Member of the Week: Christy Melick is a Team Leader in the US Black Heritage Project.
"I feel like it's important to use the skills I've gained to help others who are starting with a more difficult path ahead of them and a lot of times, more difficulty in finding the records they need. The US Black Heritage Project is a great way to do this. (If you're not ready to join the project, we're now doing one or two weekend sprints each month that are open to everyone, so if you have time, please join us in those sprints!)"
Last week: Gill Whitehouse helps new members in the England Project's Orphan Trail training program.
"The Orphan Trail is such a great way to learn, even if like me you don't think there's much left to learn, you soon find out that there's so much more and places that you never thought of looking."
[more members & member quotes]
"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
"Before WikiTree, I was skeptical and discouraged about big one-single-trees because there were (are) so many errors, but WikiTree is different because it's collaborative, genial and there are people available to help resolve any issues." — Roberta Estes, blogger
