A new Question & Answer Web site for Genealogy has been proposed on the Stack Exchange Network. However, it currently needs some support before it is allowed to become a fully functional Q&A site. http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/43502/genealogy As well as bringing it to people's attention, I wanted to explain a little bit about it for those people who may be unfamiliar with that network. For the record: neither the site nor the embracing network are anything to do with myself. 'Area 51' is only a "staging area" for newly proposed sites in this network. This means that all proposed sites have to go through a phase where they are assessed for viability before they get launched. This proposed 'Genealogy' site needs 60 followers, and 40 example questions each of which has a score of 10 or more. It already has nearly 90 followers, and 19 questions with a score of 10+. Anyone who registers can then pose 5 example questions, and can also allocate 5 individual votes to others' questions - carefully avoiding ones that already have a score of 10+. When the site get launched, those questions with a score of 10+ are used to seed the site and answers can then be added to them. StackExchange sites (such as StackOverflow which software people may know of) are based on up/down-voting of answers, and the resultant 'reputation' points of individuals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange_Network Most importantly, they are free, run by the users themselves, and not affiliated to any commercial organisation. The current 'staging area' is definitely a little confusing but Louis Kessler produced some useful instructions at: https://plus.google.com/u/0/?tab=wX#106257958448273208907/posts/GAYKVrtMWGH The choice is yours, of course... Tony Proctor

This genealogy Q&A site has since made it to the beta phase, and is now open to the public. http://genealogy.stackexchange.com Just to re-iterate, I have no personal involvement in this site, other than as a normal user of it. Tony Proctor