Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm for WikiTree! It is such a wonderful platform to collaborate on and I hope to continue to see the number of genealogists working on it, grow over time ❣️
In a post of 26 April 2019, the genealogist Kitty Cooper discusses why you should add your research to WikiTree. She starts her post “A heartbreaking moment for any family historian is when you discover that your late genealogist cousin’s wife has shredded all his papers. This actually happened in my family.”
Sadly, this has happened in my family too. However, with Wikitree I believe my research will be there as a resource for my descendants and my cousins to use now and indefinitely into the future, safe, I hope, from accidental or malicious damage.
Oh, THANK you, @saphyre! I've honestly been a little afraid of Wikitree, but you've made it accessible. I've built out more than a few corporate wikis and websites, so it's not the tech that scares me, it's more the fear of a finger-wagging "you're doing it wrong" assessment. (Yep, that fear is real.)
As MissionGenealogy.Substack.com, we've been thinking about ways to support each other on tools without tipping into the slippery slope of affiliates. I'd love to chat live at some point to get your insights. Reach out to me at Projectkin.org/calendar. It could be a cross-posting, or perhaps a separate section that points to posts about tools (like a variation on the missiongenealogy.org/community page) I'm not sure. I'd love to get your insight.
Hey there. Thank you, Saphyre. I confess, I've been one of those not-quite-good-enough to consider myself a "genealogist" and I too have been confused. Wikis I get, but the simple idea of records-elsewhere now makes so much sense. I've joined the Facebook group and will try to get up to speed there.
I am so glad I could help! Please don't hesitate to DM me if you run into problems - I'm happy to help! Also, sometimes the FB group is good - other times there seems to be a fair bit of grousing... The G2G forum on WikiTree can also be super helpful! Good luch - looking forward to our paths crossing again!
Thank you so much, Saphyre. I appreciate that, you'll see me around a bit more now that I'm a subscriber 😉. In the meantime, pop by our budding community at MissionGenealogy.Substack.com. The whole idea is to create a safe space to trade such tips, share recommendations, and generally help each other. Just like this. Thanks 👋
Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm for WikiTree! It is such a wonderful platform to collaborate on and I hope to continue to see the number of genealogists working on it, grow over time ❣️
I love Wikitree and use it as my main platform as well. :-)
I am a great fan of Wikitree too. I wrote about it at https://anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/wikitree-what-is-it-and-should-i-use-it/
In a post of 26 April 2019, the genealogist Kitty Cooper discusses why you should add your research to WikiTree. She starts her post “A heartbreaking moment for any family historian is when you discover that your late genealogist cousin’s wife has shredded all his papers. This actually happened in my family.”
Sadly, this has happened in my family too. However, with Wikitree I believe my research will be there as a resource for my descendants and my cousins to use now and indefinitely into the future, safe, I hope, from accidental or malicious damage.
Oh, THANK you, @saphyre! I've honestly been a little afraid of Wikitree, but you've made it accessible. I've built out more than a few corporate wikis and websites, so it's not the tech that scares me, it's more the fear of a finger-wagging "you're doing it wrong" assessment. (Yep, that fear is real.)
As MissionGenealogy.Substack.com, we've been thinking about ways to support each other on tools without tipping into the slippery slope of affiliates. I'd love to chat live at some point to get your insights. Reach out to me at Projectkin.org/calendar. It could be a cross-posting, or perhaps a separate section that points to posts about tools (like a variation on the missiongenealogy.org/community page) I'm not sure. I'd love to get your insight.
As yet I haven't tried WikiTree but have only wonderful things about it. Now that I'm retired, I will be diving into it. Thanks for the reminder.
I’m so glad! Let me know how you like it!
Hey there. Thank you, Saphyre. I confess, I've been one of those not-quite-good-enough to consider myself a "genealogist" and I too have been confused. Wikis I get, but the simple idea of records-elsewhere now makes so much sense. I've joined the Facebook group and will try to get up to speed there.
I am so glad I could help! Please don't hesitate to DM me if you run into problems - I'm happy to help! Also, sometimes the FB group is good - other times there seems to be a fair bit of grousing... The G2G forum on WikiTree can also be super helpful! Good luch - looking forward to our paths crossing again!
Thank you so much, Saphyre. I appreciate that, you'll see me around a bit more now that I'm a subscriber 😉. In the meantime, pop by our budding community at MissionGenealogy.Substack.com. The whole idea is to create a safe space to trade such tips, share recommendations, and generally help each other. Just like this. Thanks 👋