FamilySearch Wiki:Wiki User Lessons: Difference between revisions

<br>Lesson One<br>I. What is the Wiki?<br>:A place to get genealogical research advice, or learn where to find record collections in our 80,960 articles.<br>:B. It is not a database of names, but it has many links to websites that do have names. <br>:C. Volunteers contribute to the Wiki<br>:D. Church Employees assign Wiki projects to Missionaries<br>:E. Full time missionaries and Church Service Missionaries work on the Wiki. Some Church Service Missionaries serve on campus while others serve from home.<br>II. How to get to the Wiki?<br>:A. Familysearch.org – sign in<br>:B. Click on “search” <br>:C. Select Wiki from the bottom of the list. <br>III. Learning more about the Wiki<br>:A. In the purple sidebar on the right hand side, under “getting started”, click on “Wiki tools”. <br>::1) Read the “Notifications of Changes – Watching Pages. Locate the “watch” link.<br>::2) Scroll down to “Learn more about the Wiki”. Click on “about the Wiki”. Read the first three paragraphs. <br>::3) The Wiki is about finding records about your ancestors and the topics in which the records might be found (census, marriage, birth, death, probate, and military records.)<br>:B. Notice the number of articles.<br>:C. Think of the Wiki as a “Google for Family History Research!”