Wednesday Weekly - 11 July 2018

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Happy Wednesday WikiTreers!

Here’s this week’s WikiTree news as well as some of our favorites picks from around the genealogy community.

Happenings Around the Tree:

• Profile of the Week: Baseball legend Babe Ruth (1895-1948).
• Question of the Week: Are there any baseball players in your family?
• Member of the Week: Juha Soini leads the Finland Project, helps improve our shared tree as a Data Doctor, and generously helps new members as a Mentor.
• Challenge of the Week: Data Doctor analysis has discovered 50,000 marriage-related errors and suggestions to investigate. Together we may be able to clear them all by Monday.
• WikiTree’s Canadian projects are active and energetic. See the updates from the British Columbia, Ontario, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia projects.
• Shirley Dalton is leading a group of WikiTreers who are finding surnames for profiles with unknown last names. Can you help?
• Quick Tip: If you need an introduction to WikiTree or a refresher, see the 10 simple steps on How to Start Climbing Our Tree.

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Happenings Around the Genealogy Community: 

• The Ancestor Hunt has complied 1,010 free online historical photo archives for the U.S.
• Check out the new searchable records FamilySearch added last month for several countries including England, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and many others.
• NEHGS is offering free access to all online databases until July 17. If you have ancestors from New England, don’t miss this opportunity!
• Family History Expos is presesnting an online virtual genealogy conference October 15-October 20.  For details, visit their site.
• The Legal Genealogist, Judy Russell, wrote this week about copyright and the online photo.
• Got Dutch? Read up on the June issue of Dutch Genealogy News.
• Genea-Musings blogger, Randy Seaver, used WikiTree and other sites, to see if he’s related to Benjamin Franklin.  Check out his post to see if he is. Are you?

Don’t forget to check  GeneaWebinars and ConferenceKeeper for upcoming genealogy webinars, online meetings, hangouts and events.