(This is a cross-posted comment from the 7/20/09 blog post at http://labs.familysearch.org/blog/?p=130 )
Question — the labs.familysearch.org paragraph introducing Family Tree says:
“Users of the Family Tree collectively and collaboratively organize information into its appropriate node on this shared tree. Ultimately, each node will be a folder containing or linking to all known information for an individual.”
Does this imply that there will eventually be facility for including additional information about a person, such as a brief life sketch, or that a certain person served in xyz war, or that more photographs of a person’s medieval manor are available at xyz web address, or that the birth location was at xyz lat/long coordinates?
I assume that the church’s web servers are not intended to serve as the “wikipedia” of family history — though I would certainly be glad if there were such a resource!
I have been hoping that somebody familiar with the development roadmap could clarify the “all known information” statement — most likely just to confirm that my assumption is correct.
Thank you.
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I have not kept up with the details of FamilySearch development. However, they are moving in the direction of adding sources so that you can link to the source documents. I suspect this is the bases of the "all known information" statement.
They also support partners and allowing the partners to interact with the database. So potentially though a partner you can add more information (to the partner's site) and yet be connected with the FamilySearch database.
They also support partners and allowing the partners to interact with the database. So potentially though a partner you can add more information (to the partner's site) and yet be connected with the FamilySearch database.
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Thank you for the response. A related idea is described in http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/200 ... oject.html, but of course the roadmap is uncertain.