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[add comment] [edit] Welcome [15 December 2008]Welcome to WeRelate, your virtual genealogical community. We're glad you have joined us. At WeRelate you can easily create ancestor web pages, connect with cousins and other genealogists, and find new information. To get started:
If you need any help, I will be glad to answer your questions. Just click on my signature link below and then click on the “Leave a message” link under my name in the upper left corner of my profile page. Thanks for participating and see you around!--Jstump 10:49, 25 September 2008 (EDT) The tutorial I watched was the "Creating a Family", 4.45 minutes long. Actually, I watched all the video tutorials, and am so hopeful I'll figure out how to do this pretty soon...although it is more complicated than I realized...but I'll keep working at this. Thank you for setting it up so well.--Luv2birdAZ 00:21, 26 September 2008 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Copyright and Genealogy GemsGenealogy Gems. You recently mentioned that I violated copyright laws by adding these articles to WeRelate. I am a librarian at the ACPL and received permission from the Genealogy Center's manager to add these articles to WeRelate. I left the date and volume of these issues with the article so that others would know that these items were ACPL's, who is in partnership with WeRelate.--Tctheusch 10:30, 15 December 2008 (EST) [add comment] [edit] admin log [5 October 2008]Hi, I noticed you had a question about the admin log. We originally used the log only for administrators. But, we now use it for all volunteer time. We are a tax deductible 501c3 non-profit organization. As such, we need to show public support to keep our non-profit status. So, if you are volunteering on the source project or another project, or patroling edits, please record your time. Thanks for participating,--sq 21:18, 5 October 2008 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Category Cemeteries [19 November 2008]Hi Ceyockey, I noticed additions to cemetery categories, but the cemetery categories are not consistent. We have Category:Cemeteries and only one subcategory under this category; something to do with Australia. Then we have the categories recently added which are subcategories of the :Cemeteries of the United States. This one should be a subcategory of Category:Cemeteries. I have only used Category:Cemeteries because I was not aware that the others had been created. What method should one use to inform users of newly added categories? I have also confused myself as usual. Are the cemetery categories only for use with sources? What about places?--Beth 13:15, 19 November 2008 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Administrative Housekeeping [22 November 2008]Noticed your work on some administrative housekeeping in the Southwest Virginia Project, including the addition of the Category:Southwest Virginia Project to some pages. In response I've added a category to the project header, so that anytime the header appears, the category is automatically added to the page. That will save you some effort in adding the category tag to each and every page in this project. (G) Q 21:30, 22 November 2008 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Blue color on administrator log [7 December 2008]Hi Ceyockey, The blue color on the administrator log makes the text almost impossible for my eyes to read.--Beth 21:14, 4 December 2008 (EST)
[add comment] [edit] Categorization [4 January 2010]Hi Ceyockey, I see you've been doing some categorizing today. Could you describe your overall effort? I'd like to understand the thinking behind what you're doing so that I can better support you. Thanks! -- Jillaine 00:08, 4 January 2010 (EST)
[add comment] [edit] Pencader Cemetery Page [16 January 2010]I noticed an article you created that may be better utilized as a placename: Interments in Pencader Cemetery, Glasgow, New Castle, Delaware, United States. Since you are its only contributor I didn't want to change it without your permission or involvement. If you opt to change it to a placename then I'd like to add appropriate cemetery category Category:Cemeteries of New Castle, Delaware, United States to add it to the Cemetery portal. BTW, good work with the page. Is the cemetery owned and operated by the Pencader Presbyterian Church next to it?--BobC 13:23, 12 January 2010 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Welcome [15 December 2008]Welcome to WeRelate, your virtual genealogical community. We're glad you have joined us. At WeRelate you can easily create ancestor web pages, connect with cousins and other genealogists, and find new information. To get started:
If you need any help, I will be glad to answer your questions. Just click on my signature link below and then click on the “Leave a message” link under my name in the upper left corner of my profile page. Thanks for participating and see you around!--Jstump 10:49, 25 September 2008 (EDT) The tutorial I watched was the "Creating a Family", 4.45 minutes long. Actually, I watched all the video tutorials, and am so hopeful I'll figure out how to do this pretty soon...although it is more complicated than I realized...but I'll keep working at this. Thank you for setting it up so well.--Luv2birdAZ 00:21, 26 September 2008 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Copyright and Genealogy GemsGenealogy Gems. You recently mentioned that I violated copyright laws by adding these articles to WeRelate. I am a librarian at the ACPL and received permission from the Genealogy Center's manager to add these articles to WeRelate. I left the date and volume of these issues with the article so that others would know that these items were ACPL's, who is in partnership with WeRelate.