Project: Titanic

Categories: Maritime Disasters | Titanic Project | This Day In History April 15 | Disasters

The Titanic Project is a sub-project of the Disasters that covers the passengers and crew of the RMS Titanic, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, on its maiden voyage.

Contents

How to Join

Project Coordinator: Donna Tucker Baumann

For a full list of participants, see the badge report.

If you would like to be involved in the Titanic project, please do the following:

  1. Add titanic to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all of our discussions in your G2G Feed.
  2. Respond to our G2G post G2G sign up so we can award your project badge
  3. Check out our To-Do list for ways you can help and add yourself under the Volunteer column (let Donna Baumann know if you need help with this.)

Goals

The primary goal of the Titanic project is to have everyone aboard the ship, as well as those people who are associated with it-possible builders, designers, rescue people- represented on WikiTree with full, well-styled profiles. We also want to build pages to represent any events, items, research missions, etc, that are associated with the Titanic.

Here are some specific goals we're using to meet that primary goal:

For each person:
  • All duplicates should be merged into the final profile ID. PPP should be added if there are known duplication problems/or the person is considered notable.
  • Titanic template included on the page
  • Project account added as profile manager
  • All relevant categories are added; discussion with the Categorization Project as necessary to create new categories as needed
  • Biography is cleaned up and free of any GEDCOM leftovers, Ancestry trees with no links, etc. and styled according to Category:Styles and Standards. Use of inline citations is encouraged, and please do not copy large swaths of text from elsewhere. Paraphrase and link!
  • Each individual should have a quality source or reference to their association with the Titanic - i.e. a website or published biography
  • Create and attach immediate family
  • Connect to the main WikiTree tree

To Do

If you have a special interest in a profile or group of profiles, add yourself to the table the profile is listed on at the end of the Profiles row. Want others to join you? Start a G2G conversation, tag it with "titanic", and add the link to the table, as well.

This list is a WIP and is currently less than 25 percent completed. You are free to work on any person. If you connect someone or update a profile, please update their entry on the approrpriate table.

Note: the women on this list are listed with the surname they had at the time of the Titanic's sinking as well as their maiden name and future surname, if known, to aid in research. If you are looking for their maiden name, it is available (if the profile is created) on the RSM Titanic page.

One thing that really strikes me about the sinking is, in a sense, it's easy to look at a list of 1500 people who died on the Titanic. That number is actually meaningless, it's so large that it's meaningless, it's 1500 numbers... It's only when you stop to think that every single solitary name on that list of victims was a human being, just like you or I... had dreams and hopes and wishes and happiness and sadness and they were all cut short by the Titanic disaster. ~ George Behe, Vice President of Titanic Historical Society, Titanic, the Complete Story (A&E Documentary)


Victims
Space Page LInk - Complete Victim List Category Page Link -
Wiki Profiles Already Created Only 		Parts completed Items needing work Volunteers and
what they are working on
RMS Titanic
1st Class Passengers including
Adults, Children & Servants
Comprehensive List
410 persons 		1st Class Passengers on the Titanic All 1st Class starter profiles are created
(if a DOB is known) 		Needs connections for many
Needs biographies for most
2nd Class Passengers including
Adults, Children & Servants
Comprehensive List
319 persons 		2nd Class Passengers on the Titanic All 2nd Class starter profiles are created
(if a DOB is known) 		Needs connections for many
Needs biographies for most
3rd Class Passengers including
Adults, Children & Servants
Comprehensive List
711 persons 		3rd Class Passengers on the Titanic Needs starter profiles for all
Needs connections for many
Needs biographies for most 		Donna (Tucker) Baumann is working on creating starter profiles
started January 2021
Servants of Passengers
Comprehensive List
43 persons 		Servants of Passengers on the Titanic All servant starter profiles are created Needs connections for many
Needs biographies for most
Children
Comprehensive List
128 persons 		Children on Titanic All children starter profiles are created Needs connections for many
Needs biographies for most 		Bek Bliss is working on family members to make connections
Crew Members
Comprehensive List
1243 persons 		Crew of the Titanic Needs starter profiles for all
Needs connections for many
Needs biographies for most 		Bek Bliss is working on creating starter profiles - started 1 Nov 2021
Orchestra Members
Comprehensive List 		Orchestra Members of the Titanic
Survivors of the Titanic
French on the Titanic
51 persons 		All French starter profiles are created Needs connections for most
Needs biographies for most
Possible Shipbuilders of the Titanic
Titanic's Just-Missed-It Club
Notable Relation to Titanic
White Star Line

Related Category Pages

  • RMS Titanic category page.
    • Add to profile bio at top [[Category:RMS_Titanic]]
      • This category is automatically added when the project template is added to the profile.
  • White Star Line category page.
    • Add to profile bio at top [[Category:White_Star_Line]]

Project Pages

Project Sticker

Please go to the page Template:Titanic Sticker to find the appropriate sticker code that you then can add into the Biography section of the profile.

Useful Links

Main Link

This is the website I came across that inspired this project. It has biographies and photos on all the passengers and crews of the Titanic, broken down by class and other topics.

Other Helpful Links

Videos & Documentaries

Books



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