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'''Syllabus for class taught by [[User:MannAE|Alan Mann]], FamilySearch, Genealogical Community Services manager, AG®, presented at the [[FamilySearch Presentations at BYU 2010|BYU 2010 Conference on Computerized Family History & Genealogy]].''' | |||
This lecture is about new genealogy data on the Internet, new ways of using the Internet in your family history research, and promising new ideas for future products and services offered on the web. These pages will be expanded both before and after the conference, so check the URL for the up-to-date version above. | This lecture is about new genealogy data on the Internet, new ways of using the Internet in your family history research, and promising new ideas for future products and services offered on the web. These pages will be expanded both before and after the conference, so check the URL for the up-to-date version above. | ||
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== Person Pages == | == Person Pages == | ||
Perhaps the most significant new thing in online family history is the added option of “person pages” on commercial | Perhaps the most significant new thing in online family history is the added option of “person pages” on commercial websites which allow site users to save information about individuals and to link documents on the site to those person pages. Some allow for relationships to be noted, or for the individual to be tied into a genealogical pedigree or tree. This is definitely an area where the genealogical community benefits greatly as further options are developed. What is really needed, however, is the ability to link the person pages on one commercial site to another. Why should my great-grandfather have a person page of Footnote, another on Ancestry, and individual record and pedigree position on new FamilySearch, and be on a variety of other web pages. Why not tie all such pages together and at least link them if not come up with a combined view of some kind? As these tools continue to develop, there will be continued improvement in the amount and ease of information shared and links to relatives made because of such pages. Shown here is a sample from Footnote.com’s Vietnam Wall interactive page. | ||
Another valuable service on sites which host records and historical documents is the ability to add notes and comments to a record. Ancestry has long offered this, and Footnote incorporated the idea in their new design. I encourage those who use these commercial services to add notes to online records they find. I am sure those notes will be preserved and become part of “Person pages” when everything is eventually brought together. | Another valuable service on sites which host records and historical documents is the ability to add notes and comments to a record. Ancestry has long offered this, and Footnote incorporated the idea in their new design. I encourage those who use these commercial services to add notes to online records they find. I am sure those notes will be preserved and become part of “Person pages” when everything is eventually brought together. | ||
Perhaps one way which might be used to link pages together is through Facebook. Footnote has already experimented by creating the I Remember Facebook application, which is essentially Facebook “person pages” associated with the records on Footnote. Facebook is now the most visited | Perhaps one way which might be used to link pages together is through Facebook. Footnote has already experimented by creating the I Remember Facebook application, which is essentially Facebook “person pages” associated with the records on Footnote. Facebook is now the most visited website (surpassing Google for the first time the week this syllabus was written). | ||
== Commercial Websites == | == Commercial Websites == | ||
Any discussion of what’s new on the Internet would be incomplete without mentioning Ancestry.com, Footnote, WorldVitalRecords, | Any discussion of what’s new on the Internet would be incomplete without mentioning Ancestry.com, Footnote, WorldVitalRecords, Findmypast , Genealogy Bank, HeritageQuestOnline and other commercial websites. While this sites themselves are not new, the collections of data available on these sites continue to grow significantly. Here are some collections I chose to highlight: | ||
* Civil War Widows Pensions 1861-1910 (incomplete; all new) at footnote.com | * Civil War Widows Pensions 1861-1910 (incomplete; all new) at footnote.com | ||
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