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Next step: Review your GEDCOM [23 September 2009]

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A_ArmstrongFamilyTree.ged Imported Successfully [23 September 2009]

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Additions to First Families lines [10 November 2009]

Hi, Annette---

I've been watching your additions to some of the Acadian lines I've recently created -- and I want to say, first, that's exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for when I put them up. All those folks are part of the lineages approved by the First Families of Louisiana program, which is run by the Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society, which you'll find described here. (I'm the editor of the Register, actually.) I have no Louisiana ancestry myself, by the way; I'm from San Antonio, educated in Austin, and spent all my working life in Dallas -- but my wife is Acadian (and German Coast, and early French, and Isleno, and Irish Channel, and several other things) and I moved down to Baton Rouge after retiring and got involved with local research.

One of the main purposes of the First Families program, as with all lineage programs, is to encourage high standards of genealogical research and careful citing of sources. The program doesn't accept un-sourced assertions, in other words. One of your three latest additions cites the Baton Rouge archdiocesan series, which is a good standard source. But two of the others refer to the Edmund West data collection at Ancestry, which actually is just a heap of completely unsubstantiated group sheets sent to him by random people for his Acadian genetic studies. (Has to make you wonder about the validity of his biological research.) This is not meant to rattle your cage or anything, really, but if you take your family research seriously, and I suspect you do, you might want to try to locate actual sources for the facts his database asserts. That stuff is, probably, much superior to World Family Tree (which I wish would spontaneously disappear from the genealogical universe), but it still doesn't stand alone.

I'd also like to invite you to consider going through the application process for First Families of Louisiana yourself, since it's apparent you would qualify. There's a link on the page to the application forms and a collection of columns and articles on the program reprinted from the Register at the Society's website. (The website itself is pretty crappy at the moment, unfortunately, but I'm about to start working on that, too.) --Mike 10:30, 10 November 2009 (EST)


Citing Rootsweb [20 November 2009]

Hi, I see that you've added some information to Family:Francois Broussard and Catherine Richard (1). When working with the Acadians, you will find information that is second, third and fourth hand published everywhere. People write about them a lot. It is a really good practice to always pay attention to what is claimed to be the source of their data and not just cite where you found something. It would be really helpful if you could enter where the Rootsweb information came from. And then someone could come along and check those sources and upgrade the cite to a better source. Most data on the Acadians comes from just a few places: Census, church records, ship lists, Belle-Isle declarations. And all of those have been published so it is possible to get actual transcripts to post. So anytime that you can have your cites indicate what is the original source, it is helpful. It makes it easier for someone to go directly to the data needed and, we hope, upgrade the page. Thanks for continuing to post on the Acadians. I haven't had time to work on them much lately and it's good to see someone posting. --Judy (jlanoux) 08:21, 20 November 2009 (EST)


Thanks for the note. I understand that all pages are works in progress. I'm glad to hear that you have good family information. That's one thing I've always missed. I do have a stack of file boxes containing my years of my research to go through and get posted, so many of my pages are only stubs too. We are definitely related, but I don't think I descend from the Broussards. Many of the Acadians got on my watchlist when I was trying to help with the duplicate cleanup. Cheers, --Judy (jlanoux) 10:13, 20 November 2009 (EST)


Using the pedigree template [25 March 2010]

If you put something (anything) behind the = on your unknown ancestors you can avoid the ugly broken link showing. It will then show Unknown or whatever you put as the display name. --Judy (jlanoux) 22:21, 25 March 2010 (EDT)


First Families

Mike says you have questions. Have you seen the link on the LGHS website or did you just look at the WR page that isn't finished? I am the coordinator for First Families of Louisiana. --Judy (jlanoux) 22:21, 25 March 2010 (EDT)


This Week's Featured Page [16 July 2010]

Hello, just wanted you to know that your ancestor, Jean Baptists Rodrigue, has been selected as this week's Featured Page on WeRelate. Thanks for doing a very good job in presenting his information with sources, documentation and images. Keep up the good work!

