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Richard Simmons Connection Checkers: This week's theme is Exercise Gurus, in honor of the late Richard Simmons (1948-2024).

Napoleon Last week: French Notables starting with Napoleon Bonaparte.

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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

 

Jack Graham Member of the Week: Jack Graham [interview], who placed third in last weekend's Connect-a-Thon. Interestingly, he has made a project of entering classmates from local high school yearbooks.

"I like the premise of One Tree, and Free. And, Permanent! The idea of everyone having separate trees with variations in the mix of the same people seems outmoded."

Doug Leeper Last week: Doug Leeper [interview] is active in the Appalachia Project and Italy Project. He strongly recommends the "Discord" live chat channels for projects ("getting feedback at the time you are trying to figure it out is immensely valuable!").

"Doug is an amazing researcher and an absolute fount of DNA knowledge. ... As a fellow disabled vet, it is often difficult to be able to give back in meaningful ways like when we were serving. I am so grateful that WT brings us all together." —Erin Robertson

[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. BROWN (67)
  2. SMITH (66)
  3. BURKE (52)
  4. JOHNSON (47)
  5. DODD (44)
  6. DECHLER (43)
  7. THOMPSON (37)
  8. BRODERICK (37)
  9. HARRIS (34)
  10. WILLIAMS (32)
  11. TAYLOR (31)
  12. JONES (30)
  13. GREEN (30)
  14. MARTIN (30)
  15. BOUSQUET (30)
  16. COLE (29)
  17. YOUNG (28)
  18. CONWAY (28)
  19. WILSON (28)
  20. BAKER (27)
  21. SKAGGS (27)
  22. EGAN (27)
  23. LEE (27)
  24. DAVIS (26)
  25. MOORE (25)

Browse all the top surnames with their top contributors.

Question of the Week Question of the Week: Do you have Jewish roots?

Last week: Do you have French roots?

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