We had a great Zoom meeting this week during which Pam presented Part 1 of her Wiki class. There is so much information on the FamilySearch Wiki that Pam's topic will continue next month.
We began with a demonstration of how to use the locality feature of the Wiki. Pam suggests that we visit the Wiki page for every location where our ancestors lived. Each page includes maps, instructions for locality searches, research tools, links to related articles and a button to locate online resources for that particular area. The United States, Illinois, and Germany pages were used for demonstrations.
A second way to use the Wiki is to search by topic. Using a keyword search will take you to pages with information about any facet of genealogy research. Pam used the topic "Civil War" to show us how much data is included for a general subject with links to more pages!
If you haven't made use of the Wiki, it is time to start.
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page
Thanks, Pam!
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