Do we need a category for Irish Immigrants to Canada?

Question

I found this profile while fixing category brackets and the category [[Category:Irish Immigrants to Canada]] does not exist. Is this a defunct project category or should it be created? This profile is managed by a Project. I saved it with the incorrect category as I wasn't sure how to proceed.

Answer 1

Migrations are generally from state to state ,or in this case, County to Province.  For example, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Migrants_from_County_Fermanagh_to_New_Brunswick

Comments

Exactly right. There is also a migration sticker you can use on the profiles,

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Migrating_Ancestor

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Stu, CIB for that category needs fixing, showing Name as ''Migrants from AdminEntity to AdminEntity''.  Else it's a bug.

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You're probably the 1st person to look at that.  I don't see any on the migration categories using the Name field.  It turns out not to work anyway.  The template is here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:CategoryInfoBox_Migration

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seems like a coding error somewhere then.  Don't know why they went and stuck this on migrations categories, frankly rather lacking in ''Info''.

Answer 2

He died on Grosse Isle, which was the quarantine station for immigrants, like many others.  To actually properly set up a migration category for him we would need to know his intended destination: upper or lower Canada?  We rarely have documentation telling us that data.

Comments

as a note, there is a problem with Migration CIBs, they all seem to show AdminEntity to AdminEntity or blanket Country, Immigrants.  Obvious bug.