Help:Tour

Welcome to the Research Wiki!


The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a place where you can:


 * Research your Family History


 * Contribute Your Knowledge to the Wiki




 * Collaborate with Others

Research your Family History

 * In the Wiki, you can learn what records exist in specific areas or topics. Here are some articles to help you get started:
 *  1. Research Help


 * Video: Researching using the Wiki
 * Family History for Beginners
 * Principles of Family History Research
 * 2. Wiki Search Tips
 * Basic searches (also see video demonstrations)
 * Advanced searches (also see Help:Search Tips)

Share your knowledge with others

 * You know something that can help other researchers find their family members. Contribute your knowledge to the wiki to give others tips about researching in a specific area or topic.


 * The Contributor Help page is the central resource for instructions about how to edit in the Wiki.
 * Projects Seeking Contributors lists some of the community projects that are currently being worked on.
 * There is a Community Meeting for New Wiki Contributors on Thursday afternoons. Come to learn more about how to edit in the Wiki.

Store Information in the Wiki

 * As you learn tips and tricks that will help you in your genealogy research, instead of Bookmarking or creating a Favorite in your browser, go to the Wiki page for that locality or topic, and add a note about the resource. Then you and anyone else researching in that area/topic will be able to find it too.


 * Here are a few links to get you started:


 * Basic Editing
 * Adding Links
 * "Watching" pages of interest

Collaborate with Others
Working together, we can create a better research tool than we could if individuals were developing pages on their own.

On Projects

 * The Projects Seeking Contributors page lists the many projects that you can work with others on.

On Talk/Discussion Pages

 * Every page in the Wiki has a Talk/Discussion page where you can ask questions or make comments about that article.
 * This will send an email to anyone who is "Watching" the page, notifying them of the change. They can come in and reply to the original question or comments.
 * See also:
 * Help:Discussion Pages (Talk Pages)
 * Help:Watchlist

On the Forums

 * On the forums, you can ask a question about your research or the FamilySearch products, or help others with their questions.


 * Wiki Forums
 * Research Forums
 * Spanish Forums

Live Community Meetings

 * Some community members prefer receiving live help on a conference call with fellow community members. If this is your preference, join one or more Community Meetings that are held live online.

More information?

 * If you would like to know more about what the Wiki is, the following links will help:


 * Wiki Overview
 * Why We Built FamilySearch Wiki
 * Wiki Purpose and Appropriate Topics