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Volkszählungen in Deutschland 1816-1916: Wann, Wo und Wie einer wertvollen genealogischen Quelle - Roger Minert

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Volkszählungen in Deutschland 1816-1916: Wann, Wo und Wie einer wertvollen genealogischen Quelle - Roger Minert

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Eike Pies (Herausgeber), Roger P Minert (Autor, Übersetzer)

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Volkszählungen in Deutschland 1816-1916: Wann, Wo und Wie einer wertvollen genealogischen Quelle (Bibliothek für Familienforscher)

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Volkszählungen in Deutschland 1816-1916: Wann, Wo und Wie einer wertvollen genealogischen Quelle (Bibliothek für Familienforscher) : Pies, Eike, Minert, Roger P, Minert, Roger P: Amazon.de: Books

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An ihren Beffchen solltet ihr sie erkennen

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Den "Geheimcode" protestantischer Amtstracht kennt nicht jeder. Das weiße Beffchen ist in einer reformierten, einer lutherischen oder unierten Kirche unterschiedlich geschnitten. Reformierte tragen das, wenn man so will, liturgische Accessoire geschlossen, lutherisch ist der Kragen von oben bis unten geteilt - und die unierte Tracht liegt genau dazwischen, zur Hälfte geschlossen, zur Hälfte getrennt. So ist an diesem kleinen Stückchen Stoff erkennbar, mit wem man es zu tun hat.

Ansonsten sind die Unterschiede zwischen den protestantischen Bekenntnissen nicht immer so eindeutig zu erkennen. Selbst regelmäßige Kirchgänger merken manchmal erst nach einem Umzug, dass sie am neuen Wohnort Mitglied einer anderen Landeskirche - mit einer anderen Konfession - geworden sind. Unter dem Dach der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) gibt es Landeskirchen von lutherischem, reformiertem und uniertem Bekenntnis. Die sind alle evangelisch - auf ihre eigene, unterschiedliche Art und Weise.

Andere Reformatoren, andere Sitten

Die Prägungen der lutherischen und der reformierten Kirchen gehen dabei auf die unterschiedlichen Protagonisten der Reformation zurück. Die Anhänger Johannes Calvins und Ulrich Zwinglis gehörten zu den Gründern der evangelisch-reformierten Kirchen, die vor allem in den Niederlanden, Schottland und der Schweiz, wie im nördlichen Deutschland entstanden. Die Protestanten der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirchen berufen sich auf Martin Luther als Reformator. Die unierten Landeskirchen wiederum entstanden aus Zusammenschlüssen reformierter und lutherischer Kirchen.

Die Unterschiede zwischen diesen Traditionen lassen sich nicht nur in theologischen Fachbüchern nachlesen, sie sind auf einen genauen Blick auch mit bloßem Auge erkennbar - zum Beispiel an den Kragen der Pastoren. Und wer eher in lutherischen Gefilden aufgewachsen ist und erstmals in eine reformierte Kirche kommt, der stolpert regelrecht darüber. Schlicht und schmucklos wirkt der Raum, sodass man sich eher in einem Gemeindesaal wähnt. In der Regel hängen keine Bilder in reformierten Kirchen, es gibt kaum Kerzen oder Blumenschmuck. Mit diesem Stil hält sich die reformierte Gemeinde konsequent ans Bilderverbot, das in der reformierten (wie auch der jüdischen) Zählung der Zehn Gebote deshalb auch als eigenes, zweites Gebot geführt wird.

Bildersturm gegen den Götzendienst

Das Bilderverbot hat Luther seinerzeit zwar auch hochgehalten. Doch ihm war vor allem daran gelegen, dem Prunk und Schmuck der Kirchen keine religiöse Verehrung entgegenzubringen - und somit nicht dem Götzendienst zu verfallen. In lutherischen Kirchen gibt es daher durchaus Gemälde oder Fresken, Leuchter oder Statuen. Dagegen hatten die Reformierten gründlich aufgeräumt: Während der Glaubenskriege war es, vor allem in den Niederlanden, zu regelrechten Bilderstürmen gekommen. Aufständische gegen die Römische Kirche hatten die Kirchbauten von jeglichem Zierrat befreit und dabei mitunter nicht mal die Bänke verschont.

Noch heute ist es durchaus nicht selbstverständlich, dass überhaupt ein christliches Kreuz in einer reformierten Kirche hängt. Und wenn, dann wird jede Darstellung des Gekreuzigten - als Bild Gottes - vermieden. Die schlichten Kreuze, tragen mithin keinen Corpus in reformierten Kirchen.

Die Predigt gerne doppelt bis dreimal so lang

Mit ähnlicher Ablehnung begegneten die calvinistisch geprägten Protestanten zur Zeit der Kirchentrennung aber auch schmückenden Elementen des Gottesdienstes. Traditionell spielt seither die Kirchenmusik im reformierten Gottesdienst keine so herausragende Rolle, wie im lutherischen. Die liturgischen Wechselgesänge im Gottesdienst, die Luther durchaus aus dem römischen Ritus übernommen hatte, wurden bei den Calvinisten abgeschafft. Mancherorts waren auch die Orgeln Opfer der Bilderstürmer geworden. Für den Gesang pflegen reformierte Gemeinden eine reiche Tradition vertonter Bibeltexte, vor allem vieler Psalmen. Die große Vielfalt in der Lieddichtung des evangelischen Kirchengesangbuchs geht dagegen auf die lutherischen Traditionen zurück, die das Kirchenlied bewusst zur Glaubens- und Wissensvermittlung einsetzen.

Ein deutliches Merkmal eines Kirchbaus calvinistischer Prägung ist auch eine mittig im Kirchenschiff platzierte Kanzel. Die Predigt - gerne mal doppelt bis dreimal so lang wie im lutherischen Gottesdienst -, das verlesene und ausgelegte Wort Gottes, steht ganz im Zentrum des Gottesdienstes.

Der Prediger tritt somit dort auf, wo in anderen Kirchen der Altar seinen festen Platz hat - der wiederum gänzlich fehlt in reformierten Kirchen. Als einfaches Möbel für das Abendmahl dient ein Tisch, der mitunter auch in der Mitte der Gottesdienstbesucher, der Versammlung steht.

Nicht nur eine Einrichtungsentscheidung

Was nach einer einfachen Einrichtungsentscheidung aussieht, hat freilich weitreichende theologische Gründe. Mit einem Tisch statt eines Altars soll wirklich jeder Anklang an einen Opferaltar vermieden werden. Die Protestanten - lutherisch wie reformiert - wollten das Abendmahl nicht mehr, wie in der mittelalterlichen Kirche üblich, als das stets wiederholte Opfer des Leibes und Blutes Christi feiern. Die Abkehr vom Abendmahl als Messopfer betonen die reformierten Gemeinden, wenn sie ihre Tischgemeinschaft als Erinnerungsmahl an den Opfertod Christi feiern.

Diesen Bruch haben die Lutheraner, wie in vielen anderen Bereichen auch, nicht so radikal und konsequent umgesetzt. Was in der Glaubenspraxis keinen größeren Schaden anrichtet, behielt man bei. So gibt es durchaus eindrucksvolle Altäre in lutherischen Kirchen (Beispiel siehe oben) und das Abendmahl hat generell ein größeres Gewicht im lutherischen Gottesdienst - es wird viel öfter gefeiert als bei den Reformierten.

Wie aber sind dann die unierten Kirchen eingerichtet, woran erkennt man deren Gottesdienste? Wie bei den Beffchen lautet die Antwort: genau dazwischen, oder: sowohl, als auch. So gestalten unierte Gemeinden ihren Kirchenraum mit einzelnen Bildern, wenigen Kerzen, dezenten Kreuzen. Oder, flapsig angemerkt, suchen sie sich aus beiden Traditionen das heraus, was ihnen gefällt. Zudem gibt es auch bekennende lutherische oder reformierte Gemeinden unter dem Dach unierter Landeskirchen - und machen die unierte Gemengelage perfekt. Die Unionen sind gegründet auf der Idee, dass die Unterschiede zwischen den protestantischen Traditionen letztlich nicht so trennend sind, dass man nicht gemeinsam Gottesdienst feiern und Gemeinde gestalten könnte.

Gardinensteuer oder Calvinismus?

So bleibt zuletzt nur noch zu klären, ob auch die gardinenlosen Fenster in den Niederlanden eine Art religiösen Code darstellen - und die Bewohner daran, wie oft gemutmaßt, als calvinistisch geprägt zu erkennen wären. Die reformiert-protestantische Ethik verlangt von den Gläubigen eine untadelige, bibeltreue Lebensführung, weil sich die Heiligung Gottes auf Erden eben nicht in sakralen Räumen oder Riten zeige, sondern im ganzen Leben und Tun der Welt. Hartnäckig hält sich daher das Gerücht, dass, wer hier etwas auf sich hält, ohne Gardinen wohnt: Er hat ja nichts zu verbergen. Eindeutige historische Belege dafür finden sich nicht. Allenfalls ist die eine Begründung widerlegt: Eine Gardinensteuer hat es in den Niederlanden nie gegeben.

Kathrin Althans ist Journalistin und Theologin und schreibt als freie Mitarbeiterin für evangelisch.de.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_BEE

das beste Ding seit geschnitten Brot u.a. zur Suche von WikiTree-Daten bei FamilySearch

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Note: Please install the new WikiTree Browser Extension. Recently, I've been adding many of the features of WikiTree BEE to the WikiTree Browser Extension. As it's not always easy to avoid conflicts between the two extensions, I've started removing features from the BEE after adding them to the other extension. I'll list changes on the update page(s). For the latest features in the WikiTree Browser Extension, you can install the Preview version for Chrome-based browsers or the Preview version for Firefox. The public 'stable' version of the extension for Chrome and Firefox will be updated monthly (apart from any necessary bug fixes). I recommend the new WikiTree Browser Extension, as having a knowledgeable team working on and overseeing it means that it should be faster and less prone to bugs than the BEE. Also, my removing features from the BEE should make the remaining features more reliable, and it saves me trying to maintain the same code in two different places.

The WikiTree BEE Chrome Extension can be used on Chrome, Opera, and Edge. A WikiTree BEE Firefox Add-on is also available. (The 'wiki tables and new profile creation' feature is reduced in the Firefox add-on. ( See below.) )

On installing WikiTree BEE, go to the Options page to enable the features you want to see.

Feedback - including complaints, advice, and suggestions - is welcome. You can find me on Discord or send me an email through the WikiTree message system. Please send any bug reports to me rather than posting them on this page. Thanks.

Note: The extension was formerly known as Auto WikiTree Tables +.

Highlights

You may need to enable many of the features on the Options page first.

Get data and citations from Ancestry, FamilySearch, Find a Grave and records from other sites

On Ancestry, FamilySearch, and Find a Grave record pages, you can get a citation and a WikiTree table to either paste into a profile, merge with a profile, or create a new profile.

This works with most Ancestry, FamilySearch, and Find a Grave records: censuses, baptisms, deaths, marriages, etc. You can also get a citation of records on:

Click the icon, and the record is converted to a full citation, with an option to include a WikiTree-style table. The citation can be preceded by an asterisk for the Sources section, or wrapped in <ref> tags for an inline citation. This is automatically copied to your clipboard ready to be pasted into a WikiTree profile or sent to a MergeEdit page. For the table, choose what fields you want (and which you don't want) by clicking the checkboxes. The newly-generated table is again automatically copied to your clipboard.

You can:

Paste the citation (and table) [Ctrl+v] in a profile that you're editing.

Send the data to a MergeEdit page for easy profile editing. The table will appear at the bottom of the bio, and some of the MergeEdit fields will be filled in.

Create a new profile for a parent, sibling, spouse, or child of a person with an existing profile or for an unrelated person. The table will be in the bio, a full citation will be in the sources section, and some of the other fields will be filled in for you.

Notes:

This extension is different from WikiTree X. With WikiTree X, you can take the data from Ancestry and FamilySearch profile pages to create a new profile. With this extension, you must be on an actual record page to do that.

This feature is somewhat reduced in the Firefox Add-on. On Firefox, the extension will give you a source citation and a table, and copy them to your clipboard. You can send the data to a MergeEdit page or create an 'unrelated' profile, but not a related profile (sorry).

Here's an example of how to start a new WikiTree profile from an Ancestry record:

https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/beacall6/AWT/AWT-AddSpouse.mp4

In this video, I found Jessie Roberts's marriage record on Ancestry, so I wanted to add her husband as her spouse on WikiTree. On the husband's Ancestry record, I click the bee icon at the top and the record is turned into a table (and you can see the citation at the top, including the WikiTree Ancestry link template). Then I click the checkboxes of the information that I want, which is basically all of it. The extension guesses that I want to add this person as Jessie's husband (based on the fact that I have Jessie's profile open and this is a marriage record), so I can just click 'submit'. The data opens up a new profile page on WikiTree with all the data from that record in the appropriate fields. The citation and the table are in the sources section.

Note: It is a good idea to review the last name at birth on the profile creation page including for spelling errors that might be in the marriage record, and in cases when a female spouse's second marriage record uses her first married name.

More notes:

(French-speaking) Geneanet members can also use the extension to import their profiles from Geneanet to WikiTree. Go to a profile that you want to import as a parent, sibling, or child of a person with an existing WikiTree profile, and click the bee icon. The data will be imported to a new-profile page with some fields filled in. This is not perfect. Please try it and let me know when you find a problem.

The BEE is compatible with Find a Grave in any of the available languages.

There is a Search WikiTree button in the pop-up BEE window to search WikiTree based on the details of a record on another site.

* WieWasWie: This is quite good (maybe). Note:

To select a person from a population registry page or the bride from a marriage page, double click the person, then click the BEE icon.

FamilySearch: Get All Citations

On a Sources tab of a profile page on FamilySearch, I've added a 'Get All Citations' button in the Sources heading. This expands all of the records listed, copies the citations, and puts them all in a textbox for you to copy.

Profile Pages

Links to WikiTree apps

These apps - Family Group app, Profile Overview, Fan Chart, BioCheck, and Topola - can be found on the 'Family Tree and Tools' tab/page, but I've added them to every profile. A profile may now look like this:

The arrow buttons are for Profile Overview, to see the ancestors, descendants, or relatives (parents, spouses, siblings, children) of the profile person. The others are for Fan Chart, to see the person's ancestors in a cool fan view; BioCheck, to check for errors in the biographies of hundreds of related profiles; and Topola, to get a fast, responsive family tree view. See the Help:Apps page for these and other great WikiTree apps.

