WikiTree

WikiTree is a horrible site. A lot of the profiles are "managed" by societies, such as the Great Migration, Puritan Project, Presidents Project, etc (not sure if I have all of the societies names correct).

My experience is that WikiTree could careless about information being accurate. And if you reach out to any of the societies who manage the profiles or at the very least, help to oversee them, expect to be ignored. It appears to be a very "clicky" platform where you are either in or out - no outsiders will be accepted or acknowledged, bit egos run this platform and if you do not agree with the folks who are "in" the club then you will find yourself out in the cold.

I would NOT recommend WikiTree, paid membership or otherwise.

LJ

Great site to find connections and consolidate sources found in Genealogy sites.
The goal of Wikitree is to have a single tree rather than multiple trees for the same family. Plus it's free!
Genealogy without good sources is mythology. I prefer good documention and souces. Once I found Wikitree, it became my preferred site for creating profiles and adding references.

There are many wonderful things to be said about WikiTree and many of the persons involved are great. Unfortunately, too many of the leaders are control freaks who do not follow their own policies but do get upset if you don't or, as is too often the case, you don't follow their perception of the policy even when you can demonstrate that there was no conflict with the written policy.

They will often close accounts without following their own policy for account closures. My wife's account, was closed even though she was only lightly active, never violated any rules or policies, and was not even notified that her account was being removed. Their claim to have six levels of escalation before removing an account might be true in some cases, but certainly not all... and at times when it is utilized, it is used merely to project the illusion of a just process.

I would love to overlook these mean-spirited folks and recommend the site, but there have been so many others who have fallen victim to these folks that I can only recommend that one stay away.

For a free wiki style site I have not seen anything that comes close to the ease of use, peer reviewed entries and dedication to accuracy as WikiTree.

In theory, Wikitree is a grand idea. People voluntarily add new ancestors to the one world tree and enhance existing profiles.

In practice this leads to a tree which, despite some excellent well-researched entries, is cluttered with an immensity of unsourced rubbish put up by contributors with minimal genealogical skills.

While those who just want to input a few generations of their immediate ancestors may not worry about the overall low standard, those who have done any serious research will face the insurmountable hurdle of The Management. If you depart from whatever is the current Party Line in any area, you are hassled or summarily expelled. Of course there must be rules, but what members do not know until they infringe them are the arbitrary unwritten rules (shared by The Management in secret discussion groups).

From personal experience, having once been a major contributor, and from published testimony of other respected ex-members I can assure you that these statements are not personal pique or paranoia and, if challenged, can produce evidence.

If you have ever been a member of Wikitree and have since left or have been banned, unless you actually ask them to delete you email address off their data base they will keep it.

Great layout but the staff and mods are awful. If you don't do exactly what they want, you get banned.

I have just been blocked by Wikitree after 3 years and over 2000 profiles created. Their reason was because I was 'the subject of too many conflicts'. However the ONLY conflicts I had was with the elites who didn't like that I put my females with their birth name as their 'current' name rather than their married name. All my ancestors are Scottish and even an assigned 'mentor' agreed Scottish women kept their birth names. My ancestors were married, gave birth and buried with their birth names. Married names were only used in census records. This is also consistent with Family Search where I also contribute a lot of work.

This demonstrates the American-centric, sexist and bullying behavior of Wikitree Admin. I was continually assigned numerous 'mentors' who did nothing but spy on me. I did nothing 'wrong' but was blocked every time I mentioned my using female birth names in Facebook comments. Too many times some random person would change their names and I would change them back. This is what a shared tree is about!

I never learned anything new on that site, never made a friend (most members were entitled bullies), or thanked for all my work apart from stupid badges that mean nothing.

It is a cult with a hidden agenda where you will experience a lot of grief & frustration. Don't waste your time!

Misinformation. Screwing with my child profiles, orphaning files with my name, sick sick, misinformation. Vandilising, more correct info, i will not allow wiki tree to merge profiles that weren't gonna be finnished until I knew It was a legible sight, will not be threatened, abused by any one! It did not stop, its habitual wiki blocked my sign in number and will not allow me to sign in my 400 names have been vandilised and stolen, orphaned, While I have no way of deleting, hacked by those people, Emails and threats dont stop, I can not block them from my email address, dirty comments written to offend. Shame Shame Shame, dont delete connection children! LIes LIes LIes, This sight is an illegitimate made up mixed up crap! Never will I use, never put your precious names in to wiki tree spying on children will be reported, I reported this, I was cut off and disconnected, the admin cut the profile manager out and fudged it up - misinformation, mistakes in names / marriages, wiki stole my info and wont stop blocking up my email address with threats. This sight will never be respected again, wrong wrong wrong. I want the watch dog to shash those weak pathetic souls!- below 0 get wiki tree off line please