Whois & Analysis for wikitree.com

WikiTree is a free, shared social networking genealogy website that allows users individually to research and contribute to their own personal family trees, while building and collaborating on a singular worldwide family tree within the same system.

The site was created in 2008 by Chris Whitten, developer of the WikiAnswers website, and is owned and hosted by Interesting.com, Inc. The site uses a “wiki markup" language (powered by MediaWiki software) that offers both beginning and advanced users the ability to create and edit personal profiles, categories and “free space” pages to document their family’s history.

As of Jan 20, 2017, the WikiTree website has over 394,000 registered members and maintains over 13.0 million ancestral profiles.

GenealogyInTime Magazine listed WikiTree as the 15th most popular genealogy site in January 2016.

Genealogy (from ', "generation"; and ', "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.

Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members.

The results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives.

DNA profiling (also called DNA fingerprinting, DNA testing, or DNA typing) is a forensic technique used to identify individuals by characteristics of their DNA.

A DNA profile is a small set of DNA variations that is very likely to be different in all unrelated individuals, thereby being as unique to individuals as are fingerprints (hence the alternate name for the technique).

DNA profiling should not be confused with full genome sequencing.

First developed and used in 1984, DNA profiling is used in, for example, parentage testing and criminal investigation, to identify a person or to place a person at a crime scene, techniques which are now employed globally in forensic science to facilitate police detective work and help clarify paternity and immigration disputes.

DNA fingerprinting has also been widely used in the study of animal and floral populations and has revolutionized the fields of zoology, botany, and agriculture.

A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure.

The more detailed family trees used in medicine and social work are known as genograms.

Modern humans (Homo sapiens, primarily ssp.

Homo sapiens sapiens) are the only extant members of Hominina tribe (or human tribe), a branch of the tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes.

They are characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion; manual dexterity and increased tool use, compared to other animals; and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies.