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OneGreatFamily.com (Web_Links): OneGreatFamily is a single, shared family tree built by people all over the world. The OneGreatFamily Tree is a powerful genealogy database that is shared and built by people like you from all over the world. Everyone's genealogy ties into the OneGreatFamily Tree. OneGreatFamily?s automated search engine continually looks for additional information and relatives for every one of
Created on Jan 24, 2008
The Genealogy Guys Podcast #123 - 2008 January 26 (tRSSNews): list includes: Geni.com (http://www.geni.com/ ), Famillion (http://www.famillion.com ), Ancestry.com (http://www.geni.com/ ), OneGreatFamily.com (http://www.onegreatfamily.com ), FamilyTreeDNA.com (http://www.familytreedna.com/ ), MyHeritage.com (http://www.myheritage.com/
Created on Feb 08, 2012
This Father’s Day, OneGreatFamily.com Finds Famous Personalities Hiding in Your Family Tree (tRSSNews): Thanks to my friend, Claire LaBeaux, for the following news release from OneGreatFamily.com - just in time for Father’s Day! OneGreatFamily.com Enables Serious Research and Collaboration with Other Genealogists, Plus Gives Tools for Finding Fun Information in Your Tree June 17, 2009, Springville, UT – Here’s a fun idea for Father’s Day – figure out what famous personalities might be hiding in your family tree. While we realize that finding “famous” connections isn’t the ultimate purpose of true genealogy research, finding those family ties is interesting, and Father’s Day is a perfect time to do it. Explore the Details of Your Family Tree: Find Famous Relatives and More OneGreatFamily.com doesn’t just offer powerful search tools; the “Family Dashboard” at the site also gives users the ability to explore the information in their tree in new and fun ways. Just a few of these include: Relationship Calculator: with a simple click, outline relationships in your own tree, or find out how you’re related to various people in the OneGreatFamily database. For Father’s Day, you may want to explore these connections: Do you have a “Presidential” background with a link to Barack Obama or possibly George Washington or Abraham Lincoln? Is showbiz “in your blood” through ties to celebrities like Bill Cosby (the true “Fatherhood” expert), Tom Cruise, or even Elvis Presley? Do you have a passion for inventing that came through your connections to Albert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin? Do you love exploring – could be you’re related to Christopher Columbus or astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin! The Migration Map shows your family’s movement through the world over time. Identify common first names and surnames in your tree and in the US. Connect Branches of Your Family Tree While Verifying Conflicts in Others At www.OneGreatFamily.com , users can publish and edit their trees online, either starting from scratch or uploading a GEDCOM file. The system immediately and continuously checks the “handprint” of data (considers not just names, but also dates and the web of relationships) against all other trees that have been contributed. When it finds a match, the two trees are merged. If it finds a conflict or a possible match, it flags that individual and allows each user to do further research to verify their facts. OneGreatFamily maintains all views, or versions, of differing data unless a user chooses to change or merge another person’s facts with their own. Their goal in merging trees is to eliminate the frustration of online research, where for example a user does a search on an ancestor’s name and turns up hundreds of leads for the same person – they all turn out to be the same tree downloaded and re-posted – but it takes hours and hours of manually going through the results to determine that. We automate the search, fine-tune it by considering the “handprint” of data, continuously search on all data entered, and maintain differing views of data until the conflicts are resolved by the users themselves. About OneGreatFamily.com OneGreatFamily.com, LLC, was founded in 1999 by Alan Eaton with a vision to match and merge all of the separate family trees created by genealogists into one single unified worldwide family tree. This single family tree would remove all duplication while maintaining all differences in conclusions genealogists would draw from the research evidence. Today more than 196,000,000 individuals have been submitted to OneGreatFamily.com in family trees. OneGreatFamily also publishes Relatively Me, an application for Facebook, as well as the new GenealogyCloud.
