Hello WikiTreers:
The Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Project has had a busy first half of the year, and we wanted to share what is going on in the Project. (Is this the start of a regular newsletter you may be wondering? We'd love to say "yes" but at this point let's just think of it as an occasional "message-in-a-bottle" that has floated ashore.)
PGM Profile Challenge
The project has started sponsoring a monthly challenge to improve PGM profiles. We're currently following a format very similar to Bio-Builders, but may branch out to some other types of challenges. We feature a monthly theme and ask participants to complete biographies for profiles in-need. We also have an "Ancestor Track" for people with hundreds of PGM ancestors and no time to work outside their family; they can always get challenge points by completing a bio in their own tree. Check out this month's challenge. And, if you have an idea for a challenge theme, we'd love to hear it.
New (or Rediscovered) Resources
Here are some great PGM-related Free Space Pages that we thought might be of interest. (Thank you to the contributors who have put these together!)
- Salem Witch Trial Participants
Clyde Perkins has put together this thorough and detailed page on the Salem Witch Trials, including a timeline and links to WikiTree profiles for the accused, the accusers, and others involved and affected by the Witch Trials.
- Confessions to Rev Thomas Shepard
GeneJ X complied this resource with links to WikiTree profiles for church members who "confessed" to Reverend Thomas Shepard (minister at Cambridge from 1635-1649). The Confessions are personal narratives describing religious experiences, spiritual struggles and reflections on faith. These also can contain crucial details about the confessor's life story, in their own words.
- Early New England Families
Michael Stills continues to update this Free-Space page keeping track of sketches released by the Early New England Families Project at NEHGS. These sketches include some of the younger PGM immigrants, mentioned but not featured in the Great Migration series by Robert Charles Anderson.
Changes to PGM Profile Management
The Project is making a couple of changes in how we handle project profiles. (The Project pages will be updated shortly to reflect these changes.)
- PGM Candidates
For profiles that are suggested to fall into the PGM scope (immigrants who arrived to New England from 1621-1640), we've created a category "Puritan Great Migration Project Candidate." Candidate profiles can be developed by profile managers or other interested WikiTreers, and when they're "complete" they can be changed to full project status.
- PGM Child sticker
For those immigrants who arrived as children (i.e. under 21), the Project is introducing a PGM Child sticker. This sticker will replace the current project box and project account management (unless a profile needs to be Project Protected). The sticker will visibly identify the profiles as PGM immigrants and allow the Project (and anyone else) to keep an eye out for them through the new Category Activity Feed.
Interested in joining the PGM project?
Please see our g2g post: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1500385/join-the-puritan-great-migration-project .
Thank you!
And last but not least, a big thank you to all of our project members, volunteers, activity feed checkers, data doctors, profile co-managers, and non-project contributors working to improve the profiles of PGM ancestors.
Until the tide once again brings us together...happy WikiTreeing.
