I have been gathering details of my family history for a couple of decades and wishing for an easy way to share both the content that I have gathered and the burden of maintaining this for future generations. Unfortunately, I haven't found a suitable solution.
So, I've started to noodle on the idea of creating an open source alternative to other genealogy services, both paid and free. I'm probably being overly paranoid, but the idea of dumping all of this data into a database someone else controls leaves me feeling uncomfortable. More importantly, the ones that allow collaboration, open collaboration up to the world. Some of the pay-for services appear to enable partitioning of the tree by granting permission to specific users, but then everyone needs a paid account.
The idea here is that I can spin up a version of this as a website or perhaps a mobile app and give my extended family access with limited permission to change sections of the tree they would be most familiar with, similar to how Wikipedia has Editors and requires some consensus to resolve disputes. And/or perhaps maintaining version history of edits so that all can see who entered what information when, in case there is some dispute over the accuracy.
So, I've started to noodle on the idea of creating an open source alternative to other genealogy services, both paid and free. I'm probably being overly paranoid, but the idea of dumping all of this data into a database someone else controls leaves me feeling uncomfortable. More importantly, the ones that allow collaboration, open collaboration up to the world. Some of the pay-for services appear to enable partitioning of the tree by granting permission to specific users, but then everyone needs a paid account.
The idea here is that I can spin up a version of this as a website or perhaps a mobile app and give my extended family access with limited permission to change sections of the tree they would be most familiar with, similar to how Wikipedia has Editors and requires some consensus to resolve disputes. And/or perhaps maintaining version history of edits so that all can see who entered what information when, in case there is some dispute over the accuracy.