Project: Switzerland

Categories: Switzerland Project | Switzerland Projects

Welcome to the Switzerland Project

A project for all things Swiss. Bringing together genealogists who share Swiss ancestry and are interested in
the people, culture, and history of Switzerland.

1 Mission
2 How To Join
3 Learning about Swiss genealogical research
4 How can you help?
5 Templates
6 Related Projects and Groups
7 Resources
8 Categories

Mission

The Switzerland Project is an active community of family history researchers with a common interest in Swiss roots and culture. We intend to make Wikitree the go-to place for the most accurate, best-sourced genealogical profiles of the people of Switzerland and their descendants. The project and its members can provide education assistance to anyone who wants to learn more about their Swiss ancestors.

How To Join

Are you interested in the Switzerland Project?

Project Leaders: Barry Smith
Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Switzerland project and get a badge.
Add switzerland to your followed tags.
We use a Google Group for communication.
Check out our maintenance categories for our project needs, then jump in and start helping!
Switzerland Project Member List.
Here is what our members are working on.

Learning about Swiss genealogical research

Swiss genealogical research has some unusual features (e.g., the Heimatort/Bürgerort a.k.a. lieu d'origine a.k.a. luogo d'origine) that distinguish it from research in other places. If you are new to Swiss genealogy and want to get up to speed, information will be linked from this page soon. Until then, consider posting questions to the Google group or to this project page.

How can you help?

Any improvements you can make to the profiles of our Swiss ancestors are welcome. Other tasks that will help improve and grow the project include:

Help us recruit members to the project!
Add your Swiss ancestors to the project (and include the Switzerland sticker — see below).
Develop freespace pages with resources and educational materials related to Swiss genealogy.
Locate disconnected Swiss profiles and connect them to the big tree.
Add notable profiles to the project.
Help us develop example profiles for the project.
Develop new Swiss-related categories and add categories to profiles.

Other mundane but ongoing tasks that would earn the gratitude of your fellow project members include:

Merge all duplicates into the final lowest profile ID number.
Add maintenance boxes to profiles that need work (see below) so that they can be easily found through the maintenance categories.
Work through maintenance categories to improve existing profiles.
Identify profiles that need project management or project protection.
Copy and paste the Switzerland template {{Switzerland}} (with appropriate modifiers) on profiles managed by the project.
Add appropriate Swiss-related stickers to profiles.
Clean biographies of Swiss profiles, removing GEDCOM junk, large copied-and-pasted blocks of text, etc.

Templates

{{Switzerland}} for profiles that need to be managed by the project

{{Switzerland Sticker}} to show that a person has Swiss roots.

... ... ... is associated with the Switzerland Project
Join: Switzerland Project
Discuss: switzerland

... ... ... is of Swiss descent

There are other stickers to show migrating ancestors, involvement in particular events, etc.

Related Projects and Groups

Resources

Sources for Switzerland with links to canton-specific sources. Please add all sources to those pages.
Switzerland Genealogy Resources contains helpful resources on WikiTree for Swiss genealogy.