Diving into the FamilySearch Research Wiki

The Wiki.FamilySearch.org website has been incorporated as part of the newer Beta.FamilySearch.orgwebsite. Presently, the Research Wiki, as it is commonly referred to,is growing at the rate of over 400 pages a day. It is my opinion thatthis website is quickly becoming the first place to go to for startingany research project. I am continually pleasantly surprised at theamount of information that is pouring into this website.

There are currently 43,557 articles and the start-up page has beenaccessed over 167,000,000 times. Not in any particular order here are mytop most useful features of the Research Wiki:

Links from the scanned documents in the Historical Documents Section ofthe Beta.FamilySearch.org website to explanatory material in theResearch Wiki. Each collection of records incorporated into theHistorical Documents Section has a link that says, "Learn more..." Theselinks take the user directly to an associated Wiki page about thecollection. The information in the Wiki often includes documentation ofexactly what information the records contain. For example, a list ofeach of the form's information fields translated into modern English.Here is an example of one of the records with the link to the Wikiindicated by the red arrow:

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