What is Connection Combat?
Our newest game! Twice a month, participants "battle" to verify their connection path to a specific notable while knocking out pesky WikiTree Weevils at the same time.
What's a WikiTree Weevil?
They are the nuisances we sometimes find: GEDCOM junk, blank dates, empty locations, or no sources. Help defeat these troublemaking twig eaters!
How It Works:
On the 1st and 15th of each month, we will post in G2G like this to announce the challenge.
To play, first post an answer below to say you're participating.
Second, use the Connection Finder to find your connection path to the specified notable (or the Relationship Finder if you prefer to keep your path biological, without connections through marriage).
Third, do all of the following for each person that connects you to the notable:
- Clean up any GEDCOM junk on their profile ...
- make sure the profile has at least one date (birth, death, or marriage) ...
- at least one location (birth, death, or marriage) ...
- at least a short bio (a few sentences) ...
- and, most importantly, at least one source confirming the connection between that profile and the next one on the connection path.
Fourth, when you've verified the connection path based on the list above, reply to your answer below letting us know that you've finished the battle and how many degrees are between you and the notable.
How To Win:
There are three ways to win:
- The first winner is the first person with a verified connection path that meets the standards set out above.
- The second winner is the person with the longest verified connection path that meets the standards set out above.
- The third winner is the person with the shortest verified connection path that meets the standards above.
Bonus Winner: There's also an opportunity for a bonus winner each battle. That would be the person who helps the most participants get unstuck when they ask for help
Winners will receive a Connection Combat winner badge and be entered in the Hall of Fame.
Weevil Wrangler of 2024
You can use the participation sticker to help you keep track of how many weevils you wrangle this year. At the end of the year we will ask everyone to share their totals. The person with the most will become the Weevil Wrangler of 2024.
Connection Combat #1:
This week's combat connection is Paul Revere, best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Let the battle begin!