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Many Hands Make Light Work...

Everyone knows at least a little bit about something or someplace. The information you contribute could be exactly what someone else needs to connect with or add to their family history.

Fill out this form to get started as a Wiki Volunteer and let us know what you're interested in helping with.

Pages & Projects That Need Your Help

Beginner Projects

Some examples of beginner projects might be checking for broken links or adding categories to pages.

• Adding Categories
• Repair Broken Links
• Add information to your county and/or city pages.
• Prepare District history.
• Repositories - what's in a repository of genealogical interest in D.C.
• Outside company providing content ... we are putting in the wiki for formatting.

Stub Pages

A "Stub" is a page containing a limited amount of information. If you need help learning about stub pages and how to add information to them, review the article FamilySearch Wiki:Stub. Follow a link below to help fill out pages that need more information:

• There currently no stub pages for the District of Columbia. Please, check back often, As they will be listed here as they become available.

Instructions for moderator: To see all of the stub articles for your locality, review Category: District of Columbia stubs.

Wanted Pages

A "Wanted Page" is a page that doesn't yet exist, but someone created a link to it, showing that they want a page on that topic created. For online classes to learn how to create a new page or wiki article click here: Creating a Wiki Article Searching for and Creating Articles.

Follow the red links below to create a requested Wanted page:

• Anacostia, District of Columbia
• District of Columbia Bibliography
• District of Columbia Business Records and Commerce
• District of Columbia Church Directories
• District of Columbia Church History
• District of Columbia Civil Registration
• District of Columbia Colonization
• District of Columbia Culture
• District of Columbia Divorce Records
• District of Columbia Dwellings
• District of Columbia Electoral Rolls
• District of Columbia Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
• District of Columbia Handwriting
• District of Columbia Historical Background
• District of Columbia Historical Geography
• District of Columbia Jewish Records
• District of Columbia Jurisdictions
• District of Columbia Language and Languages
• District of Columbia Law and Legislation
• District of Columbia Localities
• District of Columbia Membership Records
• District of Columbia Merchant Marine
• District of Columbia Minorities
• District of Columbia Missionaries
• District of Columbia Names, Personal
• District of Columbia Native Races
• District of Columbia Notarial Records
• District of Columbia Obituaries
• District of Columbia Occupations
• District of Columbia Orphans and Orphanages
• District of Columbia Parishes
• District of Columbia Passenger Lists
• District of Columbia Place Names
• Georgetown, District of Columbia
• Washington, District of Columbia
• Look through the list of wanted pages

Maintaining Existing Pages

Check and fix broken links

• Patrolling
• Patrolling New Pages
• Patrolling Recent Changes
• Add Catagories to pages
• How to Make Your First Edit

Specific Needs for Your Area

• 1. District history often contains biographical sketches of local citizens, including important genealogical information. This may be one of the best sources of information for some families.
• 2. If you are interested in being a moderator for a state or country, please contact the Support Team

Other Help Wanted Projects

If there are other areas of the FamilySearch Wiki you would like to volunteer for, we have a Wiki Help Wanted page that lists additional projects and areas where help is needed.

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