Welcome to our Free Family Tree, growing stronger since 2008.
  1. Our community uses DNA and traditional genealogical sources to grow an accurate single family tree.
  2. Privacy controls enable us to integrate modern family history.
  3. Extraordinary protections ensure that our shared tree will never be lost.
  4. Everything is 100% free including many benefits for genealogists who sign our Honor Code.
Our tree includes 15,460,130 profiles (3,178,588 with DNA test connections) edited by 462,399 genealogists from around the world.
GET STARTED

New & Notable in the Community

Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: Joseph Broussard (1702-1765), hero of the Acadians in Louisiana. Last week: Queen Isabella I (1451-1504), sponsor of Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.   [gallery of profiles]

 
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Chet Petrie, 1950.   [gallery of photos]

Community Clean-Up Challenge Community Clean-Up Challenge of the Week: Marriages.

Member of the Week profile image Member of the Week: Czech-German Helmut Jungschaffer appreciates the "emphasis on documentation" at WikiTree and often helps with German sources that are inaccessible to others. He also leads multiple surname projects and the Czech Roots Project.   [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. PEASE (138)
  2. CAPPA (81)
  3. SMITH (81)
  4. BROWN (73)
  5. DAVIS (56)
  6. JONES (42)
  7. HILL (42)
  8. JOHNSON (41)
  9. BEYNON (40)
  10. ARTLEY (39)
  11. WHARTON (38)
  12. HEDGE (38)
  13. SHAFFER (38)
  14. SILLICK (35)
  15. PHILLIPS (35)
  16. WILLIAMS (35)
  17. WHITE (35)
  18. ADAMS (34)
  19. PARR (34)
  20. CLARK (32)
  21. KING (30)
  22. DAY (30)
  23. PATTERSON (30)
  24. NIZAMANI (28)
  25. PLUMMER (27)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Do you have any extraordinary athletes in your family?
Last week: Do you have Spanish or Mexican roots?

Today's latest posts:

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