There are also links to the Relationship Finder and the Connection Finder. The Connection Finder link shows the number of degrees between you and the profile person.

Highlight your ancestors and cousins

On the profile pages of your ancestors, green borders are added to the profile images (at the top, next to the names).

You can see your relationship to each ancestor using a button. Click the button to see the list of ancestors connecting you with your ancestor. If you have more than one line to your ancestor, you can see each line.

Another:

To enable this, you need to click the tree button (below). This should take you to log in to the API and then build a 20-generation Ahnentafel database in your browser. When you click the tree, it should shake for a few minutes and then show your connection to your ancestor (as above).

Notes

If you feel the database has problems, you can delete the ancestor list data and rebuild it. Hover over the tree button and a winter tree image should appear below it. Click the winter tree to clear the database, then click the green tree to start again.

If you have ancestors going further back than 20 generations, you can click the tree again to continue building your table. It will then grow your table three generations at a time. The further you go back, the longer it takes.

This is not perfect.

This feature is a little dynamic. When you add an extra ancestor to WikiTree, the extension should recognise this and add them to the database.

If the extension has added (for example) your 23rd great-grandmother to the database, but not her parents, grandparents, etc., visiting any of the ancestors in the next five generations of ancestors and clicking the 'Descendants' button on the profile, should add the next five generations of ancestors (above your 23rd great-grandmother). (I hope that's clear).

This uses some of the code from Chase Ashley's Ancestor Explorer app, which is much better than anything I can do. Thanks, Chase!

Cousins are highlighted, too:

Ancestors button

On each profile, there's a new BEE button to show up to 10 generations with a maximum of 126 profiles*. It may take a while, because it's fetching all of each person's family members, too. You can see these by clicking the house icon next to each person's name. The table also shows when the person's father (blue), mother (pink), or both parents (purple) are unknown.

*126 profiles is enough for seven whole generations, but many people won't have all of these on the tree, so others from later generations will be included, up to the 10th generation.

Descendant count

After clicking the 'Descendants' button, when the descendants are shown, there will be a small table at the top showing the number of descendants in each of the generations shown.

Vertical Copy ID buttons

The Copy ID buttons next to the scissors are a little tricky to use because they are horizontally aligned. This extension makes them vertical with a little space between them. It's a small improvement.

Note: This is optional. It can be turned on in the options window (see below).

Movable death details

The WikiTree style is to have the death details below the family lists. Some people would prefer to have the death details with the birth details. You can now click the word 'Died' to move the death details up to be just below the birth details. (If you've already used the BEE to move the family lists to the right, this won't make much difference to you.)

FamilySearch search links

In the Research section on the right, there is a button to add a matching profile on FamilySearch and two other links to easily search the FamilySearch tree and FamilySearch records.

Heading for Profile(s) of the Week

If you've ever wondered what the theme of the featured connections was, now you can see it.

'Unconnected branch table' button

On unconnected profiles (those not connected to the big tree), you can find a button to create a table of all the people in the same unnconnected branch as the profile person. These buttons are also on the Unconnected Notables, Largest Unconnected Branches, and Special:Unconnected pages.

New Profile page

Date convertor

There's a setting (on the options page) to automatically convert European dates (DD/MM/YYYY) to the ISO standard (YYYY-MM-DD) on profile creation/edit pages. If you paste in a European date and then tab out or click somewhere else, the date will be converted.

Sometimes, the suggestions in the location dropdowns are not quite right. Now, you can save locations that you often use how you want them. Click the gears/settings button and save your locations in the textbox. Then select them at any time in the future. You can find the boxes under the birth, marriage and death location boxes after choosing this option in the settings. There is also a button to add the contents of a location field to your 'My Places' list.

Replicating the current location boxes (which get their data from FamilySearch) but allowing editing and other things. (The new search box combines the 'My Places' locations and the 'BEE Places' locations (from the wikitreebee.com server).) This is still a work in progress, but it's usable. You can see what we're doing (and contribute) here. The bonus for the moment is more place names for Wales and Scotland than (I think) FamilySearch has. We're working on getting the right dates in. As examples, the county changes in England and Wales came in on 1974-04-01 (not '1974'), and New York State joined the United States, on 1778-07-26 (not '1776'). Features of the new 'system':

My Places allows place names to be stored with dates e.g. New York, New York, United States (1788-07-26 - ).

The suggestions do not show place names with dates that are too early or too late for the related date (birth, marriage, or death).

Likely good matches are highlighted (based on the locations of family members).

The keyboard up and down arrows will move you (surprisingly) up and down the list of matches. Click on a location or hit 'Enter' to select it. Double hit 'Enter' to get the selection into the location box.

Many profiles have little or no biography. Now, with the 'Auto Bio' button, you can generate a biography based on the data in the database, data in the form on the page, and tables (created by the BEE) on the page. If you've used this extension to paste a census table into a profile, the Auto Bio feature can read this table and turn it into sentences. (For this to work well with the census tables, you need to leave the little heading before the table (e.g. '1871 England Census').)

The code also looks for occupations (gathered from FamilySearch 'facts' and categories), burials, and residence information and adds it to the bio.

The generated bio comes between HTML comments, like this:

<!-- BEE AutoBio start--> --- <!-- BEE AutoBio end-->

If you make a bio with the Auto Bio feature and then you add more family members to the database, you can just click the button again to re-do the bio. The code looks for these comments to remove the bio and replace it with the new one. To not replace the first generated bio (because you've edited it), right-click the button. This will give you a new bio above the old one. You can then combine the two any way you like.

The Auto Bio button also:

Adds a '== Biography ==' heading if it's missing.

Puts a/the '<references />' tag on the line after the sources tag. (Adds it if it's missing; moves it if it's in the wrong place.)

Changes '===' to '==' in Sources, Research Notes, and Acknowledgements headings.

Removes '(contributors)' from this: '== Acknowledgements (contributors) =='.

Changes naked Find a Grave links to a Find a Grave link template.

Gives you some options:

Create inline citations: If you choose this option, the Auto Bio will try to take citations from the Sources section and add them to the Auto Bio text. This will probably work best if you actually use the BEE to add citations to your Sources section before using the AutoBio. It also requires the citations in the Sources section to begin with a '*'. This is how it should be done anyway, but it seems that some people don't do this. This feature still needs more testing, but the new 'undo' button is there in case anything strange happens. See what you think.

Date Format: There was a choice of two date formatting options before in the main extension settings. I've added two more with full month names.

Start with birth name: Instead of "Jane (Jones) Smith was born...", you can have "Jane Jones was born..."

Bullet lists for siblings and children (rather than numbered lists)

Include a list of siblings (or not)

Include a list of children (or not)

Include people's dates (or not)

Spouse's locations

Spouse's parents

Death details immediately after birth details

Shareable sources

When you create a new profile, you may want to easily copy in citations from the family member that you're attaching the new profile person to. So I've put the source citations of the first person on the new profile page of the second person for you to easily click to add to the Notes or Sources box. (I've also made the Notes and Sources boxes bigger. Why are they so small?)

On an edit page, you can do the same thing. Use the dropdown box to choose a family member (or select 'Other' and input the WikiTree ID of any other person), and their source citations will appear on the right. (This box is now doing two jobs: copying a Wiki Link and fetching the sources).

This feature works best without the enhanced editor on.

With the enhanced editor on, there's one more step for an inline citation. Click the 'Copy Inline Citation' button and then paste it in the right place.

You can also see the whole biography of a profile person's family member. A 'Bio' button lets you see the whole biography of the person whose sources you may want to copy. This window is draggable (grab the name at the top to move it).

Note: The shareable sources feature will work well with inline citations and sources starting with '*' in the Sources section.

Minimal tabbing

On an edit page, choose 'Minimal tabbing' to use the keyboard to tab through to the most commonly edited text fields, skipping fields such as 'Prefix', 'Nicknames', and 'Email address', as well as all the extra stuff that most people don't need to tab to. (I realise that natural tabbing is very important for people with accessibility issues, but this may speed up data entry for others.)

Automatically check 'No Middle Name'

This is an option to automatically check 'No Middle Name' if the 'middle name' field is empty. This may be very useful for Europeans and others. (See the Options page section to find out how to set it.)

Redirect to Private View or Edit page after saving

This is an option (on the options/settings page). You may not want to do this if you take part in the challenges. After you save a profile, the system naturally takes you to the public view with the Challenge Tracker at the top. If you opt to be redirected, you'll be redirected and you may lose your point(s).

'Add categories?' alert

Do you want the page to bother you with a floating alert asking you to add categories? Then this is for you. You can enable this on the options page. The button in the alert box will open up the category box in the editor. The alert will stay until you enter a category in the text editor or double click the alert box. Or you could just not enable this option...

Style options

Add some style to WikiTree

Click the dress icon to add a little more style to WikiTree. The round theme (hopefully) makes the site a little more beautiful and makes some words (such as the main tab options) stand out a little more, making them more readable. Some of the green text on a green background is also changed (to blue). This is completely optional. The second theme is a calm light-green theme.

There is a third, Black, theme for when your eyes are tired.

Timed black theme option

On the Options page, you can set times to automatically switch to and from the black theme. For example, you may want it to switch to the black theme at 7 p.m. and switch back to another theme (or no theme) at 5 a.m.

Improved Surname pages

Click the 'More Details' button and you can see the people on the page who are missing a parent or two. A blue dot indicates a missing father; a pink dot, a missing mother. This feature also highlights your ancestors (A), profiles of which you are the profile manager (PM), married women whose name hasn't changed (?), and orphaned profiles (O). It also displays profile pictures.

The 'table view' is better. The BEE:

Makes the table sortable by profile manager.

Separates locations into a separate sortable column. By default, there is only one location on the surname page - the birth location or, if this is unavailable, the death location. These are placed in a separate, sortable column (the locations which are death locations are shown with a grey background). The locations can be sorted from 'big to small' - so Australian results will often be listed first, and within those results, New South Wales will come before South Australia, and so on - or 'small to big', with the results listed in order based on the smallest part (town, village, etc.) of the location. The results from one town are then sorted by birth date. If the birth date is unavailable, the death date is used instead (if available). Note that this will not sort all the search results, but only those on the page. The best thing may be to click the link to see 5,000 results and then sort those 5,000 by location.

Gives the option of seeing a wide (horizontally scrolling) table. The text will not wrap, so it may be easier for you to scan the table.

After clicking 'More Details' on the surname table page, along with the more details (described above), there is an extra column for death location.

More Connection Finder details

The BEE adds more details to the Connection Finder page. In the heading, the BEE adds information about the number of 'branches' that connect the two people. For example:

George Harrison is 27 Degrees from Charles Darwin : 5 branches (8-4-8-6-2)

Each colour change in the Connection Finder results represents a marriage event (spouse) and cross over into a different 'bloodline'. Some prefer to call this a 'branch'. You can see the first connection through a marriage at #7 and #8.

So when moving through profiles from yourself to #7, you are viewing the same branch, and the colour switches at #8 to represent the marriage event and the new branch.

Here, the 5 branches (8-4-8-6-2) are:

Branch 1 = 8 people

Branch 2 = 4 people

Branch 3 = 8 people

Branch 4 = 6 people

Branch 5 = 2 people

You'll find a 'More' button to the right of the main heading ('Connection Finder'). Click this for a vertical format and a little more information about all of the people listed in the Connection Finder results.

Like the Connection Finder results, the colours change whenever a connection is by marriage, but rather than alternating between green and yellow, we have a different colour each time.

The colours in the fourth column represent 50-year periods. The mostly-empty columns on the right are for marriage details when a connection is by marriage.

After the table is loaded, there should also be a download button to the right of the 'Connection Finder' heading in case you want to download the table as an Excel file.

There is also a text relationship explanation (e.g. "Great-grandaunt's husband's niece's husband's 3rd cousin once removed") in the foot of the Connection Finder 'More' table.

For direct descendants/ancestors, there's also an extra box with text to help with applications for heritage and lineage organizations, such as Daughters of the American Revolution.

Each profile in the Connection Finder table has a 'Family Timeline' button.

+ Surname lists: See the 'Surname summaries' button

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Search Results page

Click More Details for a sortable table (of results on that page).

Click the 'Get Parents and Spouses' button to fetch the data of parents and spouses of people on the search results page: their dates and locations, including the marriage details in the case of a spouse.

Then, you can see one person's parents and spouses by clicking the '+' to the left of the person.

You can see the parents and spouses of all of the people in the search results by clicking the 'Show All Parents and Spouses' button which will appear at the top when they are all ready.

This may help you find who you're looking for (or rule people out of your search).

Also on the search page, your 'name variants' and 'date range' selections will be remembered/stored, so that you don't have to keep choosing your prefered options.

Find Ancestor Matches page

If you're checking for matches for one profile, click the 'More Details' button for a sortable table with a couple of filters.

Highlighting cousins and ancestors on the Anniversaries page

This will show the ancestors and cousins recorded in your browser's database, which you will have if you've clicked the tree icon to build the ancestor database. You won't necessarily see all of your cousins on the list. A cousin is added to the database when you visit their profile, so if you haven't visited their profile, they won't be in the database and won't be highlighted on the Anniversaries page. You can also see a simple explanation of your ancestor's relations to you (e.g. 'MFMF', 'Mother's father's mother's father').

Sort Watchlist table by last name at birth

I've added a button to do this. It will order the people on the page by last name at birth (not the whole of your Watchlist (if you have more than one page of Watchlist profiles)). Click the button again to reverse the order.

Sortable branch tables on Unconnected pages

On the Unconnected Notables and Largest Unconnected Branches pages, click the button to the left of the person's name for a sortable table of each profile in an unconnected branch.

On the 'Special:Unconnected' page (Find > Unconnected) you can see people on your watchlist who are not connected to the big tree. Some of these may be part of a large unconnected branch. To see all of the people in that branch, click the button to the left of the person's name and wait a little.

This is also on the Politicos do Brasil space page.

Table button on Category pages

+ Age sorting on Centenarians and Supercentenarians category page tables

Sortable tables on Wills and Estates category pages

See the Gloucestershire Wills and Estates category page, for example. (You'll obviously need to have the BEE installed first.)

'Copy HTML' button on the Compact Tree page

WikiTree has a page that gives HTML for iframes to put on your blog to show your tree publicly, but the free version of WordPress doesn't allow iframes, so I've added a button that will copy the HTML of the compact tree to your clipboard. You can then paste it into your blog.

