Richard K Miller

Here are 3 cool genealogy projects from local Utahns:

• WeRelate.org — WeRelate is a genealogy search engine. Founder Dallan Quass created Flipdog, a job search engine that was acquired by Monster.com, has taught at BYU, and worked in the Mormon church’s genealogy department. WeRelate uses wiki technology to allow everyone to collaborate on names and places. In fact, the search engine uses this user-contributed intelligence to help it mine the Web for genealogy information.
• MacPAF — MacPAF is a Mac OS X version of Personal Ancestral File, the Windows genealogy program published by the Church. MacPAF is being developed by BYU student and Apple computer guru Logan Allred.
• Beyond — Beyond is “a cross-platform, open, free genealogy record manager that makes genealogy research easy and fun.” The developer is Ben Crowder, a BYU student who is building Beyond with the principles espoused by 37signals.com, such as simplicity, usability, and “less is more”. Ben also plans to develop Mac, Windows, and Linux clients for offline use.

I look forward to seeing the future of each of these projects!

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