15 For 15: US Black Heritage Project Activities

Date: 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2023
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Surname/tag: black_heritage

US Black Heritage Project

Contents 1 How to Participate 2 Share Your Activities With Us 3 US Black Heritage Activities that Fulfill the 15 for 15 Missions 3.1 About You 3.2 Profiles 3.3 Challenges/Events 3.4 Projects 3.5 Community 3.6 Social Media

How to Participate

If you're participating in WikiTree's 15 for 15 missions in 2023, here's some ideas for completing some of the tasks with US Black Heritage Project activities. You can sign up on this post and use this post to let the team know you've completed 15, 30, or 45 missions in order to get a sticker for your profile. This page lists only the missions that are closely related to US Black Heritage Project activities - a full list of all of the missions can be found on this page, so go there for full details.

Share Your Activities With Us

We'd love to hear about what you're doing to complete these missions! Comment below telling us about it, or with a link to your own free-space page tracking your progress. Betsy Ko put this free space page together that you can copy/paste into your own free space page to track your progress.

US Black Heritage Activities that Fulfill the 15 for 15 Missions

About You

• Complete the first four "About You" missions, especially for those who have Black heritage themselves:
  • Add a photo of yourself to your profile
  • Add or improve the biography on your profile
  • If you haven't yet, add your DNA test info to your profile, add your GEDmatch ID (if you have one) and your mitoYDNA.org ID (if you have one)
  • Increase your CC7 number by 150 (helpful tips on how to do this)
• Make any USBH-project related contributions to complete the other two "About You" missions:
  • Earn 5 Club 100 badges (make 100 contributions in a month)
  • Earn 5 Club 1000 badges (make 1000 contributions in a month)

Profiles

Note: For the missions that have 15, 30 and 45 as options, you do not have to restart a count for each one. Once you have completed 15, you can complete another 15 to hit the 30 mark and another 15 to hit the 45 mark. You also don't have to do all 15, 30, or 45 with USBH profiles - even doing a few would help the project reach our goals.

• Upload 15 photos of a person or a headstone to the relevant profile(s)
  • This could be any profile with the African American Sticker. We also have notables that need photos and the African-American Cemeteries categories where you could find profiles that need gravestone photos. Just make sure photos are not copyrighted.
• Check your watchlist and anniversaries list to see if you have any African American profiles that qualify for these missions:
  • Sort your Watchlist by oldest edit and try to improve 15 of those profiles
  • Improve 15 profiles from your Anniversaries list
  • Improve 30 profiles from your Anniversaries list
  • Improve 45 profiles from your Anniversaries list
• Resolve 15 profiles in the US Black Heritage Project, Needs Biography category or the USBH Notables, Needs Biography category
• Resolve 30 profiles in the US Black Heritage Project, Needs Biography category or the USBH Notables, Needs Biography category
• Resolve 45 profiles in the US Black Heritage Project, Needs Biography category or the USBH Notables, Needs Biography category
• Resolve 15 profiles in the US Black Heritage Project, Needs Profiles Created category
• Resolve 30 profiles in the US Black Heritage Project, Needs Profiles Created category
• Resolve 45 profiles in the US Black Heritage Project, Needs Profiles Created category
• Improve 15 profiles of African American individuals who died young (See how to find profiles and what all can still be added to the profile even though their lives were short here)
• Improve 30 profiles of African American individuals who died young
• Improve 45 profiles of African American individuals who died young
• Use David Randall's Checklist to improve 15 profiles to completeness
  • David Randall's checklist to improve profiles to completeness is similar to the US Black Heritage Project Notable Profile Standards, so we'd especially love to see any improved for these goals. Any other profile with the African American Sticker could also be improved using the checklist.
• Use David Randall's Checklist to improve 30 profiles to completeness
• Use David Randall's Checklist to improve 45 profiles to completeness
• Solve 15 Unknowns with the African American Sticker. For an especially difficult challenge, solve Unknowns with the Slave LNAB research box.
• Solve 30 Unknowns with the African American Sticker. For an especially difficult challenge, solve Unknowns with the Slave LNAB research box.
• Solve 45 Unknowns with the African American Sticker. For an especially difficult challenge, solve Unknowns with the Slave LNAB research box.
• Add at least one source to 15 profiles from the US Black Heritage Project, Unsourced category
  • Note: our unsourced numbers are pretty low as of January 2023, so many of our remaining unsourced profiles may be ones which are more difficult to source.
• Add at least one source to 30 profiles from the US Black Heritage Project, Unsourced category
• Add at least one source to 45 profiles from the US Black Heritage Project, Unsourced category
• Connect 5 unconnected profiles from the US Black Heritage Project, Family Tree Size One category or the USBH Notables, Needs Connection category.
• Create a free-space profile about something that interests you and is related to the USBH project's goals.
  • Experienced Heritage Exchange team members could create a plantation page from the USBH Heritage Exchange, Needs Plantation Page.

Challenges/Events

• See the US Black Heritage Project Calendar throughout the year for events and challenges that would qualify for these missions:
  • Participate in 15 weekly challenges
  • Participate in 5 monthly challenges
  • Add 150 profiles during a Connect-a-Thon
  • Source 150 profiles during the Source-a-Thon
  • Attend the WikiTree Day event

Projects

• Join the US Black Heritage Project (a topical project) if you're not already a member. Answer this post to join.
• Join a [1]. Many of these projects have activities that you may already be doing as a part of your work with the USBH project, including the Arborists, Categorization, Cemeterist, Connectors, Data Doctors, and Profile Improvement Projects.
• Start a free-space project. Some examples of free-space projects related to the USBH project include Rap & Hip Hop Heritage and 100 Voices from Digital Harrisburg.

Community

• Answer 15 questions from the Genealogy Help category in G2G - you may want to look for questions with the tags BLACK_HERITAGE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SLAVERY, etc.
• Recognize the work of other USBH project members:
  • Award 1 Wonderful WikiTreer in G2G each month for 12 months
  • Give 15 thank-yous each month for 12 months
  • Award 5 Generous Genealogist badges
  • Award 5 Family or Community Star badges

Social Media

• Watch and leave a comment on 5 of the videos from WikiTree Day, including the US Black Heritage Project video.
• Send a short video telling why you love WikiTree (including the USBH project!) to eowyn-at-wikitree.com.

Do you have other ideas of USBH project activities that would fulfill other missions? Comment below so we can get them added to the list.