A Country Girl Rambles
by Azure Rae Robinson
Weekly rambling about WikiTree and collaborative genealogy. Community news, one-name studies, cemetery work, brick walls, and the research that doesn't make it into a tidy profile. A personal show from Azure Rae Robinson, paired with the Country Girl Genealogy blog.
Episodes
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WikiTree Days 2026: Come Celebrate 18 Years of WikiTree!
WikiTree turns 18 on 5 November, and this year we're celebrating with WikiTree Days, running Thursday through Sunday, 8 November! In this episode, I walk through the schedule day by day so you can plan which sessions to catch: the WikiTree Foundation, the anniversary livecast with Eowyn and me,...
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Recipe Roots: Your family's recipes, in their own time
What's the story behind your family's favorite recipe? This week, I share how a member's comment on G2G turned into a new feature for Recipe Roots, my tool for turning your WikiTree family into a printable family cookbook. The proofreading sheet now has a family story box, with gentle prompts for...
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Cemetery Files: Headstone Tool
It’s time for another Cemetery Files! In this episode, I show you the Headstone Photo Tool I’ve been building. It reads the names and dates on your headstone photos, finds the cemetery from the photos’ GPS, checks whether the person might already be on WikiTree, and builds a worklist for new...
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Meet Name Cloud
My Surname Tree app has a new name: Name Cloud! In this episode, I show you Name Cloud and the other tools I’ve been building for WikiTree this month: the Genealogy Report, share cards in the WikiTree Browser Extension, Washington State Digital Archives support in Sourcer, Cemetery Map, a Find A...
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WikiTree Challenge #10: Blaine Bettinger
WikiTree Challenge #10 with Blaine Bettinger kicks off today! In this episode, I share what the WikiTree Challenge is, how to join in (registration is still open), and the key dates through the 21 October reveal. I also introduce the surname tree app I built with Claude Code for Hacktoberfest,...
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Source-a-Thon XI is almost here!
The 11th Source-a-Thon on WikiTree runs 2–5 October, kicking off at 8am ET! In this episode, I cover how to register and join a team, what counts as a source (and what doesn't), my favorite way to find unsourced profiles, and ten years of Source-a-Thon results. Plus a look ahead to October's...
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Update on the Purple Triangles Project (Sep 2026)
Profiles for all of the Bibelforscher in the Ancestry.com dataset for Ravensbrück have been created: 192 profiles! This episode is all about the Purple Triangles project on WikiTree, which documents Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted under the Nazi regime. I cover what went into building these…
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Cemetery Files: Fairmont Cemetery (Raton, NM) Update (Sep 2026)
Fairmont Cemetery in Raton, New Mexico: 2,993 profiles created, 3,481 headstone photos still awaiting one. This week's episode is an update on Fairmont Cemetery, the process of building a profile from a headstone photo, plus what's new around WikiTree — the latest Gold Standard profiles now on…
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Anatomy of a Good Profile
My uncle Gene's WikiTree profile looked finished for years — dates, a photo, four marriages, nothing else. Then I sat down with the family archive, his DD-214, and two people who actually knew him, and started over. What actually makes a profile good: inline citations, documenting conflicting...
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Collaborative Genealogy 101
Why do I do genealogy on a website where anybody can edit my work, instead of a private tree nobody else can touch? Episode one of A Country Girl Rambles: what collaborative genealogy actually means, how I ended up this deep into WikiTree, and what this show is going to be. Companion blog post:...
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Weekly rambling about WikiTree and collaborative genealogy. Community news, one-name studies, cemetery work, brick walls, and the research that doesn't make it into a tidy profile. A personal show from Azure Rae Robinson, paired with the Country Girl Genealogy blog.
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