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the Genealogy wiki.
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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, and a list of begats.

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 that our ancestors found themselves within. Finally, this site aspires to be truly global, with active contributors and information from multiple cultures and all four Hemispheres.

Places on 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", 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 find answers to questions about using this Wiki.
  • Getting Started - Go here for some guidance on getting started on this Wiki.
  • Tutorial - An easy way for you to receive help.
  • The Water Cooler - 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.
  • The Sandbox - A place to play with formatting articles.
  • Communications - A summary of the ways you can communicate with folk on the Wiki.
  • Naming Conventions - for those who want to jump right in, please read the conventions first (unless you are dead keen to get onto starting pages and don't care what they look like or how anyone will find them!!!).
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Privacy: The records here are meant to form a historic record for the families concerned. Please do not include private information about living individuals without specific permission from the individuals. For more detail and reasons, please see our main privacy page.

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.

Surname categories 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. Edit or create a category link at the bottom of the individual's page to put that page automatically in the surname category.

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

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