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Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: Actress Katy Jurado (1924-2002) from the Mexico Project.

Last week: Writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) from the French Roots Project. [more profile examples]

 
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: , Mildred Rockey and Pricia Burk. Modena, Mercer County, Missouri. [more family history photos]

Community Clean-Up Challenge Challenge of the Week: Help us clean up errors in reference tags.

Member of the Week profile image Member of the Week: Robin Helstrom coordinates North American cemeteries for our Global Cemeteries Project and she's involved in the French Roots, Canada, and UK projects. "It's so thrilling to me to be able to connect with other users and to see my work is making a difference not only for myself, but for the genealogy community in general."

Member of the Week profile image Last week: Cory Fulmer participates in the Czech Roots, Sweden and Norway projects and is a frequent top-10 scorer in our weekly Data Doctor Challenges.

[more genealogists]

 
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
member since 2014

Top 25 family names yesterday:

  1. SMITH (105)
  2. BROWN (65)
  3. WILLIAMS (61)
  4. THOMPSON (53)
  5. JUDD (51)
  6. JONES (48)
  7. MOORE (47)
  8. BRUWER (47)
  9. JOHNSON (45)
  10. LIDSTONE (43)
  11. PLOUFFE (37)
  12. WHITE (37)
  13. TONEY (37)
  14. DAVIS (36)
  15. ODONNELL (34)
  16. DUNCAN (34)
  17. LEE (33)
  18. WILSON (33)
  19. مستوفیسمیعی (33)
  20. YEOMAN (31)
  21. MUERI (31)
  22. HARRIS (30)
  23. FLEMING (29)
  24. JACOB (29)
  25. MILLER (29)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: What message would you leave for those who come after you?

Last week: If you could time travel which ancestor would you go meet first? [more featured questions]

Today's latest posts:

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