IMHO There are 2 major issues facing a new ONS: - data collection: Tools like Table2clipboard and Outwit Hub allow you to do one-off collections, but the subscription services (Ancestry/FMP) add stuff. How do you do a new collection without having to check (and chuck) out duplicates individually - reconstruction (Chris G's favourite project I think): You've collected thousands of name from the 1880/1 census, so then check out the 1870/1 census - can software reliably merge the personas? Whilst these processes remain "manual", we'll never achieve large scale study coverage. HTH At 20:53 25/11/2014, you wrote: >In a meeting Monday morning I was asked for suggestions / ideas / examples of applications that would be of interest to genealogists. The organizer running that meeting is not a genealogist. I made one suggestion but know that other Guild members will have loads of ideas for them. If any of you have ideas for computer/mobile device applications that would make your research easier to do I would love to pass those along. Wouldn't it be nice if some computer person took an idea from a genealogist and made a tool that really works for genealogists. This is a chance to invite them to do it. > >Darris G. Williams, AG >Guild Member 4633 >Colt/Coult ONS > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Julie Goucher [mailto:juliegoucher@gmail.com] >Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 9:50 AM >To: GOONS >Subject: [G] RootsTec / FGS February 2015 > >Are any Guild members planning to attend? > >Regards > >Julie Goucher >Guild Member 3925 >Orlando & Worship ONS >South Devon Regional Rep > > > > NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. > > > _____________________________________________ > >RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message