FamilySearch Research Wiki

The great power of a Wiki especially if it is about family history:

What if you could have available at your fingertips an online guide, like an encyclopedia, for genealogy that covered almost every aspect of family history, from German church records to delayed birth records to Social Security applications?

What if that guide was free to use and you knew that members of the genealogy community--those who do research day in and day out--were those who had contributed to the guide?

What if this guide allowed your genealogy society to have an instant internet presence and allowed your members to contibute information and articles based on you own areas of expertise and research experience?

What if you could add valuable information that you've discovered, such as where to find archived newspapers for Lewis County, New York, or what substitute records exist for Chicago vital records destroyed by the Great Fire of 1871?

What if this guide constantly grew with new content and continually became better and more accurae as a result of frequent updates?

Focusing on concepts such as collaboration and sharing pushes the worry of using a wiki out of the picture and demonstrates how the Family Search Research Wiki can be a useful tool in family history research.

We live in a time in which we are blessed to have tools and technology that make collaboration and sharing easier. With wikis like the FamilySearch Research Wiki, delivery and sharing of information is faster and the ability to reach thousands if not millions of researchers is much greater.