Northwest Terriers
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Location: Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota
Surnames/tags: Northwest_Territory_States Connect-a-Thon Source-A-Thon
This is the page for the ‘’’Northwest Terriers,’’’ dedicated to profile additions and improvements for the states formed from the original Northwest Territory. We compete in WikiTree’s Clean-a-Thon, Source-a-Thon, Scan-a-Thon, and Connect-a-Thon events.
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This is a new group, focusing on adding, completing, and connecting profiles of people with roots or shoots in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin and Minnesota: those who had at least one documentable life event in one of those states. These might include birth, marriage, death or census. If you are uncertain which profile and profile changes count during a ‘Thon, here’s a helpful link: What Counts?
And here's the link to the United States "Unsourced" pages: Unsourced by State
Let’s celebrate the contributions these mid-westerners made to the country! Remember, every fact has a source, or it’s fiction! Join us!
Contact Team Captain Jean Andrews with questions or to sign up. You know how terriers are! Once we get our teeth into something, we don’t let go until it’s finished!
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Team Members for the Connect-a-Thon
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Check out our Connect-a-Thon page for more information!
Team Members for the Source-a-Thon
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Check out our Source-a-Thon page for current team members and more information!
Team Members for the Clean-a-Thon
Team Members for the Scan-a-Thon
Links to "How're We Doing?"
Links to Handy Apps
- Ancestry Citation Builder for Image
- A form you can use to create a citation for a record/image/media found on Ancestry.com that can be used as a Wikitree citation. Also adds a link to a free-to-view image so that non-Ancestry-subscribing Wikitreers can view the original source. (Highly recommended!)
- Link to profile built with above app (so you can see how it works): (Marcoux-401)
- A form you can use to create a citation for a record/image/media found on Ancestry.com that can be used as a Wikitree citation. Also adds a link to a free-to-view image so that non-Ancestry-subscribing Wikitreers can view the original source. (Highly recommended!)
- Here's a shortcut inline source for FindAGrave: "Full name as on memorial (life-dates)": {{FindAGrave | memorial#}}
- For example, here's a link to my uncle's memorial, just to give you an idea of how it looks and works: "Mervin Lewis Kirch (1914-1980)": Find A Grave: Memorial #11618934
- Login to edit this profile and add images.
- Private Messages: Send a private message to the Profile Manager. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
Jeffrey (Wall -7415), Captain for Team Nordic Noir
See you at the next marathon!
Azure, Sondra, & the Western Red Cedars
Thanks again for this weekend, you rock
Joan, Janet, Maddy and Fran
From our team, Appalachia Roots, to yours, thanks for joining in a fun Sourcing weekend!
We had a great time participating with all your members. They were awesome! Can't wait to do it again at the next Thon in 2024.
Patty & Sandy - Appalachia Roots Co Captains
Warm regards on behalf of all of the Dutch Genealogists,
Margreet and Joan
We all had a good time and hope to see you in the next Thon :)
Joan, Janet, Maddy and Fran
Thanks to all our efforts there are now 63,445 less unsourced profiles in our shared tree.
We hope to see ye in future 'thons!
See you at the next marathon!
Azure, Sondra, & the Western Red Cedars
.Team Virginia thanks you for sourcing profiles during the Thon!!! It was a blast! We look forward to seeing you at the next one.
Well, it was a fun weekend, we hope you enjoyed yourself. Thank you for joining the fun. The total overall figure was 56,972 profiles sourced.
Thanks again for this weekend, we look forward to working with you on the next Thon
Mighty Oaks
Mindy Silva & Sandy Patak
Western Red Cedars
Good Luck this weekend from the Mid-Atlantic Team!
The Mighty Oaks wish you the best in your endeavor to connect our global tree. Thank you, for helping improve its health. We're looking forward to another fun weekend Thon! We'll see you there.
Team Flying Dutchmen - Vliegende Hollanders x
The Mighty Oaks thank you for the sources you added to WikiTree during the Source-a-Thon. We appreciate all that you did! It was another great showing of community collaboration. We hope you had fun and are looking forward to the next thon.
Carole
Best of luck and most importantly, have fun!!!
Team Springbokke
Hope to see you all at the next marathon!
~ Western Red Cedars
And thank you so much for your efforts this past weekend. You were the team point leader!
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:WikiTree_X
It allows you to add a profiles from all the major sites including FindAGrave, but without full citations for the sources. I've been using it a lot today from Familysearch.org.
edited by Faith (Waite) Vittitoe
No, you are not doing ANYTHING wrong at all! At least, not in my mind and from my perspective. I don't really think it's super important for us to "win" anything, but rather to improve our own family trees by adding in "collateral" lines that make it easier for others to "find" the people we add and tie in.
I'm adding slowly, too. But one way to possibly "speed things up" a bit is to add the whole family (if you don't already have them) from a census or church record. Then I copy the first properly formatted source from "dad," paste it on a note pad, and go about adding the kids with the same source. That way I don't have to format each source for each person.
Another way to speed things up a bit is to check the "similar records" that show up on Family Search when you find "person A" and add those sources when you're working on one particular person. Or, if that person has a "linked to family tree" symbol on the record, you can see what sources have been used on that family tree, click on the link, and add that source. If you do this, however, be extra careful to make sure it's the person you're actually working on. As you said, there are LOTS of errors on FS!
I am soooooo happy with everyone on this team! I've checked the "History" link (on the Score Sheet) on everyone at the end of each day, and you are ALL doing a fabulous job! IMHO, anyhow! (BTW, if you're interested, you can check that "History" link on anyone to see how and what they're adding. I think some people have things "qued up" that they save for these contests. I'm not that organized!)
edited by Carole (Kirch) Bannes
I will be around most of the next 10-12 hours. Hope I get to pick up my share to add to our points today, since I lagged yesterday. I was pretty busy just keeping up with housekeeping here on the site.
There are lots of experienced Wiki-Tree members on this team and I'm sure they'll help you out with any questions. Just ask! Good hunting and linking!
edited by Carole (Kirch) Bannes
edited by Sue Eshelman
edited by Carole (Kirch) Bannes
It's my understanding that living relatives can be sourced IF there are sources available (maybe birth or marriage record online, or maybe military record), but since no one who is not on your trusted list can even see the profile, just do your best.
At least that's my advice. Someone on the team with more experience might be of more help.
Does this take extra time? Yes. Will it be greatly appreciated by those who land on the page searching for info? You bet! But it's all up to you, as PM, to decide to what lengths you wish to go. No profile is ever, in my mind, complete and finished; there's always some fact or source found later that can be added. But at some point, I think we all just decide "finis" and go on to the next.
I was born in Ohio as were many of my relatives. First timer for this sort of challenge. Not so sure how this works, but willing to give it ago.
edited by Sue Eshelman
Right, here we go!
Looking forward to a great connect-a-thon. I'm from Michigan and, among other things, will be working on many of the Unknown profiles that I found LNAB for.
I was also born in central Ohio and spent a lot of time in Knox County before moving out to Arizona. A lot of my mothers relatives lived in Licking County while my fathers ancesters lived mostly in Franklin County.
Have you registered for the Connect-a-Thon? If not, go to this link, at the very tippy-top of the page, click the ANSWER button on Eowyn's original post (make sure you're logged into WikiTree) and type "I'm in, and I'll join the Northwest Terriers."
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1054269/have-you-registered-for-the-2020-connect-a-thon-yet?show=1063609#c1063609
Glad to have you!!