Community Membership

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Two Types of Members

WikiTree has two types of members:

1. Wiki genealogists who sign on to the Honor Code and,
2. their family members.

Joining the Community

To join the community, you need to be invited by a current member.

• If a family member is using WikiTree ask them for an invitation.

• If you've found a distant relative on WikiTree click the "[private message]" link next to the Profile Manager's name and ask them to invite you.

• If you're a genealogist or family historian who agrees with the Honor Code here is a list of friendly members who welcome invitation requests.

Membership is 100% free. There are no premium memberships and we don't charge anyone for access to anything.

Benefits of Membership

Members who agree to the Honor Code and work with the community to further the mission of creating a shared family tree enjoy all of the following, for free. (Subject, of course, to the legal Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy.)

• Create and edit an unlimited number of profiles.

• Upload an unlimited number of photos.

• Restrict access to profiles of modern people using six different Privacy Levels and Trusted Lists.

• Invite an unlimited number of family members to privately share modern family history.

• Track up to 5,000 profiles on a Watchlist and manage privacy controls with bulk management tools.

• Monitor the contributions of other members through an Activity Feed on a personal Navigation Home Page.

• Receive weekly e-mail updates with recent changes, thank-yous received, and upcoming birthdays.

• Track all personal contributions and view detailed edit histories.

• Send family photos as e-cards.

• Limit surname index pages to display only family members.

• Resort surname index pages alphabetically, or by birth date, Privacy Level, or date of last edit.

• Coordinate family reunions, DNA projects, events and just about anything else on an unlimited number of public or private web pages.

• Receive messages without revealing an e-mail address.

• Display ancestors and descendants in five different Family Views.

• Instantly calculate the relationship between two family members.

• Use "FindMatches" and merging tools.

• Import GEDCOMs to bulk-create up to 2,000 profiles.

• Export GEDCOMs for safe-keeping or to upload a family tree elsewhere.

• Use family tree widgets and Wikid Shareable Trees.

• Participate in user groups for historically-significant ancestors.

• Have a user profile in the genealogist-to-genealogist forum.

• See virtually no advertisements.

WikiTree's only source of revenue is advertising on public pages. This is very limited, so we can only afford to provide these free services to members who share our mission to grow a shared family tree that will someday make genealogy free and accessible for everyone.

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