Created on Feb 08, 2012
Upgrades to the Online OneGreatFamily.com Database (tRSSNews): PR work for OneGreatFamily . It was good to hear from her again. Too many hits to be useful?! Updated genealogy engine at www.OneGreatFamily.com turns up matching names, plus automatically merges family tree branches and now allows you to accept or ignore conflicting data. February 10, 2009, Springville UT – www.OneGreatFamily.com today announced the release of a significant enhancement to its unique automated searching system. Dubbed “Conflict Ignore,” this groundbreaking feature is immediately available to all OneGreatFamily.com subscribers. OneGreatFamily’s Powerful Automated Searching System As online genealogy has grown in popularity over the past decade, a wide range of individuals, genealogy groups, and companies have published historical data online. This proliferation of data has brought problems of its own – someone searching online for information on just one ancestor might find hundreds or even thousands of leads, too many to be useful, and many of them duplicates of the same information. For example, dozens of hits may be from the same branch of a family tree that was downloaded then re-posted by different people repeatedly. Weeding through this mountain of similar and identical data to find genuine new leads is tedious. OneGreatFamily.com uses powerful technology to compare and combine data at the site, saving users countless hours. Every week, as hundreds of thousands of names are added to OneGreatFamily’s existing database, the site analyzes the full ‘handprint’ of all family information, including names, dates, and the complicated web of family relationships. If OneGreatFamily’s technology deems the complete handprint of information is nearly identical for two ancestors contributed by different people, their trees are automatically merged. Unique Views of Data Are Preserved with New “Conflict Ignore” Tool To ensure that each user has the ability to research and prove the facts in their individual tree, OneGreatFamily maintains each contributor’s view of facts and conflicts separately. No user can ever change someone else’s data in OneGreatFamily. No other genealogy site that matches and merges data is powerful enough to maintain unique views as OneGreatFamily does. Here’s how it works: When OneGreatFamily finds information about the same ancestor that was contributed by different users which is very close but not identical, the site carefully preserves each submitter’s version of details about that ancestor and highlights any differing information as a “Conflict.” A lightning bolt icon flags the conflicts, and a user can choose which version of information to use in their tree. With the newest update, if someone is certain that their information is correct, they can choose to permanently ignore a hint about conflicting data. (Previously, they could display their chosen information, but the flag for conflict was still shown on-screen and appeared to be an area for further research.) Once hints about new tree branches and conflicts are reviewed and accepted or ignored, it is easy to see any remaining conflicts that need to be resolved and to direct future research to those conflicts or new leads or dead-ends. How to Ignore Conflicts but Accept Other Leads from Another Contributor For example, imagine that distant cousins contribute the same branch of the family tree (by entering it online or uploading a GEDCOM). John’s contribution contains 800 individuals; Mary’s has 450. On a branch of the tree is a common ancestor Margaret; all details and family relationships for Margaret are the same, except that John thinks her birthdate is March 30, 1830; Mary says it’s March 29, 1830. The branches are automatically merged (so Mary now has grown her tree by 350 people). However, John still sees Margaret’s birthdate as March 30 (flagged with a lightning bolt Conflict icon) and Mary sees it as March 29 (also flagged with the lightning bolt). Clicking on the lightning bolt enables John and Mary to attempt to resolve their conflicting data separately. They each have four options: Accept the other submitter’s birth date, replacing their information and resolving the conflict. Click on the Collaborate link to contact each other and share and request evidence while arguing their own case. Click Close, which leaves the conflict unresolved. This allows further research. Click the new Ignore All button, which leaves the conflict unresolved and removes the flag from that user’s Family Tree. So, if John evaluates Mary’s claim but remains convinced of his own conclusion, he would choose this option. This removes the lightning bolt from his family tree, allowing him to focus on other areas. (All other information has been merged, but John and Mary each continue to see the birthdate