Family History and Genealogy Wiki

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Welcome!
Welcome to Genealogy.Wikia, or The G-Wiki; The Genealogy of The World. We are working on  pages and looking to have thousands more.

There are multiple facets to this site. It captures details on individuals&mdash;both historically significant people and the everyday people usually not listed in encyclopedias, histories, or even "people's histories"&mdash;as well as providing other information, such as:
 * the backgrounds and meanings of names
 * quick links to recorded ancestors, siblings, and descendants
 * other relationships that often determine who people are, eg:
 * monarchs
 * the chain of Sufi initiation
 * other titleholders

This site aspires to be truly global, with active contributors and information from multiple cultures and regions over four Hemispheres.

Please feel free to contribute to this site, no matter how small or large your input: it all helps towards the creation of a great site. {| width=100% border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=4 style="margin:0;border:1px #aaaaaa solid;border-collapse:collapse;"
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Places to Start

 * The Genealogy index.
 * Given Names: Meanings, historical significance, cultural context, etc.
 * Family Names: Meanings, historical significance, cultural context, etc.
 * Genealogical trees, or Shajraha-e-Nasab
 * Sufi Initiation Chains

There is a list of all the surnames of our recorded people, another category has links to lists of people by surname, and a template, to make page creation easy, is available at Genealogy:People Template.

If you want to add a person or a name, use the link for Genealogy:People Template or Surname Template to see the recommended format for a page. Do not worry if you do not have all the information to start with. Check first, by using the search box, that the person or name does not already have a page. If there is one, then you can edit the page to add more information. If there is not, you need to create a page. See the help section for starting a new page.

You can work on some world-famous people such as Adam, Biblical first man mentioned in the Bible and the Quran, or Muhammad, Prophet of God.

If you are looking for an individual you can look using the surnames list or you can enter the name in the search-box on the left. There are lists of people by category, as in the Sufis, English monarchs, U.S. Presidents, or other people in positions of authority.

Or perhaps, more contempory people such as Genghiz Khan, Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire/House of Taimur, Aurangzeb, the last of the "Great Mughals". Famous Americans President George Washington and Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905); or Princess Diana and the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658).

To create an article going into more detail about a subject's place of birth or death (and to give an article subject's life more historical context) use the Place Template page.

If you just want to have a browse, try some pages at random.

Other sites collecting information about families and inheritance

 * Our Norwegian equivalent (but much smaller at last sight)


 * http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * WikiTree
 * Rodovid - global family tree based on wiki. GEDCOM import and automatic geneartion of trees showing all ancestors/descendants and their siblings. One db for all languages: en,de,nl,pt,ru,uk - add your language here
 * Armoriale - an Italian Wikicity with an organized collection of GFDL coats of arms with blazons and their translations
 * Rootsweb: Connecting the World one Gedcom at a Time

For ideas on what this Main Page should or should not contain, please use the "Discuss this page" button.