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Profile of the Week Profile Image Profile of the Week: The "father of British Columbia," Sir James Douglas (1803-1877) from the British Columbia Project.

Last week: "Bad Frank" Phillips (1861-1898) of Hatfield and McCoy feud fame.
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Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Henry and Deborah Beckwith.
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Member of the week profile image Member of the Week: Laura (Pennie) Bozzay is very active on WikiTree, including in the German Roots Project. This month she made contact with a cousin in Germany thanks to WikiTree's DNA partnership with GEDMatch. Meet Laura in her blog interview.

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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. LEACH (162)
  2. BELL (87)
  3. CARLYLE (68)
  4. SMITH (53)
  5. LEICHT (44)
  6. GRAHAM (41)
  7. REMINGTON (37)
  8. WILLIAMS (36)
  9. WHITE (35)
  10. JONES (34)
  11. TAYLOR (34)
  12. ROSER (34)
  13. WILSON (34)
  14. BUMGARDNER (33)
  15. MOSHER (32)
  16. TINGUE (30)
  17. JOHNSON (30)
  18. FULTON (28)
  19. FOLLETT (28)
  20. BROWN (28)
  21. HILL (28)
  22. DAVIS (28)
  23. BARNES (27)
  24. BOYD (27)
  25. BURCHETT (27)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Are you related to a Magna Carta Surety Baron?

Last week: Do you have a French connection?

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