they entered themselves.) OneGreatFamily’s ability to precisely merge entire branches of the family tree, eliminate duplicate leads, and preserve a unique version of the family history is unrivaled among genealogy sites. About OneGreatFamily.com OneGreatFamily.com, L.L.C. was founded in 1999 by Alan Eaton with a vision to match and merge all of the separate family trees created by genealogists into one single unified worldwide family tree. This single family tree would remove all duplication while maintaining all differences in conclusions genealogists would draw from the research evidence. Today more than 196,000,000 individuals have been submitted to OneGreatFamily.com in family trees. The company is privately held, based in Springville, Utah and has approximately 25 employees. www.OneGreatFamily.com offers a no-obligation 7-day free trial. All capabilities discussed here are available with a subscription. Current pricing: Annual
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OneGreatFamily.com: Research & Collaboration (tRSSNews): NOTE from DearMYRTLE: the following was just received from our friends at OneGreatFamily.com. Please address all inquiries to claire.labeaux@onegreatfamily.com. This Father’s Day, OneGreatFamily.com Finds Famous Personalities Hiding in Your Family Tree OneGreatFamily.com Enables Serious Research and Collaboration with Other Genealogists, Plus Gives Tools for Finding Fun Information in Your Tree June 17, 2009, Springville, UT – Here’s a fun idea for Father’s Day – figure out what famous personalities might be hiding in your family tree. While we realize that finding “famous” connections isn’t the ultimate purpose of true genealogy research, finding those family ties is interesting, and Father’s Day is a perfect time to do it. Explore the Details of Your Family Tree: Find Famous Relatives and More OneGreatFamily.com doesn’t just offer powerful search tools; the “Family Dashboard” at the site also gives users the ability to explore the information in their tree in new and fun ways. Just a few of these include: Relationship Calculator: with a simple click, outline relationships in your own tree, or find out how you’re related to various people in the OneGreatFamily database. For Father’s Day, you may want to explore these connections: Do you have a “Presidential” background with a link to Barack Obama or possibly George Washington or Abraham Lincoln?Is showbiz “in your blood” through ties to celebrities like Bill Cosby (the true “Fatherhood” expert), Tom Cruise, or even Elvis Presley?Do you have a passion for inventing that came through your connections to Albert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin?Do you love exploring – could be you’re related to Christopher Columbus or astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin! The Migration Map shows your family's movement through the world over time. Identify common first names and surnames in your tree and in the US.Connect Branches of Your Family Tree While Verifying Conflicts in OthersAt www.OneGreatFamily.com, users can publish and edit their trees online, either starting from scratch or uploading a GEDCOM file. The system immediately and continuously checks the "handprint" of data (considers not just names, but also dates and the web of relationships) against all other trees that have been contributed. When it finds a match, the two trees are merged. If it finds a conflict or a possible match, it flags that individual and allows each user to do further research to verify their facts. OneGreatFamily maintains all views, or versions, of differing data unless a user chooses to change or merge another person’s facts with their own. Our goal in merging trees is to eliminate the frustration of online research, where for example a user does a search on an ancestor's name and turns up hundreds of leads for the same person – they all turn out to be the same tree downloaded and re-posted – but it takes hours and hours of manually going through the results to determine that. We automate the search, fine-tune it by considering the "handprint" of data, continuously search on all data entered, and maintain differing views of data until the conflicts are resolved by the users themselves. About OneGreatFamily.com OneGreatFamily.com, LLC, was founded in 1999 by Alan Eaton with a vision to match and merge all of the separate family trees created by genealogists into one single unified worldwide family tree. This single family tree would remove all duplication while maintaining all differences in conclusions genealogists would draw from the research evidence. Today more than 196,000,000 individuals have been submitted to OneGreatFamily.com in family trees. OneGreatFamily also publishes Relatively Me, an application for Facebook, as well as the new GenealogyCloud.