'Hide my contributions' as a setting

I've turned the 'hide my contributions' bit in the Family Activity Feed tab into a setting, so the browser will remember your choice and you don't have to keep clicking the same link to hide your contributions.

PM tags on the Family Tree page

You can easily see which of your ancestors on the Family Tree you manage.

An option to see WikiTree IDs on the Family List page

This option can be set on the options page. See ' Options' below.

Last Contribution column on the My Cousins page

This new 'last contribution' column is sortable, helping you to more easily see which of your WikiTree cousins are active on the site. The column includes links to the Connection Finder and the Six Degrees app.

Empty 'last name' search box option

Some people have told me that having the last name search box pre-filled can be irritating (you can click the profile person's surname to go to the surname search page). I've added an option to not pre-fill the last name search box.

Most of the features above can be switched on or off by clicking the buttons on profile pages, but there's also an 'options' or 'settings' window. You can get to it by either right-clicking the bee icon in the toolbar and choosing 'Options'...

... or left-clicking the icon and clicking the gears icon.

The options window looks a bit like this:

Options are: Profiles

Vertical copy ID buttons

Show ancestor/cousin text

Max. number of ancestor lines to show

Empty last name search box

Profile creation / Editing

Change field order

Profile input: Flip DD/MM/YYYY → YYYY-MM-DD

Remember language choice

Editing

Automatically check 'No Middle Name'

'Add Categories?' alert

My Places

BEE Places

"Leave Site?" confirmation on space edit pages

View after saving: Public / Private / Edit

Other

Show dates of cousins' last contributions on My Cousins page

Show 'PM' on Family Tree

Add WikiTree IDs on Family List page

Don't open update page after updates

Style: None / Round / Calm / Black

Timed theme

Disable the BEE on Space: and Help: pages

Show BEE buttons

Build tree / Style / Tables / Apps / Relation/Connection / API

BEE Backup and Synching

On the Nav Home page, in the bottom right corner, you should find a BEE icon. Click it to download a backup of your BEE settings, including the change explanations on the edit page, the Extra Watchlist, and 'My Menu'. To upload a backup, right-click the BEE icon and choose the file.

If you install the BEE on Chrome on a new PC, your settings (not including the change explanations on the edit page, the Extra Watchlist, and 'My Menu'), should be there for you. After that, any changes to settings in either browser should be synched to the other one.

See the WikiTree BEE Update page for the the latest news. This page will occasionally open automatically in your browser when new features are added. You can avoid this by opting out on the options/settings page.

Features Moved to WikiTree Browser Extension

Profile Pages

Change the appearance of lists of parents, siblings, and children

See this GIF for a demonstration.

You can change the appearance and position of these. The buttons to do this should appear next to the 'Sources' link (just above the profile).

Colours have been added to show which children belong to which parents (in the cases of half-siblings and multiple marriages). There are also optional new headings to replace the standard ones (see the image below). You can change these by clicking any of the headings. The browser should remember your choice. Also, the underlines have been removed to make the list look a little cleaner.

You can:

Move these lists into the right-hand column.

View the lists vertically with dates and gender colours, and with the subject of the profile shown in the list of siblings.

See colour-coded connections between parents and children in the case of half-siblings or multiple spouses.

Notes

You can securely log in to the API from the extension icon for the details of your 'private' family members to be included.

If you don't log in (you don't have to), you will see only the publicly-available data in the lists.

Numbers of siblings and children

The vertical family lists option gives numbered lists of siblings and children. For those who prefer the slightly-more-confusing horizontal lists, I've added a count at the end of each of these lists.

Family Timeline

There's a BEE button on profile pages to show a timeline of events in the life of the family. It's mostly births, marriages, and deaths, but it does include some information from stickers in profiles.

Collapsible descendant trees

This allows easier navigation of the descendant trees (the result of clicking the 'Descendants' button). This is from the WikiTree Turbo extension. (Thanks, Julian!)

'Surname search' links on other (aka) last names

Usually, when a person has had other last names (usually a woman who had more than one husband - the 'other last names' will be the surnames of her husbands before her final husband), the last name at birth and current last names have links to the surname search page, but the other last names don't have these links. I've fixed that.

New Profile page

Gender prediction

When you're creating a new profile, after you leave the 'First Name at Birth' box, the gender dropdown will be filled based on WikiTree data.

Notes

This is based on the gender frequency of about 13,000 names in the WikiTree database.

This is not perfect.

It is pretty good, though. ;)

If the extension doesn't predict a gender (because it's an unusual name) or it predicts incorrectly (due to differences in culture, time period, etc.), don't worry - just choose the correct gender as you have been doing up until now.

Location Helper

(Highlighting and rearranging suggested locations): if there's a location suggestion with dates that don't match the relevant date on the form, it will be sent to the bottom of the list and highlighted in pink. Locations which match family members' locations will be highlighted in green and taken to the top of the list.

In this example, 'Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States' matched a family member's location (green):

Many 'Fayette' suggestions have been sent to the bottom of the list as the dates don't match this birthdate of 1820.

Verification when attaching someone by ID

Sometimes, you need to attach a family member to someone by using their ID as this person already has a WikiTree profile. You may paste or type the ID into the box... But what if you type or paste the wrong ID by mistake? Trouble. Now, when you put an ID in the box, the BEE will show the name and dates of the person whose ID you've added. You can take a quick glance at this just to make sure it's the right person. As with many of the features on the BEE, this idea came from a G2G post. ( See wish #2 here)

Pin on Category Finder results

You may know that pins in the location dropdowns will take you to more information on each place. Now the Category Finder results also have pins so that you can check out the page for each category.

Birth and death dates and locations on 'new profile' pages

To semi-quote a G2G comment... "When a new profile is created it often [depends] on another. [We have] eg 'Add child of Peter'... [but I'd like] more information... for example 'Add child of Peter Smith born Bartiébougou, Komondjari, Est, Burkina Faso on 3 Jan 1910 and died Birmingham 29 Aug 1930." The BEE gives you that.

Shareable sources

You can easily copy sources (such as a marriage record) from other profiles to use in the profile you're working on. See below.

Moving Save and Change Summary box

This is placed in the right-hand column next to the top of the biography. This is to save you having to scroll down to the bottom all the time. It appears to be two sets of the buttons and textbox, but it's the same ones, moving up and down the page as you scroll. There's also a button to take you to the bottom of the page to see the WT+ suggestions.

Checkboxes for the change summary options

Below the change summary textbox (on the Edit page), I've changed the radio buttons to checkboxes. If you check a box it will add the text to the textbox (just as it does now with the radio buttons), but then if you uncheck the box, it will remove the added text. It's a small improvement.

Change explanation preview window

The textbox may be a little too narrow for the change summary, so I've added a preview window above it.

Add your own choices for the change explanation box

There's a little settings button to the top-right of the Change Explanation box. Click this to easily add or remove your own buttons. e.g. Type 'Added {{Unsourced}}' in the box and click 'Add' - this will be saved as one of the choices. You can remove the choice by clicking on it in the pop-up window.

Sticky editor toolbar

The text box of the editor may be too long for your browser/screen/window and the toolbar may scroll out of sight. The BEE keeps it onscreen.

The top menus have many links, but you may only use a few of them regularly. Now, you can put those links together under one small menu. You'll find 'My Menu' near the other menus. Click the words ('My Menu') to start building your custom menu. You can also add any other link you want.

Random Profile link

Ever wanted to go to a random profile? Now, you can.

What Links Here link

See what other pages link to your profile or space pages. You can also right-click the What Links Here link to copy the links to your clipboard as wikilinks. There is also an option to include a 'What Links Here' section to each page.

See your uncommitted saved drafts. The BEE builds and maintains a list of your drafts.

Apps submenu

On the Find menu, when you hover on 'Apps' you'll see a submenu of links to the apps.

'Go to profile' box

Put (e.g.) 'Darwin-15' in the box and jump to the profile page on pressing 'Enter' or clicking 'Go'. (You should find this in the top right of G2G.)

Extra buttons

Recent Activity, My Activity, and + (My Favorites) buttons

Category filters

Maybe you don't need to see G2G messages labelled 'Photos' or 'Appreciation' (for example). Now, you can filter those messages out by unchecking the boxes to the left of the category list on the right.

G2G FAQ links and answer with the answer form

You can easily answer a frequently asked question on G2G by inserting an answer from the unofficial G2G FAQ page.

Big 'Comment' and 'Reply' buttons

Some people are too quick to hit the 'Answer' button because it's very big. Sometimes, their answer would be better as a comment. These big buttons are a reminder that you can choose between posting an answer and posting a comment.

Plain-text links become clickable links

lDs (e.g. Jones-123) on G2G pages

'Back to top' link at the bottom of the Recent Activity page

It may be helpful.

On a list of questions ('Questions', 'Recent Activity', etc.), there are two symbols to help you:

A check mark ( ✓ ) to show questions you've read (or at least visited)

A plus sign ( + ) to show questions that you've marked as 'favourite' questions

Scissors on G2G threads

Some people will find them useful.

Extra pagination links

You've read a long G2G thread before and you don't want to scroll down to click to the second or third page. Now the pagination links are at the top of the question as well as the bottom.

Extra Watchlist

You can keep an eye on some profiles that are not on your Watchlist by adding them to the extension's Extra Watchlist.

To add a profile to your Extra Watchlist, click this button:

You can see your Extra Watchlist by right-clicking on the '+' button (above) on any profile page. It may look like this (below). Profiles with changes in the previous two weeks are listed in order of edit date, with the most recent first. The other names are listed in WikiTree ID order (so, almost alphabetically).

The Extra Watchlist is saved in your browser, so if you clear you cache (cookies, etc.), you may lose it. To avoid that, you can export your list to a text file and import it later. You can also import the list into another browser. Importing an Extra Watchlist will overwrite the existing Extra Watchlist (if any). The exported watchlist is simply a list of WikiTree IDs separated by commas, so you could even make your own list in a text (.txt) file and import it that way.

Notes:

To close this window, click the 'X' or double-click the window.

The window is draggable.

The 'x' next to a name will remove that person from your Extra Watchlist.

The date is when the profile was last changed in some way.

You can also see the changed profiles on your Extra Watchlist on your Nav Home Page.

Google search box at the bottom of every page

You can find this search box from Find > Search > Scroll down to #4. I've put it at the bottom of every page, because it can be very useful.

Clipboard and Notes

You may have some phrases or citations that you often use when editing or creating profiles. Save them to the BEE Clipboard. To use them, just click the Clipboard button on the editor's toolbar and click the clipping. When the enhanced editor is not on, this will paste the clipping into the biography box in the place you last had your cursor. With the enhanced editor on (and on G2G), it will be copied to your clipboard for you to paste into the page (Ctrl + v). (If anyone knows how to do this with the enhanced editor, please let me know!)

The clipboard buttons are now at the top of every page except for the edit pages, where you'll find them with the text editor.

You can re-order the notes and clippings by dragging them up and down, but if you click the text of a clipping, the window will close, so you can drag the items by grabbing the number.

You can close the Clipboard/Notes window by clicking the button again, clicking the 'x' in the top right of the heading, or double clicking the heading.

Maybe you store some notes in the Scratchpad on the Nav Home Page. Put them in the BEE Notes instead, so it's easier to refer to them when you're editing a profile.

Note: These things are saved in a database in your browser. They're not going anywhere. They won't be saved in the BEE Settings (to be synched to another device).

Access keys

g → G2G Recent Activity

r → Random Profile

n → Nav Home Page

h → Help Search

s → Save

e → Edit

k → Category

p → Preview

( More information)

Scissors (Copy ID, etc.) on Help, Category, and G2G pages

Some people will find them useful.

On the My Connections page, the BEE will give you a table with a count of your connections on the page. For each degree, there's a 'Missing Connections' button which will look for those on the list with missing parents and possible missing spouses. There's also a table button for each degree to organise the results into a sortable table. The My Connections page maxes out at 1000 results or a certain number of degrees, but the BEE will keep going. Once you max out, the BEE will find the rest of the people in that degree and enable the button to fetch the next degree. When degree 7 completes, the BEE will give you some text to add your Connection Count at 7 degrees (CC7) to the table on Tommy Buch's CC7 page.

WikiTree BEE stores your preferences for many of its features in your browser. For the Ancestor/Cousins feature, data, including that of your private profiles, is stored in your browser's database. No data is shared with anyone else or used for any purpose other than providing you with an enhanced WikiTree experience. The in-browser database can easily be deleted by hovering over the tree icon and clicking the winter tree which appears.

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Categories: WikiTree Help | WikiTree Tools and Apps

WikiTree+ is an independent service offered for free by Aleš Trtnik that produces suggestions and offers other tools.

What is WikiTree+?

is an independent service offered for free by Aleš Trtnik. Although Aleš is a WikiTree Team Member, WikiTree+ is not a part of WikiTree. It uses data that is publicly available to everyone.

WikiTree+ uses deep data analysis to find possible errors and opportunities for further research. The subsequent suggestions power the Data Doctors Project and their weekly clean-up challenges. They enable all members to help improve the health of our shared tree.

If you don't find the answer to your question below, ask in G2G using the tag data_doctors .

Reports Linked from WikiTree

The following WikiTree+ reports are linked directly from WikiTree.

Suggestions

Select " Suggestions" from the pull-down menu at the top of any page to see a list of possible suggestions and potential improvements.

All the menu links say "Suggestions" but there are three types of reports:

Suggestions for profiles you manage. These are linked from the "My WikiTree" menu.

Suggestions for profiles related to a person. These are linked from the person menu that starts with the person's WikiTree ID on person-related pages. On pages that aren't related to another person, the person menu is your own. These suggestions are still not the same as the ones you get from the My WikiTree menu. This report is for profiles that are related to you, many of which you may not have created or contributed to.

Suggestions for profiles with a given surname. These are linked from the surname menu that appears on surname-related pages.

Highly customizable variations of these reports can be produced by going to the WikiTree+ Home Page. There are more details on these options in the " Reports on WikiTree+" section below.

Suggestion lists are sometimes referred to as Error Reports or Data Doctor Reports.

Pre-Merge Comparison Reports

WikiTree+ offers more than suggestions for improvement. One of the most beneficial types of reports it offers are those designed to help you decide whether two profiles represent the same person and should therefore be merged.

