Hello all, I have been working with some programmers and our team is developing a genealogy application that has some unique features and benefits. Admittedly some of these features may not be immediately apparent, that is in terms of what makes the application different than others (In technical terms the application uses Semantic Web technologies but one doesn't need to know what that means to benefit from the new features). The site is at: http://my-family-lineage.com/wiki/Main_Page One of the first features we added as the ability to upload and import your GEDCOM file so that one doesn't have to manually enter all the information. This feature is constantly being refined with our understanding of the GEDCOM 5.5 standard and by analyzing which terms are most often used, such as life events. By looking at and importing initial GEDCOM files, we could see some of the most important tags/terms to import into the website application. These GEDCOM terms were assigned to standardized vocabularies used on the web for Genealogy information. Having more people importing their GEDCOM files will be of great help in shaping the growth and refinement of the application. I'm not sure what concerns someone might have about sharing their GEDCOM information for others that might similarly be interested in the same data/information. It is easy enough to remove any information that one did not or does not want to remain published in the application. After a very brief registration (by clicking on the link in the upper right) one can easily click on the link on the main menu that is named "Upload and Import GEDCOM. It does take some time to create all the pages and to import the full GEDCOM into the application. Having more GEDCOM files imported into the site, will help us with the refinement and improvement of the site by giving us more information with which to work. This is a new site but there are 76,000+ pages so far. Again, the site is http://my-family-lineage.com/wiki/Main_Page Thanks, Bruce

Bruce Do you ever look at the feedback you get? Or is this just a "come-on." In February, after a similar "invitation" was issued on Gen-Newbie, some of the folks had serious problems -- computers that quit functioning, "history sniffing" (stealing your browser history), clicksor, etc. After some of the folks responded with concerns to you, the only response I saw was another initial email, as though you had never seen the responses. I'm sure you are not doing this intentionally, but this really smacks of a scam, and if you don't agree with that, perhaps you should respond to Gen-Newbie and this list as well. Pat In Tucson -----Original Message----- From: roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:59 PM To: ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Assistance and Invitation for new Genealogy Application Hello all, I have been working with some programmers and our team is developing a genealogy application that has some unique features and benefits. Admittedly some of these features may not be immediately apparent, that is in terms of what makes the application different than others (In technical terms the application uses Semantic Web technologies but one doesn't need to know what that means to benefit from the new features).

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 -----Original Message----- From: Kith-n-Kin [mailto:Kith-n-Kin@cox.net] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 6:27 PM To: 'Bruce Whealton'; ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Assistance and Invitation for new Genealogy Application Bruce Do you ever look at the feedback you get? Or is this just a "come-on." In February, after a similar "invitation" was issued on Gen-Newbie, some of the folks had serious problems -- computers that quit functioning, "history sniffing" (stealing your browser history), clicksor, etc. After some of the folks responded with concerns to you, the only response I saw was another initial email, as though you had never seen the responses. I'm sure you are not doing this intentionally, but this really smacks of a scam, and if you don't agree with that, perhaps you should respond to Gen-Newbie and this list as well. Pat In Tucson -----Original Message----- From: roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:59 PM To: ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Assistance and Invitation for new Genealogy Application Hello all, I have been working with some programmers and our team is developing a genealogy application that has some unique features and benefits. Admittedly some of these features may not be immediately apparent, that is in terms of what makes the application different than others (In technical terms the application uses Semantic Web technologies but one doesn't need to know what that means to benefit from the new features).