Created on Feb 08, 2012
Why Cloud Computing Makes Sense for Genealogy (tRSSNews): are only two true cloud computing genealogy applications today: FamilyTreeExplorer.com (formerly known as PedigreeSoft.com) and OneGreatFamily.com. FamilyTreeExplorer.com has not enjoyed much commercial success in the marketplace. Indeed, most genealogists have probably never heard of FamilyTreeExplorer.com. OneGreatFamily.com has been more successful and continues to attract new customers.While both products qualify as "cloud computing" services, the two are very different in operation. The most notable difference is in the decision of whether or not to share data. OneGreatFamily.com has only one database, and all customers share it. Everyone can see everyone else's data and can link their families together
Created on Feb 08, 2012
It’s 2014! Do You Know Where Your Data Is? (tRSSNews): infancy of shared online databases. A few shared databases have been available for some time, but each has significant drawbacks.OneGreatFamily.com, The Next Generation, PhpGedView, WeRelate.org, and FamilyTreeExplorer.com all offer online databases and all allow some form of sharing that data amongst multiple genealogists in easy-to-use web-based genealogy applications. These are available TODAY.NewFamilySearch is a huge effort underway by the Chuch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It looks great but a few thousand hours of programming effort remain before it is “ready for prime time.”So, how do today’s genealogy programs fit into all this? Will all of today’s programs become as obsolete as buggy whips? I doubt it.I am fortunate enough to be personally acquainted with most of today’s genealogy software producers. I must say that they are a clever and business-savvy group. As technology changes, you will see their genealogy programs change to match industry and customer demands. I am confident that most of today’s programs will eventually sprout online interfaces to whatever databases become popular in the future. In fact, two have already done so and more are reportedly in the works. The online databases of the future will not even need a visible user interface. Why not have the FamilySearch or Ancestry.com or OneGreatFamily.com or some other company simply create the database, using a future specification that allows different genealogy programs to communicate
Created on Feb 08, 2012
Free Genealogy Newsletter Feed Now Available from www.OneGreatFamily.com (tRSSNews): The following News Release was received from Claire LaBeaux at OnGreatFamily.com: OneGreatFamily.com is now publishing a weekly blog with valuable information and suggestions for genealogy enthusiasts. While the content varies, each issue generally includes: Genealogy Research Suggestions – articles focused on researching a specific ethnicity, or tips on using various resources, whether technology or traditional. “One Great Genealogy Site” Award – each week, a different genealogy website is highlighted. Sites are chosen because their content benefits the genealogy community. Genealogy Tip – either a general genealogy tip or ideas for using www.OneGreatFamily.com . Customer Service Information for OneGreatFamily users. Anyone interested in genealogy can subscribe (whether or not they’re a OneGreatFamily customer). To add this valuable genealogy blog to current RSS feeds, just visit http://feeds.fe...gfnewsletter How OneGreatFamily.com Works OneGreatFamily.com is a leading site for genealogy enthusiasts who want to use research completed by others as a tool for finding new leads or verifying family tree information they’ve already found. Users of the site have the opportunity to connect with others tracing the same family lines to collaborate on research. A user starts by entering a family tree at OneGreatFamily.com (either manually or by uploading a GEDCOM file). The site immediately goes to work comparing the full handprint of that user’s data against more than 200,000,000 names already entered in other family trees, and continues comparing against all new data added daily. When a match is identified, the trees are connected, and both users extend their own family trees. They also have the ability to contact and collaborate with someone else working on the exact same family history research. If discrepancies exist between the two sets of data, each user’s view is preserved, so that each sees their own information until the discrepancy is resolved and the user makes a change. Visit www.OneGreatFamily.com for a free trial membership.
Created on Feb 08, 2012
Genealogy News Corral: August 10-14 (tRSSNews): research guide, about the importance of using original documents. Read the article here. Subscription family tree site OneGreatFamily.com is publishing its free newsletter as a weekly genealogy blog you can subscribe to vis RSS. It’ll include research tips, helpful Web sites and suggestions for using OneGreatFamily.com. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has launched a blog called NARAtions, which focuses on the
Created on Feb 08, 2012
OneGreatFamily.com Adds a Weekly Blog (tRSSNews): The following announcement was written by OneGreatFamily.com:OneGreatFamily.com is now publishing a weekly blog with valuable information and suggestions for genealogy enthusiasts. While the content varies, each issue generally includes: Genealogy Research Suggestions – articles focused on researching a specific ethnicity, or tips on using various resources, whether technology or traditional. “One Great Genealogy Site” Award – each week, a different genealogy website is highlighted. Sites are chosen because their content benefits the genealogy community. Genealogy Tip – either a general genealogy tip or ideas for using www.OneGreatFamily.com. Customer Service Information for OneGreatFamily users. Anyone interested in genealogy can subscribe (whether or not they’re a OneGreatFamily customer). To add this valuable genealogy blog to current RSS feeds, just visit http://feeds.fe...gfnewsletter How OneGreatFamily.com Works OneGreatFamily.com is a leading site for genealogy enthusiasts who want to use research completed by others as a tool for finding new leads or verifying family tree information they’ve already found. Users of the site have the opportunity to connect with others tracing the same family lines to collaborate on research. A user starts by entering a family tree at OneGreatFamily.com (either manually or by uploading a GEDCOM file). The site immediately goes to work comparing the full handprint of that user’s data against more than 200,000,000 names already entered in other family trees, and continues comparing against all new data added daily. When a match is identified, the trees are connected, and both users extend their own family trees. They also have the ability to contact and collaborate with someone else working on the exact same family history research. If discrepancies exist between the two sets of data, each user’s view is preserved, so that each sees their own information until the discrepancy is resolved and the user makes a change. Visit www.OneGreatFamily.com for a free trial membership.
