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@WikiTreers is a free One-World family tree set up like a wiki. It has been in operation since 2008. It currently has over 27 million profiles. The community of people who use WikiTree set up various online social events and challenges amongst themselves to encourage improvement of the quality of their tree. ...

This Wednesday, July 14 at 3 p.m EDT, I’ll be introduced as the @WikiTreers guest for the week. I’ll be on the panel of the Livecast which will be about an hour long. The first half hour will be the “reveal” of John Boeren, whose week they’ll have just finished up. The next half hour will introduce ...

I wrote several months ago about the WikiTree Challenge: No Genealogist Should Miss the WikiTree Challenge Each week, WikiTree is holding a challenge for all the people who use WikiTree as part of their “Year of Accuracy”. They invite a genealogy special guest – usually someone well-known amongst ...

When I first started doing my genealogy in 1974, I didn’t have a genealogy program to use. I started just like everyone else, simply recording information, and how everyone was connected in hand-drawn family trees. I had access to a Script document processor utility on the mainframe at my University that I ...

It’s been just over a week since FamilySearch released the official version of GEDCOM 7.0. See my article about the announcement. Now we probably will go into a period of silence, where nobody hears anything more about GEDCOM 7.0 for a while. The expectation is that all the developers are hard at work ...

FamilySearch released the official version of GEDCOM 7.0 today. You can find it at https://gedcom.io selecting “Specifications” from the menu. The standard is available as PDF or as HTML pages. The PDF is 96 pages, compared to Version 5.5.1 which was 101 pages. The specifications page also has a link to ...

I’ve been an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), i.e. single developer operation, for over 15 years. I have had my products Behold and Double Match Triangulator available for download for the many versions of each of them. I never put adware, spyware, viruses or anything bad in my programs. I pay money each ...

Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge for this week is: I thought I’d do that, following Randy’s template: A) On AncestryDNA, I have 149,270 matches. My Top 10 matches are: * First cousin, mother’s side, 1,047 cM, in tree * First cousin, mother’s side, 914 cM, in tree * ...