Project: Michigan
Categories: Michigan | Michigan Project | Michigan Projects
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How to Join
It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of Michigan 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: Thomas Fuller
- Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Michigan project and get a badge.
- Add Michigan to your followed tags.
- We use G2G for communication.
- Here is the Michigan project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.
- Look at one of the Michigan 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.
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.
Michigan Project Members
Add yourself here if you're interested in helping with this project. Let us know what you'd like to help with. (Check out the "Goals" section for ideas.)
- Thomas Fuller - Project Coordinator
- Rod DuBois
- Zachary Smith
- Keith Mann Spencer
Templates
The template is {{United States|sub-project=Michigan}} which will give you:
| ... ... ... is a part of Michigan history. Join: Michigan Project Discuss: Michigan |
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 Michigan. The following sticker might be used in that circumstance:
- Michigan Sticker Directions
- Deceased persons {{Michigan Sticker}}
... ... ... was a Michigander.
- Living Persons {{Michigan Sticker|living=y}} ... ... ... is a Michigander.
Goals
The overall goals of the Michigan Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in the state of Michigan. To meet these goals:
- Add Michigan-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 Michigan counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
- If you have any Michigan state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the Michigan Resources Page.
- If you live in Michigan, please consider adding Catalog: Michigan Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.
Ongoing List of Things to Do
- Cemeteries in Michigan need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the Michigan Cemeteries Project
- Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in Michigan. See the Homesteaders Project
- Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Michigan state tribes.
- Work on Michigan's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
- Create new profiles for people of Michigan 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 Michigan, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
- Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from Michigan in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.
- Help find the Last Name at Birth (LNAB) for Michigan Unknowns using the Profile Improvement Project Unknowns Team Process
- Help add profiles with the US Black Heritage 1880 Project Teams
County and City Projects
Michigan Counties - Ingham County - coordinated by Thomas Fuller assumed when former coordinator became unavailable - glad to hand-over if you want it.
- Washtenaw County - coordinated byThomas Fuller
Special Interest Projects
- Kalamazoo, Michigan State Hospital, coordinated by Michael Roby
Michigan Related Categories on WikiTree
- Michigan Category page
- Michigan Projects page
- Michigan Cemeteries
- Michigan Colleges & Universities
- Michigan Governors
- Michigan Homesteaders
- Michigan Federally Recognized Native American Tribes
- Michigan Native American Tribes
- Michigan Politicians
- Michigan Religious Congregations
- Michigan Research Assistance
- Michigan Genealogy Resources
Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree
- Homesteaders Project
- Native Americans Project
- Michigan Resource Civil War Page
- US Governors Project
- Michigan in the Great War
- United States in World War II
Online Publications
Resources
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