Connecting profiles to the free global tree on WikiTree

This weekend is one of four annual marathons on WikiTree. Today, as part of this project and this marathon, Connect-a-Thon XIII, I'll be working to connect previously added profiles to the global family tree. 

Last week adding the maintenance category of: Jehovah's Witnesses, Family Tree Size One was discussed and shown. This week we'll be picking profiles from this category and trying to get them connected. Let's get the family members of these ancestors added and see if some of them may already exist on WikiTree!

Today I'll be working on Leopold Engleitner who was an Austrian conscientious objector and a survivor of three concentration camps; Buchenwald, Niederhagen, and Ravensbrück. You can read more about him on his profile and Wikipedia page.

We'll start by adding his parents; Leopold Engleitner and Juliana Haas and his siblings; Heinrich, Wolfgang, and an unnamed brother who died in infancy.

As mentioned during the tutorial, here are links for some recommended Chrome Extensions:

• WikiTree Browser Extension
• WikiTree Sourcer
• WikiTree BEE

Building the Purple Triangles Dachau Memorial Database: Progress Update & Tutorial

In our ongoing mission to document and honor those bibleforscher connected to Dachau, we continue to make steady progress. Last week marked an important milestone as we introduced the project and shared a supplemental free-space page, along with an example profile. We successfully completed all profiles for surnames beginning with 'D' last Sunday.

Today, I'll guide you through the process of adding new profiles using the record collection for Dachau on Ancestry.com as our primary source. I'll demonstrate this with a step-by-step example record to help fellow researchers contribute to this important work. We currently have 10 entries pending for surnames beginning with 'E', which we aim to complete today.

One of our key objectives is fostering collaboration across the genealogical community. By sharing our research across different genealogy platforms, we create opportunities for researchers to connect, verify information, and expand our collective knowledge of these historical records.

In the video above you can see the different repositories used for providing source documentation for these profiles and the source citation for each. 

• Ancestry.com
• Arolsen Archives
• FamilySearch.org
• FindAGrave
• Watchtower Online Library

As mentioned during the tutorial, here are links for some recommended Chrome Extensions:

• WikiTree Browser Extension
• WikiTree Sourcer
• WikiTree BEE

We've now documented 92 individuals out of 435 in the Dachau records collection. Here are today's ten completed profiles:

Forenames	WikiTree
Max	Eckert-2220
Valentin	Eder-474
Josef	Edlmann-24
Karl	Ehrhardt-400
Michael	Ehrhart-357
Gertrud	Eichler-466
Paul	Eisele-438
Hermann	Emter-12
Ludwig	Estl-1
Bruno	Exner-148

The Purple Triangles sub-project on WikiTree

WikiTree is a free genealogy website, where genealogists collaborate on a single family tree. Back in 2015, the Holocaust Project was created, and the Religion sub-project, Jehovah's Witnesses was started in 2019.

Purple Triangles is a part of both of these projects, as Jehovah's Witnesses that were persecuted during the Nazi regime were identified with this symbol. The focus of this project is to document and memorialize victims of religious persecution, and connect them to the global tree.

An estimated 10k Witnesses were imprisoned between 1933-1945, about 2k Jehovah's Witnesses died during the holocaust, an estimated 400 were executed, over 1k died in concentration camps, some were killed in gas chambers, medical experiments or lethal injections.<Currently, the focus is working on the Dachau collection available on Ancestry.com, as there is an indicator for whether the victim is a "bibelforscher" or Jehovah's Witness, of which there seem to be about 450. See the space page: Purple Triangles - Dachau

WikiTree functionality allows grouping of profiles into categories, like "Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoners". This functionality will also be used for maintenance of these profiles, for example, "Jehovah's Witnesses, Family Tree Size One", indicates that family members need to be added to the grouped profiles. Members can then pick from that category when they are working on challenges such as the upcoming Connect-a-Thon, where the focus is adding as many profiles as possible during a weekend.

Each Sunday this blog post will be updated with the status of this project along with the list of profiles added that week.

Profiles: Denz-102, Dick-6686, Diesener-1, Unknown-706895 Dochat-3 Groß-8331 Domes-38 Dossmann-7 Dorner-236 Dorner-237 Dreher-1003 Dreier-226