Team GB-Gen's Source-a-Thon 2018

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Welcome to the Team GB-Gen page!
(Make sure you refer to it as Team GB-Gen - "Team GB" is actually a trademark covered by copyright!)

Source-a-Thon 2018: Friday, September 28 - Monday, October 1 (8am-8am ET, which is 1pm-1pm BST) — the start of Family History Month — is our third annual "Source-a-Thon".

This three-day event is for a good cause (sourced genealogy!) and there will be over $3500 (£2600) in door prizes donated from around the genealogy community. It will be lots of fun.

If you haven't participated in one of these before - it's where we focus on Unsourced profiles, research them, and add sources (and then remove the {{Unsourced}} tag!).

Here is the Help page all about it.

Team GB-Gen covers the countries of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Eire.

Sign Up Here! https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/677899/have-you-registered-for-the-source-a-thon-yet-3

Win prizes!

Attend Hangouts! Schedule

Our 2018 G2G chat is here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/670522/team-gb-gen-source-a-thon-2018-chat

Source-a-Thon 2018 Team Members: Team GB-Gen

	Name	Badge #
1	Ros Haywood Team Captain
2	Michelle Wilkes
3	Sarah Mason
4	Jules Charman
5	Sheena Tait
6	Peter Cameron
7	Lucy Lavelle
8	Shelagh Mason-Ebenal
9	T Lear
10	Jason Cottrell
11	Peter Mulligan
12	Lesley Scott
13	Susan DeFoe
14	PattyK
15	Geoff Rice
16	Valerie Kerr
17	Colin Spencer
18	Constance C Scanlon
19	David Urquhart
20	Addison Griffith	Image:RNH Images-79.png

How to Find an Unsourced Profile

United Kingdom

Unsourced profiles for United Kingdom.

Table prepared at 21.05.2024 08:18:27 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Country is United Kingdom). Profiles: 22243

England

Unsourced profiles for England.

Table prepared at 21.05.2024 08:21:34 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Country is England). Profiles: 4150488

Wales

Unsourced profiles for Wales.

Table prepared at 21.05.2024 08:24:18 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Country is Wales). Profiles: 145617

Scotland

Unsourced profiles for Scotland.

Table prepared at 21.05.2024 08:23:43 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Country is Scotland). Profiles: 767545

Ireland

Unsourced profiles for Ireland.

Table prepared at 21.05.2024 08:22:37 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Country is Ireland). Profiles: 696002

Which sources should I use?

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

How Do I Record This?

So, you go to Team GB-Gen's page, and scroll down past the list of team members, until you come to the tables.

You choose where you want to work, and click on it, and it will provide a whole host of unsourced profiles for this country. You choose one to work on, click on its name (it opens in a new window), go through to the profile, do your research, add a source, remove {{Unsourced}}, and save.

Then you click on the dark green 'Challenge Tracker' button within the green banner at the top, put a tick in the Source-a-Thon 2018 (please don't yet, until we actually start!) choose one of the 'Comment hints' that will appear on the right, then click the 'Add Action' button. This will give you a point, and will record that you did it and what you did.

Go back to the first window, which was the Search window, and choose another profile.

Helpful How-To Video

Some resources for you to use

• FreeBMD – free
• FreeCEN – free
• FreeREG – free
• FamilySearch] (NOT user-submitted trees) – free
• Ancestry (NOT user-submitted trees) – pay
• FindMyPast – pay
• ScotlandsPeople – free and pay
• GRO Northern Ireland - free and pay
• PRO Northern Ireland
• Irish Genealogy
• RootsIreland

Pre-Thon Questions?

Why "Team GB-Gen"?

Our Olympic athletes belong to Team GB - so it seemed natural to be called Team GB-Gen. Let's put forth an Olympic effort!

Do I Have To Live In The UK?

No. You can live anywhere in the world; just focus your efforts on GB profiles.

Which Countries/Counties Can I Work On?

You can work on any counties within any of the countries contained within Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Eire.

Which Profiles Can I Work On?

All profiles improved must come from the Unsourced categories or be already present on WikiTree and unsourced - you cannot create new profiles and add sources just to up your tally. The hope and goal is to improve the numbers already on WikiTree that need sources.

Number of Profiles by Team

Number of Profiles by User

More detailed tracking is on the Source-a-Thon Help Page

Click here for a schedule of the Video Chats! T-shirt prizes will be awarded during these videos and posted in G2G.

Link to Tally Tracking - progress reports are up to 5 minutes old

Clean-a-Thon 2018 Team Members: Team GB-Gen