The Full Wiki

The Full Wiki is a great resource for genealogists and family historians, especially when working with family members and trying to place history in context.

Basically, The Full Wiki is a "mashup" of Wikipedia and Google Maps plus a few other resources including Wikiquote and it allows you to search for a term and view the information in several different formats.

Entering a term such as "family history library" will display the standard Wikipedia content for that term:

Clicking on the Map tab at the top of the screen will also display the Google Maps information:

And interestingly, there is a "Topic Tree" tab which seems to diagram the term with links to other articles on WikiPedia:

Check out The Full Wiki and see if it can be a useful resource for your family history research.

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