Interesting Thoughts
For the past couple of years we've been thinking that Genealogy and Web 2.0 were made for each other. Here's an interesting post on the O-Reilly Radar blog about genealogy and Web 2.0.A colleague...
View ArticleSnapGenie Meets Genealogy
I've been playing with the beta of the new MyFamily.com site. One of the interesting tools there is a feature that let's you narrate your way through a stack of images. It does a pretty good job of...
View ArticleGeni and Tech Talks
If you're reading this blog, you're probably in the loop enough to have already seen the Geni.com beta site. If you haven't seen it yet, it is definitely worth a look. It is basically a web 2.0 app for...
View ArticleAutomatic Source Citations & Zotero
A colleague just pointed me to zotero.org as an interesting approach to handling source citations. While they don't seem to have turned their attention toward genealogy, their approach looks promising...
View ArticleFamily History Technology Workshop '07
Yesterday I attended the 2007 Family History Technology Workshop hosted at BYU. Joe Martel from our team gave a presentation about FamilySearch Labs and the Pedigree Viewer. Joe did a great job and the...
View ArticleSource-Centricity
Ex Nihilo?Years ago I worked on a project using ethnographic research methodologies to study the life cycle of the creative process of knowledge workers. One of the primary take aways from this...
View ArticleMore on Source-Centricity: Conclusions, Artifacts, and Evidence
Conclusions, Artifacts, and EvidenceWe've been prototyping a flow for the Life Browser which allows users to create a person, add conclusions about that person, add artifacts about that person, and...
View ArticleMashups with FamilySearch
This is just a short post, I'll write more later. I just wanted to show the world the first step toward a new world where you can build mashups with data from the new FamilySearch. Click one of the...
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Source Centric Prototype
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about concepts of source-centric genealogy. I've written in the past about how most family history applications tend to put the emphasis on the conclusions...
View ArticleFamilySearch Training Wiki?
As the new FamilySearch system continues to be rolled out around the world, the demand for training materials is growing. I've seen several great presentations created by people in the community that...
View ArticleFind a Grave and the Super Sleuths
A friend of mine recently pointed me to the findagrave.com website. I registered and volunteered to find graves in cemeteries near my home. Once I find a grave, I take pictures of the headstone and...
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SimpatiGo
I saw an interesting mashup today - SimpatiGo.com. It is kind of a walking tour wiki. You can put in the begin and end points of your journey and it will give you a customized walking tour which gives...
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Wanna know what's happening in your tree?
We've been playing around with different ways to keep tabs on what's happening in your tree on the FamilySearch pilot program at new.familysearch.org. A common request and often dreamed of feature is...
View ArticleInformation Architect?
I just returned from the IDEA 2008 Conference which was held in Chicago, Illinois. One of the interesting things about this conference was that while many people were there to discuss the field of...
View ArticleThe Popularity of Genealogy: Why Dick Eastman is Wrong
Yesterday Dick Eastman posted an interesting article about the popularity of genealogy. His summation:I will suggest that genealogy is indeed a very popular activity among Americans. Hundreds of...
View ArticleGenealogy Today
I've been trying to find a way to quickly communicate the basic challenges of genealogy to others. I thought I'd try kind of a white board approach to it. This is The first portion of a longer video....
View ArticleConceptual Overview of Genealogical Research
In the past I've been critical of the design of the currently available genealogy software tools. In fact, I just went back and re-read a couple of my posts and realized that at times I come across...
View ArticleTimetoast takes a turn at timelines
I came across another time line tool today. My first thought was "really, another time line?" Then I thought, "surely they must know there are some good time lines out there..." This was followed...
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Genealogy Questions Answered in 6 Minutes
How many times when you’re stuck on a genealogy problem have you thought to yourself, “I’m sure someone out there knows the answer to this question.” If you could just ask the right person a quick...
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