Wiki Genealogist Honor Code

WikiTree is free, but it's not a free-for-all. Our community is collaborating on something special: an accurate single family tree that's free and open to the world. This grand project requires mutual trust and a common understanding of how the community works.

If you were invited by a family member and are just creating or editing a few private family profiles, the following isn't critical. Those who participate at a higher level must agree to this shared code of ethics and principles.

This code is a pledge that community members make to each other. The creators and hosts of WikiTree have also made a pledge: to keep WikiTree free forever.

Our Honor Code

  1. We collaborate. When we share ancestors we work together on the same ancestor profiles.
  2. We care about accuracy. We're always aiming to improve upon our worldwide family tree and fix mistakes.
  3. We know mistakes are inevitable. We don't want to be afraid to make them. We assume that mistakes are unintentional when others make them and ask for the same understanding.
  4. We know misunderstandings are inevitable. We try to minimize them by being courteous to everyone, even those who don't act accordingly.
  5. We respect privacy. We privacy-protect anything we think our family members might not want public. If that's not enough for someone, we delete their personal information.
  6. We respect copyrights. We don't knowingly copy information that's owned by someone else. If we ourselves want to preserve a copyright, we're clear about what's copyrighted so others don't accidentally copy it.
  7. We give credit. Although most genealogy isn't copyrighted, researchers deserve credit for the work they've done.
  8. We cite sources. Without sources we can't objectively resolve conflicting information.
  9. We are united in a mission to increase the world's common store of knowledge. We always respect copyrights and privacy, but we keep information as free and open as possible.

Signers

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Alexandra Edney 19 Mar 2024. Brooke Dorn 19 Mar 2024. AJ Bond 19 Mar 2024. Amber Swords 19 Mar 2024. Julie Davis 19 Mar 2024. Jerry Sandlin 19 Mar 2024. Logan Brull 19 Mar 2024. Lawson Knote 19 Mar 2024. Julie Lord 19 Mar 2024. Elizabeth Ward 19 Mar 2024. Eliza Caldwell 18 Mar 2024. John Haslegrave 18 Mar 2024. Ana Falcato 18 Mar 2024. Chelsea Anne Thompson 18 Mar 2024. Hasan Güneyli 18 Mar 2024. G. Wayne Calvert 18 Mar 2024. Birgitta Burell 18 Mar 2024. Victoria Kernaghan 18 Mar 2024. Adam Ditty 18 Mar 2024. Tracy McGill 18 Mar 2024. Timothy Arthurs 18 Mar 2024. Robert Mellon 18 Mar 2024. Paul Farwell 18 Mar 2024. Lisa Gordon 18 Mar 2024. Private Private 18 Mar 2024. Ethan Metz 18 Mar 2024. Dart Wooden 18 Mar 2024. Mariette de Wit 18 Mar 2024. Kerrie Porter 18 Mar 2024. Hobson Woodward 18 Mar 2024. Morten Foss Willums 18 Mar 2024. Summer Montgomery 18 Mar 2024. Janice Tarry 18 Mar 2024. Jim Ashton 18 Mar 2024. Kristi Voss 18 Mar 2024. Charlene Shepherd 18 Mar 2024. Steven Daugherty 18 Mar 2024. Kristina Vogt 18 Mar 2024. Suzanne Yanovich 18 Mar 2024. Carolyn MacKenzie 18 Mar 2024. Allan Newsom 18 Mar 2024. Barbara Studenmund 18 Mar 2024. Elizabeth Ellis 18 Mar 2024. Peter Lansdowne 18 Mar 2024. Israel Lopez 18 Mar 2024. John Bosworth 18 Mar 2024. Matthew Kensin 18 Mar 2024. Jason Strong 18 Mar 2024. Louis Amdur 18 Mar 2024. Emilia Genoud 18 Mar 2024. Paul Steffler 18 Mar 2024. Debra Cocking 18 Mar 2024. Matt Brewster 18 Mar 2024. Deborah-Ann Gardener 18 Mar 2024. Paula Lasrado 18 Mar 2024. Sarel Theron 18 Mar 2024. Francis Shennan 18 Mar 2024. Chris Tessener 18 Mar 2024. Robert Buford 18 Mar 2024. Jesse Plumley 18 Mar 2024. Bill Weaver 18 Mar 2024. Andrine de la Rocha 18 Mar 2024. Chris Frazier 18 Mar 2024. Thomas Cornell 18 Mar 2024. April Asheim 18 Mar 2024. Mandy Philip-Moody 18 Mar 2024. Mo Hamour 18 Mar 2024. Edward Curtis 18 Mar 2024. Mark Raymond 18 Mar 2024. Graham Hemsworth 18 Mar 2024. Tara Fincher 18 Mar 2024. Mike Lill 18 Mar 2024. Andrew Otis 18 Mar 2024. Frank Ballard 18 Mar 2024. Jodi Hyde 18 Mar 2024. Sharyn Ross 18 Mar 2024. Kim Boone 18 Mar 2024. S Foster 18 Mar 2024. Eric Barker 18 Mar 2024. Nancy Mann 18 Mar 2024. Peggy Barrett 18 Mar 2024. Helen Clark 18 Mar 2024. Anonymous Wheelan 17 Mar 2024. Christie Combs 17 Mar 2024. Michelle Schaker 17 Mar 2024. Gloria Warnick 17 Mar 2024. Haley Baptist 17 Mar 2024. Harold Jurewicz 17 Mar 2024. Rebecca Osterman 17 Mar 2024. Maria Yates 17 Mar 2024. Rowland Zoller 17 Mar 2024. Lori Chadd 17 Mar 2024. Eric Allison 17 Mar 2024. Carol Broaddus 17 Mar 2024. J. Gonzalez-Michaels 17 Mar 2024. Lorraine Dunn 17 Mar 2024. Varoun Jindal 17 Mar 2024. Ravyn Granholm 17 Mar 2024. Joy Kelley 17 Mar 2024. Graham Hudson 17 Mar 2024.

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