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Australia Connection Checkers: This week we feature Notable Australians in honor of Australia Day on January 26. To play our genealogy game, first check your connection to our featured notables, then attempt to verify a relationship path with reliable sources. Ask when you get stuck. We're a friendly community and we help each other.

Last week: Kings, starting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., born 15 Jan 1929.

Previous features:

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Magazine Cover "WikiTree is a great, collaborative, global family tree site for genealogists of every level from every part of the world." —Family Tree Magazine UK, November 2023

"Before WikiTree, I was skeptical and discouraged about big one-single-trees because there were (are) so many errors, but WikiTree is different because it's collaborative, genial and there are people available to help resolve any issues." — Roberta Estes, blogger

"It's been wonderful to experience how collaborative genealogy in WikiTree makes all of us better genealogists. Collaboration on our shared ancestors encourages us to share information and to hold each other to high standards." —Ellen Smith, member since 2014

 

Member Photo Member of the Week: Peter Jones [interview], Team Leader for New South Wales in the Australia Project.

"I've connected with so many wonderful people on WikiTree, many of whom are cousins that I never knew. ... I'm in regular contact with cousins in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA."

Member Photo Member of the Week: Cemeterist and Remember the Children project member Kimberly Lindsay [interview].

"My favorite feature on WikiTree are the apps, especially the WikiTree Browser Extension. I love to press the auto-biography generator, and it creates a biography, and I can just add to it."

[more of our wonderful wikitreers]

GenealogyTV did a video tour: "How to Use WikiTree."

For another member's perspective, see the "Welcome to WikiTree" video series.

Here's a member's introduction in verse: "One tree, two tree ...".
Ancestry DNA

Top 25 family names yesterday:

  1. SMITH (70)
  2. JONES (61)
  3. ROBERTS (48)
  4. BROWN (45)
  5. THOMPSON (43)
  6. NORTON (41)
  7. MILLER (37)
  8. WILSON (36)
  9. DAVIS (35)
  10. JOHNSON (35)
  11. TREHANE (33)
  12. TAYLOR (30)
  13. ALLBRITTON (28)
  14. GABRIEL (28)
  15. EVANS (27)
  16. LODDER (27)
  17. WILLIAMS (27)
  18. PEDERSEN (24)
  19. MOORE (24)
  20. PFEUFFER (24)
  21. FAGAN (23)
  22. NISCHLER (23)
  23. FREMLIN (23)
  24. KING (23)
  25. EDWARDS (23)

Browse all the top surnames with their top contributors.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Do you have Australian family?

Last week: Who are you named after?

Previously: Do you recommend Ancestry or MyHeritage to new genealogists?

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