Created on Feb 08, 2012
New Genealogy Blogs August 15, 2009 (tRSSNews): at socialmedia@nara.gov. OneGreatFamily Newsletter http://feeds.fe...gfnewsletter Blog type: Genealogy vendor OneGreatFamily.com is now publishing a weekly blog available as an RSS feed with valuable information and suggestions for genealogy enthusiasts. While the content varies, each issue generally includes: Genealogy Research Suggestions -- articles focused on researching a specific ethnicity, tips on using various resources, whether technology or traditional, etc. our popular “One Great Genealogy Site” Award -- recognizes sites with useful tools or information for genealogists tips for users of OneGreatFamily.com Our Twigs http://ourtwigs.blogspot.com Blog type: Individual family history My husband and I have always loved looking
Created on Feb 08, 2012
Plus Edition Newsletter Has Been Sent (tRSSNews): Battlefield Park May Close - NARA's Proposed Addendum to the Digitization Agreement with Ancestry.com - NARA Has a Brand New Blog - OneGreatFamily.com Adds a Weekly Blog - U.S. Bares ‘Alien Files’ Kept on Immigrants - Who Was John A. Beasley? - FGS Conference Syllabus
Created on Feb 08, 2012
OneGreatFamily.com Subs at $59.95 plus 2 free months Through CyberMonday (tRSSNews): The following announcement was received from Claire LaBeaux, Public Relations Director, OneGreatFamily.com: Heads-up on on a CyberMonday deal for genealogy lovers! A subscription for OneGreatFamily.com is a perfect gift for someone who would love to explore other family trees and make new connections. A full-year subscription is normally $79.95. But now through CyberMonday (November 30), get a gift certificate for only $59.95, plus get two free additional months added to the subscription! That’s a total savings of $40. To order, visit www.onegreatfamily.com/cybermonday OneGreatFamily.com hosts a gigantic, interconnected, growing family tree with more than 200 million names that have been submitted by genealogy enthusiasts
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This Thanksgiving, Find Your Mayflower Ancestors at OneGreatFamily.com (tRSSNews): The following news release was received from Claire LaBeaux, Public Relations Director, OneGreatFamily.com : November 23, 2009, Springville UT – Does your family tree include any of the 102 passengers who braved stormy seas aboard the Mayflower? Did your ancestors celebrate the first Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims and Native Americans? At OneGreatFamily.com, you can enter your family genealogy and see if it connects to any of the Mayflower passengers. OneGreatFamily.com hosts a gigantic, interconnected family tree with more than 200 million names that have been submitted by genealogy enthusiasts in their own family trees. You can potentially uncover and connect information about multiple generations to your own tree. To Uncover Mayflower Connections: ➢ Join OneGreatFamily.com and begin entering your own family tree (to increase your odds of finding a connection, try to enter at least 18 names). ➢ OneGreatFamily’s search engine makes connections to any other branches of your family tree that are already at the site (this may take a while – we plow through more than 18 TRILLION comparisons of family facts and relationships every week as new names are added). ➢ Go to the Mayflower Ancestors pag e to see the family trees of passengers, read an interesting history of the ship and its passengers, and find links to related web sites. ➢ To see if you’re related to a certain passenger, log into OneGreatFamily.com and click the Family Dashboard tab. Scroll to the Relationship Calculator; choose How is this person [select yourself] Related to this person [select Search by Name and enter the name of the passenger]. The database will churn through hundreds of millions of names and outline the relationship (if it exists). Plan Ahead for the Holidays Do you know someone who’s interested in genealogy and would love to explore other family trees and make new connections? A full-year gift subscription for OneGreatFamily.com is only $59.95. To order, visit Onegreatfamily.com/GiftCertificate . About www.OneGreatFamily.com OneGreatFamily.com was founded in 1999 by Alan Eaton with a vision to merge all of the separate family trees created by genealogists into one unified
Created on Feb 08, 2012