--Tctheusch 10:30, 15 December 2008 (EST) [add comment] [edit] admin log [5 October 2008]Hi, I noticed you had a question about the admin log. We originally used the log only for administrators. But, we now use it for all volunteer time. We are a tax deductible 501c3 non-profit organization. As such, we need to show public support to keep our non-profit status. So, if you are volunteering on the source project or another project, or patroling edits, please record your time. Thanks for participating,--sq 21:18, 5 October 2008 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Category Cemeteries [19 November 2008]Hi Ceyockey, I noticed additions to cemetery categories, but the cemetery categories are not consistent. We have Category:Cemeteries and only one subcategory under this category; something to do with Australia. Then we have the categories recently added which are subcategories of the :Cemeteries of the United States. This one should be a subcategory of Category:Cemeteries. I have only used Category:Cemeteries because I was not aware that the others had been created. What method should one use to inform users of newly added categories? I have also confused myself as usual. Are the cemetery categories only for use with sources? What about places?--Beth 13:15, 19 November 2008 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Administrative Housekeeping [22 November 2008]Noticed your work on some administrative housekeeping in the Southwest Virginia Project, including the addition of the Category:Southwest Virginia Project to some pages. In response I've added a category to the project header, so that anytime the header appears, the category is automatically added to the page. That will save you some effort in adding the category tag to each and every page in this project. (G) Q 21:30, 22 November 2008 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Blue color on administrator log [29 November 2010]Hi Ceyockey, The blue color on the administrator log makes the text almost impossible for my eyes to read.--Beth 21:14, 4 December 2008 (EST)
[add comment] [edit] Categorization [4 January 2010]Hi Ceyockey, I see you've been doing some categorizing today. Could you describe your overall effort? I'd like to understand the thinking behind what you're doing so that I can better support you. Thanks! -- Jillaine 00:08, 4 January 2010 (EST)
[add comment] [edit] Pencader Cemetery Page [16 January 2010]I noticed an article you created that may be better utilized as a placename: Interments in Pencader Cemetery, Glasgow, New Castle, Delaware, United States. Since you are its only contributor I didn't want to change it without your permission or involvement. If you opt to change it to a placename then I'd like to add appropriate cemetery category Category:Cemeteries of New Castle, Delaware, United States to add it to the Cemetery portal. BTW, good work with the page. Is the cemetery owned and operated by the Pencader Presbyterian Church next to it?--BobC 13:23, 12 January 2010 (EST)
Please note my response to your other note on the same subject on my User Talk Page in case you don't get notified of the response. --BobC 21:52, 16 January 2010 (EST) [add comment] [edit] to process [29 November 2010]http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/86982062--ceyockey 23:56, 28 November 2010 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Richard Trapnell(s) [2 July 2011]Hi Ceyockey, I believe you are correct Richard Trapnell (4) is the middle of three 'living Trapnell' people associated with Richard Trapnell (2). My records show him b. 23 Apr 1950, New York, NY, which appears to match Richard Trapnell (4). Regarding Richard Trapnell (2) being the son of Richard Trapnell (3), this is not the case. RIchard Trapnell (3) was uncle of Richard Trapnell (2) , and he (3) had no children. see Category:Trapnell_surname.--Hugh 16:20, 2 July 2011 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Categories [15 July 2011]Hello Ceyockey, I've noticed that you are doing a lot of work with categories. I just wanted to alert you to a conversation here about Dallan's future plans for automated categories. He is planning to replace the automatically-generated categories at the bottom of pages (such as Smith in Maine) with a faceted search instead. I thought that since you spend a bit of time categorizing, it may be a topic of interest to you. --Jennifer (JBS66) 07:13, 15 July 2011 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Get Satisfaction [19 July 2011]Hi, WeRelate decided not to use Get Satisfaction. I don't recall the reasoning or what we talked about doing instead. Maybe someone else can clarify. --Beth 21:02, 18 July 2011 (EDT)
[add comment] [edit] Thomas J Yockey military info [21 August 2011]Added image of military discharge paper. Let me know your thoughts.--SusanYockey 19:12, 20 August 2011 (EDT) Thanks. Did you get this through in information request to the government or was it among papers you have in hand. I've added information bits from this to Dad's record and added to the caption that the thumbprint is not present, which indicates it's not a facsimile of the archived document but another edition. --ceyockey 11:44, 21 August 2011 (EDT)
I'm interested in posting his death cert. that I got from your mother, but I need to black out her information. David and I both looked at the discharge paper when it arrived and we couldn't figure out what the TEC meant. However, there were other things on it that we couldn't tell what they meant. What does TEC mean? It's possible that the original form with his thumb print burned in the fire, but at some point before the fire they made a copy of it. Unless, the military gave your dad the original and made a copy for their records.
