Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts

Monday, August 20, 2007

Genealogy domain

Read this nice article in NYT, highlighting the developments happening in the genealogy domain. For my DBMS course, I worked on a project in the genealogy domain and it was interesting. It is a pretty challenging domain and am sure lots of research is going on and will continue, to solve some of the interesting problems there. For eg, how do you track a person who has changed his name and has not updated records? There would be lots of missing links and lots of assumptions coming into play.
Recently I was searching to find a good social networking site for families, so that all my family members could be in touch. I browsed over myfamily.com and its has some good features like you can share news, schedule family get togethers and stuff apart from the usual photo, video sharing. It