From: Jerome <rom...@ya...> - 2007-04-22 06:10:14
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Hi, Can I play ? I will not send all know projects, but you will find up to date lists on: http://geneasofts.geneanet.org/?cat=46 or http://geneasofts.geneanet.org/?cat=9 (do not need to understand French, there is web links) Duncan Lithgow-2 wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 09:32 +0200, bm...@ca... wrote: >> Quoting Duncan Lithgow <dli...@gm...>: >> >> > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 22:12 +0200, Richard Bos wrote: >> >> HI, >> >> >> >> I just encountered this project: Distributed Family Tree Project >> >> This is the project website for the Distributed Family Tree, an open >> network >> >> of genealogical data and metadata. In a nutshell, the big idea is >> that we >> >> can combine all available genealogical information on the Internet >> into a >> >> single distributed network. >> > Finally! I've been wondering when someone would make this a reality. >> > Great to see. >> >> Don't get your hopes up. It looks very premature. >> Furthermore, the idea that you can do serious research with just looking >> for >> names on the internet is invalid. > I don't agree. I've found some very important connections using the site > http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ which is cheap to join and has some > quite smart automatic search tools. > > Of course it would be fool hardy to rely simple on a name in an online > page. But if researcher has been thorough and added source references > then I place trust in the research until I have time and resources to > check it. > > I put one woman in touch with some long lost cousins because she found a > missing link in the edge of my data. She would definately disagree. > > Of course you're right that using unreferenced website is not _serious > research. > > Duncan > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Distributed-Family-Tree-Project-tf3603185.html#a10092613 Sent from the GRAMPS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |