WikiTree Challenge 2024 Challenge 4

Date: 18 Apr 2024 to 25 Apr 2024
Surnames/tags: wikitree_challenge wikitree_events

Back toThe WikiTree Challenge

Contents 1 WikiTree Challenge 4 1.1 Guest Star 1.1.1 Notes from Guest Star 1.2 Score Sheet 2 Ask For Help 2.1 Needs Work 2.2 Photographs 2.3 FamilySearch Image Look-ups 3 Locations 4 Tell Us What You Found!! 4.1 Interesting Finds 4.2 Military Profiles 4.3 Free Space Pages 4.3.1 Cemeteries 4.3.2 Place Studies 5 Bounty Opportunties 5.1 Connections 5.2 Brick Walls 6 Zoom/YouTube Schedule and Links 7 Media Outreach 7.1 WikiTree Posts 7.2 Participant Posts 8 Resources 8.1 General WT Resources 8.2 African-American Resources 8.3 Specific Country Resources

WikiTree Challenge 4

Guest Star: Lianne Kruger
Team Captain: Elaine Martzen

An Introduction to the WikiTree Challenge
Help:Discord: What is Discord?

Guest Star

Lianne Kruger started doing genealogy as a child recording names and dates at graveyards. In her teens she went through microfilms looking for names written on a piece of paper. When first married she researched her paternal line back to the first European land owner of Canada. She continues to research her other lines along with DNA research, One-Place and Surname Studies.

Lianne has volunteered with the Alberta Genealogical Society (AGS) as Red Deer Branch’s president, vice president, and six years as 1st Vice President of AGS. She is currently website and social media chairs for AGS. She was rewarded two special achievement awards (2015, 2018) and the President award (2020) for her service. She is also a board member and communications director of mitoYDNA and on the advisory board of Ancestry.ca.

She has taught for conferences, seminars and sessions in all over Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, Canada; Birmingham, UK; RootsTech, Salt Lake City, Utah; FamilyRoots (Utah); online for Surname Name Society (UK); Genealogy with a Canadian Twist, and Virtual Genealogical Society, National Genealogical Society’s OnDemand Conference. For five years Lianne taught the family history course at the Ogden Institute of Religion.

Lianne earned a computer programming degree and has been teaching computer software courses since 1982. She has completed a Bachelor Degree from BYU-Idaho with minor in Family History Research. She loves combining her love of technology, love of teaching and her love of genealogy by teaching ways technology can help genealogists in research, preserving and sharing the research with others.

Here is a video explaining how to find missing connections for Lianne: video

Notes from Guest Star

My paternal grandmother never told anyone who my dad’s father was. So biologically I don’t know yet but with DNA I may be close.

I have 5 generations on his step fathers Danish line but not much interested in that.

The bigelow line goes back to early 1600 eastern US.

Townsends would be a good line.

Score Sheet

Score sheet

Scores update once an hour.
Connections refresh twice an hour, though the score sheet won't reflect that.

Ask For Help

Needs Work

While working, the maintenance categories can be added to profiles as needed: Challenge Maintenance Categories. If there are profiles that need extra work or are in countries you're not comfortable in, feel free to list them below.
WikiTree Challenge, Maintenance Categories:

• Needs Work: Biography | Profiles Created | GEDCOM Cleanup
• Needs Records: Birth | Marriage | Death | More

Photographs

Note: Please check with Azure Robinson or Eowyn Langholf , if there are any questions about the images being protected by copyright Help Section first, and you can also check the website's Terms of Service. Please be sure to sign with 4 tildes (~) so we know who submitted the help request.

FamilySearch Image Look-ups

FamilySearch is only licensed to share some images from their FamilySearch Centers and cannot make them available across the Internet. Post those requests here for someone to visit one of their 5,000 centers or 1,500 affiliate libraries to download the image. Please be sure to sign with 4 tildes (~) so we know who submitted the request.

If there's a book that is only available on the shelves in Salt Lake City, Karen Lowe can probably drive over to access it. You can find her on Discord or by WikiTree message.

