Julie Swales

Congratulations, you've been a WikiTree member for a month! We're glad you're here. A few tips to help you dive in even deeper

Check out Beyond the Basics of WikiTree for a guide on some of our more advanced features such as Projects, Categories, and Merging.

We're very active on our social sites and we have an excellent blog where you'll find our monthly newsletter as well as tips, interviews with our members and guest posts from others in the genealogy community.

And we're always looking for volunteers to assist in different ways.

~Terry~

Ideas on what to include in a profile can be found in Styles and Standards, including some tips on writing biographies.

If you need to describe an event, an heirloom or a location relevant to your research, you may like to learn about Free Space Profiles.

Lastly, sometimes you'll run into unresponsive profile managers. We have a process for resolving those unfortunate situations.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask via my profile page.

Irene (WikiTree Mentor)

I'm Eowyn, a WikiTree Mentor and Team Member. Our primary vision is to build a collaborative tree with just one profile per person. The farther back in your tree, the more likely you will find duplicate profiles to link into, so it's a good idea to do a search before you create a new profile. Try to add an estimated date and place of birth, at the very least, a country, for each person. This helps in searches. Last but not least, try to source each profile as you go.

We also have a naming standard here.

Feel free to check out How To Use WikiTree. It's a great step-by-step guide to get you started.

Do you have any questions I can help with?

Thank you for joining WikiTree. Our G2G Forum is searchable or you can post a question there. The Help Index is also an important place to find how to do most tasks. If I can be of help in any way, please let me know! Welcome aboard! Mary

Welcome to WikiTree as a guest ! If you are just looking for family or other researchers working on the same names as yours, use the surname search function at the top of the profile page or ask at G2G Forum

If you would like to enjoy the benefits of being a full member, leave us a message here letting us know that you read the Honor Code. If you just want to be a guest, that's ok too but please let us know what you would like to do.

Once we see a message on your profile stating why you want to be a part of our collaborative genealogical community, one of our greeters will confirm you . Enjoy this video done by one of our members about WikiTree video WikiTree