Jim Volunteer Administrator on WeRelate--Delijim 12:02, 13 July 2010 (EDT)

The page format is fantastic; hope to incorporate your model on some of my pages when time permits. --Beth 18:35, 16 July 2010 (EDT)

Jean Baptiste Rodrigue [14 July 2010]

Hi, Congrats on having a featured page. Looks great.

I'm finicky about citations and noticed the MySource cited for the Conrad book. It comes out with an incorrect citation the way it's entered. This is turning up now that we have automatic citations. A MySource citation is constructed from the Author, Page Title and Publication fields. I'm having to do a little rework on mine too. But, since yours is in the public eye at the moment, lets see what we can do.
It looks like you selected other Rodrigue entries, not just Jean Baptiste. Perhaps we could title the MySource "Rodrigue Records in St John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana" and then cite the Conrad book in the Publication Information field prefixed by "Extracts from" or "Taken from". Here's an example I just threw together as a test.

MySource:Jlanoux/Rodrigue Records in St John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, 1763-1804 I had to make up the year range, you should indicate the correct ones. You are welcome to rename or edit this as you like to try things on without risking your original. I'll delete it when we're done.

In the headers on the MySource page, please consider adding the date at the end. This is how documents are usually referred to by genealogists. e.g. "Will of John X. Smith, 1857". It would make the list more meaningful. Also, would you please consider changing the "People" header to "Genealogies"? These are little mini-compilations that Conrad added at the end. They don't have the weight of the original document transcriptions. You might also consider adding links to the pages for the people mentioned when you have time.
And while we're messing around with the citation information, I like to add a link to the source page for the book so that someone could see any information that was added to the source page.
I like the idea of using a MySource for a set of extracts like you have done. You've done a good job of demonstrating it's usefulness. And the Person page is very nice. I hope I can get a few of my ancestor's pages fixed up as nicely. --Judy (jlanoux) 19:17, 14 July 2010 (EDT)

WeRelate Featured Page - Week of September 12, 2011 [13 September 2011]

Congratulations! Your Person Page, Jean Rodrigue has been nominated and accepted as this week's WeRelate Featured Page! It is a great example of a well-sourced and documented page. Best regards and keep up the good work!

Jim:)
Volunteer Administrator on WeRelate.org--Delijim 18:17, 13 September 2011 (EDT)

Find a Grave images [7 October 2011]

Hello, I am a volunteer administrator here on WeRelate. I noticed that you have added photos from Find A Grave. Photos from Find A Grave are not public domain. Unless there is clear indication on the image page that you either took the photograph or have permission from the copyright owner to use it on WeRelate (including agreeing to WeRelate's licensing), it will need to be deleted. Please see our policy here.

The best way to include those types of images is to link to the memorial page. For example, on the page for Eudah Benoit, you could enter this in the text area: Photo of Eudah's gravestone on [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33852081 FindAGrave.com]. The link would look like this:

Photo of Eudah's gravestone on FindAGrave.com

Images can be deleted by clicking on More>delete from the image page. Please let me know if you have any questions. --Jennifer (JBS66) 10:31, 6 October 2011 (EDT)


Hi Jennifer - A lot of the photos are actually mine, and others are from friends who gave me permission to post them here. I'll go ahead and make your changes, though, to avoid any confusion and headaches. :)--Aberksan 19:59, 6 October 2011 (EDT)

Annette, if you took the photos or have permission, then the photos are most certainly ok to post here on WeRelate! On the image pages where you have permission, you can add text such as: The copyright holder granted permission to ____ for the use of this photograph for genealogy purposes. If they are your own photographs, then you could list yourself as the copyright holder. This policy isn't meant to discourage images that you have taken from being uploaded, it's meant to prevent people from blindly swiping photos from other sites (which in this case, you most certainly have not done :-) --Jennifer (JBS66) 20:08, 6 October 2011 (EDT)

Cool. I can do that. Thanks!!!!!--Aberksan 20:10, 6 October 2011 (EDT)


MySource: Acadians who Found Refuge in Louisiana... [27 February 2012]

Hi, I noticed this page MySource:Aberksan/Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, Benoit while working on my Louisiana Acadians. It appears that you have copied quite a bit of information from other web sites. This poses a copyright issue.

