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| Templates update | 05:08, May 22, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Famous people | 04:53, May 13, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Mayflower | 02:19, May 8, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Some publicity for Familypedia | 05:46, April 12, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Gedcom bot and Rtol's improvements to Yewenyi's process | 03:55, March 26, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Regarding importing GEDCOM data | 03:43, March 26, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Children box | 23:29, March 18, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Archipelagoes | 02:59, March 12, 2013 | Thurstan |
| Parishes | 19:51, January 29, 2013 | Thurstan |
| International migration | 03:43, January 27, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Person notes and sources | 06:12, January 21, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Census page and category names | 11:46, January 18, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Divisions of Australian states | 09:29, January 10, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| 100,000 edits | 03:19, January 8, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Family categories | 11:45, January 5, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Where is tech support? - here, looking at our problem forms | 10:20, January 2, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Census pages | 02:48, January 2, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Wikia tour still worth taking | 09:51, January 1, 2013 | Robin Patterson |
| Page names for individuals | 11:29, December 30, 2012 | Robin Patterson |
| 2012 software upgrade | 04:39, July 20, 2012 | Thurstan |
| Change to "showfacts biography" | 01:33, June 19, 2012 | Thurstan |
| Edit count going down? | 04:58, February 21, 2012 | Cv-s |
| Ancestry's License Restrictions | 10:10, February 17, 2012 | 109.169.70.96 |
| Upgrade to template Navbox | 04:04, February 16, 2012 | Robin Patterson |
| Copies from Wikipedia | 07:44, February 12, 2012 | Robin Patterson |
| Concepts | 12:47, January 7, 2012 | Robin Patterson |
| SMW | 13:42, January 3, 2012 | Robin Patterson |
| Perspective-Place article | 02:22, January 3, 2012 | Robin Patterson |
| WikiaStats - New special page | 03:09, November 21, 2011 | Thurstan |
| "Skills" and capitals | 07:58, October 4, 2011 | Cv-s |
| Article count past 40K, past 50K | 21:42, August 29, 2011 | Thurstan |
| Familypedia reaches 20,000 articles, now 30.000, next month 100.000 ? | 06:10, August 29, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Settlements and establishments | 03:00, August 12, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Decades, settlements, etc | 06:02, August 10, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Ten thousand edits | 03:47, August 10, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Refrigerant | 04:27, June 9, 2011 | Afil |
| How to call a pope | 19:41, May 27, 2011 | Rtol |
| Main infobox and nearby features since the 2010 New Look | 07:17, April 24, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| People by place | 07:36, April 3, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| County subpages - categorising | 12:07, March 27, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| 200,000 pages | 11:59, March 20, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Holy Roman Empire | 08:29, February 28, 2011 | Rtol |
| Semantic Forms version 2.0.8 | 13:04, February 27, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| County-based categories | 01:08, February 25, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Charlemagne's descendants | 01:32, February 16, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Burke the genealogist descended from Charlemagne | 10:33, February 11, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Romania | 08:43, February 7, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Multilingual site, or separated: eg: de.genealogy.wikia | 19:51, January 29, 2011 | Thurstan |
| Standardising page names for individuals | 05:55, January 27, 2011 | Thurstan |
| Standardization of place names and categories | 14:23, January 23, 2011 | Robin Patterson |
| Births in (location)/Deaths in (Location) | 20:49, January 11, 2011 | Thurstan |
| Future of Familypedia | 18:42, November 28, 2010 | Simant |
