User talk:Theoptimist79

Welcome

Welcome to WeRelate, your virtual genealogical community. We're glad you have joined us. At WeRelate you can easily create ancestor web pages, connect with cousins and other genealogists, and find new information. To get started:

• Take the WeRelate tour to see what you can do
• Watch the "Getting Started" tutorial videos and learn how to make wiki pages for your ancestors
• Explore the Step by step Tutorials, if needed
• Create a User Profile page to tell other people about yourself and the families you are researching
• Read the etiquette page to learn expected behavior on a wiki
• Find other ways to get involved on the community portal
• Ask questions on our Support page

If you need any help, we will be glad to answer your questions. Just go to the Support page, click on the Add Topic link, type your message, then click the Save Page button. Thanks for participating and see you around! --Support 18:06, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Intersecting Watchlist Lines [9 February 2017]

First of all, as a site administrator and member of the Overview Committee, I want to welcome you to the WeRelate community, a very unique and relatively high quality genealogy wiki site when compared with other online genealogy sites, whose members and users pride themselves on setting and keeping high standards of information added to the site.

Secondly, I would encourage you to add all your sources of information for the data you enter on WeRelate to maintain that high quality standard. On at least a couple of our intersecting watchlist pages, I've noticed you've arbitrarily added and edited information and made unsubstantiated changes to family lines without providing the verification of the sources of the data you added and changed. As I noted on a couple of those talk pages, some of the data and dates you added clearly don't fit in traditional genealogical recordkeeping (e.g. such as children born before parents).

I point this out in an effort to get you started off right here at WeRelate. If you continue to use this site, expand your family lines, and collaborate with other users who share your interests and ancestry, I'm sure you too will appreciate the high expectations for users here in adding and editing data here. If you need assistance, please feel free to visit some of the help pages, tutorials, and community pages mentioned and linked above. Or you can ask one of us site administrators for more specific assistance.

Thanks. And good luck. --BobC 15:22, 9 February 2017 (UTC)