Julie’s personal tree is getting to be quite massive. Since it’s only available on Ancestry.com in its full “glory,” we’ve been looking at ways to keep it backed up elsewhere. We also have a use for moving trees from one account to another account, as well as searching for specific terms. These things at least haven’t been available before. With Treesync, it appears that all of the above and more will become available. Researching and watching what led up to it while trying to get things to work for serious projects has turned out to be fairly painful. I’m sure Ancestry will keep going because it means a lot to folks like us.

A recent discussion with another Genealogy Research industry participant brought some very interesting questions to mind surrounding the question of what customers really believe they are buying when they purchase Family History Services. I explore this a bit here.

Unbelievable quantities of Genealogy information is coming available online. Is this situation for everyone, and how does the Genealogist balance making the history interesting vs. creating a “Mega-Tree?”