Also, his education on the form doesn't seem to match. It said that in 1944 he had 4 years of college, so it makes it sound as if when he enlisted he would've been in grad school. Then it says that he enlisted in Nov. 1942 and he would've been 19, so I don't think he would've completed college by then, but I'm not sure. Do you know if your dad skipped a grade or something? [add comment] [edit] Yockey research in IL [7 September 2011]Planning to do some Yockey research in IL. Is there anything you'd like me to look up for you?--SusanYockey 13:43, 3 September 2011 (EDT) The possibilities are legion. I think top on my list would be a transcription of Crum Chapel Cemetery, where Dad (TJ Yockey) is buried. As far as I know, the only transcription resides at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilfayett/cemeteries/crum-avena/crumchapelcem.html (not yet in WeRelate, Place:Crum Chapel Cemetery, Fayette, Illinois, United States), which only lists 3 Crums and nothing more. That is not Yockey-related per se except it would provide some context to the St. Elmo-area, which holds the Davis-branch (Mom's side). I'm quite keen on cemetery transcriptions in general these days as there are so few of them and they are seldom complete. Second on my list would be to scrape up anything on Courtland M. Yockey and Jasper Lorenzo Yockey (not to be confused with Person:Jasper Yockey (1)). As far as I know, we've next to nothing other than oral history on these predecessors. --ceyockey 20:36, 3 September 2011 (EDT) I went to the Il State Archives early this am and got the death certificates for both Zona and Jasper L. Yockey. I tried to find Richard Yockey's death certificate and it's listed in their database, but the listing of the microfilm rolls in their book at the archives doesn't always tally with how it is in reality. I think that visit will be the only one at least this week. David said we might be able to make a trip up here after my conference is over. I'm not sure that I'll be able to transcribe the Crum Chapel Cemetery. My goal of this trip was to visit Mound Cemetery in Hunt City, IL. I really wanted to see your Yockey grandparent, great grandparent, etc. graves. Hopefully, we'll have time to visit the courthouse in Newton to get more Yockey documents. Do you know what county Courtland and Nora got married in and do you have an idea as to the year of their marriage? [add comment] [edit] Cite template [4 September 2011]You just marked the Cite template for deprecation. I think an explanation is needed and there is none on the page referenced by the deprecation. If you have been reading the Watercooler, you are aware that several times I have posted that the Cite template does things that don't seem to be doable as easy or any other way. (It works in notes and source citations whereas the ref tag does not. It is easier to do {{Cite|S1}} than to do [[#S1|S1]] and it is not clear to me that the second S1 in this last form will get renumbered if sources get deleted or rearranged.) I use the Cite template a lot, because as part of my analysis of a source, I often need to compare and constrast it to another source and want to a comment to a source citation something like "this disagrees with Wheeler{{Cite|S1}}", desiring a footnote to indicate ambiguously to exactly what I mean by "Wheeler" rather than letting the reader guess. Further I have posted many times about the inadequacy of the ref tag. If something were to be deprecated it should be that, as it is nearly useless for creating usable, easy footnotes. Although I use the ref tag to create footnotes in the narrative section, {{Cite|S1}} is easier than <ref name="S1"/>. The ref tag is only good for doing the exact same thing as the Cite template, and any other use of the ref tag than a plain footnote referring to a source citation either requires manually doing the citation inside the ref tag, potentially resulting in incomplete or non-standard citations, or suffers from the inability to simply leverage the already cited source with a different page number or explanatory text specific to that footnote. In other words, to effectively use the ref tag, each reference to a source must be described by its own source citations, resulting in multiple citations of the same source. Brain-dead. Please provide an explanation why the Cite template was marked to be deprecated, and what group decided this should be done? --Jrich 13:44, 4 September 2011 (EDT)
