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17 questions linked to/from Vote for the next Topic Challenge!
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How to increase our question rate?
We shouldn't obsess over our Area 51 stats, but our questions per day are a concern. For a healthy beta, we need a minimum of 5 questions a day, which equates to 1 question every 140 days from our ...
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What is biggest problem facing Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange?
I was recently involved in a moderator election on another Stack Exchange site and the question that made me think the hardest was:
What do you think is the biggest problem facing this SE? Do you ...
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Monthly Topic Challenges 2017 – Propose and vote on future topics
In the past we've had Weekly Topic Challenges. It's about time we start them up again, with a more concerted effort to attract quality questions and answers on specific topics.
But this time, it's ...
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Are you still looking for one particular Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death/Burial Record?
We have done this as a Topic Challenge before but I think it is time to dust it off and run it again:
Vital records that seem not to exist?
Things like elusive birth, death or marriage ...
PolyGeoMod
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Is there a census record that you've looked and looked for but cannot find?
Census Records that seem not to exist?
Every genealogist has at least one example of an elusive census
record!
Feel free to ask for help on how to locate your most elusive census
record ...
PolyGeoMod
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Are you interested in Canadian genealogy and Family History?
If you have Canadian ancestors and some unsolved questions regarding their genealogy and your family history here's your chance to try and clear them up!
The latest Topic Challenge, which will run ...
PolyGeoMod
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Weekly Topic Challenge: Let's ask about Naturalization (and Citizenship)?
It has been a slow week for questions on G&FH SE so I am going to declare the top answer (by score) to my call for weekly challenge ideas a few hours early.
It was (by a tie break):
In the USA,...
PolyGeoMod
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Weekly Topic Challenge: Let's ask about Family Legends?
The Weekly Topic Challenge enters its second week and this week's challenge is:
I just searched for mentions of Family Legends and found only one
such question for which I duly coined a new tag ...
PolyGeoMod
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Who needs help deciphering some old handwriting in family history documents?
The Weekly Topic Challenge enters its seventh week and this week's challenge is:
What about tutorials on old scripts / old handwriting?
Use this challenge to pull out those hard to read Wills, ...
PolyGeoMod
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Making the most of clues from Probate Records and Wills?
The Weekly Topic Challenge enters its sixth week and this week's challenge is:
We currently have 9 questions with the tag probate.
Wills are an especially rich source of names, which is a ...
PolyGeoMod
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Was your ancestor in a fraternal organization?
For our next Topic Challenge of 2015, I am setting one from @JanMurphy:
We have some questions about the Masons already. There are MANY other
fraternal organizations. I'm sure if we scoured our ...
PolyGeoMod
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Weekly Topic Challenge: Finding and using Probate records
It has been a while since we had a Topic Challenge. Let's ask questions -- or share our prior work with self-answered questions -- about probate records. How can you find them? What pointers can ...
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Who's that in your old family photo?
The Weekly Topic Challenge enters its fourth week and this week's challenge is:
to identify details in an old photograph that you need help with.
The photographs will preferably be of an ...
PolyGeoMod
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Ask your ANZAC ancestry questions on 100th anniversary of Gallipoli landing!
For our first Topic Challenge of 2015, I am setting one from World War I:
Do you have any ancestors connected to the Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps (ANZAC) landing at Gallipoli in Turkey ...
PolyGeoMod
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WWI centenary and finding records about WWI service members
This was posted as a proposal for a conference room chat.
Two of the big genealogy websites are having free access weekends this week in honor of the centenary of WWI.
Find My Past is/are offering ...
Jan MurphyMod
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