Community News
- New! See the profiles on your Watchlist that have the highest "Content Rank" and those that most need your attention:
 → Watchlist of Southern Pioneers Project WikiTree sorted by Content Rank
- Connect-a-Thon XV is coming! Join a team ... make new friends ... and bring the world closer together through family connections.
- To celebrate Juneteenth and the heroic work of the US Black Heritage Project we're featuring Black heroes in this week's Connection Checkers game.
- Your help is needed in the Juneteenth Weekend Sprint. Our mission, should you choose to join us: create profiles for all 5,503 Black Americans enumerated in the 1880 census in Galveston, Texas.
"We'd love help from all of WikiTree — this task (creating simple profiles) is something everyone can do." —Emma MacBeath
- You're invited to a Disco(rd) Party! Drop by the Juneteenth Research Party in Discord tomorrow, Thursday, between 6-8pm EDT (3-5pm PT, 10-12 UTC) to learn how to participate in the weekend sprint, research alongside your friends, or just lurk & listen as a wallflower. You don't have to dance ... unless you want to.
- WikiTreer of the Week: Dot Tribble [interview].
"I cannot say enough about the community WikiTree brings to bear. From the US Black Heritage Path gurus who taught me the right way to build a profile, to the transcribers who offer their time deciphering difficult-to-read documents, to the myriad of expertise wielded by the entire group of people who make up WikiTree."
—Dot
- Quick Tip: Experienced WikiTreers love the WikiTree Sourcer!
"It saves a lot of time and reduces the error rate when creating source citations, making it an efficiency multiplier." —Dot Tribble
"Making biographies using the Sourcer is so easy and so satisfying." —Judy Bramlage
 10,000 WikiTreers have now passed the CC7 2,000 milestone, i.e. 2,000+ family connections within seven degrees.
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Boost your personal CC7 with this app:
Missing Links for Southern Pioneers Project WikiTree.- Help the Data Doctors fix broken links.
- Question of the Week: Do you have a story of resilience in your family tree?
 Top Contributors to WikiTree Profiles in May
#1 Brian Quesnell.
#1 Stuart Awbrey.
#1 Sandy (Craig) Patak.
#2 David (Meredith) Loring.
#2 Scott McClain.
#2 Ron Lamoreaux.
#2 Cindy (Bourque) Cooper.
#2 Ellen Smith.
#2 Elizabeth (Greet) Viney.
#2 Steven Harris.
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