Using Open Data to Build Family Trees

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Erica Joy (@EricaJoy) joins Ashley McNamara (@ashleymcnamara) to share her not-so-secret personal mission: making genealogy information open, queryable, and easily parsable. She shares a bit about why this is so critical, common challenges, and tips for re-building your own family tree - or using open data to uncover whatever the information you need for your personal mission. In summary: you’ll learn what open data is, where existing datasets fall short, and a few ways to get involved and start applying to your projects. 00:54 What is open data? 02:40 Tips for others researching their family history 04:00 Challenges with open data sets Explore open source at Microsoft: http://opensource.microsoft.com Free Azure trial: https://aka.ms/opensourceshow/17 Download US Census dataset : https://www.census.gov/data/datasets.html Check out Internet Archive: https://archive.org/ Erica's favorite open source genealogy tools and services: The Brantley Association Southampton Project: an excellent example of what data could be available for every county: http://www.brantleyassociation.com/pages/southampton_project.htm Reclaim The Records: A non-profit working to put historical/genealogical data sets in the public domain: https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/ BlackProGen: A group of professional genealogists who research and document African American families: https://twitter.com/blackprogen

Published 2019-06-25 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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