April is for About Cleanup!

Pioneer Day would work perfectly, as that's a Tuesday and we could publish a Family Tree Tuesday about Brigham Young.

July 24, 2011 is on a Sunday this year I believe and not a Tuesday.

Brigham Young's profile is in much better shape than it was back in November when I started working on that area of the tree. His "about me section" is looking fine at the present time.

In the fall of 2010 Brigham Young had listed 74 spouses-- where he actually had "only" about 55 wives. After several weeks of careful merging, his profile has now been cleaned up to just 51 spouses attached to it. In other words 23 of the original 74 profiles were duplicates along with several duplicate children. But now things are much better.

...Now if I could only use the spouse re-ordering tool on more than 10 profiles without the drag and drop giving me fits:)

--Randy
PS. We should hit the 3,000th profile added to the http://www.geni.com/projects/Mormon-Pioneers-1847-1868-Master-Project soon. When I ran the numbers last week I had added the 2,812th profile.

Randy, you've been doing a truly spectacular job on the Mormon Pioneers. Every time I look at your projects there I think to myself that they're a model for all of us.

Gov. John Webster
Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, 1656

Since we're on Connecticut history, this profile needs help. I'm starting off by searching for a better image.

Good luck Erica...

http://www.cslib.org/gov/websterj.htm

"Portrait
There is no portrait of Governor John Webster.

Prepared by the History and Genealogy Unit, Connecticut State Library, April 1999."

Yes I saw that. I got a nice plaque up on the profile instead.

Ah...thought that was what you were replacing. What had been there, the cemetery marker?

Gov. William S. Livingston, Signer of the US Constitution is cleaned up and removed from the project.
--Randy

Samuel Wakeman who was an "Original Proprietor of Hartford" has had his "about me" section cleaned up and is now removed from this project.

Lt. Joseph Wheeler is done and removed from the project.

Well, it's not April anymore, but here's post #100...

I just finished and removed Ann Gheen.

It's far from fully cleaned up -- it's really just his abridged Wikipedia page right now -- but I just stripped all of the copyrighted information (which seemed endless...) and inappropriate personal tributes out of General Robert E. Lee (CSA)'s profile. I figure that's a start, though I'm obviously not removing it from the project yet.

We may need to keep a close eye on that profile as we're clearning it because it clearly attracts a lot of people who want to have their say about him, and Geni's really not the forum for that. :/

Removed Bunker G. Hubbard. Unfortunately, there isn't enough information him to expand the profile much -- he's an ancestor of mine and we've been fruitlessly chasing details on him for decades -- but at least it's tidy now.

May is for Mayhem?

May is for "Mothers."

I cleaned up James Woolsey and removed him from project.

We're going to need a June theme...and a new thread for it. :) Suggestions?

June is for reJuvenation.

I joined this project. I'm a repeat offender of cut and paste, but in my defense, I do cut and paste during stage 1 and plan to go back and create original, succinct, and accessible About Mes in stage 2.

Hatte, I think a lot of us do that. :) To me, this project isn't so much about cut-and-paste but rather *messy* cut-and-pastes. Also, we work with a lot of profiles that have had dozens of merges and therefore have really long, divided, repetitive "About Me" fields.

We're glad to have you! :)

I've removed the following:

* Dr. Edward Hunter Ludlow
* Elizabeth Ludlow
* Valentine Gill Hall
* Mary Livingston Ludlow
Anna Rebecca Hall
* Elizabeth Livingston
* Phillip Philip Livingstone

on the grounds that having *no* "About Me" profile doesn't equal needing to be cleaned up. (In other words, almost all of these "About Me" fields are empty or have only one line.)

My guess is that these profiles were added by someone who wanted to see them expanded, so I've taken them out; that's not our project's purpose.

Cleaned up and removed these two...

Phoebe Leavitt Covey

Wilford Cragun

I've added Sir John Harrington. Anyone who wants to work on it should consult http://www.geni.com/discussions/95508 first.

I've cleaned up these two and removed them from the project.

Abigail Woolsey

George Leavitt

Removed Gov. John Webster.

This weekend I'm planning on cleaning up the following 6 Mormon Pioneer profiles that I recently added to the project:

Henry Wilde
Jacob Madsen
William Draper, Jr.
Rebecca Dalton
Edward Dalton
George Leavitt

Opps I forgot that I already had completed George Leavitt last week.

He's done and removed now from the project:)

Henry Wilde
Jacob Madsen
William Draper, Jr.
Rebecca Cranmer
Edward Dalton

The above are now cleaned up and removed from the project.

Orson F. Whitney, Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is cleaned up and removed from the project