• example entry Robinson-27225 16:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Locations

List any countries you find here

1. Australia
   1. Victoria
2. Austria
3. Belgium
4. Canada
   1. Alberta
   2. British Columbia
   3. Manitoba
   4. New Brunswick
   5. Nova Scotia
   6. Ontario
   7. Quebec
   8. Saskatchewan
5. Denmark
6. England
   1. Berkshire
   2. Devon
   3. Durham
   4. Essex
   5. Kent
   6. Hertfordshire
   7. Lancashire
   8. Leicestershire
   9. Lincolnshire
   10. Middlesex
   11. Rutland
   12. Staffordshire
   13. Suffolk
   14. Surrey
   15. Sussex
   16. Warwickshire
   17. Yorkshire
7. France
   1. Normandie
   2. Picardie
   3. Rhône-Alpes
8. Germany
   1. Sachsen
9. Ireland
   1. Antrim
   2. Armagh
   3. Dublin
   4. Monaghan
10. Mexico
11. Norway
12. Russia
13. United States
    1. Alabama
    2. Arizona
    3. California
    4. Colorado
    5. Connecticut
    6. Georgia
    7. Illinois
    8. Iowa
    9. Kansas
    10. Massachusetts
    11. Michigan
    12. Minnesota
    13. Mississippi
    14. Missouri
    15. Montana
    16. New Hampshire
    17. New Mexico
    18. New York
    19. North Carolina
    20. North Dakota
    21. Ohio
    22. Pennsylvania
    23. Rhode Island
    24. Tennessee
    25. Texas
    26. Vermont
    27. Washington
    28. Wisconsin
14. Scotland
    1. Aberdeen
    2. Argyll
    3. Dumfries and Galloway
    4. Dundee
    5. Fife
    6. Kincardineshire
    7. Lanarkshire
    8. Perthshire
    9. Ross and Cromarty
    10. Selkirkshire
    11. West Lothian
15. Wales
    1. Glamorgan
    2. Monmouthshire
    3. Pembrokeshire

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

Share any interesting stories that you find here! Please be sure to end with 4 tildes (~) so we know who submitted the find!

1. Rolland MacDonald (1810-1881) cc9 - notable - As a judge he was involved in a few notable cases, including the treason trial of Thomas David Morrison and one of the libel trials of prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He then became a politician, briefly holding the seat of Cornwall, Ontario. He then returned to law as a judge in Welland. During the Upper Canada Rebellion, he joined the military and fought in the Battle of the Windmill at Prescott, earning himself the title of Lieutenant-Colonel. Stevenson-3628 19:18, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
2. Alexander Dobie (1752-1825) was a weaver from Glasgow, records mentioning the Dobie/Dobbie/Dobby family and weaving go back into the early 1500s https://archive.org/details/cu31924088084573 Old Glasgow weavers being records of the Incorporation of Weavers with eight illustrations by M'Ewan, Robert Dugald See also documents from here: https://www.tradeshousemuseum.org Browning-5288 22:48, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
3. James Leeman (abt.1849-abt.1900) cc9 - James Leaman took a bottle of poison with him and headed for the woods. A search was performed and only the bottle of the poison was found. Some assumed he had run off. His body was found 4 years later close to where the bottle of poison had been found. In the 1901 census, wife was shown as married as they didn’t know where he was. Stevenson-3628 05:35, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
4. Nicholas William Battle (1820-1905) - cc6 - Battle was the first lawyer to settle in Waco. He served as District Attorney for the Waco district from 1854 to 1858 when he was elected District Judge. In 1862 he resigned his judgeship to join the Confederate Army, in which he served as lieutenant colonel in the 30th Texas Cavalry Regiment. His father Thomas Battle (1786-1883) once owned all the land Atlanta, Ga is built upon. His son Edgar Battle (1856-1940) was US Consul to Mexico. His son Alfred Battle (1858-1935) was a prominent lawyer in Seattle, see detailed bio Page 259.
5. Joseph Fortier (1857-1908) - cc4 - Lianne's great great grandfather, died in a housefire on 14 May 1908. Having lit the stove, Joseph went out to the stable to feed the horses, and upon his return found his family running from the burning house. Going in to retrieve a trunk, Joseph was trapped and lost his life. Albasini-30 13:02, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
6. Emerance Chevrier (1860-1946) - cc7 - married Pierre Castonguay - cc6 - and they had 14 children. She was 17 years old when she gave birth to her first son in 1877 and 45 years old when her last daughter was born in 1905. Albasini-30 14:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
7. The marriage of Virginie Castonguay (1892- ) - cc7 - and Paul Dumais in April 1907, was followed 3 month later by the marriage of Jean Baptiste Castonguay (1889- ) (brother of Virginie) and Angèle Dumais (sister of Paul)... and 14 years later by the marriage of Florida Anne Castonguay (1905- ) (sister of Virginie and Jean Baptiste) and Fabien Dumais (brother of Paul and Adèle). Albasini-30 15:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
8. Edrick Adams Biglow (1894-1969)(CC7)'s 4 great grandfathers were all brothers, so he only has 5 sets of great-great grandparents, not 8. His parents were second cousins twice over. Marsh-9608 23:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
9. Alexander Maclean (abt.1775-). The surname for him and his children in the old registers is McLean rather than Maclean Browning-5288 06:56, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
10. Douglas Hammer was a Cryptologic Technician (CTIs) in the United States Navy during the Korean War. Jo-Anne Ross
11. Late addition just for fun: I enjoyed connecting each profile I added to their ancestors in Québec. The wife of Lianne's great-great-grandmother Odile Mongrain's brother Eugène Mongrain is Rosianne Pronovost. Her grandfather Louis-Marie Cossette shares the mitochondrial line of Greg Clarke, but Rosianne descends from Louis-Marie's son Louis-David. Lowe-866 21:54, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Military Profiles

