The following announcement was written by the folks at WikiTree:
12 January 2021 : The WikiTree community has debuted its headline event of 2021: The WikiTree Challenge. Each week this year, a team of volunteers is collaborating on the tree of a special genealogy guest star. The challenge is to make the guest star’s ancestry on WikiTree more accurate and complete than it is anywhere else.
Can crowd-sourced amateur genealogy find mistakes and break through brick walls for the leading personalities of the genealogy industry? The WikiTree community says, “Take the WikiTree Challenge -- and let the sources decide!”
The first guest star to take the challenge is New York Times bestselling author AJ Jacobs. The second week features genetic genealogist CeCe Moore. Third is Jonny Perl of DNA Painter. Fourth is Jen Baldwin of Findmypast. February, Black History Month in the US, kicks off with African-American scholar and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Then comes “Legal Genealogist” Judy Russell, Kirsty Gray of Family Wise Ltd, and Thomas MacEntee of High-Definition Genealogy.
Every week’s event begins and ends with a live video chat. Watch and chat live with AJ Jacobs and WikiTree community members on Wednesday, January 13, at 8pm EST via YouTube or Facebook.
About WikiTree
WikiTree is a 100% free community-based website that has been growing since 2008. Community members privately collaborate with close family members on modern family history and publicly collaborate with other genealogists on deep ancestry. Since all the private and public profiles are connected on the same system this collaboration grows one tree that connects us all and makes it free and easy for anyone to discover their roots. See http://www.WikiTree.com.12 January 2021 : The WikiTree community has debuted its headline event of 2021: The WikiTree Challenge. Each week this year, a team of volunteers is collaborating on the tree of a special genealogy guest star. The challenge is to make the guest star’s ancestry on WikiTree more accurate and complete than it is anywhere else.