Update: Encyclopedia of Genealogy

A few months ago, I created a free online service for genealogists, called the Encyclopedia of Genealogy. While I'm the person who created the "shell" of this new service, newsletter readers like you write much of the information within it. If you missed the announcement, you can read it here.

I must admit that I am quite pleased with the Encyclopedia of Genealogy. Many newsletter readers have offered new content or have corrected existing information within the Encyclopedia of Genealogy. Here is a partial list of some of the articles added or updated by newsletter readers and myself in the past few weeks:

British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
Carignan Soldiers
Consanguinity
d'Aboville Numbers
dsp
Dunker
German Genealogy Reference Books
Matross
sine prole
Software for Windows
Soldat Carignan
Tanguay, Cyprien
Tussenvoegsel: Part of Some Dutch Surnames

The above is a partial list of the items added in the past few weeks and should give you an idea of what the Encyclopedia of Genealogy is all about. Of course, there is plenty of room for more information, so feel free to add more! If the Encyclopedia of Genealogy does not yet contain information about your local genealogy society or library, you can add that information now. It is easy to do so.

The Encyclopedia of Genealogy is available to everyone, free of charge. You can access it at http://www.eogen.com.

If you would like to check "what's new" on the Encyclopedia for yourself, go to http://www.eogen.com and click on CHANGES in the upper-right corner. This will show all recent changes.

Comments

[Tom]

Please add "NYC genealogy research" to your index.

OR

Is there a way for contributors to add items to the index?

[Dick Eastman]

ALL the items in the Encyclopedia are contributed directly by readers. To learn how to contribute your information, go to http://www.eogen.com and click on "How to Contribute Information to the Encyclopedia of Genealogy."

Thank you.

- Dick Eastman

[garyb]

Sounds like a great idea, but some of the major topics will have previously been published in the similarly user-produced Wikipedia, with which millions of people are already familiar. Have you thought of linking up with the Wikipedia panjandrums to prevent duplicative effort, to piggyback on its established procedures, and to "leverage," to borrow a term?