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WikiTree is similar, but instead of general information it's for family trees. It's the best way of publicizing your family tree research. Some of your ancestors may already be on the website, or maybe not, but the goal is to become part of one singular global family tree. Once you publish and create profiles for ancestors, it's permanently ...
Wikitree does not have any records, you still have to use another site to look at those, FamilySearch is the only free site I know of that also has records, but their one tree has mistakes, anyone can edit your family. Wikitree, does not require you to put any real sources on post 1700 profiles, "My Granny told me" is quite a sufficient source ...
Family Search and any older trees have to be doubly researched as we are blessed with an abundance of source and searching capabilities that they never had a couple of decades ago. All as accurate as each other (which is not very unless you can verify the sources).
FamilySearch, WikiTree, or Ancestry. It depends on what you want from them. FamilySearch and WikiTree are "world family trees" which can be edited and viewed by anyone, for the most part - that's good because others can benefit from your work and people can collaborate and work together to research common ancestors, but bad because there are a lot of people out there who will recklessly add or ...
I love it. I use it as my main tree, just using ancestry for research. My sourced research eventually goes on Wikitree. It's really nice to connect to the main tree and it's nothing like family search's "one tree" which is basically the wild west. 😅 They have lots of great tools too. It takes some getting used to but we'll worth it.
On WikiTree, the current last name is whatever last name the person died with. If a person never changed their name, then their current last name would remain the same as their birth name. WikiTree is a shared tree and because of that, what the records say is the correct current last name overrides individual preference.
I continue to learn a lot from the Wikitree community. For example, searching the G2G forum is always rewarding. You will find thoughtful advice and strong opinion on almost any aspect of family history research. When there are disagreements, people work respectfully to identify the best answer. I'm impressed by the Wikitree culture.
I like the concept of Wikitree, it is creating a universal family tree. There can be only one entry per historical person, which makes finding "lost branches" easier if someone else has done the work on a distant cousin. I've been contacted by cousins, researchers and found many more resources for the rabbit hole of our family tree.
Wikitree is a "one world tree" site, intended to have one profile only per person. The good news is it's a little less "wild west" than the FamilySearch shared tree, so in general it's probably more accurate (but smaller than FS).
WikiTree is the most reliable of the "world trees" - an attempt at a family tree which any member can edit, and eventually would link millions of different people. It's nice that WikiTree focuses very heavily on the research aspect of genealogy, and places a lot of importance on sources.