WikiTree

There is always something new to discover in Genealogy, and today I stumbled across WikiTree, a site I have somehow managed to never encounter before but one which definitely seems worth further investigation.

 
So what is WikiTree?  According to the website, Wikitree is a community.  

"Our mission is to grow an accurate single family tree that connects us all and is freely accessible to us all, forever.

WikiTree balances privacy and collaboration so that living people can connect on one world tree to common ancestors.

We privately collaborate with our close family members on modern family history. As we go back in time, the privacy controls open up. Collaboration on deep ancestors is between distant cousins who are serious about genealogical research, careful about sources, and willing to see their research validated or invalidated with DNA.

Because all the profiles are connected on the same system our collaboration is creating a single family tree that is connecting us all, preserving our history, and making our shared genealogy available for the world to access, for free, forever."

The WikiTree tree includes 32,059,521 profiles (10,525,200 with DNA test connections) edited by 944,653 members from around the world.

On the 4th - 5th November, the site will celebrate WikiTree Day with a number of speakers.  The site is currently open for registration and have more information about the day available, along with a list of speakers and their topics.

So take a look at WikiTree and see if it is for you.