  • If you have permission to copy all of this information to WeRelate, please insert a paragraph at the top stating the facts (who gave permission, date, etc.)
  • If you do not have explicit permission to copy, please remove the offending information. You can add links to the web pages where the information is found.

Thanks. --Judy (jlanoux) 15:11, 27 February 2012 (EST) (WeRelate volunteer)


Hi Judy. Hmmmm. I thought that page was private and didn't realize it was public. I put it there for my reference. Sorry. It has been removed.--Aberksan 15:30, 27 February 2012 (EST)

Thanks for the quick response. FYI MySource pages are public pages. I'm pretty sure they can be edited by other users too. And note that even your user pages can be viewed by anyone. But only the Talk pages can be edited by regular users. I believe admins can edit most anything. --Judy (jlanoux) 16:50, 27 February 2012 (EST)

Donatille Naquin (wife of Jean Adolphe Rodrigue) [2 November 2012]

Dear Pamela,

My Grandpa Henry J. Rodrigue spoke of his grandmother as "Donatille". As opposed to Marie. But I cannot say for sure if she was ever called Marie.

Hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,

Paula Iles Restrepo (daughter of Olga Mae Rodrigue Iles) (1919-2005)--PMRestrepo 00:32, 2 November 2012 (EDT)


Michael Matthew Armstrong [4 December 2012]

Hi, my name is Debbie Armstrong. I was married to Michael at the time of his death. I noticed a mistake with his middle name as being "Todd" that is Michaels son.. Whom is still living. How did you know the family? Are you a relative? Here is my e-mail if you'd like to add more information to Armstrong Tree bayoubelle58@yahoo.com Thanks in advance..--Bayou58 18:12, 4 December 2012 (EST)


Next step: Review your GEDCOM [13 September 2013]

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Next step: Review your GEDCOM [13 September 2013]

You're not done yet!

WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors.

Now that you have uploaded Riley Family Tree.ged, your next step is to review what your pages will look like, review any potential warnings, and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. You need to review your GEDCOM before it can finish importing. We will keep your GEDCOM in the queue for two weeks to give you time to review it.

Note: if your gedcom contains many errors or multiple families, we’d ask that you resolve and correct the errors, delete this gedcom and re-submit it without the errors before merging it with families already on WeRelate. If the gedcom is very large, we’d suggest breaking it up into separate files (or families) and importing them one at a time, which makes the review and correction process easier.

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--WeRelate agent 19:37, 13 September 2013 (EDT)

Riley Family Tree.ged Imported Successfully [13 September 2013]

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--WeRelate agent 00:55, 14 September 2013 (EDT)

"Rognon" ... place/commune in France [26 September 2013]

Bonjour Annette ! Pour cette fiche Person:Francoise Chaumoret (3), je ne trouve pas cette commune de "Rognon" dans le département de la Nièvre. Faut-il comprendre "Breugnon" ? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breugnon ... Pourrais-tu vérifier sur ta "source" ?

For this record Person: Francoise Chaumoret (3), I do not find this town/village "Rognon" in the department of Nièvre. Does it mean "Breugnon"? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breugnon ... Could you check on your "source" ? Merci ! Amicalement - Marc ROUSSEL - --Markus3 07:37, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


Curieux prénom ... "Huclette" [26 September 2013]

Pour cette fiche Person:Huclette Gougeron (1), Huclette est un prénom que je n'ai jamais rencontré ! Faut-il comprendre plutôt "Huguette" ? Amicalement. Marc ROUSSEL - --Markus3 07:56, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


Next step: Review your GEDCOM [20 October 2013]

You're not done yet!

WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors.

Now that you have uploaded Chopin Family Tree.ged, your next step is to review what your pages will look like, review any potential warnings, and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. You need to review your GEDCOM before it can finish importing. We will keep your GEDCOM in the queue for two weeks to give you time to review it.

