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The Progeny Society's Pocket Guide This pocket guide is designed to help anyone, no matter how experienced, better understand how to do genealogy research more efficiently using the modern tools available today. (And we're not just talking computers! The author, Kenneth Lee Sands, takes a personal approach and tells the story of how he personally became involved in genealogy and The Progeny Society -- all while teaching his unique way of learning the nuts and bolts of genealogy. This guide includes topics such as: What is The Progeny Society? What is The Huff Method style of genealogy research? What is The 1790 Project? Where to find vital records depending on the century you are looking for them. What type of genealogy software should be used and why. What collaboration really means and how best to do it. Visit The Progeny Society on the Web at www.ProgenySociety.org |
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Doing Genealogy the Henry Ford Way All the major problems of the genealogy industry are condensed into six major topics which are discussed at length, with the solutions explained: Duplication, Quality, Cooperation, Uniqueness, Integration, Fairness. |
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ProgenyLink.com Software Users Guide, A Screen-by-Screen Explanation of The New High Efficiency Genealogy Cooperation System -- Promising Productivity Improvements of Up To 1,000 Times Through Cooperation |
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ProgenyLink Function Navigation diagram This diagram gives an overview of the content and navigation of the ProgenyLink software system. The most prominent characteristic of the diagram is the large number of cooperation features in comparison with the smaller number of normal data entry functions. |
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Save, Organize, and Share Using This conference handout briefly explains the concepts and terms for using the website. |
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Finish the United States in Two Weeks This 4-page document provides a brief explanation of the logic behind the ProgenyLink.com website. If the genealogists in the United States were completely organized, they could finish the United States in two weeks, with each of 4 million genealogists supplying 18 high-quality names, and spending perhaps four hours work on each one, for a total of 80 hours. That would complete the names of the 70 million people who died in United States before 1930. This document also explains why it is impossible to finish United States genealogy using current methods. |
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ProgenyLink.com Simplified Database Diagram This diagram represents the internal storage mechanism for the ProgenyLink.com website. Participants are asked to create and contribute a descendent structure of names, starting with an ancient ancestor and coming forward in time, recording all same-surname descendents. Those various "pizza slices" are then connected together through the women to make the database complete. Women typically appear twice in the database, once as a daughter and once as a wife. Connecting those two occurrences together with "same person" links is all that is necessary to make it possible to read out all possible pedigrees from this database (which was constructed in descendent sequence). Entering data in descendent sequence so that all possible pedigrees can be read out is a bit counterintuitive, but the process can be hundreds of times faster than traditional methods which focus only on pedigree-sequence research. |
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Reengineering the Fragmented Genealogy Industry Many layers of software development will be required to finish this ambitious reengineering project. But, happily, the first and most important layer has been completed which allows genealogists to easily cooperate on a grand scale so that, over the life of the project, the participants will receive 1000 times the high-quality data which they have entered. |
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