Australia Project Sourcerers Team

Profile managers: Melanie Paul [send private message] and Australia Project WikiTree [send private message]

Welcome to the Australia Sourcerers Team, one of the Australian Profile Improvement teams, and part of the Australia Project

Team Leader - Melanie Paul

Who we are, and What we do.

• Members (and their general area(s) of interest):
• Sue Crerar - best skills NSW and Qld but I do use other states too
• Neil Croll - Tasmania; East Gippsland, Victoria
• Maree Evans
• Leonne Guidoux - mostly New South Wales, but also elsewhere
• Karyn Homburg - mostly South Australian profiles
• Danielle Lautrec
• Kerri McCarron - New South Wales
• Amanda Myers - mostly Victoria & South Australia but other states too
• Rosalie Neve - pretty much everywhere!
• Sue Pardey - South Australia
• Melanie Paul mostly Queensland, and New South Wales
• Jeanne Pepper - New South Wales
• Jason Rennie - Victoria, New South Wales
• John Rosser
• T Walker
• Judy Weggelaar - Western Australia and South Australia
• Melanie White
• Tony Woods - Victoria
• Sue Wyatt - main focus on Tasmania, but also elsewhere
• Bruce Simons
• Brad Jones - New South Wales

• Sourcerers - find sources for profiles. The ideal is to provide a valid source for each fact on a profile, but even one source helps to orientate genealogists to the profile and confirms the person's existence. Family tree sources are not acceptable, and preferably contemporaneous sources such as baptisms, births, marriages, deaths, burials or wills are the preferred standard.
  • "Family Search." is not an acceptable source. Nor are FamilySearch "family trees". Go to the individual person page and click the sources link, then open the sources listed to ensure they are correct to that person, and use the citation from each of the correct sources.
  • "MyHeritage" is not an acceptable source, not even if it says "MyHeritage site manager Name Lastname."
  • "Ancestry.com" trees are not an acceptable source. They can be hints for sources, so take a look. As with FamilySearch sources, however, each one needs to be checked for validity regards the person. Too many ancestry.com trees conflate multiple individuals, and attach every hint offered (which can lead to some rather astonishing "families").
  • "Births, Deaths and Marriage site, (state name). Australia" is not an acceptable source. It is easy to obtain the registration number, at the least, and the full registration details by a basic search. Please include as much detail as possible.

• Where to find profiles needing some special care —
  Australian Unsourced Profiles, including state-based sub-categories.
• Links to reports, resources, help pages etc are on the main Profile Improvement Portal page.

Member Communication:

What else would you like to see on the team page??

Do you have any ideas for the page or for team collaboration??

Please add your comments to this page, send me a comment or private message, or chat with me on our WikiAustralia discord server.