Nivard, and others... It is definitely a challenge to say what the site does that is different without being overly technical. Of course, I didn't intend to describe it as a search engine per see. First it is a place to share genealogy information. In simple terms the site uses standard vocabularies that relate to genealogy in the same way that GEDCOM was developed as a way to share genealogy information. New features and new application can be developed using these standards - not just standard vocabularies but standardized ways for storing information. It is an "Open" database, as it were. Every statement of knowledge, is communicated in a standard format of subject predicate object, just like one does in English or any language. There is a faq page that I am building and which will contain more information. It is here: http://my-family-lineage.com/wiki/FAQ Perhaps people could suggest other questions? Also, regarding the problems that people had with the site, in the past, I did remove all the suspect advertising and other such code that may have caused problems. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Nivard Ovington [mailto:ovington1@sky.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 10:52 AM To: Bruce Whealton; ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Assistance and Invitation for new GenealogyApplication Hi Bruce I think it may help your cause and get it across to the assembled throng if you simply state what your "app" does Without all the techno waffle I have read the thread and it appears that your "app" is a search engine If you could explain in words people could understand they might warm a little more to your idea Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Pat, > I was wondering if you had any advice for how I can approach this > with the Gen-Newbie list. And elsewhere. This is a really important > investment and special project of mine. I've removed the adbrite ads, > the clicksor ad code, and those were in a number of places and used a > number of suspicious formats, like pop-unders and something called > interstitial ads. These are gone... > So, any positive reviews of things at this point, if anyone will > please give this a chance, would be so Appreciated! This is very > important a project of mine, as can be imagined with the $1000+ investment in the past few months. > Thanks, > Bruce

Bruce, Let me see if I have it straight: For a fee we will be able to upload our tree in gedcom format and also search other trees. We can do this on Ancestry.com now with permission from the owner of the tree. Gale Gorman Houston On Mar 27, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Bruce Whealton wrote: Nivard, and others... It is definitely a challenge to say what the site does that is different without being overly technical. Of course, I didn't intend to describe it as a search engine per see. First it is a place to share genealogy information. In simple terms the site uses standard vocabularies that relate to genealogy in the same way that GEDCOM was developed as a way to share genealogy information. New features and new application can be developed using these standards - not just standard vocabularies but standardized ways for storing information. It is an "Open" database, as it were. Every statement of knowledge, is communicated in a standard format of subject predicate object, just like one does in English or any language. There is a faq page that I am building and which will contain more information. It is here: http://my-family-lineage.com/wiki/FAQ Perhaps people could suggest other questions? Also, regarding the problems that people had with the site, in the past, I did remove all the suspect advertising and other such code that may have caused problems. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Nivard Ovington [mailto:ovington1@sky.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 10:52 AM To: Bruce Whealton; ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Assistance and Invitation for new GenealogyApplication Hi Bruce I think it may help your cause and get it across to the assembled throng if you simply state what your "app" does Without all the techno waffle I have read the thread and it appears that your "app" is a search engine If you could explain in words people could understand they might warm a little more to your idea Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Pat, > I was wondering if you had any advice for how I can approach this > with the Gen-Newbie list. And elsewhere. This is a really important > investment and special project of mine. I've removed the adbrite ads, > the clicksor ad code, and those were in a number of places and used a > number of suspicious formats, like pop-unders and something called > interstitial ads. These are gone... > So, any positive reviews of things at this point, if anyone will > please give this a chance, would be so Appreciated! This is very > important a project of mine, as can be imagined with the $1000+ investment in the past few months. > Thanks, > Bruce

Bruce, I have been following this exchange with some interest. Would it be fair to say you are trying to move computer genealogy to the "cloud"? Dennis at Eagle Listowner: Ting@rootsweb.com E-Mail: dting@cableone.net ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Assistance and Invitation for new GenealogyApplication > Nivard, and others... > It is definitely a challenge to say what the site does that is different > without being overly technical. Of course, I didn't intend to describe it > as a search engine per see. First it is a place to share genealogy > information. In simple terms the site uses standard vocabularies that > relate to genealogy in the same way that GEDCOM was developed as a way to > share genealogy information. > New features and new application can be developed using these > standards - not just standard vocabularies but standardized ways for > storing > information. It is an "Open" database, as it were. Every statement of > knowledge, is communicated in a standard format of subject predicate > object, > just like one does in English or any language. > There is a faq page that I am building and which will contain more > information. It is here: http://my-family-lineage.com/wiki/FAQ > Perhaps people could suggest other questions? > Also, regarding the problems that people had with the site, in the > past, I did remove all the suspect advertising and other such code that > may > have caused problems. > Bruce > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nivard Ovington [mailto:ovington1@sky.com] > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 10:52 AM > To: Bruce Whealton; ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Assistance and Invitation for new > GenealogyApplication > > Hi Bruce > > I think it may help your cause and get it across to the assembled throng > if > you simply state what your "app" does > > Without all the techno waffle > > I have read the thread and it appears that your "app" is a search engine > > If you could explain in words people could understand they might warm a > little more to your idea > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >> Pat, >> I was wondering if you had any advice for how I can approach this >> with the Gen-Newbie list. And elsewhere. This is a really important >> investment and special project of mine. I've removed the adbrite ads, >> the clicksor ad code, and those were in a number of places and used a >> number of suspicious formats, like pop-unders and something called >> interstitial ads. These are gone... >> So, any positive reviews of things at this point, if anyone will >> please give this a chance, would be so Appreciated! This is very >> important a project of mine, as can be imagined with the $1000+ >> investment > in the past few months. >> Thanks, >> Bruce > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to > roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Bruce If that is your simple explanation I would rather not see your technical version <g> I am not "fick" but your explanation does not help a great deal I have to say As I understand it you have a database to which you hope others will add gedcoms and it searches in some nifty way yet to be explained ? Is that the basic idea ? Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Nivard, and others... > It is definitely a challenge to say what the site does that is different > without being overly technical. Of course, I didn't intend to describe it > as a search engine per see. First it is a place to share genealogy > information. In simple terms the site uses standard vocabularies that > relate to genealogy in the same way that GEDCOM was developed as a way to > share genealogy information.