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Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: Famous gunslinger Annie Oakley (1860-1926) from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Last week: English author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).
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Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Ayleen Yates.
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Member of the week profile image Member of the Week: Rubén Hernández participates in our Mexico Project and can be found in our G2G forum almost every day generously answering questions. "I can't stop WikiTreeing," he admits in his blog interview.

 
 

A member's poem for WikiTree: One tree, two tree, red tree, blue tree.

Gail Cox "After three years on WikiTree, it is still amazing to me that I can find such a rich online experience with so many different options ... totally FREE. All that is asked of me is that I be responsible to our community with the information that I'm putting up." — Gail Cox

Top 25 family names yesterday:

  1. HOWARD (167)
  2. SMITH (84)
  3. MILLER (82)
  4. THORNELL (64)
  5. MOORE (63)
  6. HALL (58)
  7. RAINEY (47)
  8. GREGG (46)
  9. ANGEVINE (46)
  10. MARCOUX (44)
  11. HUGHES (42)
  12. WATSON (41)
  13. ALLEN (41)
  14. JOHNSON (39)
  15. KING (38)
  16. MYERS (37)
  17. WILLIAMS (37)
  18. STRYDOM (33)
  19. RICHARDSON (31)
  20. FLASCHL (31)
  21. DAVIS (31)
  22. SCHOONMAKER (30)
  23. WILSON (30)
  24. ALLOWAY (30)
  25. SEARLES (28)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Do you belong to any lineage societies?

Last week: Have you attended a family reunion this summer?

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