These are linked in two places:

Browse Matches: The tool for browsing all pending merges, unmerged matches, and rejected matches. The links say "comparison report on WikiTree+."

Merge Comparison Pages: When you are comparing two profiles on WikiTree there is a link near the top of the page.

There are more details on using these in the " Compare Branches" section below.

Category Search and Navigate

WikiTree+ offers also search for categories and navigation of categories. The links are accessible on all Categories on WikiTree in upper righthand corner.

Search searches only for whole words in category name. So it is easy to find all Unconnected Notables categories. There are more details on using these in the "Search Categories" section below.

Navigation displays category hierarchy with several sublevels. It also provides number of parent categories, sub categories, profiles, members and inbound links for each category. There are more details on using these in the "Navigate Categories" section below.

Reports on WikiTree+

On the left side of the WikiTree+ Home Page you can select a report to generate. The options are sorted into a few logical groups and described in detail below.

Above the groups there is a Show result in new tab checkbox. If checked, results will show in new tab of the browser. This is useful if you want to print or save the report, or if your screen is small. It doesn't apply to the Statistics group where charts are displayed.

Suggestions

There are a few options that are common to all suggestion lists:

Checkbox Show temporarily hidden suggestions: this lets you decide whether to include suggestions that users have set as false or corrected errors.

Checkbox Hide active suggestions: this lets you where you define if active errors are included in the report.

Selector to limit the report to only one suggestion/error type.

All Suggestions reports give you suggestions for all profiles that have a given string in any data field.

In addition to the common selectors, you enter:

Text text. You can enter location names with normal spacing. The searches are not case-sensitive. Unicode characters are treated as similar letters (Š=S). Space between words assumes the AND operator. You can also use OR and/or NOT operators.
Following fields are searched for:

All Name and Lastname fields

WikiTreeID

Birth Location and derived country

Death Location and derived country

Marriage Location and derived country

Manager's WikiTreeID

All Categories

All Templates

Suggestion Number

There are also some magic words, that can be used:

IsInWikiData: Limits results to profiles, that are linked from WikiData.

0Cen: Limits results to profiles, that have no birth date and date couldn't be estimated based on relatives.

1Cen: Limits results to profiles, that were born in the first century. For profiles without birthdate, Estimation is made based on relatives.

2Cen: Limits results to profiles, that were born in the second century. For profiles without birthdate, Estimation is made based on relatives.

...

20Cen: Limits results to profiles, which were born in the twentieth century. For profiles without birthdate, Estimation is made based on relatives.

21Cen: Limits results to profiles that were born in twenty first century. For profiles without birthdate, Estimation is made based on relatives.

Orphan: Limits results to profiles that have no manager.

Guest: Limits results to profiles that are Guests.

ERRxxx: Limits results to Suggestion number.

ProjectManaged: Limits results to profiles that are managed by any project.

1star: Limits results to profiles that have 1 star based on profile popularity.

2stars: Limits results to profiles that have 2 stars based on profile popularity.

...

4stars: Limits results to profiles that have 4 stars based on profile popularity.

5stars: Limits results to profiles that have 5 stars based on profile popularity.

You can also use extended search capabilities where you can define which field (index) you are searching. For instance to find all suggestions with findagrave in the info column use https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=info=findagrave

Here is the list of field names:

WikiTreeID=Trtnik-2

Name='Aleš Trtnik'

BirthLocation=Ljubljana

DeathLocation=Ljubljana

MarriageLocation=MissingLocation

Location=Ljubljana

Country=Slovenia

Manager=Trtnik-2

CatTem=Unsourced_Profiles

Others=err608

Stars=3stars

Info=FindAGrave

Max Suggestions defines the maximum number of suggestions to show.

The Find Suggestions button executes the report.

Tree Suggestions reports give you a list of all suggestions for profiles that are related to a given person.

In addition to the common selectors described above, you enter:

WikiTree ID of the profile to use to start the report. Spaces are the same as underscores, so it doesn't matter which form you use (e.g. Van der Berg-5 or Van_der_Berg-5). It is case-insensitive (e.g. van der berg-5 is fine) but unicode characters must be used if needed (e.g. Sälgö-1).

The number of Generations to show,

In Relatives: combobox you can select the type of relatives to use in generations search. Possible selections are:

All considers parents, children and spouses as relatives,

Blood relatives considers children, parents and parents children as relatives,

Ancestors considers only parents as relatives,

Descendants considers only children as relatives,

The Tree Suggestions button executes the report.

Managed By reports show all the suggestions on profiles that are managed by you or someone else.

In addition to the common selectors, you enter:

WikiTree ID of a user's account profile, i.e. your own or that of another WikiTree member.

The User Suggestions button executes the report.

Name Suggestions reports give you all suggestions for profiles with a given string in any of their name fields.

In addition to the common selectors, you enter:

Full Name: This is the text that's searched for.

Max Suggestions defines the maximum number of suggestions to show.

The Name Suggestions button executes the report.

Location Suggestions reports give you suggestions for all profiles that have a given string in their birth, death, or marriage location field.

In addition to the common selectors, you enter:

Location text - You can enter location names with normal spacing. The searches are not case-sensitive. Unicode characters are treated as similar letters (Š=S).

Max Suggestions defines the maximum number of suggestions to show.

The Location Suggestions button executes the report.

There are two types of profile searches.

Text search is a Google-like search, where you enter a few words to search for.

Person's tree shows profiles related to a person by generations.

There are some common options for all searches.

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Show relatives shows also all relatives for each person found. If the option is unchecked, only the person's information is shown. If it is checked, the found persons are shown with a green background, and followed by all 1st generation relatives on white background.

Sort by define the sort order of profiles found. Possible values are Creation (Default), Last name (LNAB), First name (Name), Birth date (BiDa), Birth location (BiLoc), Death date (DeDa) and Death location (DeLoc). In parentheses are values for the URL parameter modification.

Page size defines the number of profiles shown on each page. Possible values are 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500. If there is more than 1 page, navigation links are above and below the table. This option has no effect on the Persons tree.

This is the Google-like keyword search. Simply enter all the words that must appear in the profile's data or in selected derived magic words. If all are found, the profile is shown in the results. Due to the huge amount of data in the biography, only a few parts are searchable like GEDCOM file name, template names and parameters, category names, domain part of links, ...

Text defines the text to search. See the table for description and examples.

Index name

Fields & Magic Words

Examples

Locations

BirthLocation=London BirthCountry="England UnknownRegion"
BirthCountry=England DeathCountry="New York"

IsLiving

MagicWord: IsLiving

IsLiving=IsLiving

Privacy

Privacy Magic words: Private
PrivatePB represents Private with Public Biography
PrivatePT represents Private with Public Family Tree
PrivatePBPT represents Private with Public Biography and Family Tree,
Public
Open

Privacy=Public

Management and edits

Manager

Manager UserID, Manager WikiTreeID
Magic Words:
Guest, Orphan, ProjectManaged, PPP

Manager=Guest
Manager="ProjectManaged PPP"
Manager=ProjectManaged Not Manager=PPP
Manager=PPP Not Manager=ProjectManaged
Manager="Van der Burg-25"
Manager=Van_der_Burg-25

CreatedBy

WikiTreeID of the profile creator prepended by Creator_
In case user is unlisted or deleted, UserID of the profile creator prepended by Creator_

CreatedBy=Creator_Trtnik-2
CreatedBy=Creator_12847993

LastEdit

Magic words: NeverEdited, LastEdit2008, ... lastedit2014

LastEdit=NeverEdited
LastEdit=lastedit2014

Merge

Magic words: PendingMerge, UnmergedMatch

Merge=PendingMerge
Merge=UnmergedMatch

Suggestions

Suggestion number or more of them using quotation.

Suggestions=601
suggestions="601 603"
suggestions=601 suggestions=603

Categories

SubCat0, SubCat1,..., SubCat9

Exact Category name with spaces and separatoes in double quotation marks. Returns all profiles in the defined levels of subcategories.

SubCat0="England, Unsourced Profiles"
SubCat1="England, Unsourced Profiles"
SubCat1="England, Unsourced Profiles" Not SubCat0="England, Unsourced Profiles"

WikiData

Magic word: IsInWikiData

WikiData=IsInWikiData

FindAGrave

MagicWords: fgcem1234, fgmem1234

FindAGrave=fgcem5266
FindAGrave=fgmem1234

Max profiles defines the number of profiles to return. the result will be paginated based on the PageSize option.

Format defines the return format. There are 4 possibilities

HTML: HTML is the choice for viewing results in the browser. Maximal page size is 5.000 profiles.

xls: To export the results into Excel. Maximal page size is 20.000 profiles.

csv: To export the results into ASCII file. It is actually UTF8 file. Columns are separated by semicolon. Maximal page size is 100.000 profiles.

json: To return the results in JSON format. It is for use in 3rd party applications. Only the UserIDs are returned. Maximal page size is 1.000.000 profiles.

Here is the list of what is being searched:

WikiTreeID

Prefix

First name

Preferred name

Middle name

Nicknames

Last name at birth

Current last name

Last name other

Suffix

Birth date (with B prefix in front of the date and 0 padded year for years before 1000)

B1915 to get all births in 1915

B191501 to get all births in January 1915

B19150125 to get all births on 25th January 1915

B19150100 to get all births in January 1915 without the day

B19150000 or B191500 to get all births in 1915 without the month and day

B0191 to get all births in 191

B0 to get all missing births

B1950s to get all private profiles born in 1950s

Death date (with D prefix in front of the date and 0 padded year for years before 1000)

D1915 to get all deaths in 1915

D191501 to get all deaths in January 1915

D19150125 to get all deaths on 25th January 1915

D19150100 to get all deaths in January 1915 without the day

D19150000 or B191500 to get all deaths in 1915 without the month and day

D0 to get all missing deaths

D0191 to get all deaths in 191

D1950s to get all private profiles died in 1950s

Birth location

Birth location country and/or region (deducted based on locations table)

Death location

Death location country and/or region (deducted based on locations table)

Marriage location

Marriage location country and/or region (deducted based on locations table)

Privacy use one of the folowing privacy values:

Private

PrivatePB represents Private with Public Biography

PrivatePT represents Private with Public Family Tree

PrivatePBPT represents Private with Public Biography and Family Tree

Public

Open

Template name

Managers UserID

Managers WikiTreeID (you have to replace - with _ For instance Trtnik_2)

Category name (use _ for each space or comma in the category name)

GEDCOM filename (you have to replace each separator with an underscore. Don't forget to also replace spaces, dots, ... For instance use Putt_Grantham_Marple_Robinson_4__2014_01_21_02_GED to find Putt-Grantham Marple-Robinson(4)_2014-01-21_02).

Domain part of the URL in web links. Replace the dots with underline like "wikitree_sdms_si". You can also leave out beginning part of the domain like "sdms_si" or just "si".

Magic words

There are also some magic words, that can be used

Location

MissingLocation: represents all profiles, that are missing a location. You can limit the query to each location field like BirthLocation=MissingLocation or DeathLocation=MissingLocation or MarriageLocation=MissingLocation or general one with Location=MissingLocation which is the same as MissingLocation for any missing location.

UnknownCountry: Limits results to locations where country is not recognized based on the locations table. It is used as: BirthCountry=UnknownCountry or DeathCountry=UnknownCountry or MarriageCountry=UnknownCountry and Country=UnknownCountry (for unknown country in any field) which is the same as UnknownCountry (just as global magic word)

UnknownRegion: Limits results to locations where country is recognized, but the region isn't. That is based on the locations table. It is used as: BirthCountry=UnknownRegion or DeathCountry=UnknownRegion or MarriageCountry=UnknownRegion and Country=UnknownRegion (for unknown region in any field) which is the same as UnknownRegion (just as global magic word)

UnofficialLocation: Limits results to locations that are marked as no for accepted spelling in the locations table. It is used as: BirthCountry=UnofficialLocation or DeathCountry=UnofficialLocation or MarriageCountry=UnofficialLocation and Country=UnofficialLocation (for unofficial location in any field) which is the same as UnofficialLocation (just as global magic word)

Dates

0Cen: Limits results to profiles, that have no birth date and date couldn't be estimated based on relatives.

1Cen: Limits results to profiles, that were born in first century. For profiles without birthdate, Estimation is made based on relatives.

2Cen: Limits results to profiles, that were born in second century. For profiles without birthdate, Estimation is made based on relatives.

...

20Cen: Limits results to profiles, that were born in twentieth century. For profiles without birthdate, Estimation is made based on relatives.

21Cen: Limits results to profiles, that were born in twenty first century. For profiles without birthdate, Estimation is made based on relatives.

0s: Limits results to profiles with birth and death date, that were alive between years 1 to 9.

10s: Limits results to profiles with birth and death date, that were alive between years 10 to 19.

20s: Limits results to profiles with birth and death date, that were alive between years 20 to 29.

...

2010s: Limits results to profiles with birth and death date, that were alive between years 2010 to 2019. This includes all living people.

2020s: Limits results to profiles with birth and death date, that were alive between years 2020 to 2029. This includes all living people.

age0: Limits results to profiles, that were less than 1 year old.

age1: Limits results to profiles, that were 1 year old.

...

age114: Limits results to profiles, that were 114 years old.

age115: Limits results to profiles, that were 115 years old.

IsInWikiData: Limits results to profiles, that are linked from WikiData.

PPP: Limits results to Project Protected Profiles.

Orphan: Limits results to profiles, that have no manager.

Guest: Limits results to profiles, that are Guests.

connected: Limits results to profiles, that are connected to the global tree.

PublicTree: Limits results to profiles, that are connected to the global tree only with public relations.

PrivateTree: Limits results to profiles, that are connected to the global tree through private relations.

unconnected: Limits results to profiles, that are not connected to the global tree.

unlinked: Limits results to profiles, that are not connected to any other profile.

treeXXX: Limits results to profiles, that are connected in a branch. XXX is the ID of tree, that changes and is used in links in reports.

noparents: Limits results to profiles, that have no parents.

nofather: Limits results to profiles, that have no father.

nomother: Limits results to profiles, that have no mother.

nochildren: Limits results to profiles, that have no children.

nospouses: Limits results to profiles, that have no spouses.

isLiving: Limits results to profiles, that are considered living by WikiTree.

ProjectManaged: Limits results to profiles, that are managed by any project.

1star: Limits results to profiles, that have 1 star based on profile popularity.

2stars: Limits results to profiles, that have 2 stars based on profile popularity.