[add comment] [edit] Template navigation [26 December 2011]Ceyocky - I think it's an awesome idea to categorize all the navigation templates - so useful - and thank you for taking that on! I hadn't thought about that use of noinclude. One tiny favor... can you mark minor edit? I've gotten about 50 emails :-) Thanks!--Amelia 11:02, 24 December 2011 (EST) I'm not sure it was a problem, it could have been a poorly formatted Person page instead, but there is a possibility adding spaces to the Cite Template changed the way it worked. In any event, it may be worth keeping an eye out for this, especially in some of the formatting templates. Appending your categories in a whole line at the end adds a carriage return that is outside the noincludes, and depending on how precisely the formatting of the template was designed, it may make a difference? --Jrich 09:51, 26 December 2011 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Linked data, semantic web, etc. [5 November 2012]Trying to make sure I understand your remarks on the recent vote. I think, in some respects, I am interested in some things that are very similar to what you're interested in. Your key point, being, I think (in my words):
From that associatiation, we can do a lot of interesting things:
On it's own - WR is actually in pretty good shape - since key genealogical information has a predictable structure. I've written programs that traverse around the tree. There are other sources of information for which I think associations can and should be built. Not too surprisingly, these are the the reference/source items that I indicate on my user page as offering a unique description of a person, such that a correspondence can be established between the two repositories of content. This gets me to my greatest concern of all. How do we represent these associations? Naively, they could be represented as sources. Of course, the genealogy purists are quick to point out that these things are not really sources in the strictest sense. We further have the problem of knowing how - or when - a source reference on a particular person page - implies an association. The same WP biography could easily support information on multiple WR pages - so which one is the real one? The decision about when - or if - we see WP extracts is separate - but I really don't want to risk the association information in a discussion about cosmetics or temporary discrepancies between two copies of a database. --jrm03063 15:49, 25 October 2012 (EDT)
[add comment] [edit] Message boards [15 April 2013]Hey there, Just a head's up I going to delete/redirect your message boards pages. Source:Rootsweb Message Boards exists if you need to cite a board, but we long ago deleted all of the surname-specific boards. There's no content that would go on a page for a specific board that wouldn't go on one main page, and maintaining them therefore is a burden with no benefit. Plus they break the rule of creating pages for personal correspondence and personal trees, which is basically what they are. (We keep large central pages for the boards, as well as for things like public member trees, WorldConnect, etc., in recognition of the fact that they are frequently cited, but we don't have tree-specific pages, either.) Let me know if you have any questions.--Amelia 11:54, 15 April 2013 (EDT) (admin/source patrol) [add comment] [edit] Categories vs Search Discussion [11 May 2013]Although genealogy is my hobby and I spend a great deal of time at it, particularly in WeRelate, sometimes words used by administrators such as yourself are beyond my understanding.
What is faceting? I am sure that a visit to an online dictionary, if I knew of one, would not give an answer based on the needs of genealogists. Regards --goldenoldie 02:17, 10 May 2013 (EDT) Ohhh! You mean "breakdown"! Unlike Lidewij I can appreciate Jennifer's description of how to find an orange rug on a seller's website, or, perhaps, a book on Amazon or a computer monitor from an electronics distributor. But "faceting" is a term completely out in left field to someone who grew up speaking North American English, but had to adopt the United Kingdom variety when I migrated nearly 50 years ago (i.e., before the arrival of the personal computer). Regards --goldenoldie 07:14, 11 May 2013 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Mistaken identity?? [23 January 2015]Hi, Ceyockey, I got the message you left on my talk page, and my response is "Huh?". I think maybe you meant it for someone else, since it makes no sense to me and seems to be out of context. You might want to check and see if you meant it for someone else? --GayelKnott 22:12, 10 May 2013 (EDT)
[add comment] [edit] New categories needed [23 January 2015]Hello ! Please, see here ! Amicalement - Marc ROUSSEL - --Markus3 17:36, 23 January 2015 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Category:Online [3 November 2016]Hello - Wanted to give you a heads up that I am going to empty and delete Category:Online as part of our regular maintenance which includes patrolling for and cleaning up irregular Categories. I'm not sure what the benefit of such a Category is. It was only applied to 11 pages, so it is not widely used. I will put this on my ToDo list for next week, so please let me know if you have any objection before next Thursday (10 Nov 2016). If you would prefer to empty the Category yourself, I would welcome the assistance. Thank you, --cos1776 21:57, 3 November 2016 (UTC) (admin/maintenance) [add comment] [edit] Watercooler: Wikidata and Gedcom creation [21 December 2018]Just wondering what part of the