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Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: Poet and playwright Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) from the Russian Roots Project.

Last week: US President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004). Previously: "The Greatest Showman" P.T. Barnum (1810-1891), pioneer of the American circus.   [gallery of profiles]

 
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Het gezin Van der Wel - Van Wijnen.   [gallery of photos]

Member of the Week profile image Member of the Week: Wendy Sullivan is one of our friendly Greeters and co-leads the England Project and Spain Project. "There are so many wonderful people involved in these projects, who are giving so much of their time," writes Wendy. "I am very privileged to work alongside them all!"   [gallery of members]

 
10th Anniversary
 
"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 (75)
  2. ARMITAGE (72)
  3. HUTCHINGS (60)
  4. NUDING (59)
  5. WHITE (47)
  6. DAVIS (46)
  7. NIZAMANI (44)
  8. MILLER (39)
  9. STILES (38)
  10. PERRINE (38)
  11. WILLIAMS (36)
  12. BRUMFITT (36)
  13. JONES (34)
  14. NYE (32)
  15. GARBER (29)
  16. PARKER (28)
  17. THOMPSON (26)
  18. BAILEY (25)
  19. TASSE (25)
  20. FREUND (24)
  21. PLOUFFE (24)
  22. BROWN (23)
  23. BECKWITH (23)
  24. GREEN (22)
  25. JOHNSON (22)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Are you using Y-DNA in your research?

Last week: Do you have any genealogy trips planned for the summer?

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