I dont know if you would call it a competition per se’ but there is an ongoing public opinion debate going on about the the indexing projects being done by Ancestry.com and the World Archives Project. Ancestry.com, started in 1996 is a membership site providing online records for a cost varying on the database...
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I have to say… I just was blown OUT OF THE WATER, by Geni.com I will stand by my opinions expressed but want to clarify and correct. Within only a few moments of posted I was contacted by Keith at geni.com to make some clarifications on the program and I have to say I...
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Geni.com is ALL over the internet as of late in blog posts, pr releases and articles so I wanted to take a moment to give my “take” on the program. Geni.com claims that its site’s largest family tree now includes over 600,00 people built by over 40,000 users. Geni’s web site offers Web 2.0-style...
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Tags: collaberative genealogy, geni.com, social genealogy
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Footnote.com This site is not exactly “new” but often overlooked since it’s database started small. It has been growing by leaps and bounds and is a way to search, view, and save documents for later reference. The most interesting thing about this site is how it integrates the genealogical “society” into the mix allowing...
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