Are you on WikiTree? Have you ever participated in any of their challenges? I recently heard about Project Sourcerers‘ and was curious about how to participate. The goal of this project is to add sources to unsourced profiles.
Since I strongly support attaching sources to my tree, I feel that this is a worthwhile project.
To begin participating in this project, I had to locate a ‘unsourced profile‘. Since I want to work in localities where I’m familiar with the records, I want to work on a U.S. profile. When I looked at the Kansas profiles, I did not find any for Nemaha county. From the list, I selected Albert Leon Dreher.
Albert Dreher died in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas. His obituary was published in The Wichita Beacon. This obituary includes the following information:
- Died Tuesday morning (18 Feb 1958)
- Born Jan. 30, 1903
- Married Freeda Calhoon May 16, 1936 in North Platte, Neb
- Funeral Friday morning (20 Feb 1958)
- Burial Wichita Park Cemetery
Beech Machinist Dies at Home
Albert Dreher, 55, of 2207 E. 24th St. North, died Tuesday morning at his home.
“Beech Machinist Dies at Home,” The Wichita Beacon (Wichita, KS), 19 February 1958, page 8; digital images, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed onilne 31 January 2024).
The Beech Aircraft machinist came to Wichita five years ago from Cambridge, Neb. He was born in Germany Jan. 30, 1903, and came to the United States in 1923.
He married Freeda Calhoon May 16, 1936, in North Platte, Neb. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Barbara and Linda, and two sons, Harlow and Dean, all of the home, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Brandtner of Trichtingen, Germany.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Church with Rev. Andrew Sabo, Zion pastor, officiating. Interment will be made in Wichita Park Cemetery. Cochran Mortuary is in charge of services.
Now I have a source to add to Albert Dreher’s profile!
I also added the Find a Grave source for Albert’s wife. After updating the profile, a green box appears at the top of the profile that provides an opportunity to record one’s participation.
Clicking on the Challenge Tracker opens a window with the profile information and prompts to indicate what action was taken.
While I’m not in a ‘competition’ to source more profiles than someone else, I can see my ‘standing’ on the Tracker for the challenge.
While it is fun to participate in such a challenge, I prefer working on profiles connected to my research. Thus, I likely won’t be very active in this challenge.