what is genExchange The Genealogy Exchange & Surname Registry, simply put, is a genealogical data exchange where visitors and researchers alike can go to find specific persons, and exchange specific data with one another. The GenExchange is one of the two or three largest non-commercial genealogy projects on the internet and is a community effort where visitors and project voluteers can contribute data for the free use of others. HOW AND WHY IT WAS STARTED This is really an involved question. The GenExchange was begun two years ago as a small experiment in combining online databases and genealogy. At that time dynamic web content was in its infancy, and it was an extreme rarity to find any web site offering what we wanted to do. In fact some of the largest Genealogical web sites on the internet were dead set against offering this level of search capability, but rather forced you to submit records as text documents. Running searches against those text documents produced links to text documents that held information you sought, and required you to visually scan the text document for the information you sought. Not only is it time consuming to scan static text documents; but it's also much more difficult to find the specific information you're looking for. For Any Further questions contact GenExchange@GenExchange.com