...

4stars: Limits results to profiles, that have 4 stars based on profile popularity.

5stars: Limits results to profiles, that have 5 stars based on profile popularity.

GEDCOMJunk: Limits results to profiles, that have captions considered GEDCOM Junk.

SourceJunk: Limits results to profiles, that have undesired sources used on them.

lastedit2008: Limits results to the profiles, that were not edited since 2008.

lastedit2009: Limits results to the profiles, that were not edited since 2009.

...

lastedit2013: Limits results to the profiles, that were not edited since 2013.

lastedit2014: Limits results to the profiles, that were not edited since 2014.

neveredited: Limits results to the profiles that were never edited after creation.

pendingmerge: Limits results to the profiles that are waiting to be merged.

unmergedmatch : Limits results to the profiles that have unmerged matches.

creator_XXXX-Y: Construct Creator_ + WikiTreeID finds all profiles that were created by that user. There is a special case if the creator's profile was deleted or unlisted, UserID is used instead of WikiTreeID. For me that would be creator_10816946 but I am not unlisted.

Err616, Err617 and Err618: Limits results to locations that are marked as suggestion for accepted spelling in the locations table. It is used as: BirthCountry=Err616 or DeathCountry=Err616 or MarriageCountry=Err616 and Country=Err616 (for suggestion in any field) which is the same as Err616 (just as global magic word)

mtDNA and yDNA: Limits results to profiles that have apropriate test replicated on them.

fgcemXXXX: Construct fgcem + FindAGrave cemetery ID number finds all profiles that are linked to that cemetery.

fgmemXXXX: Construct fgmem + FindAGrave memorial ID number finds a profile that is linked to that memorial.

You can also use extended search capabilities where you can define which field you are searching. For instance:

Here is the list of field names:

WikiTreeID=Trtnik-2 - Finds a single profile with a defined ID

Prefix=dr

FirstName=Aleš

PreferredName=Aleš

MiddleName=Aleš

Suffix=jr

Nicknames=Aleš

AllFirstNames="Aleš Jr"

LastNameatBirth=Trtnik

CurrentLastName=Trtnik

LastNameOther=Trtnik

AllLastNames="Trtnik"

FullName="ales trtnik"

Dates=3cen

BirthLocation=Ljubljana

BirthCountry=Slovenia

DeathLocation=Ljubljana

DeathCountry=Slovenia

MarriageLocation=MissingLocation

MarriageCountry=Slovenia

Location=Ljubljana

Country=Slovenia

Privacy=Public

Manager=Trtnik-2

CreatedBy=Creator_Trtnik-2

Domain=wikitree_sdms_si

CategoryFull=Unsourced_Profiles

CategoryWord="Unsourced Profiles"

Template=Unsourced

TemplateFull=Ancestry_Image

TemplateText=Andersson

GEDFile=a_ged

Stars=3stars

Tree=connected

IsLiving=isliving

LastEdit=NeverEdited

Merge=pendingmerge

WikiData=isinwikidata

FindAGrave=fgcem45266

FindAGrave=fgmem1234

Suggestions=601

There is another possibiliy to limit the search results to Ancestors, Descendants or CC7 of any profile. Just add:as a keyword:

Ancestors=Trtnik-2

Descendants=Tudor-18

CC7=Tudor-18

Newest addition to search is a capability to search in subcategories. SubCat0, SubCat1, ..., SubCat9 defines the number of subcategory levels to include in the results. The Category name should be enclosed in double quotes if it includes spaces.

subcat1="Asia, Unsourced Profiles"

subcat9="Unsourced Profiles" Not subcat0="Unsourced Profiles" This returns all profiles in Unsourced Profiles subcategories, that are not in the root Unsourced Profiles category.

In Relatives: combobox you can select the type of relatives to use in generations search. Possible selections are:

All considers parents, children, and spouses as relatives. Generation goes in all directions, not just ancestors. That means

0 generation is you or profile being looked into.

1st generation are your parents, children, and spouse(s).

2nd generation are 1st generation's parents, children, and spouse(s), that were not listed in the previous generation.

and so on.

Blood relatives considers children, parents and parents' children as relatives. With a limit to blood relatives it is a bit more complicated:

0 generation is you or profile being looked into.

1st generation are your parents and children,

2nd generation are parents and children of all 1st generation parents, and children of all 1st generation children.

3rd generation are parents and children of all 2nd generation parents' and children of all 2nd generation children.

Ancestors considers only parents as relatives

Descendants considers only children as relatives

This search is no longer available, since it can be done using normal text search. Just enter WikiTreeID there or more precisely you can use Manager=Trtnik-2

This is the Google-like keyword search on category names. Simply enter all the words that must appear in the category name. If all words are found, the category is shown in the results.

There are also some magic words available for searching:

NoSubCategories: Limits the result to categories, that have no subcategories.

HasSubCategories: Limits the result to categories, that have subcategories.

NoProfiles: Limits the result to categories, that have no profiles.

HasProfiles: Limits the result to categories, that have profiles.

NoMembers: Limits the result to categories, that have no members (space and other pages).

HasMembers: Limits the result to categories, that have members (space and other pages).

NoLinks: Limits the result to categories, that have no inbound links.

HasLinks: Limits the result to categories, that have inbound links.

TopLevel: Limits the result to categories, that are considered Top Level and shouldn't have any profiles.

errxxxx: Limits the result to categories, that have specific error reported. xxxx is 8000 or 9000 number based on Categories Suggestions Report

Show Hierarchy defines if parent and subcategories are displayed for each found category.

This is the Google-like keyword search on category page content. Simply enter all the words that must appear on the category page. If all words are found, the category is shown in the results.

There are also some magic words available for searching:

NoSubCategories: Limits the result to categories, that have no subcategories.

HasSubCategories: Limits the result to categories, that have subcategories.

NoProfiles: Limits the result to categories, that have no profiles.

HasProfiles: Limits the result to categories, that have profiles.

NoMembers: Limits the result to categories, that have no members (space and other pages).

HasMembers: Limits the result to categories, that have members (space and other pages).

NoLinks: Limits the result to categories, that have no inbound links.

HasLinks: Limits the result to categories, that have inbound links.

TopLevel: Limits the result to categories, that are considered Top Level and shouldn't have any profiles.

Show Hierarchy - defines if parent and subcategories are displayed for each found category.

This is the Google-like keyword search on all pages on wikitree. The search includes Help pages, Space pages, Project pages, Templates, Categories and Main namespace. It searches only by the page name. Simply enter all the words that must appear in the page name. If all words are found, the page is shown in the results.

This is the Google-like keyword search on all pages on wikitree. The search includes Help pages, Space pages, Project pages, Templates, Categories and Main namespace. It searches the page content. Simply enter all the words that must appear on the page. If all words are found, the page is shown in the results.

With this function, you can replace the ending of locations with another ending. It uses Automatically suggested corrections.

Example to change Virginia, British Colonial America to Virginia Colony. [1]

Note: This is the only place on WikiTree+, where separators are important. So you must use commas and dots exactly as they are used. So using NY or N.Y. or N. Y. all produce different results.

When making a change, it also reformats the location. It removes all double spaces, all spaces before each comma and each dot, and adds a single space after each comma and each dot. The exception is dot and comma together ".,", where a space is not added between them.

Connection finder can find a connection between any 2 profiles connected to the Global tree, There are different filters of relations used in the search. You can also ignore one or more profiles on the path to find the alternate connection.

WikiTree ID: ID of the starting person to search the path. Profile must have privacy set to at least Private with public tree.

WikiTree ID: ID of the ending person to search the path. Profile must have privacy set to at least Private with public tree.

Relatives:

All: All types of relations are included in path finding.

Blood relatives: All relations except marriages are included in path finding. This doesn't change the path found significantly. It usually adds one step to the path found since most marriages result in a child who connects the parents.

Common ancestor: Finds common ancestor of the two profiles. It follows only parent relations from both profiles.

Common descendant: Finds common descendant of the two profiles. It follows only parent-child relations from both profiles.

Paternal lines: Finds common paternal ancestor of the two profiles. It follows only father-child relationships from both profiles.

Maternal lines: Finds common maternal ancestor of the two profiles. It follows only mother-child relationships from both profiles.

Ignore profiles: Here you can list profiles to ignore on the path search. This makes it possible to find alternate connections. If there is more than one person you'd like to remove, list them by a comma.

The report checks each field for the usage of the word. It also checks all spelling variations, so you can see the typos.

Name: The name that will be checked for usage in any name field. Example: Smith

The report compares two profiles and all their relatives. If additional matches are found they are also compared.

WikiTree ID 1: The first profile you want to compare. Example: Trtnik-2

WikiTree ID 2: The second profile you want to compare. Example: Trtnik-4

Similarity: Defines the likeliness of profiles to be considered the same. The appropriate value is 80-100. If you notice that two profiles are marked the same and should not be, increase the value. If you notice that two profiles are not matched and should be, decrease the value.

Navigate categories shows all parent categories, followed by the category being listed and then lists all subcategories and their subcategories and so on. By default, it shows 2 levels. It can be changed by selecting a different link in the caption of the table.

Columns:

Level: Shows sublevel of the row.

Lvl0, Lvl1, Lvl2, ..., Increase level: Sets the indentation according to level. It also provides a link to select a different number of levels displayed. The column shows the Category name as a link to the WikiTree category, It is preceded by a tree image icon that links to Navigation that starts on this category.

Parent Categories: Shows the number of parent categories.

Sub Categories: Shows the number of sub-categories in the category. In parentheses is listed the number of sub-categories in that category.

Profiles: Shows the number of profiles in the category. In parentheses is listed the number of profiles in that category.

Members: Shows the number of non profile pages in the category. In parentheses is listed the number of non profile pages in that category.

Links From: Shows the number inbound links to the category. If the number is more than 0, it is a link, that shows those inbound links. In parentheses is listed the number of inbound links to that category.

If there are some errors in the category hierarchy, that is shown in the table. Possible errors are self usage and cyclic usage.

This report checks all ancestors of a person and displays a summary of each generation. The summary is displayed for a generation and also Overall. Overall is a sum of all previous generations. Columns are:

Generation Number

# of Possible Ancestors (Generation)

# of Identified Ancestors (Generation)

% of Identified Ancestors (Generation)

Identified Ancestors

# of Suggestions (Generation)

Date of Birth

# of Possible Ancestors (Overall)

# of Identified Ancestors (Overall)

% of Identified Ancestors (Overall)

# of Suggestions (Overall)

In the Identified Ancestors column, there are 4 groups of links:

Both Ancestors: with the total number and profiles if less than 20.

Only Father: with the total number and profiles if less than 10.

Only Mother: with the total number and links if less than 10.

No Ancestors: with the total number and links if less than 20.

Linking to a profile consists of 8 links. In order Left to Right:

A is for WT+ Ancestors report from this person.

D is for WT+ Descendants report from this person.

WikiTreeID is a link to the profile.

(tree image) is link to WT+ Tree

H is a link to Profile's edit history

(pin image) is link to WT+ Map of the nuclear familly

(ancestor+pin image) is link to WT+ Map of ancestors

(descendants+pin image) is link to WT+ Map of descendants

This report checks all descendants of a person and displays a summary of each generation. The summary is displayed for a generation and also Overall. Overall is a sum of all previous generations. Columns are:

Generation Number

# of Identified Descendants (Generation)

Identified Descendants

# of Suggestions (Generation)

Date of Birth

# of Identified Descendants (Overall)

# of Suggestions (Overall)

In the Identified Descendants column, there are 2 groups of links:

Has Descendants: with the total number and profiles if less than 20.

No Descendants: with the total number and links if less than 20.

Linking to a profile consists of 8 links. In order Left to Right:

A is for WT+ Ancestors report from this person.

D is for WT+ Descendants report from this person.

WikiTreeID is a link to the profile.

(tree image) is link to WT+ Tree

H is a link to Profile's edit history

(pin image) is link to WT+ Map of the nuclear familly

(ancestor+pin image) is link to WT+ Map of ancestors

(descendants+pin image) is link to WT+ Map of descendants

Report checks for 10000 profiles, then it stops.

Statistics

In the statistics group there are four items. The first contains some summary data from the database dump. The other three are statistical analyses of suggestions.

After selecting the report type, four graphs and values for graphs are listed.

First graph shows the change of percentage. For instance, in the privacy report you can see that percentage of open profiles is increasing and percentage of public profiles is decreasing.

Second graph shows the change of number of profiles. For instance, in the privacy report you can see that it is cca 40000 new open profiles each week. and the number of public profiles is reduced by a few thousand each week.

Third graph shows percentage distribution. For instance in privacy report you can see that percentage of open profiles growing.

Fourth graph shows the total number of profiles. For instance, in the privacy report, you can see that the number of open profiles is increasing, and the number of public profiles is decreasing.

Below the graphs all values are listed, so you can check specific number in history.

On graphs you can click on item in legend and it removes/adds the item in the chart. This enables you to see any line or group of lines on its own. Also when you hover with mouse over the small circle in graphs, you get the hint with exact values used for the graph.

Here are dozens of reports on database dump, such as the number of profiles, profiles at each privacy level, profiles by birth date century, by country, and many, many more.

This is the complete list of reports: Profiles, Privacy, Gender, Birthdate set, Birthdate status, Birthdate century, Birth location set, Birth location frequency, Birth locations repeated, Death date set, Death date status, Death date century, Death age, Death location set, Death location frequency, Death locations repeated, Father, Father privacy, Father gender, Father age, Mother, Mother privacy, Mother gender, Mother age, Marriages, Marriage gender, Marriage age, Marriage date set, Marriage date status, Marriage date century, Marriage location set, Marriage location frequency, Marriage Locations repeated, All locations, Locations repeated, Locations - Country, By country (>100000K), By country (10K-100K), By country (<10K), Tree size, WikiData link to WikiTree

This shows suggestions compared by era. The distribution is the same as in the suggestion lists.

The names of the lines: Total, 0000-0000 (without birth date), 0001-1499 (up to 15th century), 1500-1699 (16th and 17th century), 1700-1799 (18th century), 1800-1899 (19th century), 1900-1999 (20th century) and 2000-9999 (21st century).

This shows suggestions compared by privacy level of the profiles.

The names of the lines: Total, 20 (Private), 30 (Private with Public Biography), 35 (Private with Public Family Tree), 40 (Private with Public Biography and Family Tree), 50 (Public), 60 (Open).

