Read your ideas with a great deal of interest. We are developing FamilyTrackers along the lines that you suggest. Perhaps we can collaborate together. Gene

I just came across your comment on using the internet better in genealogy. I have been doing genealogy for close to 40 years and have been posting on RootsWeb for many years and, more recently, on GenCircles. (I have also been an occasional contributor to Wikipedia and the Encylcopedia of Genealogy.) I agree that there should be some way to use wikis and rss or other feeds in genealogy. I have looked at a lot of genealogy wikis and while I have to applaud people for taking the first step, there is a long way to go to make the concept usable in a large database. I recently posted my thoughts on my genealogy website, so I won't repeat myself but will just add my voice here to second what you have said.

Cool site, Daniel. I thought you and your readers might be interested that Paul Allen (founder of Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com, and many other companies [1]) will probably be speaking at the Utah Valley Linux Users Group [2] sometime this semester. We had him scheduled for last semester, but regretfully it fell through. We will also have Adam Augustine (who does IT for the church) come talk to us about some of the open source projects that the LDS church is involved with. Dates are TBA, but we have an RSS feed if you want to add it to your site. [1] http://www.infobaseventures.com/our_companies.html [2] http://uvlug.org