Every week I get notifications from wikitree.com about my relationships with famous celebrities. Some are actors, politicians, famous Canadians, and the list goes on.

The one niche that I don't see is my relationships with fellow sysOPs.

I would like to challenge anyone that is interested to go to wikitree.com and create your free account. The next step is to enter as much information about your profile as you can. This would also include information about your parents, their parents and the same for your spouse.

Once you have created your profile, you will be assigned a wikitree ID. Mine is Dippel-21

The ongoing challenge would be to use WikiTree to check our relationships.
At the bottom of your page you would see something like:
'See your connection or your genealogical relationship with ___' (here you would input your assigned ID)

I'm sure that the majority of you are not interested in genealogy, but I thought this might be an interesting way to get into genealogy and to see how we are related to each other.

Mike Dippel
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Re: WikiTree.com sysOps Challenge
By: Mike Dippel to All on Sat Jan 17 2026 10:14 am

Every week I get notifications from wikitree.com about my relationships with famous celebrities. Some are actors, politicians, famous Canadians, and the list goes on.

The one niche that I don't see is my relationships with fellow sysOPs.

Once you have created your profile, you will be assigned a wikitree ID. Mine is Dippel-21

I'm sure that the majority of you are not interested in genealogy, but I thought this might be an interesting way to get into genealogy and to see how we are related to each other.

I think it would be interesting to find out more information about my family tree. Several years ago, I actually did a bit of research about it on ancestry.com.. Maybe I could still log in there and build my family tree on wikitree.com.

I'm nervous about sharing too much information about myself publicly though. If there was a bad person looking up information on me, I'm not sure I'd want them to be able to find out about my family as well, since who knows what they'd be up to or want to do..

I created an account on wikitree though, and I searched for you - It says it found no connection (yet). :)

Nightfox
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On 1/17/2026 11:32 AM, Nightfox wrote to Mike Dippel:

Re: WikiTree.com sysOps Challenge
By: Mike Dippel to All on Sat Jan 17 2026 10:14 am

Every week I get notifications from wikitree.com about my relationships with famous celebrities. Some are actors, politicians, famous Canadians,
and the list goes on.

The one niche that I don't see is my relationships with fellow sysOPs.

Once you have created your profile, you will be assigned a wikitree ID. Mine is Dippel-21

I'm sure that the majority of you are not interested in genealogy, but I
thought this might be an interesting way to get into genealogy and to see
how we are related to each other.

I think it would be interesting to find out more information about my family tree. Several years ago, I actually did a bit of research about it on ancestry.com.. Maybe I could still log in there and build my family tree on wikitree.com.

I'm nervous about sharing too much information about myself publicly though.
If there was a bad person looking up information on me, I'm not sure I'd want
them to be able to find out about my family as well, since who knows what they'd be up to or want to do..

I created an account on wikitree though, and I searched for you - It says it found no connection (yet). :)

Nightfox

I know you well enough that I would have bet that you would be the first to respond. I
never worry about invasion of privacy myself. Genealogical sites are very common and
so far I haven't had any issues. I have been doing this for many years.

The key to success is when your family gets linked up with other families. That's when
you will start seeing progress.

Mike Dippel

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Re: RE: WikiTree.com sysOps Challenge
By: Mike Dippel to Nightfox on Sat Jan 17 2026 03:14 pm

I
never worry about invasion of privacy myself. Genealogical sites are very common and
so far I haven't had any issues. I have been doing this for many years.

I suppose that information is probably public record anyway. But I've always liked to err on the side of caution and not make it easier for bad people to find it. :) I haven't really had a problem with it either though, and I have a fairly rare last name that would make me and my family easy to find.

The key to success is when your family gets linked up with other families. That's when
you will start seeing progress.

That would be cool to see.

Nightfox
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