theworldtree
Growing together

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A name, a memory, a few details.
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Select a person to see their story and family.

The world tree

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Planting the first roots…

Connected people

Search everyone in the world collection. Choosing a person selects them and moves to their connected tree.

PRESERVE THE STORY

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Your correction becomes the displayed value, marked as community-proposed. Every original claim and previous edit stays in the history.

GROW A BRANCH

Add a person

Add what you know. Unknown details can stay blank. This creates a separate identity; similar names are never merged automatically.

Connect two existing people

Add an evidence-backed relationship between existing identities, including people from separate trees. This is a community proposal, not an identity merge.

A growing world of connected roots.

theworldtree brings separate family branches into one explorable network. A missing connection stays missing until a source or family contribution supports it.

Where the records come from

Historical identities and claims are imported from Wikidata’s CC0 structured data. Additional Lincoln-family relationships link to the National Park Service, Hildene, the Mary Todd Lincoln House, and Harlan-family historical research. Each claim retains its source; these records may contain mistakes. “Sourced” means a reference was attached, not that we independently verified the record.

The Nguyen / Ho starting branch contains four people and relationships supplied by Tommy Nguyen, with permission to publish. Approximate birth details remain approximate. Public web research has not established further relatives.

Portraits & public-source imports

Historical family records use Wikidata’s CC0 facts. Portraits and depictions come from Wikimedia Commons only when the file declares a public-domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA license. Every displayed image links to its author, license, and original file record. Where Wikidata supplies a WikiTree or FamilySearch person ID, the profile links to that external genealogy record. These links are not copies of those sites’ complete databases. Source imports preserve existing facts and community edits. Names alone never join separate identities.

Match scores & corrections

Match percentages are transparent heuristic similarity scores, not statistical probabilities, DNA results, or confirmed relationships. Names alone never create a family link. Community corrections update the displayed version while preserving original facts and prior edits. Corrections and new connections are visibly marked as proposals.

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Cloudflare Workers and D1 store this shared website and its records within their free-plan usage limits. Paragraph search uses names, aliases, dates, places, and known relatives. No paid AI service is used. The collection is growing through resumable public-source imports. It is not a complete worldwide database.