Share profiles for any miilitary individuals here! Don't forget to end with 4 tildes (~) so we know who submitted it.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

CIVIL WAR

1. Levi Wolcott Goodrich (1836-1911) - cc7 - Confederate Veteran: Served as Lt. in Company G, 1st Texas Cavalry & later as Captain in 30th Texas Cavalry, unit called "First Partisan Texas Rangers". Occupation: Lawyer and Judge
2. Nicholas William Battle (1820-1905) - cc6 - Enlisted on 8/1/1862 as a Lieut Colonel. On 8/1/1862 he was commissioned into Field & Staff TX 30th Cavalry

19TH CENTURY MILITARY

WORLD WAR I

1. Edward Joseph Alcock (1896-1917) - cc5 - On July 26, 1917 Private Edward Joseph Alcock was fighting with the 52nd Battalion in France when he was grievously injured. He died of his wounds at the No 6 Casualty Station on 26 July 1917 in France. Stevenson-3628 02:31, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
2. William Henry Alcock (1898-1924) - cc5 - On the 19th of December, 1917 he was awarded the Military Medal for Bravery in the Field for his work at Passchendaele. William was injured in 1918, his lungs damaged by a gas attack. William, unfit for duty, was discharged and returned home. Stevenson-3628 02:31, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
3. Joseph Charles Ferdinand Fortier (1896-1916), - cc4 - a brother of Lianne's great grandmother, was serving in the 43rd Reserve Battalion when he was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme on 8 October 1916 during the Canadian Corps' assault on Regina Trench. Albasini-30 12:45, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
4. Joseph Antoine Orphidas Alfridas Fortier (1896-1983, - cc4 - another brother of Lianne's great grandmother, was serving in the 3rd Divisional Signal Company, Canadian Engineers in France as a Sapper. He left from Montreal in September 1916 and was discharged in June 1918 with dyspnoea (difficulty breathing) Clarke-11007 14:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

WORLD WAR II

1. Warren Ernest Townsend (1921-1944) cc6 Stevenson-3628 02:31, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

20TH CENTURY MILITARY

KOREAN

VIETNAM

Free Space Pages

• Mary Ann Mould, aka Cornish, Clarke & Phillips

Cemeteries

Place Studies

This profile is part of the Ogdensburg, Québec One Place Study.

{{One Place Study|place=Ogdensburg, Québec|category=Ogdensburg, Québec One Place Study}}

Bounty Opportunties

Connections

These links are added at the beginning of the week by Eowyn. The first person who makes a unique connection for an individual wins the bounty points for that person. Remember to claim any connection bounties in the G2G post!

1. Alexander Rheault
2. Mary Rosemary Carmeline Anna Fortier
3. James MacKellar
4. Julia McFadyen
5. Joseph Richard Dowd
6. Joanna Townsend

Brick Walls

These links will be added mid-week by Eowyn. Remember to claim any brick wall bounties in the G2G post!

