Join us: May 2023 Puritan Great Migration Profile Challenge -Celebrating Mothers

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Our theme for May is in honor of Mother's Day: Puritan Great Migration mothers, with a particular emphasis on your own ancestry.  We hope that you'll check in and look at the PGM mothers in your own tree and see what improvements you can make to their bios.  AND, if any of them happen to be named Elizabeth, you can get double credit with the WikiTree BioBuilders challenge. (Also, if you participated in April, don't forget to go back and add the IDs of your bios to the April post).

If you can work on some of PGM's profiles, please be sure to follow PGM's Editing Guidance and remember to collaborate with the profile managers. 

To participate, please read the material in this post about the PGM Profile Challenge, let us know you plan to participate, and then report your progress here as well. Participants in the Puritan Great Migration Profile Challenges will be eligible for Achievement Stickers recognizing their work.

Thank you very much for your help!

Challenge Specifics:

You are limited to profiles which are PGM-project managed (ie. have the PGM Project Box 500px-Puritan_Great_Migration_Editing_Guidance-1.jpg at the top.)

Pre-1700 certification is required for editing all PGM profiles.

You are not limited to PGM Profiles which Need Biographies, but that can be a good place to look for opportunities.

Please be sure to follow PGM's Editing Guidance 

Abbreviated PGM Checklist: (full editing guidance linked above)

Data Section:

  • birth date/place
  • names of parents, if known
  • marriage date/place and spouse name
  • names of children 
  • death date/place

Biography Section:

  • Full written sentences stating the facts above, adding inline sources for each fact;
  • Immigration information;
  • Is the profile '''Genealogically Defined?''';
  • Please write biographies in your own words; don't copy/paste;
  • Baptism, immigration, marriage, burial, civic, and other life events with inline sources;
  • List of children with at least one pertinent fact each;
  • Explanatory remarks, if needed (e.g. disputed persons information, Research Notes, whatever needs extra explaining);
  • Interesting fact about the person, such as career or avocation with sources;
  • Appropriate Categories;
  • If applicable, merges initiated for duplicate profiles;
  • Links to other mentioned persons/profiles;
  • Historical context as related to the person's life (please don't add timelines);
  • PGM Reliable Sources; general information about Sources

Any Questions? Please respond with a comment below.

To let us know you will join us, please answer this question, and also be sure to come back and report the IDs of the PGM profiles you have finished.

Good luck and Thank You!

in The Tree House by M Cole G2G6 Mach 9 (91.2k points)
edited by M Cole
If you want to see which of your ancestors are included in the Puritan Great Migration, the Ancestor Explorer app has an option for Puritan Great Migration:

https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/ashley1950/ancestorexplorer/

2 Answers

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Yep…. Count me in. smiley

1. Elizabeth Munnings https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Groome-144

2. Elizabeth Page https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Felkin-1

3. Elizabeth Ripley https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hobart-12

4. Elizabeth James https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hyland-330

5. Elizabeth Howe https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-563322 

6. Elizabeth Rhodes https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-10474  (requested PGM leader to change surname from White to Unknown)

7. Elizabeth Hinckley https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hinckley-30 

8. Elizabeth Tibbetts https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-644863

by Cheryl Skordahl G2G6 Pilot (291k points)
edited by Cheryl Skordahl
Thanks, Cheryl!
Cheryl, Nice twofers. Got any more. Maybe a Charles or two. Bob

wink I’ll dig around for a Charles or two… but they would only be wonzies, since this PGM challenge is for mothers.  crying

Great work, Cheryl.  Thank you!  We're going to have to design our achievement stickers, because you've racked up quite a few bios over the last few months.

….  Mmmmm  ….  Thanks M! angel

+8 votes

I’ve got at least 3 xg-gm’s that could stand to have their profiles cleaned up and added to, so I’d say I’m in.

1. Phoebe (Paine) Page (My 9g-gm) citation clean up and additions.

2. Abigail (Cogswell) Clarke (My 8g-grand aunt) add 4 children, sources, and clean up.

3. Mary (Barker) Stearns (another 9g-gm) add sources, cleanup

4. Edith (Brayne) Dodge (one more 9g-gm) add sources

5. Susanna (George) Harrington  (and another 9g-gm) clean up and add sources

by Bob Keniston G2G6 Pilot (266k points)
edited by Bob Keniston
Thank you, Bob! --Gene

Good work, Bob....  smiley

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