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Two project leaders, Michael Stills and Peter Roberts, at the RootsTech conference in Utah.

A project is a group of members organized around a topic or volunteer activity. There are "top-level" projects like the ones you see here, sub-projects, project teams and easy-to-start free-space projects. See the Project FAQ for more information.

To see if there is an existing project that fits your interests, browse the list below or Category:Projects, which includes many project teams and free-space projects not listed here.

If you're not sure whether there is a project that fits your interests or have any other questions, ask our friendly community in G2G using the tag projects.


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Topical Projects

Geographical Projects

Acadians

We aim to grow and source one family tree of French immigrants who settled in Acadia during the dates 1600-1763.

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If you can help as a Project Coordinator , send a note to Cindy Bourque Cooper if you're interested. If you don't already have an area of focus, we have tasks you can help with.


Africa

The Africa Project covers people who were born or lived in Africa. It does not include South Africa. See South Africa Project

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Appalachia

The Appalachia Project is a 205,000-square-mile region that follows the spine of the Appalachian Mountains from southern New York to northern Mississippi. It includes all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

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Australia

The Australia Project covers the profiles of people who were born or lived in Australia. It includes Australian First Nations people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation.

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Bahamas

To coordinate WikiTreers who are researching and improving WikiTree's coverage of families in the Bahamas.

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Canada

This is for WikiTreers who are working on Canadian profiles.

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Denmark

This project is for those with an interest in Denmark and its history.

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Early Scandinavia

The mission of this project is to improve and merge the many early Scandinavian profiles on WT, both fictional and historical. The profiles belonging in this project should be born in a location ruled by Scandinavians and have a birth year before the year 1200.

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England

The goal of the England project is to reach as high a standard of work as possible on English profiles and to increase the number of English profiles on WikiTree.

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Finland

The goal of this project is to bring together Finnish people, and those of Finnish descent, in one place to collaborate on Finnish profiles.

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France

The mission of the France Project is to support research and collaboration on profiles of French people, as well as people of French heritage or origin.

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Germany

The objective of the Germany Project is to create genealogies and biographies for those families that came from Germany and its population in Russia, Poland, Austria, and Switzerland.


Global

The Global Project also serves as a central hub for a diverse range of projects. It acts as a parent for projects with a global scope that lack existing project affiliations. Additionally, it offers a welcoming space for emerging projects which don't currently fit within established project structures or meet the requirements for top-level or sub-project status.

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Hungary

The purpose of the Hungary Project is to help new members with Hungarian ancestry. Members of the project can also identify and correct WikiTree profiles indicating Hungarian ancestry. The Hungary project will also create and correct village categories for Hungary


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Indonesia

The Indonesia Project is focusing on adding, sourcing and improving profiles of persons associated with Indonesia.

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Ireland

A project for WikiTreers with Irish ancestry or an interest in Ireland.

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Italy

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Latin America

The Latin America project is the umbrella project for the history and genealogy of the 20 Latin American nations: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.

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Mexico

The purpose of the Mexican Roots Project is collaboration on profiles of individuals and families directly associated with Mexico. The Mexican Roots Project is open to anyone who has an interest in the history or genealogy of Mexico.

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Netherlands

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New Zealand

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Nordic

Umbrella project for the Nordic countries.

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Norway

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Poland

The purposes of the Poland Project is to develop, maintain and do improvements on profiles at WikiTree for those who lived in Poland or have Polish ancestry.

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Portugal

The goal of this project is to gather people together to collaborate on Portuguese profiles in order to increase their presence on WikiTree and ensure that they can be of the best standard possible.

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Puerto Rico

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Québécois

A Project for members interested in helping to create, source, connect, and improve profiles related to the people and places in Canada, Nouvelle-France - today, territory of province of Québec.

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Scotland

The goal of the Scotland Project is to help Scottish profiles reach the highest standard possible and to increase the number of Scottish profiles on WikiTree.

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Slavic Roots

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  • Top Level Project: Global
  • Project Leaders: David Randall


South Africa

A top-level umbrella project covering the areas encompassed in South Africa currently and historically.
A project focused on profiles with South African connections, as well as working together to make WikiTree more South African friendly.

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Spain

The goal of the Spain Project is to increase the presence of Spanish profiles on WikiTree and to raise the standard of research into Spanish profiles and records. It is our goal to help make profiles of those born in Spain the best that they can be.

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Sweden

Sweden Project is a project for WikiTreers, of any nationality, who are interested in helping make the Swedish profiles at WikiTree the very best they can be.

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Switzerland

The Switzerland Project is focused on adding, sourcing and improving profiles of persons associated with Switzerland and their ancestors.

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Wales

The Wales Project is for WikiTree users interested in profiles related to the Welsh people and their descendants around the globe.

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United States

A project to gather many of the US-related sub projects together, spanning from before the USA was a nation to its current state.

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Themed Projects

Cemeterists

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Disasters

For WikiTreers interested in the development of profiles for victims, survivors, rescue workers or humanitarian aid workers of all disasters all over the world from ancient until the present, as well as free-space pages detailing the events.

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European Royals and Aristocrats

The oldest and largest project on WikiTree, EuroAristo's focus is on the noble families of Europe from 1500 A.D. to the present day. Pre-1500 profiles are part of the more recent Medieval Project.

