Recent changes Random page
GAMING
Lifestyle
 
Recipes
Vintage Patterns
Genealogy
 Pet Diabetes
Cocktails
How-To
See more...

Family History and Genealogy Wiki

From Genealogy

Jump to: navigation, search
Welcome to Familypedia,
the Genealogy wiki.
We are currently working on over 35,132 articles.

ATTENTIE: zodra U geregistreerd bent (eenvoudig en zonder verplichting),
kunt U Uw taalvoorkeur op Nederlands instellen
About  • Search  • Tutorial  • Help

New pages  • New files  • Active users  • Categories

Featured article

Charles Clifford Anderson was the fifth child of Council Anderson and Bessie Watson and was born near Hawkinsville, Georgia. His parents were farmers and may have retained much of the property that his grandfather had. Council is also supposed to have operated a general store. (Read more...)

(Featured articles - Archive)

Welcome!
This is a place where you can create articles about your ancestors, and easily link them to other articles about where and when they lived. You can work wholly within this wiki, or you can link your articles to sites on the world wide web. And because this is a wiki format, you can work collaboratively with others to create a network of articles about your ancestors and about those they lived and worked with—or simply about people you find interesting. As this site grows it is our hope that we will be able to gradually link our ancestors into a network that goes far beyond the simple nuts and bolts of who lived where and when.


The focus of this site is on capturing the details of the lives of our ancestors, both those historically significant people and the everyday people usually not listed in encyclopaedias, histories, or even "people's histories". Along the way, it is our hope that the site will also provide information about the historical and social context in which our ancestors found themselves. Finally, this site aspires to be truly global, with active contributors and information from several cultures and languages, and all four Hemispheres.


We have some of the latest wiki software to make page display easy and minimize duplication of work. Semantic MediaWiki is being developed to make data entry as easy as on a commercial program and to make data retrieval and presentation easier still. Until that's fully polished, the current best method of creating pages for people is the info page system (see the "Create info page" link on the sidebar).


Sign in and join us. Plenty of friendly genealogists here to help if you get stuck!

Sections of this wiki
There are several places that you may want to be aware of when you start working on this Wiki. Some of them can be visited by clicking the links in the adjacent "Navigation Menu" — with "Create a page" being very important for most of us — and some are unique to this site. They are all useful to those working the wiki.
  • Guided Tour - A quick tour of the Genealogy Wiki, with a link to tours of other wikis in the Wikia community.
  • Help or simply Category:Help - Somewhere to go to look for answers to questions about using this Wiki. Some comes from the central Wikia Help; but a growing amount is written by genealogists for genealogists about how to get the most out of this particular site.
  • Help desk - ask other contributors for help regarding this Wiki or genealogy in general. Check recent changes for the help desk
  • Getting Started - More guidance on getting started.
  • Tutorial - A step-by-step process of help.
  • Naming conventions - for those who want to jump right in, please read the naming guidelines (unless you are dead keen to get onto starting pages and don't care what they look like or how anyone will find them!!!). Before adding your trees, please note that there are several naming conventions in place here to prevent duplication of work.
  • Watercooler - discuss activities on this Wiki.
  • Community Portal - Things useful to know about this Wiki.
  • Special Project Areas - Collections of articles built around a theme.
  • Current events - A place to note upcoming events of interest to those using this Wiki.
  • Administrivia - A place to present things you should know, but may not want to!!
  • User page - Suggestions for setting up a user page.
  • Sandbox - A place to play with formatting articles.
  • Communications - A summary of the ways you can communicate with folk on the Wiki.
  • Surnames - there is (or is intended to be) for each surname a separate category, which in turn is a subcategory of the category for surnames in general. Each can have a detailed matching article.
  • Multilingualism - linking English to other languages and creating articles (but not categories) in any language.
Other Matters
Please see: Privacy policy | Copyright issues

Cultural sensitivity: Some cultures are sensitive to the recording of certain types of information. For instance, some tribes of Australian Aborigines forbid the viewing of images of dead people. Australian Aborigines request that pages with pictures of deceased Aboriginal people be clearly marked as such so that the user can choose if they wish to view the page. See guidelines on cultural protocol.

Alternative spellings: Where you are familiar with alternative spellings (eg White/Whyte), please note them on the surname article page and if possible create and/or link to those categories. Other readers may not have known of the alternatives or thought to look there. See Help:Surname for more details about how surname categories work)

All contributions to Wikia (with some exceptions that do not include this wiki) are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA). See Wikia licensing for details.

Retrieved from "http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Family_History_and_Genealogy_Wiki"
Facts about Family History and Genealogy WikiRDF feed
Rate this article:
Share this article: