Genealogy in a Cloud: Difference between revisions

That's great for small businesses and editing documents as a group, but what does it mean to me in the world of genealogy? The genealogy market has already, in some ways, taken advantage of the power of cloud computing. Consider the millions and millions of online trees that have been created under a cloud computing model where the software, the storage, and the computers managing the information are somewhere in the Internet. Furthermore, in some cases these trees have been created collaboratively. Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of “Genealogy in a Cloud” is the ability to get help from others. A few sites like “Findagrave.com” is an example where the software, hardware, and data, all being provided in the cloud, provide data to the genealogical community from many participants. The site “werelate.com” already has two million people collected in their online family trees. In both cases, everything has been done with free software in a totally open environment for people to work together.