Suid Afrika Team Springbokke

Profile managers: Susanna Hendrina Elisa de Bruyn [send private message] and Ronel Olivier [send private message]

Source - a- Thon 2023

Schedule

The fun begins Friday morning at 8am (EDT), 29 September 2023.

The event ends Monday morning at 8am (EDT), 1 October 2023.

Check out our YouTube channel or Facebook for the video hangouts which will occur every four hours to see how your team and others are doing. This is also where the prizes will be announced.

The fun will end at 8am (EDT) on Monday October 1. Don't miss the wrap-up LiveCast!

By Team and User

Participation: Adding Sources and Counting Sourced Profiles

Participating means removing profiles from the Unsourced Profiles category. They cannot be new profiles that you create.

Select an Open (white) profile from anywhere in the category or one of its subcategories and search for sources to back up the facts of the person's life.

Valid sources include census records, BMD records/index references, military documents, land documents, wills, etc. A source cannot be another user-generated family tree, such as Geni or an Ancestry Member Tree.

If you don't find a source after searching, please add a Research Notes section to the profile. Say where you have looked and sign your comment with four tildes (~~~~) so it is dated. For example: "Looked for John in the US Census records for 1900-1940 and couldn't find him on FamilySearch or Ancestry." This way the next researcher knows where to start.

For more details:

• Do you know how to participate in the Source-a-Thon? Challenge Tracker makes it easy.
• What profiles count as "unsourced" for the Source-a-Thon?

2023 Span/ Team

South African Springboks

1. Sharon Caldwell
2. Susanna de Bruyn
3. Deirdre Snook
4. Louise Haggis 725
5. Vicki Tolmay
6. Keith Meintjes
7. Fiona Lee
8. Peet Swart 763

2022 Span/ Team

South African Springboks

1. Erna Welgemoed 212
2. Sonja Hoile 213
3. Catherine Milton 214
4. Celia Malan 216
5. Desireé Erasmus 222
6. Benette Grobler 223
7. Gerry van Niekerk 240
8. Esmé van der Westhuizen243
9. Pam (Cormac) Cormac Smith 260
10. Louise Alina Haggis 273
11. Sharon Caldwell 282
12. Bruce Vincent 285
13. Peet Swart 289
14. Chris van der Merwe 290
15. Des Lynch 292
16. JL Jooste 295
17. Ria Lenard 296
18. Megan van der Hoeven 297
19. Keith Meintjes 298
20. Marco Nel 300
21. Drika (Aucamp) Brown 301
22. Ronel Olivier 305
23. Christiaan Frederik Wessels 313
24. Susanna Hendrina Elisa de Bruyn315
25. Anton Bergh318
26. Gordon Mac Ray 319
27. Shaun Wallace322
28. Evert Philippus Kleynhans 327
29. Catharina Christina Snyman330
30. Bernard Heymann 340
31. Stacey Saunders 349
32. Tracy Frayne359
33. Ruth Smith 379
34. Michelle Hodson383
35. Merryl Hunkin 409
36. Hester Wolmarans412
37. André Laubscher421
38. Fiona Lee 615

Source-a-Thon 2021

Starts: Friday, October 1 at 14H00 SA time

Ends: Monday, October 4 at 14H00 SA time

Span / Team

Louis Heyman529

Leon Bezuidenhout 064

Tracy Frayne 065

Michelle (du Preez) Hodson 170

Gerry van Niekerk 336

Pam (Cormac) Cormac Smith 357

Susanna Hendrina Elisa (Coetsee) de Bruyn 365

Marco Johan Nel 452

Selma (Kleynhans) Everts 455

Sonja (du Toit) Hoile 485

Celia (Steyn) Malan 494

Riël Smit 556

Links

Help:Source-a-Thon

Prizes 2021

Source-a-Thon Hangouts

Tracker

Source-a-Thon 2020 The 5th! Source-a-Thon will take place from the 2nd of October till the 5th of October. You can participate by answering https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1097927/have-you-registered-for-the-2020-source-a-thon-yet?start=20#a_list_titlet Here to receive your race number. Add your name and SA Springbokke as an answer and wait for your Race number that will be allocated to you in due cause Once you have the number add your name to the list below or ask Ronel Olivier to do it for you if you are unsure how to: . This number is very important. If you do not get one, let me know.

Teams fill up fast so please don't wait to register, and after about every 80 registrations there will be a new registration G2G a link to the new thread will be added to the old G2G post. Thanks in advance and we are looking forward to work with you. on our large tree

• See the G2G post Chris made -What profiles count as "unsourced" for the Source-a-Thon?

• Visit the Source-a-Thon Instruction Video

Ons wonderlike Span- Suid Afrika Springbokke 2020

Ronel Olivier - No: 26

Jaulanne van der Bank No: 190

Susanna de Bruyn No: 163

Silvia Collasius - No: 141

Drika Brown - No: 156

Anton Bergh - No: 134

Esmé van der Westhuizen - No: 242 Working on Unsourced Free State

Gerry van Niekerk No: 228

Christiaan Frederik Wessels - No: 257

Celia Malan No: 251

André Laubscher No: 253

Sharon Caldwell No: 320

Leon Bezuidenhout No: 354.

