Portal:Community

In addition to the main portals listed across the top and bottom of this page, we also have special interest portals:

• Cemeteries
• Ethnic Americans
• Middle Ages
• Netherlands (Nederland): Dutch research
• Puritan Great Migration: Mayflower to 1640
• Surnames: One-name studies

Would you like to create your own Portal?

• List of existing Portals
• Portal help
• Portal Layout and Instructions

Video Tutorials

• What is WeRelate? (5:20)
• Tour of WeRelate (8:00)
• Why share your genealogy? (5:12)
• Why share your genealogy on WeRelate.org? (7:15)
• Getting started with WeRelate.org - part 1 (6:01)
• Getting started with WeRelate.org - part 2 (7:02)
• Getting started with WeRelate.org - part 3 (9:39)
• Navigating WeRelate (5:00)
• Basic concepts (2:56)
• Creating a person page (4:27)
• Creating a family page (4:45)
• Pedigree maps (4:45)
  

Text Tutorials

• Entering your first family on WeRelate
• Family Tree Explorer tutorial
• Person pages tutorial
• Family pages tutorial
• Images tutorial
• My Relate tutorial

General Help Files

• Main help page
• FAQ - Frequently-asked questions
• Wiki etiquette (rules of behavior on a wiki)
• Page titles help
• Alphabetical list of help pages
• Formatting
• Glossary (a list of defined terms, tips, hints and various helps)
• Sandbox (page for practicing formatting techniques)

Copyrights and Licenses

• Choosing a license
• General licensing
• Copyrights

Get involved in one of these community projects:

• Great Migration Category Project
• The Tapestry
  • Southwest Virginia Project
  • Old Augusta Project
  • Old Chester County
• Cherokee Heritage Project
• Jackson Surname Project
• Rumgay Family Exchange
• Holme Village Home
• Ferwerderadeel and Leeuwarderadeel Project
• Lamberson, Lambertson and other variants
• Help project
• Research Guides

To add a project to this list, please edit this page

In addition to the Watercooler we have the following discussions taking place:

• Functional Specification for Data Consistency Verification
• Merging and downloading trees
• Proposal for Managed Pages
• Proposed Guidelines for use of Wikipedia
• Data entry design modifications

To add a discussion link, please edit this page

WeRelate is a dynamic community and for it to be successful volunteers are needed to help out in a variety of ways. Consider some of the things you can do:

• Spread the word
• Donate every little bit helps
• Join a community project listed above, or start one of your own
• Highlight well-documented pages
• Nominate your favorite page to be featured
• Help new members
• Volunteer to help with administration activities
• Keep help files and FAQs up-to-date
• Make a text or video tutorial
• 101 Ways to use WeRelate.org - only 50 more ways to go

• About WeRelate
• Contact us
• Donations
• Non-profit status
• Volunteering at WeRelate
• Administrators
• List of Administrators
• Administrators' guide
• WeRelate policy
• Privacy policy