Plus Edition Newsletter Has Been Sent (tRSSNews): Alone Released - FamilySearch Indexing Update: New U.S., Canada, and Argentina Projects - Wyoming Blue Books to be Released on CD - OneGreatFamily.com Selects Perfect Search Corporation to Provide Search to Users - Tips for Finding Females that Matter to You - Forgotten Patriots
Created on Feb 08, 2012
OneGreatFamily.com Selects Perfect Search Corporation to Provide Search to Users (tRSSNews): I just received the following news release from my friend, Claire LeBeaux. Customers of OneGreatFamily.com, a genealogy company, will be using Perfect Search technology to search the over 200 million names submitted to One Great Family that are housed on an Oracle database. Orem, Utah (PRWEB) October 12, 2009 — Perfect Search Corporation (http://www.Perf...archCorp.com ) announces today that OneGreatFamily.com has contracted to install the Perfect Search Database Search Appliance for Oracle to search the more than 200 million names submitted to OneGreatFamily.com that are stored within their Oracle database. At www.OneGreatFamily.com , users enter names, dates, and facts about their family tree. The site compares this information against its details for more than 200 million names already published in other family trees - and it continues searching as hundreds of thousands of new names are added each week. When exact matches of information are found, the trees are automatically merged. Alan Eaton, CEO of OneGreatFamily.com, said, “The number of searches and matches that we perform is staggering. In fact, OneGreatFamily.com (http://www.OneGreatFamily.com ) makes more than 18.8 TRILLION comparisons of family information per week! As the amount of data increases, our demands on our infrastructure grow as well. We expect the tools we’ll be implementing from Perfect Search to greatly increase our searching capability, to improve our ability to index and search hundreds of millions of names in our Oracle database, and to accelerate the process of getting results.” “We are honored to be able to provide search for such a wonderful, mission driven company,” states Tim Stay, CEO of Perfect Search. “Our Database Search Appliance for Oracle is specially designed to search across all the fields within an Oracle database, including text content, and to provide blistering indexing and query speeds. We anticipate that we will provide this powerful search functionality to OneGreatFamily.com as they continue their rapid data growth.” Ken Ebert, CTO of Perfect Search, states,”Companies that have massive amounts of data struggle to index and search these large content repositories in a timely, cost-effective manner. We are able to search over a billion records on a single Database Search Appliance. We are excited to be able to be involved in the important work of genealogy and be associated with such a visionary company as OneGreatFamily.com.” About Perfect Search Corporation Perfect Search Corporation was founded in 2007 by veterans of the search industry. Perfect Search has achieved significant, game-changing, patent-protected innovation in the core processes of search, leading to significant increases in indexing and query speeds and throughput. Perfect Search products include a Database Search Appliance for Oracle, a OneBox Extender for the Google Search Appliance, and a Mobile Device Search. More information can be found at http://www.Perf...archCorp.com . About www.OneGreatFamily.com OneGreatFamily.com was founded in 1999 by Alan Eaton with a vision to match and merge all of the separate family trees created by genealogists into one single unified worldwide family tree. Today more than 200,000,000 names have been submitted to OneGreatFamily.com in family trees. Users purchase access to the online service through annual, quarterly or monthly subscriptions. The company is
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OneGreatFamily.com Selects Perfect Search Corporation to Provide Search to Users (tRSSNews): OneGreatFamily.com found that as the amount of data housed on the comapny's servers kept growing, the demands on the underlying infrastructure grew as well. As a OneGreatFamily.com spokesperson told me today, "We expect the tools we'll be implementing from Perfect Search to greatly increase our searching capability, to improve our ability to index and search hundreds of millions of names in our Oracle database, and to accelerate the process of getting results." The following is the announcement written by Perfect Search Corporation: Orem, Utah - October 12, 2009 -- Perfect Search Corporation (http://www.Perf...archCorp.com) announces today that OneGreatFamily.com