MignognaWeb has a Wiki!

Okay... so I decided that having a "Wiki" was the way to go to help collect and especially help share the genealogy data.

It's set up, and I started adding a little info to it. Until we've decided how to best protect the data, there is no link to it directly from anywhere on the MignognaWeb website.

If you are a family member (incl. extended family), and would like access to start seeing what it's like, playing with it, commenting on the process and contributing, email me directly and I'll send you info on how to gain access.

I would really appreciate some feedback. Thanks!

Yes, we have the technology... but what do we do with it?

This has been gnawing at me for years - how to accumulate, organize *and* share all this fantastic genealogy data in the limited bits and pieces of time I have available outside work, work, work and the rest of my life.

The genealogy software I've been using for years is Wholly Gene's "The Master Genealogist". While it's been great at keeping track of all the data, it's not always easy or intuitive to get reports out and share data with others. It's a massive chore to export reports and get them up on the website and protect certain things and unprotect others and present it in a way that's useful to the rest of the family.

I'm also looking for a better way for all of you to keep the records up to date. Did someone get married? Have a new baby?

So I've been thinking about what to do next and how to reorganize the website. I'm thinking along the lines of turning the genealogy side of mignogna.org into something that works a little more like a social networking site or even a Wiki. Something that includes user accounts that doesn't allow just anyone to see - I know several of the relatives are sensitive to certain data for living folks getting out and I certainly respect that.

I really am liking the Wiki idea.

Any Mignogna's, Agdern's, Lilienthal's or Goldmark's reading this, please comment on what you'd like to see.