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Volunteers - Help Us Build the Wiki

Like a barn raising building the Research Wiki can only be accomplished with volunteers from all walks of life and with different levels of expertise.

Help us by expanding existing articles, creating new articles, adding sources, linking to other online resources, correcting grammar and spelling mistakes and combining duplicate articles.

Whatever your level of expertise, the wiki needs you! Come join the wiki barn raising team.

Get Started

To get started, we need to know a little about you, your interests and genealogy or research experience. Please fill out the Volunteer form and we will contact you. Work on state articles will typically be under the direction of the moderator for countries, states or counties. We'll introduce you to them.

Volunteer Form

In the meantime, create a FamilySearch account if you don't have one. Set your account preferences and create your wiki user page.

Help Wanted - United States

Want to help on a specific U.S. State? Click on a state on the map below to go to its Help Wanted Article. State Moderators have a variety tasks needing your assistance.

Help Wanted - Worldwide

Regions

**Help Wanted by Region**
North America American Virgin Islands Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize British Virgin Islands Canada Costa_Rica Cuba Curaçao Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Panama Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Turks and Caicos IslandsCuba Trinidad and Tobago United States	Europe Albania Belarus Belgium Bosina and Herzegovina Bulgaria Channel Islands Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Greenland Hungary Ireland Italy Jersey Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Northern Ireland Norway Poland Romania Russia Scotland Slovenia Spain Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
South America Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador French Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela	Middle East Afghanistan Armenia Azerbijan Cyprus Georgia (country) Iran Israel Jordan Kazakhastan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Oman Qatar Saudi_Arabia Syria Tajikistan Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen
Africa Algeria Angola Benin Botswana British Indian Ocean Territory Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Cote d’Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Equatorial Guinea Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo Reunion Island Saint Helena Sao_Tome_and_Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe	Asia Bangladesh Bhutan Cambodia China Christmas Island Australia Cocos Islands Australia Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Laos Macau Malaysia Mayanmar Mongolia Nepal Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Tibet Vietnam
Australia / Pacific American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Caledonia New Zealand Niue Northern Mariana Islands Palau Pitcairn Islands Solomon Islands Tasmania, Australia Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Vanautu Wake Island Wallis and Futuna

Additional Help Needed On The Wiki

In addtion to State and Country Projects, the items below involve work that a volunteer can do with minimal training:

Add information to your county and/or city pages.
Prepare county histories - county section of each state.
Repositories - what's in a repository of genealogical interest ... U.S. Canada.
Outside company providing content ... we are putting in the wiki for formatting.
Write about Migration Trails - Which Counties and Towns they went through in both the U.S. & Canada.
Write articles for links that are in red.
Write articles of little known research methods for various parts of the world.
Need Moderators to run projects for places around the world
Join our support team.
Wiki Projects seeking contributors
Wiki Cleanup Projects
Add Categories to articles

In addition to these projects, additional projects that volunteers can easily do are listed below:

Add links to the David Rumsey Map Collection for the state or county in question. For an example, see the Pennsylvania.
Add each state or county's creation date and parent states/counties. This information can be found using the Place Search in the Family History Library Catalog.
Add links to digitized state and county histories. A large collection of such histories is Brigham Young University's Family History Archives. A shortcut to searching it for local histories is on the BYU-FHL Digital Books Collection page.
The Research Wiki is also available in ten other languages. You can help by translating pages into one of the other languages.

"How To" Reference Articles

Even More Opportunities for Beginners

Start Simple

Find pages that could use some TLC, such as Stubs, or Short Pages. There might be a section in these articles that you could enhance by adding content, or even just spell-checking.
Are you interested in a specific area? Could you add research tips to pages in that area that are in a specific section of the article, such as cemeteries?
Another possibility would be to watch genealogy blogs for press or news releases that could be added to the Wiki, if they're not time sensitive.
Could you check for broken links or add categories to pages?

US County pages

Is there something specific that is missing from several of them?

Examples:

Suppose several County pages are missing information about local libraries. Could you use an internet site, such as PublicLibraries.com to locate the libraries for each county and add the link to the page?
Add links to the Family History Center pages, if they're missing.
How about looking for county histories on Googlebooks or Internet Archives and then adding them to the County pages?

Projects

There are several on-going projects in the Wiki. There will be information for areas where help is needed. Many of the tasks would be good for a beginner.