This shows graph of all suggestions for some countries, US states and some projects.

This shows graph of all category related suggestion.

This shows graph of all category related lists.

Tree navigator on WikiTree+

Tree navigator displays the nuclear family of the person with actual dates. It is started from a tree link under the WikiTreeID link in all reports on Wikitree+.

For navigating the tree see next section. You can click on any profile and you will get detailed information on the righthand side. There you can click the SHOW NUCLEAR FAMILY button to display the nuclear family of that person. In addition you can set the colors based on the gender or privacy.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/findtree.htm?userid=10816946

Map navigator on WikiTree+

Map navigator displays a group of profiles on a map. You can select which profiles appear by clicking " THEME" in the header.

Only Public and Open profiles are displayed, and only if they have birth or death locations.

See our announcement and discussion in G2G.

Usage tips and improvements

Navigating a map:

Select Locations on the left panel to view the USA or other regions.

Zooming in and out: On the map you can navigate using the mouse wheel. On mobile devices you can zoom in/out using pinch. If neither is applicable, you can click the globe image in upper left corner and there are + and - buttons to zoom in/out.

Moving around: You can use click+drag to move around. On mobile devices you simply drag the map to move it.

Select Layers on the left panel to define what you see.

On the top you can select what you see.

in Profiles menu you can enter WikiTree ID and select which profiles of that person you want to examine.

in Category menu you can enter the name of the category without the Category: prefix to see all profiles in that category. Example: Cambridgeshire, Unsourced Profiles

in Template menu you can enter the name of the template without the Template: prefix to see all profiles using that template. Example: US President

You can click on map to display details about the profile drawn. There are a few buttons where you can jump to a profile on WikiTree or display that person's ancestors, descendants or nuclear family.

Profiles without locations: The profiles displayed in the ocean near Africa have (0,0) coordinates. Those are the profiles with unrecognized locations. We will probably improve the algorithm in the future.

You can improve the display by clearing 450 - Profile completeness suggestions related to locations. To activate them, you must first add Category:Suggestions_-_Include_Profile_Completeness to your profile. Next week you will have a list of problematic locations. These suggestions will improve the display on the map.

Profiles Maps

Displays last used profiles map.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/maps?mapshow=pro

Managed profiles Map

Displays all the profiles for which you are a Profile Manager on a map.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/findmap.htm?aid=10816946&grouptype=M

Ancestors Map

Displays 10 generations of ancestors of the starting person. The tree of the person and ancestors must be public. On the left panel under Layers / Person you can adjust which generation is displayed.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/findmap.htm?aid=10816946&grouptype=A

Descendants Map

Displays 10 generations of descendants of the starting person. The tree of the person and their descendants must be public. On the left panel under Layers / Person you can adjust which generation is displayed.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/findmap.htm?aid=12396629&grouptype=D

Nuclear family Map

Displays the nuclear family of the person. The tree of the person and their relatives must be public.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/findmap.htm?aid=10826018&grouptype=N

Category Map

Displays the profiles in any given category.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/findmap.htm?aid=Magna_Carta&grouptype=C

Template Map

Displays the profiles with any given Project Box, Sticker or other template.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/findmap.htm?aid=US_President&grouptype=T

Custom Maps

Cemeteries Map

Displays all geolocated cemetery categories.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/maps?mapshow=cem

Locations Map

Displays all geolocated location categories.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/maps?mapshow=loc

One Place Studies Map

Displays all geolocated One Place Study categories (includes all cemeteries).

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/maps?mapshow=ops

Geolocations Map

Displays all known locations used by WikiTree+ for geolocating a profile. At the moment geoNames,com and townland.ie are used.

Example: https://plus.wikitree.com/maps?mapshow=geo

Custom parameters

https://plus.wikitree.com/maps can have a few additional parameters to control the appearance of the map. The parameters are:

mapshow parameter is used as described above. It defines visible layers on first level. It can be any of these values:

mapshow=pro

mapshow=cem

mapshow=loc

mapshow=ops

mapshow=geo

location parameter can set a center and zoom level. It is used like this:

location=40.5433006,-90.0369034 is just a location example. Zoom level is set at level 17 like on OpenStreetMap or Google

location=40.5433006,-90.0369034,16 is just a location and scale example. Zoom level is set at desired level similar to OpenStreetMap or Google, but can also use decimal values like 16.6

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ist eine genealogische Website. Im Gegensatz zu Anbietern, wie Ancestry, MyHeritage und Geneanet, bei denen jeder Benutzer die Datensätze „seiner" Personen individuell und unabhängig von den Personendaten anderer Benutzer verwaltet, verfolgt WikiTree einen kollaborativen Ansatz: Dort soll für jede Person nur ein Datensatz ( Profil) existieren, der von allen Benutzern bearbeitet werden kann. Hierdurch soll „ein gemeinsamer Stammbaum für die Welt" entstehen. Das Konzept des „globalen Stammbaums" ist kein Alleinstellungsmerkmal, es findet sich ebenfalls im Familienstammbaum von FamilySearch sowie bei Geni, einem Unternehmen von MyHeritage.

Kosten/Finanzierung

Die Website gehört zum Unternehmen interesting.com, das zudem die Frageplattform answers.com betreibt (ehemals WikiAnswers). Die Nutzung ist kostenlos und wird es nach eigenen Angaben auch immer bleiben. Die Finanzierung erfolgt über Werbung, die nicht-eingeloggten Benutzern auf den Seiten angezeigt wird.

Zum Einsatz kommt eine modifizierte Version der Wiki-Software MediaWiki, die beispielsweise auch hier im GenWiki und in der Wikipedia eingesetzt wird. Zum Austausch mit anderen Forschern steht zudem ein Forum zur Verfügung, das den Namen G2G ("Genealogist t(w)o genealogist", englisch für "von Genealoge zu Genealoge") trägt. Die Benutzeroberfläche steht derzeit (Mai 2021) nur auf Englisch zur Verfügung, manche Hilfeseiten sind in weitere Sprachen übersetzt, zu denen dann meist auch Deutsch gehört.

Neben Feldern zur strukturierten Eingabe von Namen, Datumsangaben biografischer Ereignisse und deren Orten, steht für jede Person ein beliebig großes Textfeld zur Verfügung. Hier können relativ formlos eine Biografie der Person, Quellen, Forschungsnotizen etc. angegeben werden. Auch wenn der Großteil der Profile in WikiTree komplett in englischer Sprache verfasst ist, kann hier auch problemlos in einer anderen Sprache, wie Deutsch, oder in einer anderen Sprache und Englisch geschrieben werden. Zusätzlich Personen-Profilen, die sich mit jeweils einer Person befassen, besteht die Möglichkeit, weitere Seiten ( Free-Space-Profile) zu beliebigen Themen anzulegen und mit Personen-Profilen und Nicht-Personen-Profilen zu verlinken. Auf diese Art können beispielsweise Seiten zu Häusern, Orten, Organisationen, Menschengruppen, Forschungsergebnissen, Quellen etc. erstellt werden.

Der Import von GEDCOM-Dateien erfolgt über die Funktion GEDCOMpare in zwei Schritten: Zunächst müssen alle potentiellen Duplikate bestehender Personen-Profile entweder bestätigt oder verworfen werden, bevor aus den einzelnen Einträgen jeweils ein neues Profil erstellt werden kann. Das erzeugte Profil enthält nach Generierung unter Umständen ungewollte Textstücke aus der GEDCOM-Datei und sollte daher im Anschluss bereinigt werden, was unter Umständen keinen Zeitgewinn mehr im Vergleich zum manuellen Erstellen von Profilen darstellt.

Datenschutz

Profile lebender Personen können zwar erstellt werden, erhalten aber die Privatsphäreneinstellung "Unlisted". Das Profil taucht damit nicht in Suchergebnissen auf. Kennt man den direkten Link zum Profil, so werden lediglich Nachname und Geburtsjahrzehnt angezeigt. Man kann jedoch E-Mailadressen anderer Benutzer (z.B. von Familienmitgliedern) auf die "Vertrauensliste" ( Trusted List) setzen, damit diese ebenfalls Zugriff auf das Profil haben. Dies ist ein Vorteil im Vergleich zum Familienstammbaum von FamilySearch, wo jedes Familienmitglied die lebenden Personen "für sich selbst" anlegen muss, da es keine Möglichkeit zum Teilen gibt. Ist die lebende Person, die das Profil repräsentiert, selbst bei WikiTree angemeldet, kann die Einstellung zur Privatsphäre offener gestaltet werden - muss sie aber nicht. Eine weitere Ausnahme stellen bestimmte Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens dar.

Angabe von Quellen

Mit dem Unterzeichnen des Ehrenkodex, das Bedingung dafür ist, Profile anlegen und bearbeiten zu dürfen, verpflichtet man sich u.a. zur Angabe von Quellen. Darunter wird zunächst einmal nur verstanden, dass der Ursprung der Information für alle nachvollziehbar ist, ohne dessen Qualität zu bewerten. Für Profile mit Ereignissen vor 1700 gelten strengere Anforderungen.

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Welcome to the Germany Project! This project is intended to facilitate collaboration on German genealogy for those who have German heritage, live in Germany, or have a special interest in German history.

Are you interested in the Germany Project?

What Geographical Area is Included in the Germany Project?

The Germany Project covers profiles of many German-speaking people. Today's Germany is known as the Federal Republic of Germany, but that state structure has only existed since the mid-1940s. Prior to that it was a collection of kingdoms, duchies, and provinces whose borders were in a state of flux for over 150 years. What is today's Germany was a major part of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) which was in place for almost 1,000 years (962-1806). The HRE included three kingdoms: Germany, Italy and Burgundy. Prior to the HRE, "Germany" was a part of the Kingdom of the East Franks, the Frankish Kingdom/Empire, and ancient Germania.

The Germany Project's focus is on the 16 modern regions and their predecessors. SEE OUR REGION INFO PAGES LINKED HERE. The Project also includes the historic regions of Alsace-Lorraine and the former eastern parts including Pomerania, Silesia, etc. (see our Prussia Team) as well as what was in the Kingdom of the Germans within the Holy Roman Empire. There will never be a strict separation of these regions: there will always be a fluid border as to what belongs to "Germany" and what does not.

The project covers migrational and special interest areas as well (see our Teams page for more information in Germans of Russia, etc.).

Mission and Goals

The mission of the Germany Project is to become a knowledge hub for German genealogical research. We can achieve this by working on profiles of all those born in what we now know as Germany (and it's predecessors), to increase the number of German profiles on WikiTree, and ensure they meet the highest standards possible.

It is our goal to do the following:

Provide a forum that facilitates friendly collaboration on genealogy and German history among its members, using G2G, Google Groups and Discord for different types of communication.

Increase German membership on WikiTree and collaborate effectively and multi-lingually. We want to ensure all project content is offered in both German and English translations. We have already translated every WikiTree Help page into German. Check out the progress we've made so far.

Collectively improve ALL German profiles on WikiTree to make them the best they can be. We aim to have every German profile properly sourced, free of database errors and connected to our main tree. We need a lot of help to do this!

Ensure that German profiles on WikiTree include:

accurate genealogical information;

primary sources or sources considered to be reliable by the project (not simply relying on unsourced online trees);

accurate location names for the time period appropriate for the profile;

appropriate German naming conventions; and

comprehensive biographies covering all the genealogical facts for the subject of the profile.

Provide resources to help WikiTree members research their German genealogy. We are constantly updating and adding resources as we find them. We encourage our members to share their discoveries and, in turn, we will post links to those resources on our project pages. We have compiled an extensive list of online resources and research tools that people can use to find information on their German families. Our main project resource page is HERE, and there are many other resources attached to our Team pages and below.

Eventually, when we have enough bi-lingual volunteers, we want to add a German research "trail" to teach new members how to research using German records.

Who Should Join and Why?

The Germany Project is for people who already know the basics of how to use German records to research genealogy. We'd like WikiTree to be the place where German genealogists go to add their family trees, share new information and collaborate with each other. We need active, knowledgeable members to help us make WikiTree's German profiles the most accurate of any internet genealogy site and to achieve the goals stated above.

How can we accomplish our goals? We would appreciate any and all help, by members and non-members, to work on improving German profiles. Profiles for "ordinary" Germans are very difficult to research. See a good example of what we're looking for here: Ramsperger-23.

If you simply want help finding information on your German ancestors, the best place to ask questions and get guidance is in G2G (remember to add the tag GERMANY and/or GERMAN_ROOTS). If you're comfortable answering these kinds of questions, we would love to have you join the project!

Please feel free to use our main Research Resource Page and other resources, listed below and on our Team pages regardless of membership.

Also, you do not need to be a project member to celebrate your German heritage: simply add the {{German Roots Sticker}} to your profile.

Prerequisites to Join

Membership is open to WikiTree members who have an interest in actively participating in a collaborative setting to improve German profiles on WikiTree. To join the project, new members must:

sign WikiTree's Honor Code. If you're new to WikiTree and have not become a full member, you will need to upgrade to Wiki Genealogist Level and sign our Honor Code to receive your wiki genealogist badge, which is a necessity for editing profiles.

be familiar with editing profiles on WikiTree and know how to properly add sources to a profile.

have made at least 100 contributions to our shared tree, including adding or editing German profiles.

be willing to improve German profiles by joining one of our Teams.

If you've done the above and are interested in joining the project, ANSWER OUR JOIN POST HERE . Please make sure you are willing to do the work before asking for the badge.

After Requesting to Join

Interested members will receive an email from a project leader after answering our join post. You will need to respond to the email and do the following:
a. Add the G2G tags GERMANY or GERMAN_ROOTS to your list of followed tags by clicking this link: Special:Following. When you're following a tag you're alerted to new activity through your daily "Wiki Genealogist Feed" e-mail updates. The daily updates include WikiTree activity in followed surnames, tagged G2G discussions, and new members who added the tag. See Help: Tags for more info on using G2G tags. **NOTE: If you follow the tag GERMANY, occasionally your daily "Wiki Genealogist Feed" will include activity on profiles with the last name "Germany", but this is fairly rare. You can choose to ignore it or you can only follow the tag GERMAN_ROOTS instead.**

b. Join our Google Group. This is the place where our project members communicate and project news is posted. When you respond to our initial email, we will send you an invitation to join the Google Group. You will simply need to click on the link in the blue box that says "Accept this Invitation" to join.

c. OPTIONAL: Request to join one of our FUNCTIONAL teams: see the full list HERE. To join a team, send a trusted list request to the team page you'd like to join OR post a profile comment on the team's page and say you'd like to join. Our teams are the best places to collaborate! So we can improve as many German profiles as possible, ultimately, we'd love to see all our project members join one of our Profile Improvement Teams.

