Wiki Genealogist Honor Code

WikiTree is free, but it's not a free-for-all. Our community is collaborating to create something special: an accurate single family tree that's free and open to the world. This grand project requires mutual trust and a common understanding of how the community works.

If you were invited by a family member and are just creating or editing a few private family profiles, the following isn't critical. Those who participate at a higher level must agree to this shared code of ethics and principles.

This code is a pledge that community members make to each other. The creators and hosts of WikiTree have also made a pledge: to keep WikiTree free forever.

Our Honor Code

  1. We collaborate. When we share ancestors we work together on the same ancestor profiles.
  2. We care about accuracy. We're always aiming to improve upon our worldwide family tree and fix mistakes.
  3. We know mistakes are inevitable. We don't want to be afraid to make them. We assume that mistakes are unintentional when others make them and ask for the same understanding.
  4. We know misunderstandings are inevitable. We try to minimize them by being courteous to everyone, even those who don't act accordingly.
  5. We respect privacy. We privacy-protect anything we think our family members might not want public. If that's not enough for someone, we delete their personal information.
  6. We respect copyrights. We don't knowingly copy information that's owned by someone else. If we ourselves want to preserve a copyright, we're clear about what's copyrighted so others don't accidentally copy it.
  7. We give credit. Although most genealogy isn't copyrighted, researchers deserve credit for the work they've done.
  8. We cite sources. Without sources we can't objectively resolve conflicting information.
  9. We are united in a mission to increase the world's common store of knowledge. We always respect copyrights and privacy, but we keep information as free and open as possible.

Signers

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D. Schudy 28 May 2023. RB Gould 28 May 2023. Nicolas Hyland 28 May 2023. Kate Church 28 May 2023. Jeannie Stratton 28 May 2023. Jennifer IJsseldijk 28 May 2023. Marie Borchert 28 May 2023. Thomas Babington 28 May 2023. Aaron Bowden 28 May 2023. Marcus Frean 28 May 2023. T Ryan 28 May 2023. Diana Parrott 28 May 2023. Jerrene Walls 28 May 2023. Anthony MacDougal 28 May 2023. Robert Mosdell 28 May 2023. Zoe Petersen 28 May 2023. Kelley Stewart 28 May 2023. H Kamami 28 May 2023. Patricia Fouts 28 May 2023. Jon Davis 28 May 2023. Jennifer Round 28 May 2023. Christopher Bussau 28 May 2023. Zachary Payne 28 May 2023. N Lyon 28 May 2023. Jan Fleming 28 May 2023. Timothy V Jones 28 May 2023. Lori Kamp 28 May 2023. Elizabeth Smith 28 May 2023. Holliday Johnson 28 May 2023. Kay Lynn Rhodes 28 May 2023. R Atkins 28 May 2023. Sue Warren 28 May 2023. William Seay 28 May 2023. John Oldridge 28 May 2023. Tina Loizakes 28 May 2023. Jessica McCarthy 27 May 2023. Mary Lynn Brooke 27 May 2023. George Cox 27 May 2023. Charles Naegeli 27 May 2023. S Landry 27 May 2023. Wanda James 27 May 2023. Paul Bastien 27 May 2023. D F 27 May 2023. S Cambridge 27 May 2023. Shaun Taylor 27 May 2023. P. J. Swearingen 27 May 2023. Kathryn Humfries 27 May 2023. Haynes RajBhandary 27 May 2023. Pamela Pattison 27 May 2023. Stephen Slaten 27 May 2023. Willem Kardol 27 May 2023. Ad Janssen 27 May 2023. Jenny Loftus 27 May 2023. Holly-Anne Gibb 27 May 2023. Robert Bosch 27 May 2023. Aionan Rosa 27 May 2023. Weelassie Craig 27 May 2023. Yvonne Gallagher 27 May 2023. Anonymous Lathrop 27 May 2023. Larry Turner 27 May 2023. Carol Meyer 27 May 2023. Nikola Jokovic 27 May 2023. Carole Babcock 27 May 2023. John Parmentola 27 May 2023. Kellie Brown 27 May 2023. Eileen Manning 27 May 2023. William Gonzales 27 May 2023. Kevin Gay 27 May 2023. Justine Goocher 27 May 2023. Gina Carlson 27 May 2023. Alicia Gardner 27 May 2023. Nicole Jean Stoltz 27 May 2023. Irakli Akhvlediani 27 May 2023. Madison McCammon 27 May 2023. Brenda Gery 27 May 2023. Keegan Keegan 27 May 2023. Brenton McKinney 27 May 2023. Isabella Green 27 May 2023. A. Braunhart 27 May 2023. Dayle Ge 27 May 2023. Ron Gould 27 May 2023. Salam Khoury 27 May 2023. Kendall Brooks 27 May 2023. Timothy Oke 27 May 2023. William Thomson 27 May 2023. Gary Renton 27 May 2023. Lisa Ford 27 May 2023. Olve Mogstad Høivik 27 May 2023. Dawn Hogan 27 May 2023. Lavonne Coke 27 May 2023. Kathy Wise 27 May 2023. MJ MF 27 May 2023. Campbell Wareham 27 May 2023. Robert Moody 27 May 2023. Cecilia Saulters 27 May 2023. Rahshan Colbert 27 May 2023. Chrystel Guidry 27 May 2023. Theresa Welch 27 May 2023. P MacKay 27 May 2023. Brooke Miller 27 May 2023.

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