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Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: French explorer, founder of Detroit, and namesake of the Cadillac car company, Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac (1658-1730) from the Quebecois Project.

Profile of the Week Profile Image Last week: Actress and singer Judy Garland (1922-1969).

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Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Louis Oze Tailor Shop.   [gallery of photos]

Member of the Week profile image Member of the Week: Elizabeth Winter is an active Global Tree Connector. "I spent a few months on people who have counties named after them in the USA. I did about half the people in that category, profiles and connecting." She's also an active Cemeterist — she coordinates work on Connecticut cemeteries.   [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 (83)
  2. MADSEN (55)
  3. KINGSBURY (49)
  4. JONES (48)
  5. GRAY (47)
  6. JOHNSON (42)
  7. KENNETT (41)
  8. HUNTER (40)
  9. BROWN (37)
  10. WAKEMAN (36)
  11. MERCER (35)
  12. GWOZDZ (35)
  13. JACKSON (34)
  14. LEDFORD (31)
  15. MURRAY (31)
  16. ADAMS (30)
  17. WILSON (29)
  18. TAYLOR (29)
  19. BOWLEN (29)
  20. WILLIAMS (28)
  21. CRISP (27)
  22. MARTIN (26)
  23. THOMPSON (25)
  24. BOURGEOIS (25)
  25. GLEED (25)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Have any of your ancestors had something named after them?

Previously: Do you have Australian family?

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