Welcome to WikiTree Series: An Introduction to WikiTree

[@thomaswickenden366]

Thanks, Leanne, for your tutorials. I have built a small tree in WikiTree and then have been merging it with other trees that include the same family name but from other software platforms. Since this process is a bit overwhelming, I wonder if you would consider providing a tutorial video on using GEDCompare to enlarge WikiTree. There are a number of topics that would be useful to address, such as (1) how to split up a GEDCOM to include a manageable and useful group of profiles, (2) how to focus first on suggested matches in your GEDCompare Report and what happens when you select "match," (3) whether to edit a matched profile and if so, what kind of email to send if there is a manager for the profile (i.e. the editing process), and (4) how you can encourage others to collaborate with you so you do not have to add or edit lots of profiles that are far removed from the particular set of ancestors you are interested in. Thanks for considering this suggestion. Tom Wickenden

[@alicemthomsen]

Thanks Leanne for your tutorials. I have revisited several of your tutorials.

[@ghagha6481]

I love that you are clear, concise, and sequential. I am a "butterfly" consumer of information and I need people like you. Thank you - this was a great help, although I am still quite lost about getting started. But it is not your fault- you are great!

[@tracymilne1938]

great to hear about merging, and the mentoring program. I have never heard of a mentoring program for genealogy, but you have stirred my interest!

[@vicarioustube]

Thank you great to start with.

[@pauldgreat2009]

Excellent platform

[@TedwardsTube]

Thanks for doing this, Leanne! Great job!

[@Mykellee11]

Well done Leanne! Onward and upward.

[@maggiem4817]

Terrifice and very clear! Thanks for doing this tutorial, Leanne.

[@rolandickice]

Thanks much great start!

[@marylee3849]

Faith, Family, Friends are my Foundation. I have built my life on that belief. My birth date was November, 3, 1944 in a small West Texas town I’d Stamford, which was the closest hospital from the Davis farm where we lived. I had one brother. He was 3 years older. Later our family moved to Abilene, Texas for better work opportunities for our parents and better school choices for my brother and I.

[@mannspencer9298]

I only wish more serious Genealogist would use wikitree.com , because everyone works together to create a one world Family Tree here

[@kathygeremia5343]

Why doesn’t my DNA test results from MyHeritage not show up? I entered the GED

[@Slohaw]

excellent video Leanne. Link should be posted to all new english speaking members.

[@patriciayoung5923]

I found myself unable to add my tree to Wikitree due to deliberatly entered inaccuracies I was forced to accept. IE: Grand Pre was in Acadia until the Treaty of Utrecht but Wikitree allows many of different names, but Acadia is apparently not allowed to stand on it's own: Nova Scotia and Canada are regularly added, and even Nouvelle-France! That region was NEVER in Nouvelle-France. The location should be what it was called during the ancestor's lifetime. Acadia is NOW called Nova Scotia, NOW in Canada, however it wasn't in the 1670s. Another example: people regularly make up a fantasy name for indigenous for whom there is no record and it's allowed to remain and forced on those of us who choose not to have falsehoods in our tree. One of those with a fantasy name is my ancestor. I can't allow Wikitree to change my tree with known bull pucky, and I certainly won't be a manager of it, but if I don't it's sitting there, up for grabs. Years ago, when I was trying to add my documented tree to the Wikitree project, I wrote the Acadian Project and I've repeatedly tried to correct an indigenous fantasy name. What I was told, and what it boils down to is I HAVE to accept it. Nonsense. I pulled my tree off the site years ago.

[@doodm7516]

Thanks Leanne, after seeing your tutorial I went back on one of the genealogy sites and found 254 "conflict", such as too old, kids birth after parents died. Going to clean up before I add the file. Thanks

[@robertschultz8799]

I have a family tree with 6,000 plus idividuals. Do I have to add each one separately or can I up load a GEDCOM FILE.

[@WikiTreers]

Hi Robert, you can upload a gedcom file. Check out the www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Current_GEDCOMpare_Process or contact a Mentor for help. www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Contact_a_Mentor

[@wwhiting007]

Thanks i needed this

[@CarolHiggins-v2u]

How to get on trusted list

[@dorothycreasman727]

Thank you for your overview. I am lost on how to add people and merge two accounts I started. Where can I get someone to help me.

[@DeborahNystromREVELN]

There are many good help documents right on the WikiTree website. Go to "help" on the upper right of website on the dropdown menus. It will show you how to merge. Also look here on KZbin using WikiTree and the key word for your question.

[@scottonanski4173]

Can someone sum this up for me? How do I use this site? I'm not looking for a 45 mintue lecture.

[@patwelch8187]

Your not starting at the beginning !!!! What is the volunteer stuff about ?? I can't even start looking until I do this ….Upload a Gedcom, what is that. Your using terminology no one has heard before..

[@leannecooper3848]

Hi Pat. I will be doing a future video on uploading a Gedcom. This is done if you already have a family tree elsewhere and you want to import it into WikiTree. For personalized help on getting started with WikiTree, I recommend you contact a mentor, who can help you out: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Contact_a_Mentor

[@dotmom61]

Hi Pat ... as I mentioned to Carolyn up above, a good place to start learning about WikiTree is on the "About" page: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:About_WikiTree ... even more information is on the Intro to WikiTree page: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:How_to_Use_WikiTree

[@Fillows4]

You don't have to upload a gedcom. I didn't. You can add your self your father, grandfather etc. I hate profiles that have ged.coms.

[@DeborahNystromREVELN]

@@Fillows4 I uploaded three GEDCOMs and then went about the task of figuring out how to clean up the most essential profiles first. The GEDComs saved me a LOT of time. I'm documenting four major family lines, thousands of photos, US Census data, Sweden, South America, etc. The GEDComs, though I didn't know how to get started at first, eventually made sense and gave me a structure to work with.

[@johanledin4851]

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