| Happy second anniversary, rtol | 12:02, November 19, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| French names that include "dit" | 09:06, November 16, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Navigation: Page-top menus | 11:58, November 14, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Wikia's new look, November 2010 | 11:37, November 14, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Pier Gerlofs Donia descendants? | 02:11, November 14, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Pier Gerlofs Donia descendants and ancestors? | 02:08, November 14, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Sweden | 11:24, November 4, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| February 29 | 05:24, October 25, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| New Look | 04:41, October 25, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Standards on dateless individuals | 14:18, October 23, 2010 | DennisDoty |
| Noble/Royal Titles | 15:47, September 13, 2010 | Rtol |
| Person name properties | 13:29, September 13, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| "Place" properties | 13:50, September 8, 2010 | Rtol |
| Contributor's lament | 20:13, September 7, 2010 | Rtol |
| Rodovid | 07:15, September 5, 2010 | Rtol |
| Unfinished projects | 02:03, August 27, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| General genealogy help. | 06:32, August 15, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Number of People in database | 08:25, July 23, 2010 | Thurstan |
| Cemeteries and Semantic MediaWiki | 15:46, July 10, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| "Concepts" | 15:24, July 10, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Google rank | 14:55, July 3, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| 41,000 edits | 04:55, June 26, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Masonic Category | 15:49, June 25, 2010 | Plcoffey |
| Other Genealogy-related Wikis on Wikia | 02:03, June 25, 2010 | AMK152 |
| Value of page name standards | 04:38, June 22, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Projects | 15:31, June 15, 2010 | Rtol |
| Proposed change to name/date convention so as to eliminate the question-mark | 14:42, June 1, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Census Attempt | 05:51, May 31, 2010 | Rtol |
| Diagnostics | 05:27, May 31, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Middle names | 09:50, May 3, 2010 | Rtolbot |
| Dutch patronyms are not given names | 09:50, May 3, 2010 | Rtolbot |
| Navigation boxes blue or pale yellow? | 14:03, April 28, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Nobility categories | 13:06, April 28, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Switchover to Showfacts articles | 15:15, April 19, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Polishing the standard mini-biography | 11:03, April 18, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Bot operators- read this | 12:30, March 23, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Proposal: A bot flag for RtolBot | 12:25, March 23, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Descendants tab - so easy, everyone with offspring should have one | 19:43, March 11, 2010 | Rtol |
| Royalty- Surname encoding | 12:05, March 6, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Categories | 05:11, March 3, 2010 | Thurstan |
| Phlox returns to work | 05:55, March 2, 2010 | Rtol |
| Should I nuke Defaultsort lines? | 13:46, February 20, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Questions about forms | 01:52, February 10, 2010 | DennisDoty |
| States and territories of India | 15:48, January 25, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Logo has a G- change? | 05:15, January 12, 2010 | AMK152 |
| WikiAnswers | 09:44, January 9, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Language separation | 00:33, January 5, 2010 | Robin Patterson |
| Showinfo ahnentafel | 20:19, November 23, 2009 | Phlox |
| The next two months | 02:43, November 21, 2009 | Phlox |
| Phased Bot conversion of Info articles | 16:34, November 19, 2009 | Phlox |
| Template:Citation and Template:Link | 20:06, November 10, 2009 | Phlox |
| Initial Info page conversions | 02:36, November 7, 2009 | Phlox |
| How we fix slow articles | 17:27, November 6, 2009 | Phlox |
| Familypedia as our url and wiki name | 11:22, November 5, 2009 | Rtol |
| Factsbox off by default | 21:42, October 23, 2009 | Thurstan |
| Names: All caps, "unknown", "not found" | 22:19, October 22, 2009 | Phlox |
| Page names | 21:58, October 13, 2009 | Phlox |
| Inquiry:Chinchen family ancestors | 15:26, October 12, 2009 | Phlox |
| Wiki Books | 17:05, September 29, 2009 | Phlox |
| SMW articles update | 21:04, September 28, 2009 | Phlox |
| Peter Stanley 1539-1583 | 22:31, September 27, 2009 | Elrondlair |
| Image annotator | 18:38, September 13, 2009 | Phlox |
