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Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: Naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) from the England Project.

Last week: John Jacob Astor IV who went down with the Titanic on the night of April 15, 1912.   [gallery of profiles]

 
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Thomas and Harold Jordan.   [gallery of photos]

Community Clean-Up Challenge Spring Clean-a-Thon: April 21-23.   [event calendar]

Member of the Week profile image Member of the Week: Gilly Wood has been on WikiTree for six years. She's an active Greeter who welcomes new members to our community. And sometimes she goes much further than a simple welcome. "It is very exciting helping others locate their ancestors," says Gilly.   [gallery of members]

 
 

A poem for WikiTree: One tree, two tree ....


"It's been wonderful to experience how collaborative genealogy in WikiTree makes all of us better genealogists. Collaboration on our shared ancestors encourages us to share information and to hold each other to high standards." — Ellen Smith

Top 25 family names yesterday:

  1. SMITH (109)
  2. TREMBLAY (97)
  3. CHAPPELL (50)
  4. VEAL (46)
  5. MILLER (42)
  6. JOHNSON (41)
  7. BROWN (41)
  8. REDFIELD (36)
  9. PERRINE (35)
  10. ROYAL (35)
  11. WILLIAMS (31)
  12. FONTENOT (30)
  13. PARKER (28)
  14. TAYLOR (28)
  15. MILLS (28)
  16. BRODIE (28)
  17. JONES (27)
  18. THOMPSON (27)
  19. LEWIS (26)
  20. ROBINSON (26)
  21. CLAYTON (23)
  22. BURR (23)
  23. TEMPLIN (22)
  24. SAMPLE (22)
  25. WHITE (22)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: What do you know about the origins of your surname?

Last week: Have you found a connection to a Titanic passenger?

Today's latest posts:

See our Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) community forum for more.