Not exactly, but I did do a lot of research helping very distant relatives with their trees when trying to use DNA and traditional genealogy resources to find my biological family.
Not in any official capacity, but in general, I prefer to contribute to collaborative genealogy sites like WikiTree. As I add ancestors to my tree, I also grow the trees of any distant cousins who share those ancestors. Hopefully some of the profiles and connections I’ve added will prove useful to others :)
Same, but I’ve moved over to FamilySearch due to their more structured nature. Also, they have lots of digitised Church records and even more to-be-digitised ones where you can help decipher Sütterlin and other old cursive scripts.
I’ve moved over to FamilySearch due to their more structured nature
Is it significantly better than WikiTree? I’m somewhat reluctant to support the Mormon church, though they are big into genealogy…
I, personally, find it far superior. Mostly, because it’s more database-ish compared to the freeform-oriented WikiTree. Every bit of information has its specific field. (No wonder with them being the inventors of the GEDCOM format.) Also, it suggests possibly matching records from their digitised Church books which can make discovery of new ancestors really easy.
The app I keep my local database in can sync with FamilySearch, so that’s also a big plus for me. And I don’t mind supporting them a bit if it means I can access their records for free.
Maybe make a dummy account and try to find a few of your ancestors. There’s a big chance they’re already in there. (nb: Their search is split into two parts: “Records” search and “Family Tree” search. “Records” = digitised Church books, “Family Tree” = people in their database.)