I am increasingly using categories on WikiTree we use them extensively in the England and Wales Projects. I have a personal category I created for profiles that I have Orphaned and would like to go back to update with more information and better citation. I used this to find more profiles that needed adding. When I find that members of a family who are going to be deceased are missing I use the maintenance categories for their birth county to ensure they don't get missed. During a Connect A Thon I go to these categories and add the missing family profiles. The one thing you need to remember is to remove the category when no longer required. I also am adding link back sources in Family Search Tree and the Family Search ID to the WikiTree profile. Connection is important if someone sees the link they may take the cousin bait.
Love to hear that you are using them to also help you be efficient on the tree!! Thank you so much for sharing your approach to how you use them and the work that you do. All of our contributions certainly add up and help make the tree much more improved. Hope you had an excellent Thon experience!!
Thanks so much for this post; I will link to this series for my Wikitree User Group for my local genealogy society. Can you explain how you use the (+) (-) in your categories?
That would be great Valorie if you shared it! Thank you! The (+)(-) symbols are a feature of WikiTree. They allow you to quickly add or replace a category name to/on a profile.
You are doing some smart analysis and planning here.
All too often we get lost in the weeds of research and cannot see the forest for the trees, and we likely fall into the nearest rabbit hole of research, losing site of our original goal.
Thank you! I'm determined to make sense of all the work I do and have found this approach so very helpful. I will be sharing my stats soon as a benchmark for comparison later in the year 😀
I am increasingly using categories on WikiTree we use them extensively in the England and Wales Projects. I have a personal category I created for profiles that I have Orphaned and would like to go back to update with more information and better citation. I used this to find more profiles that needed adding. When I find that members of a family who are going to be deceased are missing I use the maintenance categories for their birth county to ensure they don't get missed. During a Connect A Thon I go to these categories and add the missing family profiles. The one thing you need to remember is to remove the category when no longer required. I also am adding link back sources in Family Search Tree and the Family Search ID to the WikiTree profile. Connection is important if someone sees the link they may take the cousin bait.
Love to hear that you are using them to also help you be efficient on the tree!! Thank you so much for sharing your approach to how you use them and the work that you do. All of our contributions certainly add up and help make the tree much more improved. Hope you had an excellent Thon experience!!
Thanks so much for this post; I will link to this series for my Wikitree User Group for my local genealogy society. Can you explain how you use the (+) (-) in your categories?
That would be great Valorie if you shared it! Thank you! The (+)(-) symbols are a feature of WikiTree. They allow you to quickly add or replace a category name to/on a profile.
You are doing some smart analysis and planning here.
All too often we get lost in the weeds of research and cannot see the forest for the trees, and we likely fall into the nearest rabbit hole of research, losing site of our original goal.
Thank you! I'm determined to make sense of all the work I do and have found this approach so very helpful. I will be sharing my stats soon as a benchmark for comparison later in the year 😀