how do I add a biography?

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WikiTree profile: Alexander Bolen
in Genealogy Help by Todd Bolen G2G Rookie (220 points)

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Looks like you added Biography to the profile from at least one other source, since it has 'click here' in a few places.  You added the information before the Biography Header, so I moved the Biography Header to the top of that profile, added some colons to help with readability since you have quite a few areas that were running together.  I revised your Find a Grave citation into a inline source citation, incl the template, so it has a direct link to the Find a Grave page.  

I have sent you a private message also, with some additional information.  

More spacing is needed on the profile.  There is a lot of information on the children that should probably be moved to their profiles, along with sources, leaving minimal information on the parent's profiles.
by Linda Peterson G2G6 Pilot (776k points)
selected by Todd Bolen
I need to pretty it up. It was an old Word document written years ago. It was my first attempt to add something to a Profile.

I suspected that. I just added a few things to show you how you could do it.  Let me know if you need some help.  

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Biography_Creation_Helper

That page was created to help organize many help pages and information into one place. It will show you order of things in a biography, as well as try to direct you to other areas of information you might be looking for. 

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Click on Edit and type it in (or paste it in, if you've already written it).  Then click Save!

P.S.  Don't take two hours without saving in between or you could time out.
by Living Kelts G2G6 Pilot (549k points)
Great. That lead me to be able to paste something I wrote years ago. This was my first attempt to move a Word document to a profile. Thanks.

I now need to pretty it up.

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