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Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: Country music star Chet Atkins (1924-2001) from the Tennessee Project.

Last week: Poet and playwright Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) from the Russian Roots Project.   [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: Edie Kohutek is active in our G2G forum, enjoys participating in challenges, and is working on a Frazier One Name Study. "I think G2G is my favorite thing because it is where the WikiTree community comes together to discuss issues and resolve problems. It is what sets this genealogy site apart from all others."   [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. TREMBLAY (152)
  2. SMITH (68)
  3. BRAKEMAN (68)
  4. HUTCHINGS (56)
  5. WILSON (52)
  6. WALRATH (44)
  7. GRAY (41)
  8. HITCHCOCK (39)
  9. WARWICK (37)
  10. MILLER (36)
  11. DAVIS (34)
  12. BRIGHT (34)
  13. BROWN (33)
  14. FINCH (33)
  15. SEDDON (33)
  16. JONES (33)
  17. REDMAN (29)
  18. CLACK (28)
  19. MCINTYRE (28)
  20. TAYLOR (27)
  21. THOMPSON (27)
  22. CRUCE (26)
  23. WARD (24)
  24. HARRIS (24)
  25. ALLEN (24)

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?

Today's latest posts:

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