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Holocaust

The Holocaust Project's mission is to reinforce remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, which stands amongst the most atrocious events of savagery in the history of the human race.

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Huguenot Migration

This project focuses on those French-speaking Protestant Christians who fled their French-speaking homelands (France, Alsace-Lorraine, today's Belgium etc.) to avoid religious persecution, migrating to other countries, including England, Holland, and Germany. It includes second and third generation Huguenot family members, born outside their parents' French-speaking homeland, who then migrated beyond Protestant Europe to North & South America, South Africa, the East Indies etc.

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Jewish Roots

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Magna Carta

The goal of this project is to categorize and improve profiles of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta; about two hundred proven American colonial Gateway Ancestors who were their descendants; and the documented lineages that connect them.

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Mayflower

For WikiTreers who are working on the profiles of the Mayflower passengers and their immediate families.

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Medieval Project

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. This Project is for WikiTreers who are pre-1500 certified and interested in improving the profiles of people that lived prior to the year 1500 A.D.

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Military and War

The purpose of this project is to build profiles and pages for the various military and war related events in our ancestries.

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Native Americans

A top-level project to manage and develop sub-projects according to tribe, event or other area of historical or cultural interest. The geographic scope will be lower 48 states plus Alaska in North America. The time frame will cover pre-colonial until the present.

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New Netherland Settlers

This project focuses on New Netherland families who settled the area during Dutch rule, and also includes their ancestors, descendants and other members of the New Netherland community. The primary period of interest ended in October 1674, but other people who were in the New Netherland area before 1700 and settlers' descendants who were born there as late as 1776 may also be included. See the project page for more details.

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Notables

A project to help add and connect the people and families of Notables throughout history to our global tree.

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One Name Studies

For anyone who wants to pursue a One Name Study, allowing sharing and collaboration with other members while keeping the structure of the study using categories.

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One Place Studies

For people participating in one place studies and wanting to make the most of WikiTree categories and other features to support those studies.

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Palatine Migration

The WikiTree Palatine Migration Project aims to support research and collaboration on profiles of German-speaking migrants, usually called "Palatine Germans" or "Palatines," who settled in North America, Ireland and elsewhere in the 18th century, prior to the American Revolution.

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Puritan Great Migration

For WikiTreers interested in the early Puritan colonists who started arriving after the Mayflower and form the 20-40k settlers who arrived in New England mostly between 1621 and 1640.

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Religion

The Religion Project is an umbrella project for religion-related projects.

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Societies

The mission of the Societies Project is to have a foundation of resources for individuals who are interested in, or part of, any genealogical society (this also include historical societies and libraries).

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US Presidents

To coordinate the efforts of WikiTreers who are working to improve the profiles of the US presidents, their Vice Presidents, as well as their descendants and ancestors.

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US Southern Colonies

Covering ancestors who lived in the Southern Colonies of pre-1776 America.

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William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers

For WikiTreers interested in the people who immigrated from Europe to Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas starting in 1682.

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Functional Projects

Accessibility Angels

The Accessibility Angels Project's mission is to find solutions to help people who, due to disability or aging, need some extra help using WikiTree.

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Adoption Angels

WikiTree Adoption Angels are volunteers who have taken on the mission of helping adoptees look for and connect with their biological families.

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Ambassadors

WikiTree Ambassadors are volunteers who are active in social media and/or blogging and who are dedicated to helping share the WikiTree love!

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Arborists

WikiTree Arborists are volunteers who have taken on the mission of improving the overall health of our single world WikiTree, specifically seeking out and merging duplicate profiles.

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Categorization

The Categorization Project is a functional project that exists to bring together WikiTreers who want to help manage the category hierarchy and encourage the use of categorization through teams that are aligned with the project's goals.

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Cemeterists

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Connectors

A project focused on connecting all the loose branches around WikiTree to our main Global Family Tree.

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Data Doctors

Members working together to use tools that seek out errors on our site.

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DNA

For those interested in improving how WikiTree works for genetic genealogists and integrates DNA test information.

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Greeters

A friendly group of members who welcome new guest members and answer questions about WikiTree.

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Integrators (G2G)

This project focuses on integrating WikiTree and G2G, the Genealogist-To-Genealogist Forum.

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Mentors

Mentors help people to become the best WikiTreers that they can be, whether that be coming alongside new members, helping people to learn how to source, do merges, understand DNA, work with GEDcompare, understand Styles and Standards, or pre-1500 profiles. They also work with those who are struggling to understand WikiTree's uniquely collaborative community and work towards helping resolve conflicts and improving communication.

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Profile Improvement

To bring together WikiTreers who love to make profiles beautiful and correct! We clean up messy biography sections and sources, and try to set standards for attractive, useful, and well-written biographies.

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Rangers

A Project for members who are interested in helping to prevent forest fires.

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Templates

The mission of the Templates project is to provide guidance and assistance in the development, documentation, improvement, usage and debugging of templates.

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Tree Huggers

The mission of the Tree Huggers project is to make sure members are happy, well-connected and know they are appreciated!


WikiTree Apps

This project is for discussing and sharing tools to make WikiTree better. It includes external tools and the development of apps. This group is especially for those with technical skills.

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New Projects

If you don't see a project above that fits your ancestors or interests, maybe you should lead the way and create one!

See Starting a New Project.



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