Pam Cormac Smith No: 419

Jo Fourie No:450

Merryl Hunkin No; 459

Rudolf Benadie No; 493

Selma Kleynhans

How does it work explained in short- It works like this, after adding a source to a profile and saving you will notice this field, click Challenge tracker It takes you to this field, select Source-a-Thon (it will be there during the Source-a-Thon) and when done updating, click add action..that's all :)

• Remove the {{Unsourced}} Research Note Box and save the changes, if there's just the {{Unsourced}} or {{Unsourced|South Africa}} template it would be nice and very helpful if instead of leaving no template at all, you all could replace the {{Unsourced}} or {{Unsourced|South Africa}} Template by one of the following 1.[[Category:South African Roots Project Needs Birth Record]] 3. [[Category:South African Roots Project Needs Death Notice]] 4.[[Category:South African Roots Project Needs Transcription]] so we can still find them within the project.

See the table at the top for all the unsourced profiles currently on our South African global tree, kindly added by Ales for our convenience. Thanks Ales !! You will see that help is urgently needed and that your participation will be awesome and much appreciated.

Source-a-Thon 2019 October 4 - October 7 — the start of Family History Month — is our fourth annual "Source-a-Thon"! Registrar at https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/900156/have-you-registered-for-the-2019-source-a-thon-yet?start=280 Add your name and SA Springbokke as an answer and wait for your Race number that will be allocated to you in due cause Once you have the number add your name to the list below or ask Ronel Olivier to do it for you if you are unsure how to: . This number is very important. If you do not get one, let me know.

Teams fill up fast so please don't wait to register, and after about every 80 registrations there will be a new registration G2G a link to the new thread will be added to the old G2G post. Thanks in advance and we are looking forward to see you then.

It will be going for 72 hours straight, from Friday October 4 at 8 AM (ET) until Monday October 7 at 8 AM (ET) Eastern Daylight Time is GMT +2) to kick off Family History Month. Here is the official schedule. Genealogists from all over the world will be participating at the same time. Eastern Daylight Time, GMT -4.

[https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/900156/have-you-registered-for-the-2019-source-a-thon-yet?show=901067#a901067

Ons wonderlike Span- Suid Afrika Springbokke 2019

• Stephen McCallum - # 148
• Petrus Swart -# 216
• Susanna de Bruyn - # 282 (co Leader)
• Ronel Olivier - # 281 (leader)
• Des Lynch -#296
• Louis Heyman # 286
• Leon Bezuidenhout - #290.
• Pamela Cormac - # 338
• Ewald Schmidt - #365

How does it work explained in short It works like this, after adding a source to a profile and saving you will notice this field, click Challenge tracker It takes you to this field, select Source-a-Thon (it will be there during the Source-a-Thon) and when done updating, click add action..that's all :)

• Remove the {{Unsourced}} Research Note Box and save the changes, if there's just the {{Unsourced}} or {{Unsourced|South Africa}} template it would be nice and very helpful if instead of leaving no template at all, you all could replace the {{Unsourced}} or {{Unsourced|South Africa}} Template by one of the following 1.[[Category:South African Roots Project Needs Birth Record]] 2.[[Category:South African Roots Project Needs LNAB]] 3. [[Category:South African Roots Project Needs Death Notice]] 4.[[Category:South African Roots Project Needs Transcription]] so we can still find them within the project.

See the table at the top for all the unsourced profiles currently on our South African global tree, kindly added by Ales for our convenience. Thanks Ales !! You will see that help is urgently needed and that your participation will be awesome and much appreciated.

Ons wonderlike Span- Suid Afrika Springbokke 2018

• Ronel Olivier No: 15
• Gerry van Niekerk No: 93
• Esmé van der Westhuizen No: 108
• Sharon Caldwell No: 128
• Jo Fourie No: 133
• Maggie van den HeeverNo: 139
• Susanna de Bruyn No: 147
• Merryl Hunkin No: 182
• Leon Bezuidenhout No: 190
• Anton Bergh No: 327
• Hester Wolmarans No: 329
• Gordon Mac Rae No: 367
• Marlene Marx No: 370
• Elsa van Rooyen No: 397
• Geoff Gladwin No: 494

• See the G2G post Chris made -What profiles count as "unsourced" for the Source-a-Thon?

• Visit the Source-a-Thon Instruction Video

important Links

• Who can join ? If you're a WikiTree member and genealogistwho knows what sources are and why they're so important please join us!
• U Tube Source-a-Thon Participation Instructions
• How to add sources to Profiles and for all South African Profiles we always sign our contributions with our WikiTree ID and date.
• WikiTree Help pages
• Main Source-a-Thon Page
• Source-a-Thon Tutorial--How to Participate