Let's use this discussion to work together to add all approximately 70,000 Mormon Pioneers to geni.
I've created publicly available Google spreadsheets with the names of all currently known Mormon Pioneers. These lists have over 59,000 names on them.
Here's how you can help:
Any geni user can edit particular columns of these spreadsheets to add a link next to the name of any pioneer on the list who have profiles that are verified as being found on geni.
Here is a link to the Summary Totals sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SmOKQw2-O6hhF3biTIXUGbw35Cs...
On the summary totals document just click on any of the years in column "A." This will give you a pop-up link to click on. Doing so will take you to the spreadsheet containing the names of the pioneers that arrived in Utah in that particular year.
Each year is further subdivided into lists of pioneers that traveled together as a group. Each group has its own sheet on an individual tab on the spreadsheet. These tabs are found on the bottom edge of each spreadsheet. For example for the year 1847 there are 15 tabs called Sheet1 through Sheet15 with each tab representing a group or company of pioneers.
On each spreadsheet you'll see lists of names of the pioneers formatted as an easy google search term to help you find them on geni. These google search terms are in column "G" of the spreadsheet. Additionally the list contains each pioneer's birth and death dates as well as some links to other sites that will help in your searching. All you need to do is use the google search term in column "G" by copying and pasting that search term into a google search window and then look at the results. Usually the top most result will be the exact link to geni to get to that pioneer's profile.
On google if you find a promising search result click on it to open it in geni. Next compare the birth and death dates of the pioneer on the spreadsheet with the dates on the geni profile. Also look at the death location and see if they died in the western United States like in Utah or Idaho. If your confident that you have found them on geni next copy and paste the link of the geni profile back into column "H" of the spreadsheet. The column will automatically turn green if you place a link to a geni profile in it. However if you determine that a particular pioneer is not yet on geni type an "x" in column "H" and it will automatically turn a red color indicating that a pioneer couldn't be found.
When the spreadsheet is completely filled in we'll know which Mormon pioneers have profiles on geni. Then we can go back and add profiles for any that are missing.
Don't forget to make sure that the profile is added to the correct geni project. Just send a request to join any of the Mormon pioneer projects so that you can add profiles to the project. You can use this discussion topic to request to join any of the 25 Mormon pioneer projects.
I've found that the best way to work is to pick a year and a particular sheet and methodically go down the list and search for each pioneer on google in order instead of skipping around. Working this way I've already completed searching for all of the pioneers that arrived in 1847 and 1848 and I'm currently working on the year 1849. Some sheets have just a few names on them while other sheets have over 1,000 names on them.
Thanks in advance for your help and feel free to ask any questions in this discussion. You can also use this discussion to report which year and sheet your working on or have just finished.
Randy Stebbing -- Volunteer Geni Curator
ps. The google spreadsheets have revision control built in so if you make a mistake and don't know how to fix it let me know so that I can revert your mistakes back to an earlier version of the spreadsheet where things were still correct.
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