Saturday, October 24, 2015

New Genealogy Software to Save Thousands of Man Hours

For years we've had a lot o0f genealogy programs that do the same thing, and for the most part they do the same things as eacjh other. When someone writes a new program, it turns out to do the same things as the old ones did. But here, at last, may be something different.

New Genealogy Software to Save Thousands of Man HoursGeneaBloggers:
Ged-I (which stands for GEDCOM Interpreter) is an innovative genealogy software that automates the extraction of ancestral information from genealogical texts. It takes a process that currently takes months, even years, and condenses it into a matter of hours. Nothing like this currently exists. Ged-I is the first of its kind. Ged-I is still in the development phase. Logique LLC, the creators of Ged-I, is running a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo starting October 23, 2015, to accelerate development and get the product out to the people who need it. You can find more info here: https://www.indiegogo.com/campaigns/ged-i-genealogy-in-seconds

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Plugging genealogy's 30-year gap - BBC News

Good news for UK genealogists: Plugging genealogy's 30-year gap - BBC News:
The findings of a one-off survey of the public from 1939 are about to be released, allowing genealogists to fill a 30-year gap in census records. What will it reveal of a country just beginning to fight a war? The war with Germany had just started and officials had little time to lose in preparing for the fighting and privations to come. So on 29 September 1939, just 26 days after hostilities had been declared, a survey nicknamed the UK's only "instant census" took place. The findings enabled the issuing of identity cards and ration cards. The register applied to all civilians.