Michelle Allard

Just checking in with you to see how it is going, I hope you found the How to  pages and links useful. We want to help you learn about the site and the community, so if or when you have questions, ask in our G2G forum https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/  or click REPLY below this message, to ask me 

If you click your green tags it will show you members who are also following that tag. Add tags for family and other surnames. You can also add tags for locations or interests - explore the project link for these.  Tags link you to the community sourcing & research options, to add more tags (you can have 20) go to  your tags. 

You can find more information about tags here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tags.  

Have a look and explore Projects click Here to see which project might be helpful for your research

Check out our Videos Click Here  If needed you can turn on the subtitles on the video's

Janet ~ Wikitree Messenger 

P.S If links do not work in an email from WikiTree click in the comment box on your profile 

PPS. Please avoid the use of abbreviations as they can mean different things in different countries, always use the full words   

I'm a volunteer greeter, here to answer your questions about WikiTree. Our New Member How-To pages can help you get started adding profiles or just learning your way around.

These pages may help and save you some time, please see Sources and Sources Style Guide.

Welcome to the community!

See you in the branches

Laura ~ WikiTree Greeter

Thank you for adding your DNA Test information to your profile on WikiTree. Your information will be propagated to the profiles of your parents and your ancestors within about 24 hours of being added. It will also propagate to the profiles of the descendants of your ancestors, so they may see your information under the heading "DNA Connections" just as you can see theirs.

Getting started with DNA outlines how to proceed to use your DNA test information on WikiTree and DNA is a link to a collection of links about WikiTree's many features involving DNA.

The DNA Connections list on your profile will provide a visual way for you to find potential relatives on WikiTree who have also added their DNA test information. Using DNA tools at sites like GEDMatch.com, if you find a relative that matches your DNA sufficiently and you have genealogical sources for the intermediate relationships, you can mark the specific parental relationships back to the most recent ancestor that you both share as "confirmed with DNA." For details, guidance, and examples of how to properly document DNA confirmations, see DNA confirmation.

To be able to add names, you will need to upgrade. (There is no cost.) You can do this from your Upgrade page. Just answer the five questions, e.g. who you want to communicate with, if others can see your family tree, what surnames, locations, or topics interest you, etc, and click on the green box that says "Upgrade”.

Upgrading just means you will work on your ancestors to help us achieve our goal of joining all individual family trees into one global family tree.

I hope this helps! If you have any problems, let me know.

Take care Rhonda ~ WikiTree Greeter

PS One of our mentors created a tutorial for the GEDCOMpare process that others found very helpful. I hope that you will too.

This is just a note to say hi and to let you know that I'm available to answer questions about WikiTree.

To contact me, be sure to use the "reply" link for this comment so that I will be notified. You can also click my name to send a private message, or post a comment, on my profile page.

Laura ~ WikiTree Greeter