Do you need to make changes to a WikiTree profile? Well join me today as we go through and update
my tree on WikiTree. Howdy my name is Devon Noel Lee with Family History Fanatics. I am a family
historian, an author, and someone who wants to help you learn how to climb your family tree.
Let's hop over to the WikiTree platform. After you log into WikiTree you'll come to a homepage like
this and then I often go to the second navigation bar where your name and number is there and then
scroll down to family tree and tools. There might be an easier way to get to it but that's
one of the things I do. Once you're at your family tree you can start navigating as you would any
pedigree chart. Look for the little pedigree chart here or the family group sheet icons right there
in order to expand your tree. So now I am going right here and I'm going to click on this profile.
Now some of you might say well there's a whole lot easier way to get to your tree. If you know
who you're wanting to look at you can type in Paul Zumstein and click search and then the name
is right there. So that's another way that you can access the people that you're interested in
changing. One of the things I want to do in order to improve this profile is I want to
change this citation. So I want to have it more like a traditional citation you know like this
one down here. So that we know where it's located because this link actually takes you to the German
version of the ancestry website and I don't have a membership there. I have a membership to the
American one. So I'm going to click on edit and I'm going to come down here to the source section.
You would think the sources come down here but they don't. Instead they go right after
the event takes place. So let's look for here's the marriage collection citation right there.
If you're ever confused you have a preview and it will say all right. So here is the transcription
and if I click number one it's marriage records and Ancestry image. So I'm going to go back up
here marriage record and it has the Ancestry image right there. What I need to do is I need
to prepare a better citation. So you have to have these little marks the carrot, rf,
ref, closed carrot, and the carrot slash ref carrot. That's about all the coating that you
really need to be aware of. I'm going to go ahead and move this down just a little bit
and I'm going to paste the citation that I'm striving for. Now I noticed they have these little
brackets that are different than the parentheses. So I'm just going to copy and paste them
up right there and that makes that a hyperlink because I want to test
this out. First I'm going to copy this code right here and then I'm going to do a preview
and see if I broke it or not. So there's a first citation. There's a second citation. And that's
what I wanted. So database with images they can click on this and it will go to the image. So
that looks good. Now if I want the word Ancestry in the image because it says database with image
then I need to move things around a little bit. So part of this is just playing and I'm hoping
that you can learn from my mistakes. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to come back up here
and I'm going to put a parentheses
before that and then I'm going to get the end of this and say ancestry.com.
And that should make that linkable. Okay and now look the title of the database,
the link to the ancestry. I click on that it opens it up. That's what we want
and then the rest of the citation. So now I can go up there and delete this
and hit preview one more time and that looks correct. I'm going to go ahead and
scroll to the bottom because I can't make a change or shouldn't make a change
adding sources because I was changing the sources. And I'm going to click save. All right so
we made that change. We can go back to the profile from the edit page and look, there it is. And we
have the citation that we wanted. So now let's talk about adding people to your family tree.
So we're going to go ahead and click edit on this profile because it's Jacob Comfort. And I want
to add another child to him. He says father of either and I know that he has eight other kids. So
let's just add one. So we're gonna go to edit and scroll down to the right side and you're gonna see
the ability to add siblings. We can add children or mark no more children. So I want to add
or remove a child. I don't know the ID of the person, but WikiTree will do a search after I
put information in. So I'm going ahead and type in my first name. So I have Ephrium Comfort. And I'm
going to type in a birth year and a death year. And then I'm going to do estimated right now.
As you add every detail to this profile, WikiTree is going to search the for matches, for someone
who already exists on WikiTree. And it says nope we haven't found anybody for you to review. Go
ahead and finish the rest of the information. So I'm going to go ahead and scroll and do that
and I'm going to put in temporarily Ontario. I can always make this more specific later
but what I wanted to highlight is that WikiTree gives you some reference names for locations. So
Ontario had three different names depending on when an event happened. So Even was born
in 1825. So on cario Canada isn't correct. 1825 is before Canada west. So he was born in Upper Canada
even though the location will be the same. So I'm going to do that again Ontario and bring up this
name change and he died in 1911 which would be after it became Ontario the official country of
Canada. So I type it in there. You cannot save a profile until you have put in a source. I'm
going to use the one from a previous profile about Jacob Comfort. And then it says Jacob is married
to Abigail. If Abigail isn't the other parent of the child, uncheck the box below Abigail is the
mother of Ephraim with her husband Jacob. And then you can add an explanation and a reason statement.
So there is my compiled genealogy book and click add and now Ephraim Comfort
is the son of Jacob with the brother Ithamer, Itemer, and then I can start adding more siblings.
Here I can add a spouse. I can add children and notice they already automatically fill this
briefly for you. Click on the sources and I'm not sure where the source went.
Oh the source is there. I just have to type something. So I'm going to move that up there
all right. So I've made the changes I'm going to scroll down to preview and then it comes here
and that looks right. So you have the citation of when he was born and here's that. And now we have
the profile as it should look. Right here's the biography. There's the citation. And then we're
good to go. So the last thing I also want to talk about and point out to you for each
fact that you're putting into WikiTree they want you to just find if you're certain or uncertain.
Do you have a source? And is it on WikiTree? Or is it something you know but you don't have a size
source for it. So if you're certain you can go ahead and click that. If you're uncertain you can
always put uncertain. So I'm certain about that. So this is about uncertain. If I get a source
citation that confirms the date then I can switch it to that. I'm just going to do it temporarily
but here's another feature. Sometimes you want to say that someone was born before this date.
You know when a sibling was married and you know this was the older child. So you want
to say before this date or you find a document that says a man is a widow and the wife had to
have died before. So before this date with death. You can also mark it as still living and you can
also have to do that after this date. I like that those options you can do the same thing
for location and so forth. Now let's look at the parental option. So what if you're
you have somebody who is a father but not a biological father. This could be
an um an adopted father a guardian or some other living situation like that. Then you can click
non-biological. If you're uncertain if this person is the father then you can mark that
if you're confident you can do that. And if you have confirmed the relationship with DNA evidence
then you can go ahead and click that. For now I'm just going to leave it as confident and I'm going
to change the mother is confident. And then I need to scroll down I need to click say save changes.
But before that I'm going to leave a note. So now if I go to the public view
you will see that sometimes if you have an uncertain about and then there'll be something
that says uncertain. If you found this tutorial helpful and you would like some more tutorials
on how to use WikiTree then be sure to leave the comments in the section below. And I'll make sure
that I get some WikiTree experts to help me in future videos. I do find the website has
a little bit of a learning curve but nothing you can't overcome. So get out there start adding your
people to WikiTree. Make sure you add your source citations and build the family tree with others.
If you're ready for more videos on how to use WikiTree from us be sure to check
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