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Tom Edwards
Honor Code SignatorySigned 11 Jul 2017 | 81 contributions | 8 thank-yous | 163 connections
I was born in Bergen county New Jersey and raised in Oakland. I am a US Air Force veteran and I have graduated from the University of Maine. I am retired after a career as a field service engineer on large, medium and small mainframe systems as well as PC and Unix workstations in networked environments. I am a certified as a Unix administrator/TCP/IP networks. I have spent the last twenty five years as a field service engineer supporting radiology PACS and imaging systems. such as CT and Xray systems in hospital settings.
I currently live in the central New York area. I have been building my family tree for approx. 3 years.
This week's featured connections are Redheads: Tom is 21 degrees from Catherine of Aragón, 21 degrees from Clara Bow, 30 degrees from Julia Gillard, 17 degrees from Nancy Hart, 18 degrees from Rutherford Hayes, 22 degrees from Rita Hayworth, 18 degrees from Leonard Kelly, 23 degrees from Rose Leslie, 21 degrees from Damian Lewis, 22 degrees from Maureen O'Hara, 19 degrees from Jopie Schaft and 39 degrees from Eirik Thorvaldsson on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
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Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree Greeter
This week we have your last stop on the guided tour. We want to give you just a few more tools that can take you even deeper into the WikiTree forest without getting lost: How to Dig a Little Deeper.
As always, your questions are welcome!
Vicky Majewski ~ WikiTree Mentor
P.S. If you have trouble with the links in this message, try clicking through from the comment on your profile page.
There's a fast and easy way to access those profiles using the Watchlist. So, this week we're going to look at How to Manage Your Watchlist.
Please let one of us know if you have questions! If the above link does not work from your email, please go to your profile in the public comments and it will work from there.
Thanks, WikiMessenger Cindy
PS-Good work so far! Have you noticed on your ancestor profiles on the bottom right is "Research" where you can get sources and more information? Give it a try!
You've been here for three weeks now! We hope your profiles are starting to come together and that you've enjoyed getting to know all of us a little better. You're probably getting a good feel for the collaborative nature of WikiTree by now. We know that collaboration isn't always easy. So, we've put together a few pointers that can make working in this type of environment a little easier: How to be a Successful WikiTreer. As always, your questions are welcome!
Gilly
It's time for your next stop on the guided tour!
This week, we'd like to show you How to Join in the Community. There's no shortage of opportunities to get involved through social media, our forum, and projects.
Be sure to check out the One Name Studies Project to see if anyone has started a project for one of the surnames in your family. Don't see one? Follow the instructions for starting your own!
Please let us know if you have questions! Just click my name above the comment, then ask in the comment section of my page. We want to help!
Debi ~ Volunteer Coordinator
You've been here a week now, and we hope you enjoyed your first stop on your guided tour of WikiTree and were able to make good use of the things you learned.
Our next stop will give you some pointers on how to make your profiles stand out: How to Edit a Profile.
As always, your questions are welcome!
Shirley
If you have not done so, set your Followed preferences to include DNA.
It's not hard to add DNA test information to profiles on WikiTree, just make sure you add the tests to the actual test participant's profile & set the Privacy to private w/ public biography & family tree to show the tester's part of our tree. For help see How to DNA on WikiTree
We also encourage you to join our Google+ Community for DNA discussions, questions & new information.
Charlotte
Thanks for joining us! Im David, a WikiTree Mentor. Hope you're enjoying our site.
Did you have fun learning your way around WikiTree yesterday?
I just wanted to check in and see how things are going. Do you have any questions I can answer?
David ~ Wiki Mentor
Since WikiTree is different from other genealogy sites, we have a guided tour to help new members learn their way around. The first stop is How-To #1: How to Start Climbing Our Tree. The How-To's are intended to be visited about once a week, but feel free to work through them at your own pace.
To meet other WikiTreers, check out our G2G forum, including the G2G Question of the Week. Welcome!
Michael F. Harris, Volunteer Greeter
Here's a link to a great step-by-step of the process including screenshots.
Because WikiTree strives to have only one profile for each person, the further back you go in your ancestry, the more likely cousins will find you and collaborate. ANY Wiki Genealogist can edit "Open" profiles (over 200 years old = open). That means even though you've created an open profile, someone else may add or correct information contained within that same profile. If you're lucky, they may even add an original source or a photo. :) Each new profile is a valued leaf on our global family tree.
A few employees and a whole lot of volunteers are working together to create a FREE global family tree with only one profile per person. If you'd like to help us by adding your family branches or help to grow the tree in some other way, please select the volunteer button and leave a statement informing us of your interest in our project.
You're welcome to ask a question at G2G forum.
Our Honor Code helps to keep us friendly. Hope you'll join us. :)