Something that's recently come on our radar for the project is the idea of having a family tree for people living in or related to people from County Mayo, Ireland.
The basic idea would be that every member of our new website could add their parents and spouses to the "County Family Tree" and, if someone has added a relation, they could connect to them. This would really take off if we can use some of the standard formats so people can easily upload and download their family trees.
If the effort was successful, you'd imaging people would begin to see their trees tie together pretty quickly. If you've never done geneaology before, it hits you pretty quickly how each generation back doubles your number of known ancestors (2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents...). Since most people would know their parents and grandparents, the trees should begin connecting pretty quickly.
I personally like the idea of doing this as it actually shows how "we're all related." The downside is that you quickly discover that your ancestors can be both heroes and villians...so it may not be a pursuit for the feint hearted!
If anyone can recommend a web-based programme that does this especially well, please pass on your suggestion to me. The complexity of doing this may mean that it won't be available for launch day in 2011, but I'd like to try and get something up like this fairly quickly.
Another option would be to partner with a company already doing this. This is something I will need to investigate further as I'm not actively doing any family history research myself (and unfortunately, neither are any of my immediate Team on this project). So, much for us to learn.
As always, please pass on any comments to me at webmaster@mayococo.ie and please join our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_125453407511270
More Soon!
Rick Love
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