has contracted to install the Perfect Search Database Search Appliance for Oracle to search the more than 200 million names submitted to OneGreatFamily.com that are stored within their Oracle database. At www.OneGreatFamily.com, users enter names, dates, and facts about their family tree. The site compares this information against its details for more than 200 million names already published in other family trees - and it continues searching as hundreds of thousands of new names are added each week. When exact matches of information are found, the trees are automatically merged. Alan Eaton, CEO of OneGreatFamily.com, said, "The number of searches and matches that we perform is staggering. In fact, OneGreatFamily.com (http://www.OneGreatFamily.com) makes more than 18.8 TRILLION comparisons of family information per week! As the amount of data increases, our demands on our infrastructure grow as well. We expect the tools we'll be implementing from Perfect Search to greatly increase our searching capability, to improve our ability to index and search hundreds of millions of names in our Oracle database, and to accelerate the process of getting results." "We are honored to be able to provide search for such a wonderful, mission driven company," states Tim Stay, CEO of Perfect Search. "Our Database Search Appliance for Oracle is specially designed to search across all the fields within an Oracle database, including text content, and to provide blistering indexing and query speeds. We anticipate that we will provide this powerful search functionality to OneGreatFamily.com as they continue their rapid data growth." Ken Ebert, CTO of Perfect Search, states,"Companies that have massive amounts of data struggle to index and search these large content repositories in a timely, cost-effective manner. We are able to search over a billion records on a single Database Search Appliance. We are excited to be able to be involved in the important work of genealogy and be associated with such a visionary company as OneGreatFamily.com." About Perfect Search Corporation Perfect Search Corporation was founded in 2007 by veterans of the search industry. Perfect Search has achieved significant, game-changing, patent-protected innovation in the core processes of search, leading to significant increases in indexing and query speeds and throughput. Perfect Search products include a Database Search Appliance for Oracle, a OneBox Extender for the Google Search Appliance, and a Mobile Device Search. More information can be found at http://www.Perf...rchCorp.com. About www.OneGreatFamily.com OneGreatFamily.com was founded in 1999 by Alan Eaton with a vision to match and merge all of the separate family trees created by genealogists into one single unified worldwide family tree. Today more than 200,000,000 names have been submitted to OneGreatFamily.com in family trees. Users purchase access to the online service through annual, quarterly or monthly subscriptions. The company is
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Report: Global Genealogy Products and Services Industry (tRSSNews): Network 7 Family Tree Connection by Genealogy Today 8 Footnote by Footnote.com 8 Heritage Quest by ProQuest 8 OneGreatFamily by OneGreatFamily.com 8 DNA Testing 8 4. Recent Industry Activity 9 Ancestry.com Announces Affordable Access to Genetic DNA Testing 9 GeneTree and
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Survey Results: Please Tell Us About Your Experiences (tRSSNews): Other: 1.7% I do not use a Windows Mobile device for genealogy purposes: 90.5% Question: Do you use an online genealogy program?OneGreatFamily.com: 54% The Next Generation: 33.3% PhpGedView: 9.9% FamilyTreeExplorer: 4.5%Comments: Only 111 respondents answered this question, less than 5% of all those who took the questionnaire. I must admit that I am a bit surprised by that low response. Apparently, cloud genealogy is not as popular as I thought. I suspect this will change as cloud computing becomes more and more popular. However, the adoption of cloud computing for genealogy purposes probably will be slow. Question: Do you use any social networks FOR GENEALOGY PURPOSES? Please check all that apply.Facebook: 61% GenealogyWise: 23% MyFamily: 20.2% Geni: 12.2% WeRelate: 10.7% Other: 10.0% MyHeritage: 8.8% Twitter: 8.4% LinkedIn: 4.8% FamilyLink: 2.4%Comment: The question asked the respondents to check all that apply, so the total is expected to be more than 100%.763 people answered this question, roughly