After Receiving the Badge

Once you've done the above, you will be awarded a Germany Project member badge.

Badged members can join the Germany Project channel on WikiTree's Discord server. Participation on Discord will always be OPTIONAL. Discord is not used to communicate any project news to the group, but it is a great way to collaborate on German genealogy in real time. Click this to join WikiTree's Discord server.

Make Yourself Visible (Optional)

Tell us about yourself! Are you German? Do you speak German? Add your name and research interests to the list of members' interests HERE.

Add your location to the Germany Project Members map . See this post for instructions: 6/13/21 Google Group Post.

Add Familienbücher (Optional, also for non Members)

Do you own a German Family Book (Familienbuch) in which you'd be willing to do look-ups? Add your name and the name of the book(s) you have to the list here: Familienbücher: German Family Books. NOTE: This list includes books that are NOT already available online.

How to Remain a Member

There are only two requirements to remain a Germany Project member:
1. Improve at least two German profiles every year. You can choose to improve project-managed profiles, family members, or anyone who was born in or died in Germany.

2. Respond to annual member check-Ins: Members are required to respond to annual check-ins with project leadership. These will occur in April/May each year. At check-ins, we will post a profile comment (and you will receive an email) asking if you're still interested in being a project member. You can post a reply to the profile comment (must be 30 characters) or respond via private email. Your answer can be as simple as: "Yes - I'd like to stay with the project" or "No - remove me from the Germany Project". Or you can send us your detailed interests and/or suggestions on how to improve the project. Respond with as much information as you want to share - we love hearing from our members!

NOTE: Because this project has a very large membership roster, we need your response to keep our records up-to-date. NOTE: If you have been inactive on WikiTree for 6 months, your badge will be automatically removed. If we don't get your response at check-in time and you're removed as a project member, please don't be offended ... you're welcome to rejoin at any time.

How to Contribute

Improve German Profiles

Add sourced profiles for your German family, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplicates. If any duplicate profiles exist, request a merge, merging into the lowest numbered profile.

Add sources to any unsourced profiles, searching out original rather than derivative documentation.

Connect your profiles to WikiTree's shared global family tree.

Check for suggestions and fix database errors on the profiles you work on.

Create and/or expand biographies, adding inline citations directly after the facts sourced and using the WikiTree Style Guide. Ensure that profiles for family members are attached and properly sourced.

If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.

Add a German Roots sticker to German profiles. Copy and paste this coding: {{German Roots Sticker}} and add it directly below the profile's Biography heading.

Add any relevant categories to the profile.

Contact one of the project leaders to request PPP status for those profiles that meet the criteria for project protection. This will protect the profiles from incorrect merges or changes to relationships.

Collaborate in G2G, in our Google Group and with our Teams (listed below) and add new resources to assist the WikiTree community in finding German records.

Work with the Cemeterist Project to ensure individual cemeteries in Germany are categorized and records added to WikiTree.

Improve Project Pages/Infrastructure

Please contact a project leader if you're interested in helping with any of the following:

Change Donauschwaben from subproject to a team

Update and expand German Genealogy Research: Beginners Guide and consider developing a Germany orphan trail team - does anyone want to volunteer to lead this?? If you'd like to help develop this page, ask a project leader for trusted list access.

Develop category guidelines and overhaul existing categories, including expanding categories for Germans of Russia, Volga Germans and Black Sea Germans. NOTE: Black Sea Germans cats are underway by Carrie at Sep 2021.

Merge Space:Genealogy_Glossary and Space:Translation_Table

Finish editing German History page, adding links to Dieter's location history pages.

DONE - Add born in "switch" to German Roots sticker

IN PROGRESS - Develop pages for German place name history (in development by Dieter Lewerenz 2021)

Follow-up on Germany Project Ideas Proposal Page

Add an AUSTRIA team, subproject or new project?? An Austria FSP was added to the Global Project 7/1/2021.

Project Leadership

Contact people for the project:

Dieter Lewerenz: Project Leader. Translation team, location and naming histories, G2G liaison, oversight of research/resources and Prussia

Florian Straub: PC - Project Research/Resources. Main resource page, social media outreach, Discord, tech challenges, membership.

Jelena Eckstädt: PC - Profile Improvement Teams. Monthly challenge leader, project's categorization contact, membership, managed profiles

Helmut Jungschaffer: PC - Medieval Germany, German history

Steve Thomas: PC - Prussia Team

Steven Greenwood: Team Leader: Categorization

Project Resources

This is an active Germany Project page with up-to-date information.
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CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS see: Geisinger (Geißinger, Geissinger) in Weinheim & Geisinger in the Palatinate (Pfalz).

About the Project

The Geisinger Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Geisinger name and several variants of the name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Geisinger name.

This project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. The project tries to research different branches in different regions and where possible identify the connections and migration roots. Individual studies on specific topics are listed in the research pages section, please let Alexandra-Brigitte Scholz know, when you have additional ongoing researches or include them in the list of the research pages.

To join the Geisinger Name Study, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Alexandra-Brigitte Scholz for assistance. You will be added to the trusted list of the Geisinger Name Study page and the subproject pages.

To get started first browse our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests.

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Alexandra-Brigitte Scholz for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

{{Member|ONS|name=Geisinger}}

Origin of the Name Geisinger (Geissinger/Geißinger)

Different possible origins of the name Geisinger exist. These possible origins exist side by side. So there is no expectation of a single origin. For the mentioned origns the proof is added as the project evolves:

The meaning of the name is topynomic, identifiying a person coming from Geising. Geising is a part of Altenberg in Saxony, Germany. It is situated close to the border with the Czech Republic, 13 km (8.1 mi) north of Teplice, and 32 km (20 mi) south of Dresden. Prior to 2011 it was an independent town.

The meaning of the name is topynomic, identifiying a person coming from Geisingen. Geisingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 13 km southwest of Tuttlingen, and 21 km southeast of Villingen-Schwenningen, about 20 km from the Swiss border.
Per remarks in the book "Die Miller von und zu Aichholz" of Franz Xaver Wöber a highborn family of the Fürstenberger Line is calling themself "von Geisingen". They are mentioned in documents in 1095 (Bertholdus de Gisingen, Conradus de Gisingen), in 1249 (Konrad von Geisingen, Berthold von Geisingen). Franz Xaver Wöber questiones the relationship to an civic family "Geisinger" mentioned in Zurich, Switzerland in 1378.

Note: These two towns above, Geising and Geisingen, exist 565 km apart from each other. There is no obvious connection between these places.

The meaning of the name is patronymic, identifying a descendance to a father with the old german name Giselo/Giso.

In some regions the names "'Geisinger"' and '"Geissinger"' are variants from the names "'Gisinger"' and '"Giesinger"'. This is a conclusion of the subproject Gisinger and Geisinger in Götzis of this One Name Study.

Research Pages

Below is the long term plan. If you want to step in on a specific region, please let me know. The named places are locations Geisinger/Geißinger can be found.

Austria, Categories and Research

Category:Austria, Geisinger Name Study

Belgium, Categories and Research

Category:Belgium, Geisinger Name Study: Liege, Ougree

France, Categories and Research

Category:France, Geisinger Name Study

Germany, Categories and Research

Category:Baden-Württemberg, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Rheinland-Pfalz, Geisinger Name Study

Palatinate: Geisinger in the Palatinate (Pfalz) (WORK IN PROGRESS) with multiple sub clusters: Kusel area (Buborn, Einöllen, Eßweiler, Ginsweiler, Hefersweiler, Hirsau , Hohenöllen, Hundheim/Glan, Kirrweiler, Lauterecken, Lohnweiler, Nußbach, Oberweiler im Tal, Offenbach am Glan, Reipoltskirchen, Roßbach, Wolfstein/Pfalz), Bobenheim, Roxheim, Landau, Pirmasens, Donnersberg District (Dörnbach, Imsweiler, Obermoschel, Rockenhausen), Kaiserslautern, Zweibrücken

Rhenish Hesse Area (Rheinhessen)

Bad Kreuznach Area

Trier Area

Neuwied / Koblenz Area

Category:Saarland, Geisinger Name Study

Saarpfalz: Homburg, Lautzkirchen

Saarbrücken: Dudweiler, Saarbrücken

Hungary, Categories and Research

Category:Hungary, Geisinger Name Study

Poland, Categories and Research

Category:Poland, Geisinger Name Study

Romania, Categories and Research

Category:Romania, Geisinger Name Study

Serbia, Categories and Research

https://ofb.genealogy.net/namelist.php?nachname=Geisinger&ofb=stanischitsch&modus=&lang=de

Jakob GEISINGER + 21.05.1840 in Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien geboren zwischen 1750 und 1762

1.Ehegatte: (1st spouse) Magdalena SPEER * 27.10.1768 in Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien + 10.11.1823 in Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

oo 14.02.1786 in Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien Magdalena GEISINGER * 1792 in Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien, + 1838 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

Paul GEISINGER * 1797 in Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien, + 1861 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

Quelle: [oo] SF, Nr. 1947, 7717

Quelle: [oo] Schmidt (1995): FB Kernei, Nr. G 492

Trauzeugen: Andreas Hertl; Karl Speer

https://ofb.genealogy.net/namelist.php?nachname=Geisinger&ofb=tschatali&modus=&lang=de

Regina GEISINGER * 06.09.1825 in Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien + 01.03.1871 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien begraben: 02.03.1871 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

Patenkind: Katharina Kuntzer

Patenkind: Nikolaus Nuspl

Patenkind: Ottilie Nuspl

1.Ehegatte:(1st spouse) Adam OSPELT * 10.12.1821 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien + 16.08.1886 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, IÖrszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

oo 08.11.1843 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien Margaretha OSPELT * 1854 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien, + 1929 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

Matthias OSPELT * 1857 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien, + 1937 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

Quelle: [oo] SF, Nr. 5509

Trauzeugen: Josef Lang; Adam Naunheimer

Wohnung: Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

Geschwister (siblings)

Jakob GEISINGER * 1829 in Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

Johann GEISINGER * 1835 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien, + 1869 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

Paul GEISINGER * 1838 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien, + 1921 in Stanischitsch (Stanišic, Örszállás),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

10 Kinder, Kernei (Kljajicevo),Batschka,Wojwodina,Serbien

United Kingdom, Categories and Research

Category:United Kingdom, Geisinger Name Study

United States, Categories and Research

Category:Alabama, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Arizona, Geisinger Name Study

Category:California, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Florida, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Illinois, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Indiana, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Iowa, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Kansas, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Maryland, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Massachusetts, Geisinger Name Study
Roxbury, Brookline, Boston

Category:Michigan, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Minnesota, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Missouri, Geisinger Name Study

Category:New Jersey, Geisinger Name Study

Category:New York, Geisinger Name Study

Category:North Dakota, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Ohio, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Oklahoma, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Oregon, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Pennsylvania, Geisinger Name Study

Category:South Dakota, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Texas, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Washington, Geisinger Name Study

Category:Wisconsin, Geisinger Name Study

Membership

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

Prior the 19th century the spelling of surnames in the German regions were not fixed. Since many people were not capable to write or read, they could not tell how their name was spelled. The priest who typically kept the records would write the names down as he heard and understood them. So when people moved from one parish to another, the spelling of their name might have changed. Also the spelling might have changed, when the priest was replace by another priest.

The ending "inger" (in German) indicates that someone comes from a place or household and is pretty stable used in the southern German region. The rest of the name can have multiple writings based on the vowel's sound or consonant's sound in the spoken word in different regional dialects: a "G" could also be a "K" or seldom a "C". The vowel "ei" could also be written as "ai", "ey", "ay", "eu" and seldom as "uy"("ui") or "ej". The consonant "s" could be "ß", "ss", "z", "sz" and "zs". These option generate many name variants (see Table below).
Table 1: Possible Surname Variants. Bold: Profiles exist in WikiTree for this variant (as of 29JN21). Red: Total Civil records in FamilySearch.org (as of 29JN21).

Conclusions from the data snap-shot above:

(1) The most use form is "Geisinger". Followed by Geissinger.

(2) The "e" variant is an own name and no variant: Kessinger / Gessinger / Kesinger / Gesinger

(3) The "zs" or "sz" variants are more likely misreadings or mispellings.

(4) Need a detailed research on the origin of Guysinger/Guisinger, it could be a variant through migration or an own name.

(5) Need a detailed research on the origin of Kaisinger / Kaizinger / Keisinger / Kaysinger, it could be a variant through migration or an own name.

Other similar names are for example Greisinger, Geilinger, Geistlinger. They can be misspelling or a misreading or the name "Geisinger", but generally they are seperate names, and not part of this name study.

Above the variants from "ei" to "e" are looked at. There is also the variants to "i" or "ie", and "a" e.g. Gisinger, Gissinger, Giesinger, Giessinger, Kissinger, Kiesinger, Gasinger, Gassinger. These names can be a variants of "Geisinger" as well as a own names. Also Geisinger can be a variant of such a name. The study will be open to connect lines of these names, if proof is found that a family line connects to an original Geisinger/Geissinger name or transforms to a Geisinger/Geissinger.

Geisinger or Geißinger or Geissinger

In Germany surnames were fixed to their spelling when the civil records were started. This is in some places as early as 1800, in other places as late as 1875. Looking at civil records, there must have been some kind of "debate" in families whether the name is written with single "s" or with double "ss" or "ß". For example this Johann Christian Geisinger (1885-1945) had his birth record corrected from "Geissinger" to "Geisinger". It did not help, on his grave the name is written with "ss" again. All his descendants are written with the single "s", while most of his ancestors are written as Geisinger and Geißinger in their times.

In Germany all three spellings "Geisinger", "Geißinger" and "Geissinger" continue to exist. The last two are very difficult to differentiate in global databases as www.familysearch.org, www.ancestry.com, www.myheritage.com or even in the German telephone directory, since typically searches do not differentiate between the "ß" and the "ss" spelling, even when an "exact" search is execute.