world you are considering looking at in your investigation of Wikidata? As you may know I try to keep my WeRelate offerings to our "place pages", particularly in England as that's where I live. But I can't resist looking up "What links here" and investigating the list of people who hailed from the place I'm working with. Recently I have been looking at and expanding our Devon information. One of the Wikipedia contributors has included reviews of local manors and their owners over the centuries in his descriptions. Sometimes what is said about families in these Wikipedia place pages is more extensive than the details on the family pages. You may find these Wikipedia offerings of interest. Regards, --Goldenoldie 11:43, 21 December 2018 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Wehofer [28 January 2019]Hello, Hope you understand English, not sure where you are. My wife's great grandmother was Maria Wehofer b 1888 in Sopron. She married Willibald Gustav Pattermann in Vienna in 1909. They came to NYC in the 1920s. Regards. John Albertini--JohnAlbertni 13:34, 28 January 2019 (UTC) I've looked back through my recent contributions -- I think your reaching out to me might have been triggered by my marking Person:Jozsef Wehofer (4) for deletion. This activity came from a partial and on-going survey of person records looking for signs of records corresponding to living people; living person records are not supposed to be included in WeRelate and there have been efforts over the years to remove these systematically and as ad hoc efforts. If you have information that Jozsef Wehofer is no longer living, then inclusion of that would be sufficient to have the deletion request expunged. --ceyockey 02:06, 29 January 2019 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] GEDCOM Export Ready [23 February 2019]The GEDCOM for tree Ashburn is ready to download. Click here. [add comment] [edit] Adding isolated individuals [3 March 2019]Hi I notice you have been adding pages for isolated individuals found in Find A Grave. I question the value of doing so. WeRelate is about genealogy, which implies at least a partial family tree. Isolated records, whether from vital records or cemeteries, are generally considered to be a source for genealogy, not genealogy themselves. WeRelate is not meant to be a repository of unconnected transcribed records. Find A Grave serves a useful purpose of transcribing cemetery records, and I think we can leave it to do that job while WeRelate is a place for genealogy. BTW: I appreciate your help in finding pages for living individuals, which I have been deleting. Thanks for helping out at WeRelate.--DataAnalyst 17:45, 2 March 2019 (UTC) Couple of comments ...
[add comment] [edit] Thank you [8 March 2019]Thank you for fixing typo on date for my 2nd ggf John Perry Morgan. I really appreciate it.--Tammyhensel 21:41, 8 March 2019 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] FindAGrave source question [24 March 2019]I saw you added the FindAGrave for Alfred Blickensderfer (1). It seems as though you want this as the source for his death. Would you please add this as a second source to his death, as his death certificate would also be a source for that? Also, I have the cemetery plot records from Lynnhurst Cemetery where he and everyone else in that plot are buried, so that would be another source. Yes, I know I should add those to his page. RE: <source_citation id="S4" title="Source:Find A Grave" record_name="Alfred Blickensderfer (1908-2000)"/>--SusanYockey 16:53, 24 March 2019 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Carol A. Thayre [27 April 2019]Hi, you edited a page I created Person:Carol Thayre (1) recently. Just a quick note to say thank you, I'm actually going to delete this page as this person could still be living. It seems that occasionally a person gets mistakenly marked as deceased in my genealogy program (Legacy Family Tree) and then when I export to WeRelate sometimes I don't pick this up and a page gets created when it shouldn't be. I'm going to go through all the pages I've added born less than 110 years ago that don't have death dates and double-check if I need to delete the pages. Thanks, Jocelyn--jocelyn_K_B 21:22, 26 April 2019 (UTC) Thanks for the thanks. I edited the page as part of an irregular survey of people born by year which looks for person records which could be tagged for deletion based on their potentially being alive. As part of that, I do things like revise date formats and leave 'Red Flag' notes bringing things to the attention of other editors (like death year before birth year). I've an activity matrix at https://www.werelate.org/wiki/User:Ceyockey/PersonSurveys . --ceyockey 14:54, 27 April 2019 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] GEDCOM Export Ready [17 April 2020]The GEDCOM for tree Yockey is ready to download. Click here. [add comment] [edit] Census of Canada tidy-up [16 August 2021]Glad to see some updating here. These entries needed it. Could I make a few more suggestions?
