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Tip of the Week from Betsy Ko

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This is a list of all of Betsy's Tips of the Week as presented on the Saturday Roundup Livecast.

Contents

What are Free Space Pages?

Personal Categories

David Randall's Profile Completion Checklist

Watching your Watchlist

How to post photos in G2G

How to share WikiTree with friends and family through social media

I have a WikiTree Anniversary List? What can I do with that?

Making your WikiTree Navigation Page work for you

Create your personal pull down menu with the WikiTree Browser Extension

Betsy does her WikiTreeing on the iPad, part 1

Betsy does her WikiTreeing on the iPad, Part 2

How to award a badge to a fellow WikiTreer

What is the WikiTree Source Library?

Using the WikiTree FamilySearch Connection App

How to Get All Citations from a FamilySearch Profile

Finding your GEDMatch matches on WikiTree

How to Dig Deeper on Surnames of Interest

Do I have unconnected people on my watchlist?

How to avoid "double vision" with photos in your profiles

How to invite someone to WikiTree

This tip was originally presented on June 24, 2023 and then revisited on April 23, 2024 after changes to WikiTree's policies on inviting living people.

How to look for cousins in a cemetery

How to find your cousins on WikiTree

How to see the changes in your CC7 with Greg's Six Degrees app

How to double check for duplicate profiles

How to find suggestions for ways to tidy up your branches

More ways to tidy up your branches using Bio Check

How to lay out Cousin Bait

How to make a To-Do list with Watchlist Picker

How to Download your Source-a-Thon Bib and Create a Profile Sticker

How to search for common names

This tip was brought to you by David Randall.

Quick clean up of duplicate sources after importing from FamilySearch

This tip was brought to you by Sally Kimbel.

Did you know that World Cat has a citation maker?

This tip was brought to you by M Cole. Presented October 14, 2023, link will take you straight to the tip segment.

How to see a timeline of your ancestor's life

Timelines can be a valuable way to gain perspective on the events in your ancestors' lives. Greg and Betsy show two ways you can generate a timeline on WikiTree.

Saving the WikiTree Browser Extension Access Keys where you can find them

The WikiTree Browser Extension has a big collection of shortcut access keys built in. Thank you to Murray Maloney for sharing this text to make our WikiTreeing easier!

Tip shared on November 25, 2023, link will take you straight to tip segment.

Copy this text below to your Browser Extension Notes until you memorize them all.

1.
P.C.: Shift-Alt + letter — e.g., Shift-Alt-G for G2G Recent Activity
Mac: Ctrl-Opt + letter — e.g., Ctrl-Opt-G for G2G Recent Activity

2.
—Navigational Keys (jump to...)
1: Nav Home Page
F: Find — WikiTree person search page
G: G2G Recent Activity
H: Help Search — WikiTree Help search page
R: Random Profile
W: Watchlist — jumps to your Watchlist

3.
—Information Management Keys
I: ID — copy WikiTree ID
L: Link — copy WikiTree Link
U: URL — copy URL
N: Notes open/close
V: Clipboard open/close

4.
—While Browsing a Person Profile
A: Ancestors — like pressing the Ancestors button
D: Descendants — like pressing the Descendants button
E: Edit profile — open Editing session
M: Magnifier on/off
T: Tree apps — opens Tree Apps
X: Extra Watchlist open/close
Z: Zoom–in–Place on/off

5.
—While Editing a Person Profile
A: AGC — run Auto Gedcom Cleanup (AGC)
B: Bio — run Auto Bio
C: Compare — compare draft with saved information
E: Enhanced Editor — toggles Enhanced Editor while in Editing session
P: Preview — like pressing the Preview button while in Editing session
K: Category — opens the Category helper box
Q: Quit — return to profile / delete draft
S: Save — saves your current Editing session
T: Template — Add any template

Are you sure you don't have any duplicates on your watchlist?

Have you been using the "Find Matches" tab on your watchlist? It's a great way to deep dive and find potential duplicate profiles that need merging.

Tip shared on December 2, 2023, link will take you directly to the tip segment.

Use this WikiTree Browser Extension to find out more about your recent CC7 changes

Tip shared on January 13, 2024, link will take you directly to the tip segment.

WikiTree's new search interface

April 6th Tip of the Week
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Walsh-6014 Scott Walsh
Hi Betsy,

I'm not super knowledgeable about how all of the G2G stuff works or what G2G actually stands for. I do see the group challenges or project challenges come up from time to time. I don't participate in these because I'm not really an expert at all of this. I do have an idea for a project but not sure where to start it or how to get traction behind it. Thought I would post my question here in hopes that you could help direct me. Here is some backstory behind the idea for the project. I've always been fascinated with the old west, outlaws and how everybody says they're related to one of them. Off and on over the years I've worked on my ancestry through ancestry.com trying to build my tree using free trials when it was available. About a year ago I discovered that General Jesse Cole Lindsay who I had put in my tree on ancestry quite some time ago is a relative of Jesse James the outlaw (James-761). After realizing this I started looking at census records and birth records trying to make sure that I didn't inadvertently put the wrong people in my tree. I never heard of this in my family history so I thought I'd made an error. All my grandma ever said was that we come from good stock. So the idea behind the project would be to use the DNA relatives that have been made available through WikiTree to prove or disprove the claims that these different individuals are the real Jesse James. Wouldn't DNA solve the mystery, through DNA cousins or whatnot. For example if someone says they're a descendant of Frank Dalton wouldn't a portion of their DNA have to match with mine in some fashion? I have a friend who's maiden name is Howard and she claims she's related to Jesse James also. I think it's ironic that there's all these people that say they're a relative or kin in some way but we're not taking advantage of the resources available to prove or disprove all this madness. I've looked on here to see if there's already been a project started but I can't find one, I did find other people trying to determine their relationship to Jesse James when doing a direct name search in the G2G search bar. Thanks! And if this is posted in the wrong place sorry, as previously stated I'm not very familiar with how all this works or how to send a direct message.

posted by Scott Walsh
Ko-31 Betsy Ko
Hi Scott,

What a fascinating research project. It sounds like it has a huge amount of potential. I think what you want to do is start a Free-Space Project. Here's the help page with information on how to do that:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Free-Space_Projects

All you have to do is create a Free Space Profile and then you'll be in business. To do that, go to the Add menu (top right) and select "New Free Space".

Keep me posted on how you get on and certainly let me know if you have any questions as you set this up. You'll probably want to do a G2G post at some point to let others know about what you're doing so they can join in.

Good luck and have fun!

Betsy

posted by Betsy Ko