Saturday, November 8, 2008

Twenty Minute Genealogist

Hey, everyone. Just letting you know about the next big thing in my small world. Our startup at BYU is going public; please help get the word out to anyone who you think might be interested.

See a mockup of the project and offer feedback at this link: http://twentygen.cs.byu.edu/

FYI: The 20 Minute Genealogist is an interface with the LDS church genealogical data base whose objective is to help you make REAL progress on your genealogy work in 20 minutes or less.

Specifically, 20MG focuses on:
  • preserving context (remembers what you were doing)
  • expert help (suggestions for what to do next based on input from expert genealogists)
  • one stop (your data is automatically synched with the Church's huge database, so you don't need to try to maintain your data on multiple sites)