I only do work on UK pages now (unless I find emigrants through their British birthplaces), but I have Canadian roots. Regards, --Goldenoldie 10:56, 15 August 2021 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] MoreI just re-sorted the 1871 census repositories by copying the LDS entry to a sixth line, followed by the paysites, and removed the originals from the top of the list. A bit of a pain this morning when the copy-paste facility on my mouse is playing up, but not impossible. You might ask DataAnalyst if she could add the programming trick she has done with sources on person pages into this bit of the database. (You do know, I hope, that you can now copy a whole source like a census from one family member to another, or simply re-order the sources for one person, using a copy-and-paste procedure that covers all the boxes at one fell swoop. What a boon!) I think we can remove the "Usage Tip" now. There have been a lot of changes to organizations and thier websites in the years since 2007 when WR started and we have not caught up with all of them. This is particularly true of the LDS with the introduction of FamilySearch and FamilySearchWiki. The {{source-fhlc|#####}} that introduces each of our place pages now leads to a dead link! One of the problems I work on is the duplication of placenames. I spent an hour last evening moving a family back from Devon to Aberdeen where they belonged. There were parishes named St. Nicholas in both places and some people just won't name places in full and/or forget to use commas. Regards, --Goldenoldie 09:55, 16 August 2021 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Old style months [23 October 2021]Hi, re: "corrected birth date 1-2 != 1 April". Actually it does. See Old Style Dates with Numeric Months. --Jrich 01:47, 24 October 2021 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Colonial spelling [23 October 2021]is phonetic and not to be taken literally, at least until Webster's Dictionary in 1820 timeframe. Thus Stephen and Steven are identical and often found for the same person and probably if you look, I suspect there is even a document that uses both spellings in the same document for the same person. So I am not sure what "real discontinuity" means. Also, werelate treats the two the same. Stephen search Steven search --Jrich 01:57, 24 October 2021 (UTC) based on last two -- I don't belong here, period. --ceyockey 01:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Archive classes [24 November 2021]Why are free websites being changed to Archive Libraries? For an intuitive interpretation it makes those repositories look distant and hard to access instead of as close as my computer. E.g., Repository:Newberry Library which requires a trip to Chicago. These sources have been classified as free website for a long time and that is exactly how a person accesses them. Is this just your decision to mix digital and physical definitions? --Jrich 03:06, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, appreciate that. --Jrich 14:22, 24 November 2021 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] GEDCOM Export Ready [22 December 2021]The GEDCOM for tree Yockey Core is ready to download. Click here. [add comment] [edit] GEDCOM Export Ready [22 December 2021]The GEDCOM for tree Yockey is ready to download. Click here. [add comment] [edit] GEDCOM Export Ready [24 December 2021]The GEDCOM for tree Ashcraft-Yockey is ready to download. Click here. [add comment] [edit] Speedy Deletes re FamilySearch [15 April 2022]Hi, I saw you were modifying old URLs to FamilySearch (presumably broken) to use a template that has more recent URL syntax. That's good stuff; thank you for doing that. Then I noticed that you had put "Speedy Delete" templates on some of the Source pages for which the change to use a template had failed and gotten a 404. That is not good. The one I checked existed and can be found, just not via the template. Please stop, and it'd be good to remove the Speedy Deletes before someone does delete them. I'll add some detail in an additional comment in a moment. --robert.shaw 19:42, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
I need to check that situation where template fails but original link works - that shouldn't happen. Thanks for rolling back. I was originally going to do a number of mergers to consolidate, which is how I got to finding the failing links and thought "well, familysearch does remove things from time to time". --ceyockey 01:13, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
I've rejiggered Repository:Lancaster County Historical Society (Pennsylvania) to include a finding-aid related to the periodical. --ceyockey 23:15, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