| Events | 00:22, September 1, 2009 | Elrondlair |
| Familypedia isn't yet good enough ? | 11:35, August 25, 2009 | Bergsmit |
| Main page: Familienforschung und Genealogie-Wiki | 09:56, August 23, 2009 | Bergsmit |
| Status of Misaligned Page problems | 19:32, August 18, 2009 | Uberfuzzy |
| August: free access to 1930s US census | 04:08, August 17, 2009 | Phlox |
| Neutral Point of View (NPOV) guideline revision | 08:41, August 15, 2009 | Bergsmit |
| Ancestry from ... | 00:32, July 28, 2009 | Rtol |
| Sidebar links | 17:23, July 25, 2009 | Phlox |
| The trouble with SMW Ahnentafeln and descendant lists | 10:47, July 24, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Inbreeding | 07:47, July 22, 2009 | Rtol |
| Yewenyi article upgrade | 05:15, July 22, 2009 | Thurstan |
| Category : Ancestor of | 18:18, July 14, 2009 | Rtol |
| Slideshow on home page | 07:21, July 13, 2009 | Phlox |
| Idea for growth | 02:32, July 12, 2009 | Phlox |
| Genealogy tours using Google Earth | 20:25, July 11, 2009 | Rtol |
| Does this Wikia deal with the tools and methods of Genealogy | 02:38, July 9, 2009 | Phlox |
| Rich text editor- now 5 sec loads on info articles | 17:01, July 7, 2009 | Phlox |
| User avatars (those little pictures) | 19:04, July 2, 2009 | Phlox |
| Wiki blogs and User Masthead | 02:54, July 1, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Issue 1 of the Familypedia Times | 23:25, June 30, 2009 | Phlox |
| Do we really want to subst Biography? | 15:10, June 30, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| CategorySelect | 14:52, June 30, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| I will remove template Info categories | 18:02, June 29, 2009 | Bergsmit |
| People who help research? | 08:53, June 29, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Heavy weapons | 17:02, June 28, 2009 | Phlox |
| Cleanup run on WP template | 09:17, June 26, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Dutch and other translators- automatic biographies | 08:30, June 26, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Top users | 16:31, June 24, 2009 | Phlox |
| Optimizing the usage of DPL | 15:45, June 16, 2009 | Phlox |
| Licensing change: CC-BY-SA | 15:40, June 16, 2009 | Phlox |
| SMW is way faster than info pages | 23:52, June 14, 2009 | Phlox |
| Mailing list for this wiki | 11:01, June 14, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Labels in tables- spouse/ "state" | 19:39, June 13, 2009 | Phlox |
| Skin changes | 22:12, June 12, 2009 | Phlox |
| Home page- Featured articles | 13:13, June 9, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Familypedians: Can we reach 36,000 ARTICLES by 30 June 2009? | 06:53, June 9, 2009 | Bergsmit |
| This Wikia is now multilingual | 16:01, June 3, 2009 | Phlox |
| Multilingual articles | 09:50, June 3, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| No all cap names | 08:52, May 24, 2009 | Phlox |
| One person does not make a generation | 02:18, May 21, 2009 | AMK152 |
| Semantic MediaWiki is here!!!!! | 11:54, May 19, 2009 | Rtol |
| Person article assessment | 09:12, May 19, 2009 | Rtol |
| Competing cat structures commons vs wp | 14:17, May 16, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Have you seen any other abbreviations than these? | 16:59, May 15, 2009 | Phlox |
| People with no birth or death dates | 21:48, May 12, 2009 | Animebill |
| How we encode our data | 13:54, May 12, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| VB or C | 13:29, May 2, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Extra lines at end of Showperson infobox | 16:01, April 27, 2009 | Phlox |
| Quicker links to info page creation | 12:07, April 27, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Moving pages | 11:06, April 27, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Standardizing subpages of people pages | 05:33, April 22, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Surname article creation | 03:26, April 21, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Date formats | 06:21, April 17, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Interesting article on consanguinity | 05:01, April 16, 2009 | Rtol |
| Creation of /info pages for all person articles | 14:21, April 6, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Tabs templates | 09:37, April 6, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| New Info Page features | 13:38, April 5, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| The future | 05:33, April 5, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Copacetic to Edit User Pages? | 18:22, April 2, 2009 | Jillaine |
