As one of those people who define present commercial genealogy software program as LCD (think back to your maths classes!), I welcome a chance to debate fresh...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Feb 9, 2006 7:41 am
... Right! And one of the things I would like is an event-based database that can pull in "Person" information from your main genealogy database (to save...
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Leif B. Kristensen
leifkris
Feb 9, 2006 8:22 am
... Please, what do you mean with LCD? The only meaning of that acronym that I know about, is Liquid Crystal Display, - and that doesn't make very much sense...
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Paul Blair
pfablair
Feb 9, 2006 8:28 am
... Sorry Leif (and others) - I need to be more careful. Point taken. Lowest Common Denominator was what I should have typed... Paul - who promises to do...
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Leif B. Kristensen
leifkris
Feb 9, 2006 9:10 am
... Apology accepted ;-) Now that I know what you're talking about, I tend to agree. Although the worst LCD(?) factor here appears to be the GEDCOM format. Any...
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his_jadedness
Feb 9, 2006 2:21 pm
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johntopl
Feb 9, 2006 6:48 pm
Hi, I'm thinking of developing hosted (Web-based) genealogy software, sort of like Gmail or Flickr but for family history. Do you think people would be...
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Leif B. Kristensen
leifkris
Feb 9, 2006 10:46 pm
... I'm very much into the same ideas. What kind of framework do you have in mind? And why not include the advanced genealogists? -- Leif Biberg Kristensen |...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Feb 10, 2006 1:57 am
Now that we possibly have a quorum, or something like it, I'd like to ask about something that I have felt the need for for some time -- an event database. ...
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Carol
cavoiles
Feb 10, 2006 3:30 am
I would love to have such a program! Carol...
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John Topley
johntopl
Feb 10, 2006 8:19 am
... have in ... I'm planning on developing it using Ruby on Rails (www.rubyonrails.org/). I wouldn't explicitly exclude advanced genealogists, one of the...
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Jim Winfrey
jimwinfrey
Feb 10, 2006 1:05 pm
... John, Many of us are collaborating with other folks in our research. If I could limit access to my data to folks to whom I give "permission" to access or ...
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Bob Velke
whollygenes
Feb 10, 2006 1:35 pm
... The Master Genealogist (TMG) has been doing that for 15 years and, yes, tens of thousands of researchers find it useful. Bob Velke Wholly Genes Software ...
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John Topley
johntopl
Feb 10, 2006 1:50 pm
... software, sort ... (www.rubyonrails.org/). ... could ... access or ... There ... even ... Thanks Jim. There would certainly be a permissions system in...
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Jim Winfrey
jimwinfrey
Feb 10, 2006 2:51 pm
Well John, since you asked, my perfect collaborative world would be a tool where I and the researchers who are working with me can enter all kinds of data -...
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Paul Blair
pfablair
Feb 10, 2006 8:44 pm
Well, there is plenty of discussion going on! As one who only dips his toe into software from necessity (not from any other point of view) there is probably a...
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coddgenealogy
Feb 11, 2006 2:08 am
I won't be writing any software, but perhaps could offer a user-oriented opinion regarding the expert/beginner dichotomy. For a person intending to write a...
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John Topley
johntopl
Feb 11, 2006 8:00 pm
... Thanks Jim. How do you envisage the confidence level feature working? Would it be as simple as assigning a rating (say one to five) to each individual? The...
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John Topley
johntopl
Feb 11, 2006 8:16 pm
... My question really is, do people think that the privacy of genealogical data is more of a thorny issue than it is with, for example, e-mail? Countless...
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Paul Blair
pfablair
Feb 11, 2006 8:21 pm
... be a tool ... kinds of ... to make, ... we keep ... for all ... grandmother from ... this is ... identify, for ... that this ... way down ... have the ... ...
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coddgenealogy
Feb 11, 2006 9:14 pm
Re surety levels (confidence), you might consider assigning such to individual sources, and then computing the overall confidence at the level of individuals ...
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coddgenealogy
Feb 11, 2006 9:15 pm
My question really is, do people think that the privacy of genealogical data is more of a thorny issue than it is with, for example, e-mail? Countless people...
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Dawn Crowley
scion22000
Feb 11, 2006 9:33 pm
I have differing levels of certainty on different data for the same individual. For example: death date confirmed from multiple reliable primary sources ...
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Jim Winfrey
jimwinfrey
Feb 11, 2006 10:20 pm
I think most genie programs assign surety levels for each source but that is not obvious until you drill down to the sources. The problem is for a given ...
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kr_afol
Feb 11, 2006 10:24 pm
The idea of web-hosted collaborative software is not new. There is at least one system out there (can't remember its name though). However, the problem that I...
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Paul Blair
pfablair
Feb 12, 2006 12:04 am
I have had phpGedView running for about 2 years less a couple of months. There are 30 users, about half of them have "edit" rights. This means they can suggest...
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Kerry Raymond
kr_afol
Feb 12, 2006 4:36 am
... This is my point. The reason it works (for you) is that you remain in control, some are allowed to assist you, while others have merely an observer role....
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Paul Blair
pfablair
Feb 12, 2006 4:53 am
... Well, if everyone had edit rights, I'd still have control. Note that I have control only because its my site. If it belonged to my sister, she would have...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Feb 15, 2006 1:32 am
... When I get a chance I'll try to look at the latest version. I didn't have much joy with earlier ones. But I think what I am looking for is something wider...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Feb 15, 2006 1:33 am
... While I agree that soething better may need to be developed, I disagree strongly that GEDCOM should be "removed from public consumption". Many people have...
