Project: California
Categories: California | California Project | California Projects
The California Project is part of the United States Project.
Welcome to the California Project!
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The purpose of this project is to coordinate all California related projects and resources and combine that information into one place.
California Counties Contents |
How to Join
It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of California or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:
- Project Leaders:
- Coordinators: Robin Coles
- Answer our G2G welcome post to join the California project and get a badge.
- Add California to your followed tags.
- We use G2G for communication.
- Here is the California project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.
- Look at one of the California project's example profiles to see what we hope for in profiles that are part of our project. Other excellent examples from our project and others can be found in the Examples Gallery.
Answer the United States Project G2G welcome post and you will be awarded the United States Project badge. Make sure to include the State (s) that you are interested in.
Add united_states and California to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all of our discussions in your G2G Feed.
For a full list of participants in the United States Project, see the badge report.
Please see our list of goals and tasks below for ways you can help.
Templates
The template is {{United States|sub-project=California}} which will give you:
| ... ... ... is a part of California history. Join: California Project Discuss: California |
This above template is for use only on profiles that are of importance to the project or need to be PPP'd and managed by the project.
It is not for every single person from California. The following sticker might be used in that circumstance:
- California Sticker Directions
- Deceased persons {{California Sticker}}
... ... ... was a Californian.
- Living Persons {{California Sticker|living=y}} ... ... ... is a Californian.
Goals
The overall goals of the US History Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in the state of California. To meet these goals:
- Add California-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
- If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
- Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
- Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
- Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
- Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.
List of Things to Do
- Need space pages created and developed for California counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
- If you have any California state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the California Resources Page.
- If you live in California, please consider adding Catalog: California Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.
Ongoing List of Things to Do
- Cemeteries in California need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the California Cemeteries Project
- Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in California. See the Homesteaders Project
- Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about California state tribes.
- Work on California's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
- Create new profiles for people of California who are documented in a family member's profile, but might not have their own profiles yet. See Needs Profiles Created
- Work on Suggestions for profiles from California, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
- Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from California in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.
- Help find the Last Name at Birth (LNAB) for California Unknowns using the Profile Improvement Project Unknowns Team Process
- Help add profiles with the US Black Heritage 1880 Project Teams
Town and County Projects
One Place Studies
Historical Projects
California Related Categories on WikiTree
- California Category page
- California Projects page
- California, Cemeteries
- California Colleges & Universities
- California Governors
- California Homesteaders
- California Federally Recognized Native American Tribes
- California, Politicians
- California Religious Congregations
- California Research Assistance
- California Genealogy Resources
Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree
- Homesteaders Project
- Native Americans Project
- Trails and Wagon Trains Project
- The Way West Project
- US Governors Project
- California in the Great War
- United States in World War II
- California Sources
Online Publications
Resources
- California Digital Newspaper Collection - Free access to digital images of many California newspapers from 1846 to the present
- California Genealogy Resources, Genealoger Family History and Genealogy Services website.
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