| Speculative, mythical, fictional and so | 13:21, April 2, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Peize Wikia pages that I am copying | 13:03, April 2, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Netherlands subdivisions | 07:29, March 22, 2009 | Rtol |
| New welcoming templates | 05:11, March 20, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Templates on Wikipedia | 09:45, February 27, 2009 | Rtol |
| Settlements established in 1626 etc | 21:45, February 24, 2009 | PhloxBot |
| Is Genealogy a Hobby? | 05:31, February 24, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Improving the "people-page start page" | 00:34, January 21, 2009 | Robin Patterson |
| Deleting valid information | 02:58, December 28, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Template documentation | 13:23, December 25, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Jumble of subcategories and/or articles | 06:49, December 17, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Canadian counties etc | 03:42, November 29, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Category:Ancestry by location | 00:07, November 6, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Breaking news- let's grab some traffic | 01:26, November 5, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Model state pages | 10:20, October 11, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Category in same categories as its main article or in more or fewer? | 03:18, October 9, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Family/families pages and categories | 04:56, October 1, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| County Pages | 11:57, September 24, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Perry research | 10:47, August 15, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| "Victoria" | 09:22, August 14, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| AMK152Bot, need consensus | 20:39, August 6, 2008 | Phlox |
| New wikia features using the Quartz skin | 05:55, August 6, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Yorkshire | 10:32, August 3, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Watching pages | 06:32, August 3, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Infobox Surname | 15:02, July 28, 2008 | AMK152 |
| Identical People | 12:50, July 25, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Genealogy now has a Bot- PhloxBot | 12:37, July 22, 2008 | AMK152 |
| Cat Terminology: Pioneers vs settlers vs colonists | 09:14, July 21, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Australians all, let us ... create district navboxes like the US and UK county navboxes | 03:31, July 21, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Place names | 03:55, July 15, 2008 | AMK152 |
| Category Admins | 02:12, July 15, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Time and Space category naming | 15:58, July 14, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Organization | 15:29, July 14, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| German people, People of Germany, People from Germany, Emigrants from Scotland - and so on | 15:26, July 14, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| People with their own categories | 15:20, July 14, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Sandbox | 21:12, July 11, 2008 | TreeGenea3 |
| County Pages Idea | 08:44, July 5, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| What should be added to new pages? | 02:53, July 2, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Methodology revolution of DNA and implications for this wikia | 13:57, June 27, 2008 | Andrew Lancaster |
| Objectives | 14:38, March 31, 2008 | AMK152 |
| Mission Statement | 03:49, March 22, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Familypedia IRC channel | 00:27, February 21, 2008 | AMK152 |
| Main page Redesign | 12:09, January 26, 2008 | Robin Patterson |
| Tutorial: Help for users getting started | 03:10, December 22, 2007 | AMK152 |
| Automatic Category Bug? | 01:42, December 13, 2007 | Elrondlair |
| Person Template internationalized | 01:26, December 10, 2007 | Phlox |
| Brand name for this wiki | 16:59, December 9, 2007 | Phlox |
| Neat extension- googlespreadsheet | 06:26, December 6, 2007 | Phlox |
| Migrants/immigrants/emigrants - including those who stopped over on the way | 06:56, November 30, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Feeling Lost | 02:04, November 28, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Microformats on Genealogy | 08:06, November 26, 2007 | Phlox |
| Googlemaps now available | 18:20, November 22, 2007 | Phlox |
| Bot Runs- Current status | 17:20, November 21, 2007 | Phlox |