[add comment] [edit] spelling [1 October 2022]Re: Person:Mary Meddowes (2) There was no dictionary until Webster around 1820. Spelling was phonetic, Names were spelled however the town clerk wanted since many people couldn't write, based on the school they belonged to: half-educated, follow London, develop unique American spelling, rationalize the language by getting rid of unnecessary languages, or clerical that tended toward Latin. So there was no need to change the spelling on this page, Meadows being, of course, the modern spelling. P.S. as a simple illustration of this, names are often spelled differently even though they refer to the same person, because written by different people. I have seen multiple wills where the scribe spelled the name one way (in one case two different ways) and the signature was yet another spelling. [2] --Jrich 04:56, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
[add comment] [edit] Day of the Week [8 October 2022]I am not sure your day of the week calculator is accurate. Two calendars that I use, say something different. For 7 Oct 1653 (note: a Julian date, before the English switch to the Gregorian calendar): Your calculator says Tuesday ("October 7, 1653 is a Tuesday in the Gregorian Calendar"). Various countries switched at different times, but according to a Julian calendar, that date was a Friday. In 1653, the US and other England-controlled areas still used the Julian calendar. They switched in 1753. I have found this website useful because it shows both Gregorian and Julian dates. Julian is Friday, Gregorian is Tuesday, but Gregorian was not yet enacted in 1653 in English territories. Again different countries switched at various times. Russia was famously one of the last, because the October revolution in 1917 should have been the November 7th revolution, except that they hadn't switched yet, so their calendar said 25 Oct. --Jrich 02:04, 8 October 2022 (UTC) Thanks for the better site. I typically don't use the day-of-the-week calculator for very old dates, but rather for stuff in the 19th and 20th century in the United States, most frequently for calculating from information in short obituaries (like 'died wednesday' and the article has a date but not a day of the week). --ceyockey 13:48, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
[add comment] [edit] England & Wales census revisions [11 March 2023]I sure hope that the revisions you are making allow for better identification of the censuses when the sources are used in a Person's source references. I worked on these a few weeks ago and hope I did a decent job on it. Now I see you are making changes. Remember that these changes will not affect the text written on Person pages provided by contributors in the past. They will only work on new material. Regards, --Goldenoldie 19:47, 11 March 2023 (UTC) I only did some link revisions around FamilySearch and Internet Archive in the Source access link set. I haven't paid for access to Ancestry, so I usually don't tinker with those. I usually say pretty much what I've done in the edit summary, more or less. --ceyockey 20:19, 11 March 2023 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Mount Olive Cemetery Wilmington DE [30 July 2023]Hi - you have a link to mount olive listed under your sources. I'm the historian and I tried to edit and update link, but it won't accept a change. old site was on rootsweb, I can share the new one thanks--Rmbarry1066 11:26, 30 July 2023 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Vancouver Sun [11 September 2023]You created Vancouver Sun with Place issued: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Wikipedia says this newspaper is published by Pacific Newspaper Group and Linkedin says Pacific Newspaper Group is located in Vancouver.--fbax.ca 15:57, 26 August 2023 (UTC) Thanks for taking a look at this. At the bottom of the current Vancouver Sun homepage the footer notes that "Vancouver Sun, a division of PostMedia Network, Inc." which has as it's address "365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario". I'm going by what the homepage is referring to rather than what Wikipedia or LinkedIn is referring to. Mayhap wikipedia needs updating? The definitive answer should come from a current masthead of the print paper, which I don't have at hand, though. --ceyockey 01:06, 12 September 2023 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Fixed the Oungst family [22 January 2025]You might note that I fixed the family of Mary Westfall Mills and William Oungst. Quite the source - I haven't seen such a poorly formatted description of a family tree in a long time.--DataAnalyst 22:54, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] "Person:Nora Ferguson (2)" has been changed by Ceyockey at 23:31, 31 January 2025. Edit summary: added FamilySearch Person Link template [1 February 2025]Thank you for adding this to Nora Ferguson's page. I believe the 1950 census of Nora Ferguson, Courtland Yockey, and Thomas Yockey is in the dropbox folder. You might want to add that to her page. It was a challenging find for me when that census was released.--SusanYockey 16:51, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
I've revised all and redirected to FSID. --ceyockey 03:27, 2 February 2025 (UTC) [add comment] [edit] Covid ... [26 March 2025]Hello ! Why ? [3] - It's really impossible und illogical ! - --Markus3 05:58, 26 March 2025 (UTC) |
