WIKITREE

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about WIKITREE!

WikiTree Announces DNA Ancestor Confirmation Aid: The following announcement was written by the folks who produce WikiTree: 26 June 2014: Fourteen years ago, on 26 June 2000, it was announced that the first draft of the entire human genome had bee…

Exploring WikiTree – Post 6: Privacy Levels: I uploaded a GEDCOM file to WikiTree in the first post of this series.  In Post 2 in this series, we explored the Family Tree and navigati…

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: WikiTree is a free, shared social-networking genealogy website . it allows users to research and contribute to their own personal family trees . the site is owned and hosted by Interesting.com, Inc. members of a profile’s Trusted List have full access to view and edit details . profiles of people born more than 150 years ago are open for editing . members are requested to provide source citations to justify their changes members must pass a self-evaluated quiz to edit profiles of persons whose birth year is from 1500 to 1699 . the community developed a conflict escalation process to help with the resolution of such disputes . as of January 2016, a more stringent evaluation is now required to edit profiles of persons born before 1500 . members do not maintain individual trees, but instead contribute to a single collaborative tree . the site’s goal is to have the site maintains a page of “frequently asked questions” (FAQs) and a “genealogist to genealogists” (G2G) forum . points and badges are awarded to members two projects on the site are the Global Cemeteries Project and the Global Family Reunion Project . the site also maintains a blog that presents two other frequently visited pages . active members are asked to view and vote on the best WikiTree’s “GEDCompare” tool compares data contained in a user’s GEDCOM file . it identifies matches with existing profiles and eliminates duplicated profiles . the