Magna Carta Stickers

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The Magna Carta Project has two types of templates: project boxes (see this page) and stickers (described on this page). See more about these types of templates and others at Help:Templates.

Stickers

Stickers offer a less formal way of highlighting information of note on people's profiles. The project has two stickers that team members on occasion add to a profile within the scope of the project

... ... has Magna Carta connections.

This profile should not be in a Magna Carta trail.

(the two stickers displayed here, or at right, depending on your screen size).

The tailored coding for stickers shared below is for stickers that can be used on profiles outside the project's scope.

Project Scope: The scope of the project is from Magna Carta Surety Baron to Magna Carta Gateway Ancestor, as documented in the works of Douglas Richardson (with some exceptions - see the project page for details and additional links). While the project does not cover modern profiles (it runs from about 1200 to about 1700, as the Gateway Ancestors Richardson documents immigrated by 1700), other projects do and many WikiTree members have well-documented trails between themselves and Gateway Ancestors who are in a trail approved by the Magna Carta project.

The Relationship Sticker and Connection Sticker are restricted for use on profiles of active WikiTree members only, while the Descendant Sticker can be used on any profile. But, as noted on the Relationship Stickers page:

"Remember that even if stickers can be used on an ancestor's profile, it does not necessarily mean that they should. Stickers added to profiles other than your own need to follow WikiTree's guidelines for stickers (the sticker is relevant to the person represented by the profile, no one objects to the sticker being displayed, and the profile has no more than five stickers).

"Profiles for your ancestors are restricted to no more than five stickers (and WikiTree guidance says three is better - see Help:Stickers), but there is no limit to the number of stickers you can have on your own profile."

Relationship Sticker

The Relationship Sticker automatically creates a link that will connect to WikiTree's Special: Relationship, showing your relationship to the identified Gateway Ancestor or Surety Baron. Note - the links in the examples do not work properly, since this is not a profile page. Once saved on your own page, the link will click through to show your relationship.

... is related to Gateway Ancestor Giles Brent.

{{Relationship Sticker

|name=Gateway Ancestor Giles Brent

|id=Brent-31

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo}}

... is related to William d'Aubigny, Surety Baron.

{{Relationship Sticker

|name=William d'Aubigny, Surety Baron

|id=Albini-39

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo}}

Connection Sticker

The Connection Sticker automatically creates a link to WikiTree's Special: Connection feature, which shows your connection to the identified Gateway Ancestor or Surety Baron, whether by blood or by marriage. Note - the links in the examples do not work properly, since this is not a profile page. Once saved on your own page, the link will click through to show your connection.

... is connected to Gateway Ancestor Giles Brent.

{{Connection Sticker

|name=Gateway Ancestor Giles Brent

|id=Brent-31

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo}}

... is connected to Magna Carta Surety Baron William d'Aubigny.

{{Connection Sticker

|name=Magna Carta Surety Baron William d'Aubigny

|id=Albini-39

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo}}

Descendant Sticker

Descendant of Leonard Calvert, Gateway Ancestor.

If you have developed your trail to one of the project's Gateway Ancestors, you might want to use the following coding to place a Sticker on your profile similar to the example using Leonard Calvert:

{{Descendant

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo

|id=[[WikiTree-ID|Your Gateway Ancestor]], [[:Category:Gateway_Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]]

}}

Descendant of Leonard Calvert, Gateway Ancestor to Surety Baron William de Huntingfield.

or

{{Descendant

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo

|id=[[WikiTree-ID|Your Gateway Ancestor]], [[:Category:Gateway_Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]], to [[:Category:Surety Barons|surety baron]] [[WikiTree-ID|His Surety Baron]]

}}

Following are a couple of additional examples.

Descendant of Thomas Harris, who may have Magna Carta connections.

Example with link only to the ancestor who may be a descendant of a surety baron:

{{Descendant

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo

|id=[[WikiTree-ID|Name]], who may have Magna Carta connections

}}

Descendant of Robert Crossman, gateway ancestor to a Magna Carta Surety Baron.

Example with a link to the category listing the Magna Carta Surety Barons:

{{Descendant

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo

|id=[[WikiTree ID|Name]], gateway ancestor to a [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Baron]]

}}

Descendant of Obadiah Bruen, Gateway Ancestor to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy.

Descendant of Saher de Quincy, surety baron, through Gateway Ancestor Obadiah Bruen.

A pair of examples, all linked up (first leads with the Gateway, the second leads with the Surety Baron:

{{Descendant

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo

|id=[[WikiTree ID|Name]], [[:category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]] to [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Baron]] [[WikiTree-ID|His/her Surety Baron]]

}}

{{Descendant

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo

|id= [[WikiTree-ID|Name of Surety Baron]], [[:Category:Surety Barons|surety baron]], through [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]] [[WikiTree-ID|Name of Gateway Ancestor]]

}}

And the very generic...

Descendant of several Magna Carta Surety Barons.

{{Descendant

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo

|id=several [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Barons]]

}}

If you're still working on documenting your tree back to a Gateway Ancestor or a Surety Baron, the following sticker might be appropriate:

Descendant of a Magna Carta Surety Baron (possibly- research underway).

Example with link to Category:Surety Barons for an ancestor whose potential trail you are researching:

{{Descendant

|image=Magna Carta Team Base Camp.png

|imagetext=Magna Carta Project logo

|id=a [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Baron]] (possibly- research underway)

}}

The Descendant sticker examples are appropriate for active WikiTree members' profile pages, and there is no limit to how many stickers you can add to your own page. However, stickers on shared ancestor profiles should be limited to five (with three being recommended - see Help:Stickers, which details usage guidelines for stickers; see also Template:Descendant for other examples of how that sticker can be used).

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Updated: Noland-165, 8 February 2022