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 at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/12/encyclopedia_of.html.

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:

1812Ancestors

Centre for English Local History

HeritageQuestOnline (a LOT of changes have been made to this page!)

Maine, Oxford County

Mulvihill

The Next Generation

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

[Denise Olson]

I think your encyclopedia is a wonderful tool. You need to remind us more often that it's there - and that we can all help expand the knowledgebase.

Your article and some other research I was doing on wikis, led me to wonder why the genealogy community isn't embracing Wikipedia. I wrote an article about it at Family Matters (http://www.moultriecreek.net/family/2006/11/why_arent_genea.html). Wikis - and Wikipedia - offer us a great collaboration platform that we should definitely exploit.