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Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: First Lady Barbara (Pierce) Bush (1925-2018).

Last week: Naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) from the England Project.   [gallery of profiles]

 
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Wash and Dalph Chappell.   [gallery of photos]

Member of the Week profile image Member of the Week: Kenneth Evans is active in the Cemeteries and Australia projects. He appreciates that with WikiTree all his research is in one place — and this one place is accessible to everyone.   [gallery of members]

10th Anniversary   [event calendar]

 
 

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. SMITH (84)
  2. HOLDCROFT (78)
  3. ROBINSON (53)
  4. DAVIS (50)
  5. JOHNSON (45)
  6. BAKER (43)
  7. BENT (41)
  8. BALSOM (41)
  9. YOUNG (39)
  10. HUBBELL (38)
  11. MONTGOMERY (37)
  12. TRAUDT (36)
  13. BROWN (35)
  14. MILLER (35)
  15. PERRINE (30)
  16. WILLIAMS (29)
  17. CAMPBELL (29)
  18. SPEER (29)
  19. BAILEY (29)
  20. JONES (27)
  21. MURRAY (27)
  22. SCHWEGER (24)
  23. THOMPSON (24)
  24. BOWLUS (24)
  25. MARTIN (23)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: What is your favorite family memento?

Last week: What do you know about the origins of your surname?

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