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(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.

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.

Thank you for the response. A related idea is described in http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/07/top-secret-familysearch-project.html, but of course the roadmap is uncertain.