Team Tennessee 2017 September Source A Thon

Profile managers: Alice Ann Fesmire [send private message], Karen Lorenz [send private message], Vicky Parrott [send private message], Deborah Dunn [send private message], Beverly Ahrens [send private message], James Evans [send private message], Barbara Mead [send private message], Astrid Spaargaren [send private message], Stephanie Carmon [send private message], Jluv Taylor [send private message], Stephen Pope [send private message], Michael Honeycutt [send private message], Nancy Sluder [send private message], Sharen Moon [send private message], Judy Hixson [send private message], Naomi Patrick [send private message], Kim Jordan [send private message], and Terrie Tidwell [send private message]

Welcome to Team Tennessee!!

State welcome sign

Tennessee

Unsourced profiles for Tennessee.

Table prepared at 21.05.2024 08:09:39 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Location is Tennessee,TN). Profiles: 717445

Source-a-Thon 2017

• It will be going for 72 hours straight, September 30 - October 2, to kick off Family History Month. We're including Monday so that those who are busy on the weekend can still participate. Here is the official schedule. Technically it kicks off at 12:01 AM EDT, just past midnight on Friday night, and ends at 11:59 PM EDT Monday night
  
  Register for the Source-a-Thon first!! Please Go To This G2G Post to register by ANSWER-ing at the top post of Source A Thon and tell them you are on Team Tennessee. Then you will be assigned a “race number.” 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.

Team Tennessee

You're part of Team Tennessee. Some teams are split into Team I or Team II so the team tallies are fairly even. You're still part of the team as a whole, but your personal tally will boost your specific Team I, II, or III portion.

Linda Barnett is your leader -they're a great resource if you have a question.

Here is your Team Tennessee G2G chat thread

2017 Team Tennessee I

1. Linda Barnett. 77, Sourcerer, (cheer) leader
2. Brandi Bates 116 Sourcerer
3. Judy Hixson 123 Sourcerer
4. Vicky Trublood, 128, Sourcerer
5. Michael Honeycutt, 198 Sourcerer
6. Stacy Krout, 216 Never a LEADER YET! but a good Sourcerer
7. Jluv Taylor, 236 Sourcerer
8. Holly Battle, 242 Sourcerer
9. Nancy SLuder, 245 Sourcerer
10. Jamie Nelson, 276 Sourcerer
11. Stephanie Carmon, 288 Sourcerer

2017 Team Tennessee II

1. Beverly Ahrens, 490 Sourcerer
2. Naomi Patrick, 305 Sourcerer
3. Linda Brown, 307 Sourcerer
4. Stephen Pope 317 Sourcerer
5. James Evans 319 Sourcerer
6. Don Crum, 324 Sourcerer
7. Linda (Emery) Bro, 385 Sourcerer
8. Barbara Mead, 394 Sourcerer
9. Alice Ann Fesmire, 397 Sourcerer
10. Terrie Tidwell, 412 Sourcerer
11. Kim Jordan 422 Sourcerer
12. Deborah Dunn 423 Sourcerer

Important Links

• Who can join ? If you're a WikiTree member, signed the honor code, and genealogistwho knows what sources are and why they're so important please join us!
• How to add sources to Profiles
• Main Source-a-Thon Page
• Source-a-Thon Tutorial--How to Participate
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Unsourced_Profiles
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sources
• https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/470614/what-profiles-count-as-unsourced-for-the-source-a-thon
• https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/470040/know-participate-source-thon-challenge-tracker-makes-easy

Challenge Tracking Links

• Team totals
• Team & User totals
• Team totals simple
• User totals
• Hour distribution totals
• Hour distribution by Teams
• Day distribution by user

• Tip: To prevent upset colleagues, for profiles part of or managed (and sometimes PPP't) by multiple Projects or projects other then Tennessee Project, it's best to just add the source you found in a post to the profile and leave it to a project member to add it to the Bio.
  Not all projects are charmed if everyone is editing PPP Profiles they are managing, some have a more or very specific way of adding sources, so if you add them in a post they can add them to the Bio in their own specific way themselves and won't get upset.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

This year it's easier than ever to join in the fun.

You can use any profiles from the Unsourced profiles categories: Category:Unsourced_Profiles as well as a couple specific Data Doctor suggestions lists.

Most teams also have tables on their pages with team specific profiles that need sources. Clicking on the numbers give you lists of profiles you can source. It's a great idea to let your team members know which part of the table you're working on if you choose this approach.

1. Choose a profile.

2. Add a good source. For more information on sources, see our Sources help page: Sources

3. Remove the {{Unsourced}} template or [[Category:Unsourced Profiles]] categorization, if there are any.

4. Click the "Challenge Tracker" button at the very top of the page and choose the "Source-a-Thon" option.

Move on to the next profile!

Here's a handy video to help you out: http://youtu.be/dbhcrvsoUVU

HANGOUTS AND PRIZES

The $5700+ in door prizes will be given away in Google Hangout video chats we're hosting every X hours. Here's the schedule: Source-a-Thon_Hangouts

We'll announce winners there as well as post them in G2G here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/472795/who-will-win-the-source-a-thon-prizes

If your bib number is drawn, you need to claim your prize by responding in the G2G post. You only have until the next Hangout to claim your prize.

The winner has to be participating during the time period in which the their number is drawn. If your number is drawn when you're not online, your number will go "back in the hat" and you'll be eligible for future drawings.

QUESTIONS

Any questions can be asked on your team chat thread or on the official G2G Source-a-Thon Question thread: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/472793/do-you-have-source-a-thon-questions

It will have other helpful links and announcements, as well.

SHARE ON FACEBOOK

If you're a Facebook member, please tell your friends and family what you're doing this weekend. This helps spread the word about WikiTree.

You might want to post with your "race bib" number, like this:

1.) Right-click the URL for your number above to go to it. Right-click on the image and select "Save image as...".

2.) Make a mental note on where the image is being saved, e.g. to a Downloads or My Pictures folder on your computer.

3.) Go to Facebook.

4.) At the top of the status/sharing box click the "Photo/Video" link and select "Upload Photos/Videos".

5.) Find the image where you saved it.

6.) Add text like "My weekend: Participating in the Source-a-Thon, the genealogy sourcing marathon at WikiTree. http://www.wikitree.com "

Keep Calm and Source On at WikiTree this weekend!

Tennessee Resources

• Tennessee Resource Page, US Civil War
• Tennessee Official Website
• Tennessee Death Index
• Wikipedia: TN History
• TN History from The History Channel
• TN.gov Historical PDF Files
• Tennessee History
• TN Department of State
• TN Census Records
• Tennessee Historical Documents on Family Search.
• Tennessee County records on Family Search.
• TN Research Assistance - no volunteers yet
• The Famous Song, Rocky Top
• Wikimedia Commons - TN Maps
• Wikimedia Commons-TN Geography
• Wikimedia, general TN Category
• Tennessee Neighborhoods
• McGhee, L.K. (n.d.). Partial census of 1787 to 1791 of Tennessee as taken from the North Carolina land grants. FamilySearch. eBook (Partial census).
• Tennessee Document Index for a list of documents, by county.
• Order Tennessee birth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, and other vital records.
• 1837 Tennessee Volunteers: Muster Rolls for Various Counties, (1993). Institute of Historic Research. Signal Mountain, TN. FamilySearch. eBook (Volunteers). (includes data for the following counties: Anderson; Bedford; Franklin; Jackson; Overton; Rutherford; Sumner; Warren)