Sample Proposals for RootsTech Presentations – Which Would You Choose?
I’m putting together a proposal for a presentation or two at RootsTech, a conference put on by FamilySearch.org around family history technologies. The focus will be on Social Media. I have a few ideas – what else do you think would be interesting in terms of interesting uses of social media for family history? Opening the […]
Read more...Ancestry.com Buys Top Facebook App We’re Related
In the early days of Facebook’s developer platform (2007, to be exact), as apps were going from 0 to 2 or more million users in just a matter of days, family history apps were among the first to rise to the top. The link between family connections and friend connections seemed like a natural fit […]
Read more..."Relative Finder", Using FamilySearch.org, Shows the Future of Social Genealogy
Family History, or Genealogy as it is also known, is one of the most popular hobbies in the world. There’s something fascinating about learning whom your ancestors are and where you come from. In a way, we all want to figure out how we’re linked together as a world. Imagine if you could index the […]
Read more...The Perfect Family Tree
I’ve talked before about how I think there needs to be more semantic standards adoption in Genealogy. I’ve been thinking a lot about what that would look like. Here are the key factors I think the perfect “Family Tree” would include: Each individual has their own, unique URL. In a sense, this would give the […]
Read more..."Super Indexing Sunday" Breaks World Record With 2 Million Records Indexed in a Day
Facebook has quite a database with 500 million active users, and rumored total users in the billions. There are few that can relate to the types of problems engineers and architects encounter with a database of that size. FamilySearch.org is one of those, with a claimed database size of over 1 billion individual records, and […]
Read more...You Don’t Own My Family History – I Do
I think I’ve rebuilt my Family Tree about 20 or 30 different times throughout my lifetime. The process usually starts with me entering in the names I know on sites like Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org or OneGreatFamily.com. I usually hit a stopping point where I can’t remember any more, then I start doing searches. I’ll usually […]
Read more...Changing the World Quite Literally Through Social Media
The rumor is out – I thought I’d make it official. This week I have started as the new Social Media Architect for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In summary, I am in charge of the architecture and integration of Social Technologies for the Church. I will be in charge of finding […]
Read more...Open Source – Do You Share Your Experiences for This Life or the Next?
This is a picture of my Great-Grandfather, Joseph Stay. With a son named after him, I’ve spent some time reading about him and learning about the experiences of his life that I can pass down to my son. One of my favorite things to do in my spare time (when I get any) is to […]
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