A question which raises on the use of the "ss" versus the "ß" is the following: Are the origins of the "Geissinger" name lines really disconnected to the "Geisinger"/"Geißinger" name line ? Or is this "ss" / "ß" only a regional spelling ? One of the conclusions of the subproject Geißinger in Großsachsen, Leutershausen and Schriesheim is, that for this region and time all spellings have been used in parallel, so no differentiation on the lines with different spellings could be identified. Similar are the findings in the differentiation of spellings in the subproject Gisinger and Geisinger in Götzis. So at least for Germany it can be said, that most of these differences in spellings within one family disappear with the appearance of civil records in the 19th century.

"uy" and "ui" Variants

Order of Distribution (counts in FamilySearch on June 15th, 2022):

Guisinger: 8975 records, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary.
➝ Requires a seperate One Name Study.
Name change from Geissinger to Guisinger:
- Father: Joseph Charles Geissinger (1740-abt.1810) ➝ Son:Philip Guisinger (1797-1872)
- Father: John Geissinger (1784-1855) ➝ Son:Charles B Guisinger (1806-1859)
- Father: Joseph Carl Geissinger (1740-1810) ➝ Son:John Thomas Guisinger (1784-1855)

Order of Distribution (counts in FamilySearch on June 15th, 2022):

"z", "sz" and "zs" Variants

"i" and "ie" Variants

For these "i" and "ie" variants all is possible: Independent Name (no Geisinger/Geissinger in the name lines), Ancestors, which had a Geisinger/Geissinger name. Descendants, which change to a Geisinger/Geissinger name. Use as alternative spelling in a Family.

Order of Distribution (counts in FamilySearch on June 15th, 2022):

Identified Name Mutations

Spelling and Reading

This place is to be used for typical misspellings or misinterpretation, which are found during the research.

Beisinger for Geisinger

"Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:QTM9-G8VY : 26 October 2021), Eintrag für Burckhardt Beisinger, 19 May 1792; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Burial, Stetten, Tuttlingen, Württemberg, Deutschland, Brackenheim, Oa u Stetten, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany. FamilySearch.org: Film Nr. 101835524, Image 529.

Geisinger for Gensinger.

"Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPKL-GBTK : 28 October 2021), Wilhelm Geisinger, 24 Jun 1827; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Reichenbach, Kronach, Oberfranken, Bayern, Deutschland, Homburg u Reichenbach, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany. Film Nr. 102458309, Image 42.

The database transcribes to Geisinger, the image does name Gensinger. Gensinger and Geisinger are names appearing in the area and families tend to be confused. The parents Peter Gensinger and Katherina have more children. For the other records the name is correctly transcribed.

Geysinger for Geisinger

Samuel Levi Geisinger (1806-1871): "Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VW-9MW : 12 December 2014), Samuel L. Geysinger and Elisabeth Julins, 02 Jun 1829; citing Zion Reformed Church,Hagerstown,Washington,Maryland, reference ; FHL microfilm 14,145

Guyssinger for Geissinger

"Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP6M-43QP : 27 October 2021), Christoph Guyssinger, 11 May 1834; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Marriage, Heddesheim, Weinheim, Baden, Deutschland, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.

On the left it is Geÿssinger and on the right it is Geissinger. The "u" is a old fashion "e".

Regional Distribution

Counting purely available data of the Birth&Baptism, Marriage and Death records available at www.familysearch.org there are two major clusters: Germany and United States where the Name Geisinger and Geißinger (Geissinger) appears.

This is only looking on the regional distribution. It might make sense to connect the distribution also to time/century.

The distribution in WikiTree itself can be seen using Wikitree+: Report on Categories in WikiTree+ (Click on "Navigate Categories" to see results)

Filtering the data down to the German states (see Table 3), the main clusters are Württemberg, Baden and Bavaria. These states are all located in south of Germany.

At a first conclusion, the name seems to orignate from the Baden-Württemberg region in southern Germany.

United States

Filtering the data down to the US states (see Table 4), two very big clusters are found in Ohio and Pennsylvania, followed by clusters are California, Wisconsin (including Wisconsin Territory), Iowa, Minnesota and New York/New Jersey. Note, states with less then 50 totals, have been omitted.

Looking at a map of German-Born Population in 1872 the main clusters are found to be in regions with high German population: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin. So the assumption is near that the Geisinger/Geissinger population in the USA is descendants of Geisinger/Geissinger immigrants from Germany to the US. It will be one piece of the study to look at this migration.

Rest of Europe

Filtering the data down to the other states of Europe (see Table 5), there are the following interesting clusters:

The opening question will be if it is possible to prove that these are German immigrants from original German location.

Identified migrants:

1727 from Palatine/Germany to Pennsylvania/United States: Hans Philip (Geisinger) Geissinger (1701-1791)

1749 from Weinheim (Hessen or Baden) /Germany to South Africa: Johann Martin Geisinger (bef.1730-1762)

between 1807 and 1810 from Großsachsen/Baden to Heilbrunn/Krim: Anna Maria (Geisinger) Reibold (1773-aft.1814)

1836 from Rheinland-Pfalz / Germany to United States: Request of Friedrich Geisinger from Kusel: http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10346388-3

1844 from Tengen, Landkreis Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg to unknown destination: Walburga Geisinger (*1815)

1847 from Hemsbach, Weinheim, Baden to North America: Philipp Geisinger, with wife Eva and four daughters Katharina, Elisabetha, Maria and Margaretha.

1852 from Rheinland-Pfalz / Germany to United States: Request from Philipp Jacob Geisinger from Lohnweiler: http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10346421-0

1854 from Tengen, Landkreis Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg to Nordamerika: Emma Geisinger (*1845), Gerhard Geisinger (*1838), Gertrud Geisinger (*1812), Johann Georg Geisinger (*1812), Josef Geisinger (*1842), Maria Geisinger (*1819), Maria Geisinger (*1847), Rosa Geisinger (*1839), Theresia Geisinger (*1848)

1868 from Tengen, Landkreis Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg to North America: Josef Geisinger

1870 from Löffingen, Landkreis Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg to North America:Leopold Geisinger

1910 from Alsace (France/Germany) to United States: Frederick Geisinger / Catherine Geissinger / Abel Geissinger / Frida Geissinger
Propably from "Rittenhofen" / Saarland.

1949 from Heidelberg/Germany to New York later Ontario / Canada: Hans Dieter Geissinger (1930-1996)

1951 from Jugoslavia to Chicago / United States: Ancestry, Afrika, Asien und Europa, Passagierlisten von Flüchtlingen, 1946-1971: Josef Geisinger, 40 / Theresia Geisinger, 37 / Theresia Geisinger, 15 / Josef Geisinger, 17 / Lorenz Geisinger, 12

1951 from Heidelberg/Germany to Toronto / Canada: Ancestry, Afrika, Asien und Europa, Passagierlisten von Flüchtlingen, 1946-1971: Hans Geisinger, 21

1954 from Austria to Melbourne / Australia: Ancestry, Afrika, Asien und Europa, Passagierlisten von Flüchtlingen, 1946-1971: Alfred Geisinger, 24

1954 from Austria to Edmonton / Canada: Ancestry, Afrika, Asien und Europa, Passagierlisten von Flüchtlingen, 1946-1971: Jakob Geisinger, 25

1956 from Jugoslavia to Chicago / United States: Ancestry, Afrika, Asien und Europa, Passagierlisten von Flüchtlingen, 1946-1971: Nikolaus Geisinger, 54 / Theresia Geisinger, 52

1961 from Austria to Quebec / Canada: Ancestry, Afrika, Asien und Europa, Passagierlisten von Flüchtlingen, 1946-1971: Leopold Geisinger, 40 / Anna Geisinger, 43 / Hans Geisinger, 10

Public Characters

Wikipedia (not found in Wikitree yet, OPEN creation in Wikitree):

WikiTree:

Geisinger Brick Walls

Please see the profiles for the status of the research:

↑ Geising in Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geising

↑ Geisingen in Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisingen.

↑ Franz Xaver Wöber, "Die Miller von und zu Aichholz - Eine genealogische Studie", 1893, remarks section to chapter VI, 21/22, item 21. Digital by GoogleBooks 21. Der Ort Geisingen, nach welchem sich Herr Konrad nennt, ist gewiss kein anderer als das zum badischen Amtsbezirke Donaueschingen gehörige Geisingen, nach welchem sich im 15. Jahrhunderte eine Fürstenbergische Linie "die Geisinger" benannte (MZ.,10,99). Den Vater und den Bruder des hier genannten Konrad führt eine Urkunde von 1095, II.2, an: Cuno miles de Gisingen et filii eius Bertholdus et Conradus schenken dem Kloster St. Georgen am Schwarzwalde quidquid habuerunt aput Parmam in rupidus. (l.c.,9,219). - 1249, VI, 11 sind die Brüder Konrad und Berthold von Geisingen zeugen auf einer Urkunde des Abtes von St. Gallen über die Verzichtleistung der Herren von Wartenberg auf ihr Ansprüche an die Runsthaler Zehenten (l.c., 8, 367). - Eine Linie der Edlen von Geisingen übersidelte auf den Wartenberg (Quellen z. schweiz. Gesch., 3,190), welcher sich 1478, V.28, im Besitze Konrads von Leonberg befindet (vgl. den Anhang über Hallwyl). Seit der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts lebt in Zürich eine bürgerliche Familie geringen Ansehens, die den Namen Geisinger führt (vgl. RR., 1378). Sollte diese Züricher Familie mit den Edlen von Geisingen zusammenhängen?

↑ Johann Heinrich Schön, "Die Herkunft unserer Personen und Ortsnamen", Osterhofener Hefte,1995. Page 16: Geissinger, Geissl.

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Guisinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Guysinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Guissinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Guyssinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Kaisinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Keisinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Kaysinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Kaizinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Keissinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Kaissinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Kissinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Giesinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Kisinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Kiesinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Gisinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Gissinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Giessinger

↑ FamilySearch.org, Search for Exact Name Kiessinger

↑ Data of June 17th, 2021 from www.FamilySearch.org: Data counts manually received by execution on exact search on the name Geisinger and the name Geissinger, tagging the type of records to birth, baptism, marriage and death. Then filtering by place of birth, place of marriag and place of death. Note, (1) searching on "Geißinger" in FamilySearch will give back same results as searching on "Geissinger". (2), since FamilySearch is continuosly adding data sets, these counts are a snap-shot.

↑ LEO-BW: Landeskundliche Informationssystem für Baden-Württemberg, "Datenbank: Auswanderung aus Südwestdeutschland", Detailseite Tengen.

↑ Migration: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, Bestand 386, Bezirksamt Weinheim / (1535-1802), 1803-1936, Baden ab 1803, Ortsbezogene Akten, Hemsbach, XXV. Staatsangehörigkeit und Auswanderung, Auswanderung, Gesuche um Auswanderungserlaubnis / 1840-1848:
Bestellsignatur 386 Nr. 613 - 4-4229041, 1847: Philipp Geisinger, Bauer, geb. 1806; Ehefrau Eva Geisinger; 4 Kinder; Auswanderung nach Nordamerika.
∞Bestellsignatur 386 Nr. 613 - 4-4229042, 1847: Eva Geisinger, geb. 1807; Ehefrau von Philipp Geisinger; 4 Kinder.

Bestellsignatur 386 Nr. 613 - 4-4229043, 1847: Katharina Geisinger, geb. 1839. Tochter von Philipp Geisinger.

Bestellsignatur 386 Nr. 613 - 4-4229044, 1847: Elisabetha Geisinger, geb. 1843. Tochter von Philipp Geisinger.

Bestellsignatur 386 Nr. 613 - 4-4229045, 1847: Maria Geisinger, geb. 1843. Tochter von Philipp Geisinger.

Bestellsignatur 386 Nr. 613 - 4-4229046, 1847: Margaretha Geisinger, geb. 1847. Tochter von Philipp Geisinger bei der Antragsstellung 9 Monate alt.

↑ Census: US-Census 1850, Silas Dunham. Illinois, Sangamon, Springfield.

↑ LEO-BW: Landeskundliche Informationssystem für Baden-Württemberg, "Datenbank: Auswanderung aus Südwestdeutschland", Detailseite Löffingen.

↑ "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJN8-TN1 : 2 March 2021), Frederick Geissinger, 1910.

↑ "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJN8-TJM : 2 March 2021), Catherine Geissinger, 1910.

↑ "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJN8-TJS : 2 March 2021), Abel Geissinger, 1910.

↑ "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJN8-TJ9 : 2 March 2021), Frida Geissinger, 1910.

↑ Link zu diesem Datensatz http://d-nb.info/gnd/1012265811 Person Geissinger, Joseph Felizian siehe auchhttps://www.statistik-bw.de/LABI/PDB.asp?ID=45806 siehe auchhttps://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/wlbblb_personen/1012265811/Geissinger+Joseph+Felizian https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felizian_Geissinger

Resources on WikiTree

JUN-2021: Project is created and the project page is started

JUL-2021: Rough project structure is online

AUG-2021: Subproject Gisinger and Geisinger in Götzis reveals Geisinger as spelling variant of Gisinger

SEP-2021: Subproject Geißinger in Großsachsen, Leutershausen and Schriesheim as a patronymic name for descendants of Geiß

SEP-2021: Subproject Geisinger in the Palatinate (Pfalz) starts (work in progress)

JAN-2022: Total 39 Subcategories of the Geisinger Name Study are created

FEB-2022: Civil Records for Speyer, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Mundenheim, Rheingönheim and Friesenheim (those available at ancestry.com) are reviewed and the subproject Geisinger (Geißinger, Geissinger) in Weinheim starts (work in progress)

APR-2022: Subproject Family Grave on Bergfriedhof Heidelberg identifies 4 generations of Geissinger

JUN-2022:

JUN-2022: Publication in Blog of CompGen about the Study (in German Language)

Statistic on Profiles in WikiTree

Data of July 14th, 2022 (528 Profiles included in Geisinger Name Study)

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Profiles with Birth location

Profiles with Death location

See also: Profile Status in GoogleDocs, Last Updated September 18th, 2022

To Do's and Unsorted Items

Please add anything, which has not an identified spot yet, to the below. As soon it found its spot, it will be deleted from below.

Hungary : TO DO / OPEN - Information on Hungary collected here, needs its own space: Joannes Georgius Geisinger (1726-aft.1790)

Serbia

Analyse this older study on Pennsylvania: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Family Name Search THREE GENERATIONS OF THE PHILIP GEISSINGER FAMILY with added miscellaneous data on the family from Northampton , Lehigh, Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania, Author: Mildred C. Williams, Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940. https://archive.org/embed/threegenerations00will

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