One thing about going to a library conference these days is that there is alot of technology under discussion. Wikis are probably not technology in the classic sense but I wonder why they aren’t being used deeply in genealogy. It seems to me that they would be a great vehicle for collaborative [...]
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Wikis Anyone? Why Not?
Posted in Technology issues and ideas, methodology on November 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Flickr for Genealogy
Posted in Technology issues and ideas, methodology on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m at a library conference and suddenly – someone is talking about various archives that have uploaded their historic photos into Flickr. I never considered Flickr as a possible source for older/old photos of houses, main streets and even family members. But I did some searching and discovered quite a number of wonderful [...]
Geni.com – an interesting way to collaborate
Posted in Technology issues and ideas, methodology on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been playing around (in between rebuilding the website and restoring the house – looks like a theme there) with Geni.com which is basically a collaborative genealogical workspace. Not quite a wiki and not quite family tree software, Geni.com allows you to create pedigree chart style linked family trees and share them with relatives [...]
Website Frustration
Posted in Technology issues and ideas on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had to divert my research and writing energy to the family website www.mcwieser.info Somehow while downloading an update of the software I use to create the site ToWeb by Luayun Software I overwrote the file copy of the site AND the backup copy of the site. I suspect a flawed download but [...]
