WikiTree was not conceived on a particular day. The idea evolved over many years, starting around 2005 when Chris Whitten started developing a personal website to organize his family history to share with his family.
WikiTree is entirely Internet-based. It was created online. The creator of WikiTree, Chris Whitten, lives in New York State.
WikiTree does not cost anything to use.
There are over 2,120,000 profiles on WikiTree as of August, 2011.
WikiTree can help people in a variety of ways, depending on their personal goals. WikiTree can be used as a research tool for discovering your family history. There are over a million public profiles of ancestors. WikiTree can be used to organize your family history. It can be used as a place to collect and store family information, photos, memories, biographies etc. WikiTree can help you keep in touch with family members. There are a variety of communication tools including bulletin boards, private messages, and e-cards. And when changes to the site are made, family members are alerted through weekly updates. WikiTree can also help you find distant cousins. WikiTree helps make hundreds of connections between relatives every day.
Yes, there are some simple forms available on wikitree.
Yes, it is very possible to get addicted to WikiTree. It is possibly to get addicted to anything if you enjoy it enough.
No. At this point, WikiTree is only available in English. Profiles can be written in any language but the instructions and field names are in English. WikiTree does plan to add international versions later.
Yes. WikiTree is entirely free. There is no "premium" membership. Expenses are paid by modest ads on public pages.
WikiTree.com was started in 2008. Chris Whitten began working on WikiTree after leaving Answers.com at the end of 2007.
WikiTree is continually being updated. Every month new features and functions are released.
D-Day was in planning for over 2 years, so it was conceived sometime in early 1942.
WikiTree was opened to the public for beta testing in 2008. However, that was an early stage and many functions were still being developed. WikiTree has released hundreds of new features since then. Every month new features are released.