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Unknowns Team

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NOTE: Please do not do any work on any profiles that display the Hold Request Box. It appears something like this (though it may display any Project Name):

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Welcome to the Unknowns, a team of the Profile Improvement Project focused on finding identities for profiles with any variation of the Unknown surname.

Contents

Mission

To improve the integrity of WikiTree by identifying and updating profiles without valid names.

How to Join

Contact Pam (Anderson) Smith for guidance on tasks of the Unknowns Team.

Please do the following:

  1. Add profiles and unknowns to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all of our discussions in your G2G Feed.
  2. We use Help:Discord #unknowns channel for conversation. Please come and post an initial message.

If Project Leader support is needed, please contact one of the Profile Improvement Project Leader Debi Hoag, Robin (Dodge) Shaules, or Kay (Sands) Knight.

Goals

  1. Identify all profiles without valid names according to the naming standards at Name Fields. Add the appropriate categories to profiles as needed. See Unknowns Process for steps to follow in determining the category.
  2. Send profiles to the Review Team by adding a comment to the Possible Profiles for Deletion if
    • corrections could be made but you don't know how or don't have access
    • the profile has never had data and has never been connected in any way
    • the profile has been merged so many times that you can't determine who was originally represented
    • the profile was originally for a non-person (animal, organization, thing)

To Do List

  1. We suggest that volunteers focus on a limited geographical area with which they are familiar for researching and solving Unknown profiles. Focus first on Orphan profiles, and then move on to Unknowns in that same area [state, province, country.] Check with Pam to see what areas are already being researched by team members.
  2. Use Name Fields to determine if alias is being used correctly. See especially the sections: "Use their conventions instead of ours" and "Specific Rules for Individual Name Fields."
  3. Add appropriate categories to profiles as needed. See Unknowns Process for steps to follow in determining the category.
  4. Locate profiles using an alias for either Preferred First Name (PFN) or Last Name at Birth (LNAB).

Research Note Boxes

Estimated Date: {{Estimated Date}} is a Research Note Box. For use whenever a rough estimate is used for a birth, death, and/or marriage date. {{Estimated Date}} will add a category for any/all estimated dates and add the profile to one of the Maintenance Categories -- Estimated Date Categories. By adding a variable, the estimated date can be specific to all, birth, death, or a combination of these. For example, {{Estimated Date|Death}} will specify the Death date is estimated.

Unsourced: {{Unsourced}} is a Research Note Box. It should be placed on any profile that has no sources. You can enter {{Unsourced}} without a modifier, but it's best to enter a country, state, province, or other place names. For example, {{Unsourced|France}}, will add the profile to the list of Unsourced profiles in France.

Stickers and Categories

Stickers and categories should be used to identify persons of interest to other projects. Categories are placed at the beginning of the profile. Stickers are placed below the Biography heading.

Use stickers and categories to identify persons of interest to US Black Heritage project members. If the person is noted as African American, Black, or Mulatto (on census documents, etc.) in the portion of North America that became the USA please add the {{African-American Sticker}}. For details on the sticker, see Template:African-American Sticker.

  • If the person was born before 1865 please also add the [[Category:USBH Heritage Exchange]] category. For details on the category, see USBH Heritage Exchange category.
  • If their LNAB is currently Unknown, please also add the [[Category:US Black Heritage Project, Needs LNAB]] category. The USBH's Heritage Exchange Team may remove the category after they verify and add other categories. If you find the profile at a later time and are unsure if the category has been removed, add it again. It's better to call their attention to the profile again than have one missed. For details on the category, see US Black Heritage Project, Needs LNAB category.

G2G Tag

The G2G tag for Unknowns Team Q&A is unknowns.

Team Members

All team members work on Unknowns. Team members may also work on profiles of Unknowns as members of a Team on other projects. The specific focus for each member is listed below.


  • England Project

Many team members work on England profiles, including Amelia Utting and _______. If you would like to be listed here, specifying your area of expertise, please send Pam a note.

Collaboration on Unknowns Team

  • Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit and add images.
  • Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Robin Shaules, Pam Smith, Kay Knight, and Debi Hoag. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
  • Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages directed to everyone who sees this page.)
  • Share the profile on social media. Share on Facebook
  • Public Q&A: These appear in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)

Memories of Unknowns Team

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