Re: [Gramps-users] Distributed Family Tree Project

[Jerome <rom...@ya...>]

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
> 
> 

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