I rarely promote products or services because genealogy should be about shared knowledge, not advertising. But there is one free resource that truly matters: it provides genealogists with tools to confirm family lines, correct mistakes, and strengthen the accuracy of our shared trees. When something directly supports good research and costs nothing, it’s worth pointing people toward it. I am speaking about WikiTree.
If you’ve ever tried to build a family tree alone—armed with a stack of photocopied census pages, a half‑remembered story from Aunt Marge, and a suspiciously vague “family history” book—you know genealogy can feel like assembling IKEA furniture without the instructions. Or the screws. Or the correct Allen wrench.
