Top 10 Reasons to Contribute to the World Family Tree

1. The chance to help others who are searching for information you already have. By sharing your tree, you'll be helping your own distant relatives.
   
2. The chance to contact distant or "long-lost" relatives. With our free World Family Tree Contributor Contact Information Service, you can obtain the name and address of the pedigree's contributor when you find a connection.
3. The chance that someone else will help you. Someone who has spotted an error in your family tree may contribute a documented correction to it, helping you ensure that your family information is as accurate as possible.
4. Protection of your family data. Your family information will be preserved on a CD-ROM in the Library of Congress. If your personal family tree files are ever lost or damaged, you will know where to find them. Future generations will have access to them too!
5. Protection of your privacy. There's no need to worry, because only the names, genders, and family links of living individuals are included in the World Family Tree volumes. In addition, you may remove private information from your Family File before you contribute it.
6. You don't have to wait until your tree is "finished." You will be able to contribute updates of your family tree in the future, so there's no need to wait until you've "completed" it.
7. An opportunity to show off. Aren't you proud of all the hard work you've done? Don't you want others to see it?
8. A new gift idea! World Family Tree volumes make excellent gifts for relatives. When your family tree becomes available in a World Family Tree volume, it's fun to show them that they've been published.
9. Longer invitation lists for your family reunions. If someone else finds a link to your tree, you just may have a bigger family reunion next year!
10. The more people who contribute, the more valuable the World Family Tree will become. Everyone's chances of finding entire new branches of their family tree increase — yours do too!