1. Alfred Harris - mother (England)
2. Adele Leblanc - parent (probably Canada)
3. Archibald Headley McLaren - parent (Canada)
4. Duncan William Murray - parent (Scotland)
5. Julia Phillips - parent (England)
6. David Rheault - mother (Canada)
7. Stephen Barker - parent (Canada)

Zoom/YouTube Schedule and Links

• Apr 18th Noon EDT/4pm UTC Kickoff - video
  
• Apr 20th Noon EDT/4pm UTC Weekend Chat - video
  
• Apr 25th Noon EDT/4pm UTC Wrapup - video
  
• May 1st Noon EDT/4pm UTC Reveal - video
  

Media Outreach

Share WikiTree on your social media

WikiTree Posts

Hashtags: #WTChallenge #CollaborativeGenealogy

Day	Subject	@WikiTree Official @lianne.kruger	@WTChallenge @liannekruger	@WikiTree	@WikiTreers @lianne.ifamilyhistory	@WikiTree @liannekruger	@WikiTreers @lianne.ifamilyhistory
4/16	About to start/Register!	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link
4/18	Zoom Kick-off	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link Zoom chat
4/20	Zoom Weekend Chat	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link Zoom chat
4/21	Halfway	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link
4/23	Winding down	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link
4/25	Zoom Wrap-up	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link Zoom chat
5/1	Challenge Reveal	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link	video

Participant Posts

Member	Date	Subject	Facebook	Twitter	LinkedIn	Mastodon	Instagram	YouTube
Azure	4/23		Link	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link

Resources

Please list any resources that you have. We all gain knowledge from each other!

General WT Resources

• Editing Tips This page shows basic markup that can be used on WikiTree profiles and Space pages. Please remember not to use tables on Challenge profiles.
• Example Challenge Profiles This is a guideline on how the profiles can look.
• WikiTree Browser Extension This addon is great for a lot of things, but the main help for the Challenge is the "auto-bio" button that it puts on the profiles. This will give you basic narrative you can add to. It is also great for adding stickers and cleaning up GEDCOM clutter. Let your team captain know if you need help learning one of these features!
• The Background Images Category contains pages that you can find a large variety of background images on. Most of them are tiled (repeatable) images.
• WikiTree+ is valuable for so many things! Here are a few of the search features you can use for challenge profiles: (Go to WikiTree+ query for Active Challenge profiles with noparents. In the "Search" section, look at the "Text search" box and then "Text:" underneath that. Leave the ProfileList parameter and change the text at the end to search for different things. You can copy the text below and paste it in the text box. Click "Get profiles.") Thank you Aleš!!
  1. Look for Pending merges: ProfileList="WikiTreeChallenge\ActiveChallenge" pendingmerge
  2. Profiles missing the country in a location field: ProfileList="WikiTreeChallenge\ActiveChallenge" UnknownCountry
  3. Not connected to the global tree: ProfileList="WikiTreeChallenge\ActiveChallenge" unconnected
  4. No parents: ProfileList="WikiTreeChallenge\ActiveChallenge" noparents
  5. No spouse: ProfileList="WikiTreeChallenge\ActiveChallenge" nospouses
  6. Notable profiles: ProfileList="WikiTreeChallenge\ActiveChallenge" TemplateFull=Notables_Sticker
  7. Has GEDCOM clutter: ProfileList="WikiTreeChallenge\ActiveChallenge" GEDCOMJunk
• Connection Finder If you're not sure where you are working on the tree, this will show you anyone (connected)'s connection to the starting profiles. Just enter the profile you're working on in the box at the top of the page.

African-American Resources

• Please add the {{African-American Sticker}} right below the biography heading on all African-American profiles except for notables - notables should have the project box and sticker described here.
• US Black Heritage: Preferred Terminology
• Black Genealogy Basics
• Documenting Enslaved People in WikiTree
• How to Find Enslaved Ancestors
• African-American Genealogy Resources
• US Black Heritage Resources by State

Specific Country Resources

WikiTree Source Library

• Canada Project: Sources
  • Ontario: Sources
  • Quebec: Sources
  • Ontario: Sources
• England Project: Sources
• Ireland Project: Sources
• United States Project: Sources
  • Connecticut Project: Sources
  • New York Project: Sources
  • Vermont Project: Sources