Portal:Community

WeRelate has been selected once again to be among Family Tree Magazine's 101 Best Genealogy Websites of 2016. WeRelate is categorized in the "Best Websites for Sharing Genealogy in 2016" category (a change from last year's Best Social Media Websites for Genealogy category), along with...

1. Geni
2. Facebook
3. WikiTree

A more detailed description is written at the article entitled, "Social Networking for Your Family Tree" (2014).

Award Text for WeRelate
"'The world’s largest genealogy wiki', sponsored by the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy and the Allen County Public Library, combines collaboration and family trees, with interconnected pages for more than 2 million people."

Update: WeRelate continues on FamilyTree Magazine's list of 101 best genealogy websites for 2022, in the sharing category. See https://familytreemagazine.com/best-family-tree-sharing-websites/.

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

• Cemeteries
• Ethnic Americans
• Irish Civil Parishes & Irish Townlands Projects
• 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:

• Data Quality Improvement NEW! Little tasks that anyone can do to improve WeRelate
• 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
• Africana Heritage Project
• Early Pennsylvania Families Project
• Buxton Vital Records 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
• 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