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Question

I am new to this and I am looking to educate myself on how others have found information.  On the Bartlett side, I cannot find anyone past my husband's grandfather.  Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Welcome to WikiTree! I am Dave Draper and I am delighted to see you join our community. Here, we are passionate about building a single family tree and discovering our ancestry. I hope you find WikiTree as exciting and rewarding as I have. There is a learning curve so here is a link that might help you get started. WikiTree How To Here is How To Do IT

Please feel free to ask anyone about anything on this G2G forum!

That being said, some pretty neat things will happen as you enter your pedigree into the system. You may find that some your family has already been profiled here by cousins you never knew you had!

Here is an illustration:

Illustrated another way: You can't get a vacuum cleaner to run with out plugging the cord into the electrical outlet. Likewise, when your pedigree is plugged into the WikiTree, the connection finder will suck in every ancestor you never knew you had and populate your family tree automatically. That's what happed to me! That is what has happened to everyone of us here on WikiTree. That is the magic of WikiTree!

To connect to the tree, you will need to keep adding your grandfathers and grandmothers in our system until your personal tree hooks into our community tree. Once someone in your pedigree merges with the same person already profiled here, you will be connected to the WikiTree! Then you will find who you seek and so many more! Presidents, Mayflower passengers, movie stars, Kings and Queens are all related or connected to you. You don't know it yet but you are related or connected by a marriage to half the members on this site!

So please keep adding your pedigree and if you get stuck, we are here to help.

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• And all your genealogy

• But be Warned: It’s been predicted
• That soon you too will be addicted.
• It happened to others, and to me!
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Genealogy saying: "Genealogy is all about chasing your own tale."

Have a lovely day chasing your TALE!

Answer 2

Barbara,  

I was looking at your profile page and clicked on your father.  You didn't list his birth location, and you may not have known that.  That being said, it is helpful to put United States in as a birth and death location, as this is a world wide family/community tree.

I found this:

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LXWM-SRZ/willie-gene-prewitt-1929-1988

Then I found this:

Willie Gene Prewitt Groom Texas Marriages, 1966-2010

Marriage 30 April 1966  Harris, Texas, United States  Birth 1929   SpousesAnna Keith Willie Gene Prewitt BIRTH 2 May 1929 DEATH 29 Apr 1987 (aged 57) BURIAL Good Hope Baptist Cemetery Anacoco, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, USA  Show Map MEMORIAL ID 25217743  Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25217743/willie-gene-prewitt: accessed 06 June 2023), memorial page for Willie Gene Prewitt (2 May 1929–29 Apr 1987), Find a Grave Memorial ID 25217743, citing Good Hope Baptist Cemetery, Anacoco, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Nancy (contributor 46856759). Add the above source citation to your father's  biography in the sources.  (copy and paste it

Answer 3

Welcome aboard, Barbara!

If you are stuck on a particular profile, please post the link or ID number so other members can help you. You may also want to edit this post and add location tags for countries, states, cities, etc.

Good luck with your research and come back here to the forum if you have any questions along the way.