How to Use WikiTree

If you are not familiar with the free family history resources at WikiTree.com, you should be. WikiTree is a website made for all genealogists to explore their family history, contribute to family preservation, and where you can add your family tree to the world collaborative tree at WikiTree. Several great advantages at WikiTree is 1) It’s free, 2) Every person has source citations where you can find evidence, and links that show you how family clans are connected, 3) it is run by dedicated and very helpful WikiTree volunteers from around the world.

There is so much to tell you about WikiTree that I had to make a video to show how to explore the free resources at WikiTree. The exciting part about WikiTree is that as you build your tree and make a connection to the world tree, you may just ripple out hundreds of ancestors with one connection to the world tree.

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TIMING
0:00 Intro
0:23 What Is WikiTree?
2:30 Guest Intro - Mindy Silva, Focus Portugal, Spain, Latin America
3:24 The Basics of WikiTree
4:10 What’s a collaborative tree?
4:32 Using WikiTree for the first time
4:59 The G2G Forum
6:00 How do I search WikiTree?
6:57 Editing Ancestor Profiles
7:09 Do I Need Sources?
8:11 How accurate is WikiTree?
9:00 The help section
9:10 How to cite sources
9:39 The purpose of sources
10:44 Edit your profile
11:24 Public Profile View for Living Relatives
11:59 Adding Your Parents
12:13 Family Member Account Level
12:30 Setting communication preferences and privacy
13:16 Tagging surnames, topics, and locations of interest
14:03 Create a new profile
14:44 Private vs Public View
15:50 The WikiTree Honor Code
17:05 Viewing Your Family Tree
18:11 Connecting profiles
19:11 Seeing ancestors on the collaborative tree
19:36 Connecting DNA Tests
20:14 Can I upload a Gedcom?
21:10 Is WikiTree Free?
21:24 Where to get started
22:50 Forum Notifications
23:00 How do I see a Profile ID?
23:50 About WikiTree
24:38 Famous Relatives Connections
26:50 Relation Finder
28:22 Connecting group relatives
29:45 Research Notes
30:12 Where to see the Sources
30:28 Add Hyperlinks
31:20 Who edited a record
33:13 Don’t be intimidated!
34:12 WikiTree Volunteers
35:08 What are WikiTree Projects?
36:28 Where to find projects
38:17 Mindy’s History
40:40 Outro

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