Genealogy for a Friend

Question

A friend came to visit this weekend and at some point she asked "so, what do you know about Ancestry.com?"  If you're a WikiTreer, you probably know where that led: Two solid hours of me asking what she knew and then seeing what we could find on FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com and Google.  The result was the profiles for Hyman and Julia (Shirpser) Wollenberg.  Even though I stayed up way past my bedtime to do it, this activated a whole bunch of those discovery hormones for me and I felt energized by the whole experience.  She appreciated the work we got done, too, and also the concept of "Cousin Bait" which I believe she's likely to take back and find out even more, which I promised to document here whenever she has digital information.

Answer 1

Hi Kyle, That was a really nice gesture to a friend. Have you thought about sending her an invite to join Wikitree, then you can work together to build her branches here?

Nothing better in my opinion to have a personal invite and a friend waiting to help.

Comments

I certainly put in my plug for WikiTree along the way, explaining how this site functions as "crowd-sourced genealogy" and that I use it as a storehouse for all of my genealogy work.  I will bring up the possibility of joining the next time we talk about it.

---

Thank you for best answer Dorothy :)

Answer 2

That is awesome!! Way to go "Kyle". Now that is a great way to WikiTree!!!

Answer 3

You rock Kyle!