FamilySearch Wiki:Contributing to the Wiki

Become a FamilySearch Research Wiki Contributor

The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online genealogical guide that lists websites, explains records, gives research strategies, and suggests other resources to help you find your ancestors from countries around the world. The Research Wiki is a community project, and we welcome all of those interested in sharing their genealogical knowledge to add to the Wiki.

Share your knowledge

You can help us by adding content to the Research Wiki to help others. This can be done through fixing broken URLs, adding content about a record type, listing new resources available or giving strategies for locating records.

There are different ways you can add this information:

Submit Wiki Content

If you would like to submit a resource, URL, or even a paragraph on a topic in the Research Wiki, you can use our online form. A volunteer will add the information to the Research Wiki in the appropriate place.

Report a Problem

Found some incorrect information on the Wiki? You can either edit the Wiki yourself as listed below or fill out this form. A Wiki volunteer will fix the information for you.

Edit Directly to the Wiki

***UPDATE*** As of February 1, 2024, only FamilySearch Center personnel and FamilySearch affiliate library personnel will receive editing rights on the English Wiki. All other requests will be suspended until new training can be provided. Training will be available coming summer 2024. Until that time, community members who wish to add or change something on Wiki pages, can use the Submit Wiki Content/Report a problem form. For more information, see the Wiki page, Wiki Roles of Editor and Pagecreator.

More Information About Editing the Wiki

There are many Wiki Help articles teaching you how to edit the Wiki:

Wiki University

The Wiki University contains a series of lessons on how to edit the Wiki using either VisualEditor, a simplified way to edit the Wiki or Wikitext, using simplified html code.