User talk:Carolannkirkhamhatch

Welcome to the wiki!
Welcome to the FamilySearch wiki. You'll find this a resource that can help in many ways as you work on your genealogy. I read parts of the page you made regarding the work you have been doing for your Swedish ancestors. Truly a remarkable story and one for the journal and remembering and sharing with family. In general, however, the wiki is not the place for personal stories. If you agree, you can add the following to the page and it will be deleted Include the curly braces. Thanks. Laralee 21:25, 18 April 2010 (UTC) PS. I have ancestors on my mother's side that lived in the colonies - part of the families that emigrated there to be able to practice plural marriage.

To all FamilySearch Wiki Contributors: An apology is in order...
By way of introduction, my name is Ben Bennett and I’ve recently joined the FamilySearch team as the product manager for the Wiki and Forums. Put simply, my job is to ensure that your experience, as contributors and users of the Wiki and Forums is excellent. To this end, an apology is in order. As you know, we recently implemented a new user ID/sign in process for the FamilySearch Wiki. As we implemented this new system, I personally heard from many of you. You shared with me problems that were occurring for you as you tried to sign in, edit or do other things that resulted in lost work, lost time and frustration for you, our key contributors and users. Please accept my sincere apology for the poor performance and poor experience associated with the Wiki during the past few weeks. Please also accept my commitment that the FamilySearch team will learn from this experience and do all that we can to prevent situations like this in the future. To this end, I wanted to share with you ...CONTINUE