one-third of all the respondents. I think this proves that social networks are very popular amongst genealogists. At this point, the survey questions moved into other technical topics that indicate just how the typical genealogist use his or her computer.Question: How do you normally connect to the Internet when at home?DSL: 42.8% Cable modem: 41.3% Fiber optic connection: 6.2% Dial-up: 3.6% Satellite: 2.0% "Air card" 1.6% Other: 2.0%Comments: Look at that dial-up statistic! Less than 4% of the newsletter readers use dial-up? I am amazed. Perhaps the truth is that dial-up users don't take surveys on their slow connections. Whatever the reasons, I would have expected a bigger number than 3.6%. Based on the responses, dial-up appears to be dead. Question: How do you normally connect to the Internet when traveling? (Please check all that apply.)From a hotel room, using an Internet connection supplied by the hotel: 48.9% Via a "Wi-Fi" connection to any available "hot spot": 39.6% From a public library: 24.7% I never connect to the Internet from anyplace other than my home: 21.8% From an Internet cafe (other than a public library): 11.2% Via an "air card" provided by a cellular company: 4.8%Comments: I am a bit surprised at how few people (21.8%) chose "I never connect to the Internet from anyplace other than my home:" Apparently, 78.2% of the respondents do check e-mail and perform other online tasks when traveling. I suspect this accounts for the large number of laptop, notebook, and netbook computers being sold these days. Question: Which web browser do you prefer?Internet Explorer on Windows: 47.4% Firefox on Windows: 35.2% Safari on Macintosh: 6.5% Firefox on Macintosh: 4.3%Comments: Wow! Now THAT was a surprise! Firefox is almost as popular as Internet Explorer amongst genealogists. I see that as a very good thing, given all the past security problems with Internet Explorer. Question : Have you ever contacted Technical Support for your FAVORITE genealogy program? No: 56.4% Yes: 40.5% Not sure: 3%Please rate your experienceExcellent: 56.4% Good: 26.5% Fair: 11.5% Poor: 4.1% Unacceptable: 1.4%I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised by this response. I hear lots of grumbling about poor support from a wide variety of genealogy programs. However, nearly 77% of the respondents stated that their experiences were Good to Excellent, and even more had no reason to ever contact Tech Support. Perhaps the unsatisfied customers grumble a bit louder while those who were satisfied have nothing to complain about.The question also had a space for comments where I invited everyone to share experiences. The results are far too long to summarize here, but they provide an interesting insight into customers' perceived experiences. You can find both positive and negative experiences at http://www.surv...bG5pgMyIc_3d by clicking on SHOW REPLIES directly under the question. Question: Have you ever contacted Technical Support for ANY OTHER genealogy program, other than your favorite? No: 82.3% Yes: 14.5% Don't know: 3.2% Question: Please rate your experience when contacting the Tech Support department of this other program:Excellent: 35.1% Good: 26.1% Fair: 16.8% Poor: 12.4% Unacceptable: 9.6% Question: Which online web sites do you use frequently? Please check all that apply. Ancestry (including Ancestry.com, ancestry.ca, ancestry.co.uk, etc.): 84.5% FamilySearch.org: 83.9% RootsWeb: 73.2% FindAGrave: 45.7% Footnote.com: 34.9% EllisIsland.org: 26.8% Other: 26.7% NewEnglandAncestors.org: 21.2% Library and Archives Canada: 16.7% FamilyTreeDNA: 14.9% GenealogyBank: 13.8% ScotslandsPeople: 8.8% NewsBank: 7.7% 1837online: 4.5% OneGreatFamily.com: 3.8% Yad Vashem: 2.3% AncestorsOnBoard: 1.8% GeneTree: 1.4%Those who checked "Other" offered a wide list of additional web sites in the comments section. You can read the comments at http://www.surv...bG5pgMyIc_3d by clicking on SHOW REPLIES directly under the question. Question: Have you ever contacted Technical Support for any online genealogy web data web site?Ancestry (including Ancestry.com, ancestry.ca, ancestry.co.uk, etc.): 57.8% FamilySearch.org: 11.0% RootsWeb: 5.7% Footnote.com: 4.9% NewEnglandAncestors.org: 4.2% FamilyTreeDNA: 2.8% ScotslandsPeople: 2.0% EllisIsland.org: 1.7% OneGreatFamily.com: 1.2% 1837online: 1.1%Please rate your experience: Excellent: 27.3% Good: 35.8% Fair: 20.1% Poor: 11.4% Unacceptable: 5.4%Comments:
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Created on Feb 08, 2012