and Somerset
Sue (Gambie) Boutle
Katie (Wells) Barker
Ruth Selman
Chris Burrow
Judi (Thomas) Hopcroft
James Green
Paul Masini
Natasha Houseman
Rob Pavey
Carol Baldwin
Jenny (Coombes) Middlemiss
David Moss
Ruth Jowett
Christol James
Kaitlyn Emmett
Marcia (Bonnet) Benjamin
Linda (Spencer) Richardson
John Elkin
Heather (Brown) Brannon
David Pickard
Alison (Calcutt) Davies
Jim Martinez
Laura (Edwards) Franks
Lesley (Hobbs) Scott
Jean (Wright) Brooks
Madelaine (Bates) Kirke
Anon (Cormack) Sharkey
Rex Ingram
David Weinberg
A M
Sarah Grimaldi
Gillian (Cartwright) Loake
Steven Whitfield
Trevor Pickup
Jules Harris	Sussex and Middlesex
Susan (Lord) Jackson
Janet Costa
Lorna (Wilson) Halnan
Tineke Slof
Tracey Bent
Pippa Binnie
Jessica Fisler
Paul Smith
Henry Hoare
Elaine (Wilson) Mattsen

Checking Our Progress

These WikiTree+ reports show how the team is doing.

Reports	By User	By Team	By Team and User	Update frequency
Ranking list	By User	By individual user	By individual user	5 min
By Day	User by Day	Team by Day	Team and User by Day	1 hour
Total By Hour	By Hour	Team By Hour		1 hour

Source A Thon Sept/Oct 2023

Our Mighty Oaks grand total is 7332 profiles sourced, a brilliant score, just 361 less than last year when we had a larger number of participants. A huge thank you to everyone who took part. Maddy was our highest scorer with an amazing 1110 points well done Maddy. Overall the event added sources to 77293 profiles

Check your score here https://plus.wikitree.com/Challenges/SourceaThon/TeamAndUser.htm Click on the word tracker to get your personal contributions list - then you can go back to them to add more data, sources, categories or stickers

Folow up on profiles created

To find all profiles created during the thon you can search for profilelist="ConnectAThon\202401" on WT+ https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=profilelist%3D%22ConnectAThon%5C202401%22 You can combine that with your WikiTreeID to get only the profiles you manage. If you orphaned the profiles, you can use Creator_Trtnik-2 (Replace with your wikitreeID) to get those profiles. And from results you can click Suggestions in the heading to get suggestions for them.

2023 Connect A Thon

Everyone had a great weekend the total new profiles created by 35 teams, was a staggering 95,623, guess we will be looking at creating over 100,000 in the next CAT. The Mighty Oaks added 12,905 which is 1,187 more profiles than in July 2022. We had 7 people score over 500, which is amazing, and 19 people with over 200. To check your stats go to ConnectAThon/TeamAndUser

If you want a template copy and paste this {{Connect-a-Thon|team=Mighty Oaks Teams added 12,905 profiles and combined we were the best|year= 2023}} It will show on your profile like this with your name in it

... ... ... participated with Mighty Oaks Teams added 112,905 profiles and combined we were the best during the 2022 July Connect-a-Thon.

Source A Thon Sept / Oct 2022

We all did a great job this weekend, thank you for participating. The grand total for the event was 63,445 profiles sourced. The Mighty Oaks contributed 7,693 of those.

Check your personal figures for the last SAT event here

Connect-A-Thon 2022

This was the third Connect-A Thon of 2022 and we had two teams again. The combined score was 11,718 . If we add the score for the three thons this shows that the Mighty Oaks have added a total of 38,337 new profiles to WikiTree, which is fab, well done everyone.

This second Connect-A Thon of the year in April was busy our team's combined score was 13,335 which is 51 more than in January 2022.

If you want a template copy and paste this {{Connect-a-Thon|team=Mighty Oaks Teams added 13,335 profiles and combined we were the best|year= April 2022}}

... ... ... participated with Mighty Oaks Teams added 13,335 profiles and combined we were the best during the April 2022 Connect-a-Thon.

Please check in case this created a suggestion on your profile as advise it may have.

Connect-A-Thon January 2022

Combined score was 13,284 this is 113 more than the last CAT so well done -

... ... ... participated with Mighty Oaks Teams added 13,284 profiles and combined we were the best during the January 2022 Connect-a-Thon.

Everyone had fun thank you all for taking part. See you for the next one in April 2022. To place on your profile copy this {{Connect-a-Thon|team=Mighty Oaks Teams added 13,284 profiles and combined we were the best|year= January 2022}}

2021 Thons

Connect-A-Thon 2021 - During the Connect-a-Thon event in 2021 Mighty Oaks Teams added 12,615 profiles and combined we were the best

Source-A-Thon 2021 - This year we had two Teams our combined scores were 9,296. The total overall figure was 56,972 profiles that had sources added, which is 605 less than last year, which was a record event.

Clean-A-Thon 2021 - We cleared 32,841. Well done everyone.

2020 Thons

Source-A-Thon 2020 - We did a great job added 8,877 sources, a job well done. Maddy lead all the way and ended with a fab score of 1,130. Making her no 6 on the individual

Connect-A-Thon 2020 - The Mighty Oaks added a fab 12,615 new profiles to the tree and we were the top-scoring team in the event. Well done team