Joan (Wood) Pinto

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Hi Joan, and welcome to WikiTree! You mentioned United Kingdom, India and New Zealand. I wanted to let you know we have some great projects here called United Kingdom Project and India Project and New Zealand Project they would be a great places for you to get involved once you have settled into WikiTree.

Thank you so much for joining WikiTree. Good luck with your research in 2015.

Maria

Hello Joan,

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Robert ~ WikiTree Mentor

Welcome, Joan! You are now a member of the WikiTree community.

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Glad to have you here! Carole

Hi, I am an Anglo-Indian who was born and brought up in India. My ancestors traveled to India either as Soldiers in the British army or with the East India Company. I am desperately trying to piece together my "Wood" line. I do not have many leads and am hoping I will be lucky on this site! I will share any information I find with whoever needs it. I am presently living in New Zealand.

I notice you have uploaded a GEDCOM. You will find that there are several stages in the process between uploading and importing a GEDCOM. Here are some things to do while you are waiting for your emailed match report:

• First, please read Before Importing a GEDCOM

• Here are some great step-by-step instructions

• Consider reading discussions about GEDCOMs in our forum, G2G

(After importing a large GEDCOM with multiple sources, I found that adding profiles by hand would have been more efficient. If you have a lot of sources for each profile, consider using the match function, but not the import.)

Carole

Hi Joan,

Welcome to WikiTree! As a guest, you can search for ancestors and participate in G2G, WikiTree’s forum.

Please look at the drop-down menus in the upper right corner and read our Honor Code.

If you would like help with WikiTree's mission to grow one worldwide tree (free, no spam), click the "Volunteer" button, then post a comment on your profile indicating that you would like to add info to the tree.

Let me know if you have questions.

Enjoy! Carole Partridge, WikiTree Volunteer