| Index and related matters | 01:51, November 18, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Big import of counties coming up | 19:22, November 13, 2007 | Phlox |
| PhloxBot change messages can now be hidden | 04:42, November 13, 2007 | Phlox |
| Why WP articles are a good base for us to build on | 08:20, November 11, 2007 | Phlox |
| Infobox by user AMK152 | 01:54, November 8, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Births by Year/Deaths by Year | 20:11, October 29, 2007 | Phlox |
| Birth cats moved- death cats tonight- ok with everyone? | 16:54, October 29, 2007 | Phlox |
| PhloxBot flooding of the recent changes list | 02:56, October 27, 2007 | Phlox |
| Htmltidy bug | 22:12, October 25, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Hey Robin- please install googlemaps extension | 03:40, October 24, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Template:Wikia genealogy for WP inbound links to here. | 01:59, October 23, 2007 | Phlox |
| Poll: Firefox? | 20:48, October 22, 2007 | Phlox |
| New Reader Very Confused | 03:15, October 22, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Graphviz extension | 07:06, October 21, 2007 | Phlox |
| Living persons | 03:09, October 18, 2007 | Phlox |
| Interwiki links to other language Wikipedias | 12:09, October 17, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Collapsible tables | 05:25, October 15, 2007 | Phlox |
| We can do Videos now on Genealogy | 03:54, October 4, 2007 | Phlox |
| Non ascii names | 02:12, October 4, 2007 | Phlox |
| Hey Robin or WM- edit MediaWiki:Common.css | 16:39, October 2, 2007 | Phlox |
| Ten thousand edits on this site | 16:47, September 28, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Template:Categories | 20:01, September 23, 2007 | AMK152 |
| Proposal- no upload without license declared | 14:08, September 20, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Some "Professional Help"? | 00:10, September 16, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Sound Files | 21:02, September 11, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Policy on Living people | 03:17, September 10, 2007 | Phlox |
| Wikia Commons? | 16:56, September 5, 2007 | Knife Maker |
| Moving categories? | 01:33, September 5, 2007 | Knife Maker |
| Some DNA guidelines | 10:23, September 4, 2007 | Knife Maker |
| Table class="infobox collapsible" | 03:06, August 31, 2007 | Knife Maker |
| Template: Edit? | 09:36, August 29, 2007 | Knife Maker |
| Ahnentafel | 16:23, August 22, 2007 | AMK152 |
| Attribution template | 14:28, August 19, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Starting New Pages | 13:01, August 14, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Page access counting | 00:24, July 12, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Template:Infobox Settlement | 06:14, July 9, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Where Find List of Categories? | 11:44, July 7, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Protocol in Collaborative Editing | 14:15, July 6, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Help Page updates/fixes | 13:20, June 25, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Help Page | 02:33, June 24, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Wikipedia's genealogy templates | 14:04, June 19, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Cemetery names and categories | 14:30, June 13, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Successful use of Template:Clear | 06:26, June 13, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Copyright questions | 02:12, June 12, 2007 | WMWillis |
| See Also vs Also See | 01:54, June 12, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Robin Patterson | 01:45, June 12, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Abbreviations in Titles | 01:01, June 11, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| How to indicate a page to be erased? | 01:43, June 4, 2007 | WMWillis |
| Tagging | 01:06, June 4, 2007 | WMWillis |
| "See also" - save time with new template | 00:14, June 4, 2007 | Zephyrinus |
| Social Security Numbers | 15:40, June 1, 2007 | WMWillis |
| New template for blank pages matching Wikipedia pages | 04:41, May 30, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Welcome to the new Watercooler! | 00:47, May 30, 2007 | Zephyrinus |
| Main Page | 00:37, May 30, 2007 | Zephyrinus |
| TOC for long lists in categories | 23:28, May 29, 2007 | Zephyrinus |
| Wiki access problems | 10:27, April 19, 2007 | Jayoval |
| Penance | 04:22, April 8, 2007 | Robin Patterson |
| Forum fixed | 20:07, April 3, 2007 | Sannse |
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