Subj : RE: WikiTree sysOP Challenge
To   : The Wanderer
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Sat Feb 14 2026 15:15:02

On 2/13/2026 6:54 PM, The Wanderer wrote to Mike Dippel:

-> You know, it was interesting - I hadn't heard of wikitree before your post in a
-> few echos about it, and then within a day or so, my wife was mentioning
-> genealogy stuff. I had set up humo-gen in 2007 and barely got started on it -
-> updated it in 2015 to add in my child that was born in 2009, and have always
-> meant to come back to it.
-> 
-> It seemed interesting the two mentions of it in such a short span of time, so I
-> got started on updating humo-gen, deciding I didn't like it and replaced it
-> with webtrees, and then started exploring wikitree. I also had data sent my way
-> for spurs of the family tree from others I knew had worked on it. 
-> 
-> Thanks to getting re-acquainted with places to do research through that aren't
-> ancestry.com I've been able to start getting my feet wet again, though after
-> piles of reading and doing a bit of playing around, I haven't done much but
-> just try and get comfortable with doing things *well*. Slow going... but
-> anyhow.
-> 
-> I have a bit to add to wikitree and then I'll see what connections with others
-> look like.
-> 
-> I figured you may have wanted to know someone had picked up some of the
-> genealogy bug recently.
-> 
-> You've been doing it for some time, I presume?

Happy to see there are others that show an interest.  It's been well over 25 years for 
me.

What is your wikitree ID number?

Mike Dippel
 
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