Back in April of 2010, Joel shared our assumptions about the role of small sites in the newly minted Stack Exchange network:
If a site does not have enough activity at the end of 90 days, it will be closed down. Any existing Q&A will be archived and made available for download, but the site...
For the first time today I have seen the word née following a woman's name. It's often in parenthesis and precedes what appears to be another surname. I'm guessing it's a way of signifying a woman's maiden name, but the notation is very foreign to me. What exactly does it mean? Why is it used to ...
Regarding the incorrect results, it's because we just realized yesterday that metropolitan counties in the UK are different than regular counties, so we haven't loaded data for them into our system. So when our system sees "West Yorkshire, England" and can't match it to any place, it cuts off "West Yorkshire" and just matches "England".
@MartinSojka Have you ever had any record matches? It might just be that they haven't gotten around to processing your tree yet. It takes a significant amount of time for them to process matches and took a while for any to appear on my tree.
@ColeValleyGirl Wouldn't it be nice to have a website where you could submit a lookup request and any available volunteer could, whether in an FHC or from home, could work on it for/with you?
We really need people to vote or offer their opinions on the three FAQ sections that @ColeValleyGirl has offered us. Six people have voted up the question, but only two have voted on the answers.
I propose we start substantive work on populating the important first block of our FAQ: What kind of questions can I ask here? The section will no doubt evolve and change as our community does, but it's totally bare at present and not enormously helpful.
Based on the discussions we've already ha...
@AdrianB38 You've made some excellent contributions to the community. How did you find us? I visited your family history site. I've thought about setting up a similar one for myself. How do you like it?
You may have noticed in discussion on RootsDev that I'm not so concerned about making tools for professionals. I want to make genealogy easy and enjoyable for the average person. It's happening. Not as quick as I would like, but quick enough. It's exciting.
My passion if for my family and to help others learn about their family. I want to make genealogy accessible to the general public. I want to lower the barrier to entry.
My interest in genealogy kicked into high gear. I began trying to learn about his family and military career. I saw how hard it was to do genealogy. Being a CS major, it was natural to detect inefficiencies and dream of solutions.
In Jan 2009 I returned to school at BYU to continue studying Computer Science after being in Chile for two years. My paternal grandfather's health was declining rapidly. He lived near BYU so I visited with him often during the next two months until he died. I did my best to learn about his life. He told me things that my own father didn't know. But he still took a lot of stories with him to his grave.
Then in early 2007 my maternal grandfather died. I knew less about him. I thought it was such a shame that I was alive for 20 years while he was yet all I knew was that he was a good man -- but at least I knew that!
@GeneJ Both of my parents had a copy of their genealogy in the old wide notebooks. I remember being fascinated by them even at a young age. I think it's because I always enjoyed puzzles. I tried to digitize them in Excel once; I must have been 10 - 12 when I did that. As I grew older I realized that I didn't know anything about my grandparents. I knew my paternal grandfather was a retired Colonel from the USAF, but even then I didn't know what he did.
@GeneJ Have you noticed that you have an 8% acceptance rate? That's not necessarily bad. Why have you only accepted one answer from your 14 questions? They are tough questions, so it's okay if they're never answered.
@lkessler Thanks! I can never remember the name, and now that the original proposal has been officially deleted, I lost my one sure way of finding it. I should just bookmark it, but then I never actually look at my bookmarks...
@lkessler The previous genealogy.se proposal that didn't make it was started by a man who created a website where people can pay registered genealogists to do small research tasks for them a la RAOGK.
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Back in April of 2010, Joel shared our assumptions about the role of small sites in the newly minted Stack Exchange network:
If a site does not have enough activity at the end of 90 days, it will be closed down. Any existing Q&A will be archived and made available for download, but the site...
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