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--WeRelate agent 22:40, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Chopin Family Tree.ged Imported Successfully [22 October 2013]

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--WeRelate agent 16:16, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Pages with no real info to be deleted [31 May 2021]

Hi

I came across a number of pages you uploaded that have no real information - just a name with no dates, places or relationships (or 1 relationship in one case). I plan to delete these pages (see the list below), as the people are unidentifiable. If you want the pages kept and the people are deceased, please add dates. Note that WeRelate doesn't allow pages for living individuals. Thanks--DataAnalyst 15:21, 31 May 2021 (UTC) (volunteer WeRelate administrator)

Person:Charle Naquin (1) - deleted by Aberksan 5/31/21
Person:Jane Armstrong (23) - Aberksan added birthdate and parents 5/31/21
Person:John Armstrong (60) - deleted by Aberksan 5/31/21
Person:Joseph Unknown (49) - deleted by Aberksan 5/31/21
Person:Margaret Blassingame (1) - deleted by Aberksan 5/31/21
Person:Mathew Armstrong (2) - deleted by Aberksan 5/31/21
Person:Unknown Simon (13) - deleted by Aberksan 5/31/21


Hi DataAnalyst. I've been working on cleaning up any orphans that were uploaded years ago with my GEDCOM. None of these people (or anyone that I have created pages for) should be living. Please allow me to add information or delete the pages myself. thanks!--aberksan 16:20, 31 May 2021 (UTC)


Thanks for looking after this. It's good to know that you haven't created pages for living people - I've made a note of that and will try to keep that in mind if I come across pages where it looks like the person could have been born in the last 110 years. (In fact, I'll probably give you a list at some point.) As I come across other issues from my reporting, I will reach out and ask for your help in correcting them. For example, I found 5 pages (below) you contributed to where there is an event before birth. It would be great if you could sort these pages out. No big rush - I'll ignore them on my report for the next few months. Thanks. --DataAnalyst 17:03, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Person:Matthew Armstrong (5): cleaned up conflicting information 31 May 2021
Person:Anne Breau (3): birthdate changed 31 May 2021
Person:Marguerite Hyardin (3): birthdate changed 31 May 2021
Person:Estelle Myhand (1): cleaned up conflicting information 31 May 2021
Person:John Witt (2): birthdate changed 31 May 2021


Hi DataAnalyst - All fixed. Let me know when you find more for me to clean up! :)--aberksan 20:12, 31 May 2021 (UTC)


Persons needing dates [31 May 2021]

Hi

Below is the list of pages you contributed to that show up on a report as possibly born within the last 110 years. For many of these (especially the last several) it is quite a stretch to think they might have been born in the last 110 years, but nevertheless, they show up on my report. The list is in order from the most likely to have been born in the last 110 years to the least likely.

You will note that I spot-checked the list and added dates for a couple of people (not included below). I wonder if you could look after the rest. If you don't have dates for the last generation, even filling in dates for an earlier generation could get them off my list (e.g., if a mother was born by 1863, then I assume all her children were born by 1911). Note that this is a 1-2 year project for me, so there isn't a big rush, but it would be nice to know these pages are being looked after. Thanks. I appreciate any assistance in this task. --DataAnalyst 17:22, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Person:Pauline Bacque (1): birth and death dates added 31 May 2021
Person:Jack Hulsey (2): birth and death dates added 31 May 2021
Person:Solomon Lovett (1): first name + birth and death dates added 31 May 2021
Person:Elizabeth McIntyre (15): birth and death dates added 31 May 2021
Person:Hubert McIntyre (1): birth and death dates added 31 May 2021
Person:V.J. Moreau (1): full first name + birth and death dates added 31 May 2021

Person:Linda Davis (3): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Rogert Davis (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Unknown Duhon (2): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Cedar Granger (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Grace Granger (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Hacey Granger (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Lucille Granger (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Macel Granger (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Macy Granger (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Martin Granger (2): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Mary Granger (5): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Tracelee Granger (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Tracy Granger (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Unknown Hulsey (7): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Cordula Kastner (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Unknown Le Bleu (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Unknown McGann (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Johnny McGowen (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Unknown Savoie (1): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)
Person:Sarah Simmons (34): deleted by aberksan 31 May 2021 (not enough info on person)

Hi DataAnalyst - This is very helpful! I've been trying to find the pages that I uploaded that need attention and cleaning up. I'll start working on these after I've had more coffee. :)


Update - Done! :)--aberksan 19:16, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Wonderful! That's so helpful. Thanks--DataAnalyst 19:19, 31 May 2021 (UTC)