Joshua O

No experience is required, but as you enter data, it's very important to include at least a birth date/place or a death date/place. Otherwise, it's next to impossible to find matches. Can you imagine how many John Smiths there are in the world? Dates and places are very important.

Another important consideration: documentation and sources for each profile you create, especially for ancestors in the 1800's and before. It's so easy to add the wrong ancestor so documenting and sourcing can be critical in finding your correct heritage and helping to promote accuracy in the worldwide tree.

Thanks for joining our community.

Welcome to WikiTree, Josh!

Thank you for volunteering to help us grow our worldwide family tree by adding your branches. I hope your experience as a member of the WikiTree community will be very pleasant and productive.

If you have a question, feel free to ask at the G2G forum.

Also, WikiTree Help is filled with useful information you might want to review.

Please check out our Honor Code . It is a very important part of why our community is such a friendly place to grow your family tree. :o)

I have no geneology experience and I am willing to abide by your simple rules.