Family History and Genealogy Wiki

Topics

 * Genealogical trees, or Shajraha-e-Nasab
 * Sufi Initiation Chains

Places to start

 * Muhammad, Prophet of God
 * Genghiz Khan

Mission
The idea started with the collection of genealogies from the Muslim world (and beyond; there's a lot of overlap) and overlaying them with Sufi Initiation Chains (the chain of initiation into the Sufi fold that every Sufi Master has and which goes back to The Prophet) and then add allied information like the meanings and histories of names.

Names
Pages will be named according to the standard spellings of names as defined by the community. Please see Names. This is necessary so that we can define individuals uniquely, otherwise, it will be impossible to collate contributions.

Templates
There is an evolving template for entries on People, Places, Events, and so on.

Not Wikipedia
This database is seen as being a supplement to Wikipedia&mdash;to cover a lot of the content that might not be of interest to an encyclopedia reader but which some individuals and researchers would cherish. Contributors are highly encouraged to defer to Wikipedia where content is already in that database. If material fits better on that database, please move it there (not without a discussion, of course.)