On WikiTree you can grow your personal family history in collaboration with your friends and family members, and at the same time, grow a worldwide family tree in collaboration with distant cousins and strangers.
You can create profiles of your family members and ancestors and link them together through parent, child, sibling, and spouse relationships. You can include biographies that are wiki in the same way these answers here are wiki. You can also upload photos, add personal memories, and post comments and questions.
There are also many advanced features on WikiTree. For example, there are a variety of tools for viewing and sharing family trees. You can see lists of ancestors, or view them in pedigree charts or trees. You can see lists of descendants. You can embed your family tree inside a blog or web page. You share your family tree on Facebook.
WikiTree is entirely Internet-based. It was created online. The creator of WikiTree, Chris Whitten, lives in New York State.
WikiTree does not cost anything to use.
There are over 2,120,000 profiles on WikiTree as of August, 2011.
Yes, there are some simple forms available on wikitree.
Yes, it is very possible to get addicted to WikiTree. It is possibly to get addicted to anything if you enjoy it enough.
No. At this point, WikiTree is only available in English. Profiles can be written in any language but the instructions and field names are in English. WikiTree does plan to add international versions later.
Yes. WikiTree is entirely free. There is no "premium" membership. Expenses are paid by modest ads on public pages.
WikiTree.com was started in 2008. Chris Whitten began working on WikiTree after leaving Answers.com at the end of 2007.
WikiTree is continually being updated. Every month new features and functions are released.
WikiTree was opened to the public for beta testing in 2008. However, that was an early stage and many functions were still being developed. WikiTree has released hundreds of new features since then. Every month new features are released.
WikiTree is entirely free. It does not charge anyone for membership. Expenses are paid by modest ads on public pages.
Chris Whitten.