Enabling the Distributed Family Tree

This is the official research blog for the Distributed Family Tree, an open network of genealogical data and metadata.  In a nutshell, the big idea is that we can combine all available genealogical information on the Internet into a single distributed network.  The foundation for this network is the substance of the Master's Thesis that I am currently working on.

Media and Sources Update

The latest cadre of Genesis plug-ins (revision 37) is now available for your downloading pleasure.  As mentioned previously, this latest version now supports media and sources.  Media support is limited to showing the first image associated with each individual.  Source support is limited to showing only the website that the data came from; sources cited in the data itself are not quite handled yet.

In addition to showing media and sources, PGV websites are now managed more efficiently.  This means that importing the regisitries is a lot faster, you shouldn’t get duplicate websites anymore, and you can reliably enable or disable all or some of the websites.  This comes at a cost, however.  These changes in the data format are incompatible with the old, so when you update PGVAgent will automatically delete the entire cache.  It will then reimport the website registries.  Just warning you.

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