Familypedia:Community Portal/Draft updates

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Welcome!


This page is designed to help you navigate the Genealogy Wiki, and make use of its capabilities for displaying and sharing your family heritage. There are over 1500 operational Wiki's on the internet, all built around the same premise of collaborative efforts. Think of Wiki's as one big web page that anyone can edit. You can review existing content, or add new content, depending on your needs and interests.

This Wiki is designed to let people create articles about their ancestors. You may find information you need about an ancestor in an article that someone else previously placed. Or you might find that you know something that isn't covered in an existing article; feel free to add that information. No one will mind. In fact, we want you to edit these articles. If you have something new to say about the subject---or maybe you just know how to say something better---just click the edit tab on the article, and edit away. You can't make an irretrievable mistake, everything is backed up and recoverable in case of need. You may even want to create an article yourself. In fact, we hope you will! Thats because it's through the creation of such articles that this site grows, and become a resource of benefit to many. 

This site has three major purposes:
 * It serves as a repository family history information
 * It allows people to add to that repository by editing existing articles
 * it allows people to create entirely new articles about family members, and connect them into a network of related people.

The boxes below this one provide help for each of those functions. The fourth box below is intended to give users a pointer to the site registration page.
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Finding Things on the Wiki


Search Machines

 * Use the simple search box in the sidebar
 * Use the more intermediate level search box below
 * |Use Advanced Search

Each of the above has its advantages and disadvantages. Some additional guidance is found at Guidance

Indexes
There are several types of indexes available that can be used to find articles about people according to surname.
 * Category Pages

Special Projects
There are also a few Special Projects that have been developed around certain research areas. There aren't many of these, but we can expect more to be added in the near future.


 * The Wigton Walkers Focusing on descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland
 * The Walker ShortList Focusing on Walkers in Southwest VA, Northwest NC, and Northeast TN

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Editing Articles

 * Help:Editing
 * Margie Cowan's Wiki Tips, Tricks, Links
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Creating Articles

 * Help:Starting pages
 * Naming Articles
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Login and Registration
Its not necessary to register with this site to use it. However, there are several advantages if you do register. So, if you want to register go [|here]
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