Hi Cayla! Congratulations, you've been a WikiTree member for a month! We're glad you're here. A few tips to help you dive in even deeper:
Check out Beyond the Basics of WikiTree for a guide to some of our more advanced features such as projects, categories, and merging.
We're very active on our social sites and we have an excellent blog where you'll find our monthly newsletter as well as tips, interviews with our members, and guest posts from others in the genealogy community.
And we're always looking for volunteers to assist in different ways.
As always, I'm here to help if you have any questions!
Cayla, are you interested in joining Wikitree? Please let us know that you read the honor code and you would like to join our collaborative genealogy community.
As a guest, you can search for your ancestors and participate in <a href="http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/">G2G</a>, where you can ask questions that you didn't find an answer to in WikiTree Help (see the Help drop-down menu at upper rightfor additional links that may be of use, please click my name and check out the links I list under my "Greeter" sectionespecially the Sources links and the links to my fellow greeters Debby and Maggie, who also have helpful information on their profile pages).
If you would like to join WikiTree, and help with our mission of one tree, please read the <a href="http://wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Honor_Code">Honor Code</a>, volunteer, and post a comment on your profile page; we'll be glad to add you to the WikiTree community.
Check out Beyond the Basics of WikiTree for a guide to some of our more advanced features such as projects, categories, and merging.
We're very active on our social sites and we have an excellent blog where you'll find our monthly newsletter as well as tips, interviews with our members, and guest posts from others in the genealogy community.
And we're always looking for volunteers to assist in different ways.
As always, I'm here to help if you have any questions!
~Lianne, WikiTree Mentor
If you need any help getting started, head over to the G2G forums or check out the Help section.
If you are feeling generous, you can join in as one of our Wiki Genealogists and help with one of our many Projects.
If you can't find what you are searching for, please don't hesitate to ask me.
Good luck growing your branches, and thanks for offering to help with our shared tree :)
As a guest, you can search for your ancestors and participate in <a href="http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/">G2G</a>, where you can ask questions that you didn't find an answer to in WikiTree Help (see the Help drop-down menu at upper rightfor additional links that may be of use, please click my name and check out the links I list under my "Greeter" sectionespecially the Sources links and the links to my fellow greeters Debby and Maggie, who also have helpful information on their profile pages).
If you would like to join WikiTree, and help with our mission of one tree, please read the <a href="http://wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Honor_Code">Honor Code</a>, volunteer, and post a comment on your profile page; we'll be glad to add you to the WikiTree community.
Happy Hunting!