The BYU Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy is going on right now… and one of the lectures given was by Joseph Irvine, who spoke on using Google Groups to collaborate with family – and build a family website.
With today’s Internet tools, it is no longer necessary to work alone on your family tree. Joseph Irvine told a session at the BYU Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy about how Google Groups can help families collaborate on their research — and it is free.
“Collaboration is the key in genealogy,” Irvine said March 13. “There is no point in each of us being an island — if we all do our own work … and then the person next to us does the same family line and has to go do it all over again, that is a huge waste of time and resources.”
Irvine, a major in management and information at Utah State University, said the free service is better in many ways than buying your own Web site to use for collaboration. If you buy your own site you will need to purchase software or write html code yourself. Google Groups has everything ready to go.
Read the article by Michael De Groote in the March 13, 2009 edition of The Mormon Times.