[joelhaus]

> "We want to bring in older generations"

As my father ages, he seems to get more interested in our family history and often sends mass emails about new connections he finds on ancestry.com.

I've always thought that the data from ancestry.com would be a great way to seed a new social network. It would attract a motivated, older crowd and they would add profiles for the younger generations too. Previously looked into this and genealogical data actually has a standardized format called GEDCOM[1]. It might be a useful way for users to quickly populate their pages on FamilyLeaf.

Will send this over to him, but most of his data is in GEDCOM format... either way, good luck!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM

[ajaymehta]

Hey, wow, that is a brilliant idea. Honestly we haven't thought about that at all -- ancestry.com is of course a giant, but we always viewed it as a bit divorced (no pun intended) from what we're up to with FamilyLeaf.

I'd love your feedback (and your dad's!) on our site. My dad -- largely computer-illiterate -- is actually sharing with us via email by emailing photos to [e-mail]. They automatically aggregate in our online album.

It'd be great to chat about your research on this family space. Shoot me an email? ajayumehta[at]gmail