"The Principle of the Expanding Web": Re: Newbie looking for

[V. Chris and Tom Tinney,]

"The Principle of the Expanding Web",
Re: Newbie looking for Basic Guidance

In a previous posting, Denis Beauregard wrote:
.. . . ("V. Chris & Tom Tinney, Sr.") wrote in
soc.genealogy.computing:
.. . .
Your site was included in the MEDITERRANEAN
- EUROPE section; . . .
Denis Beauregard wrote:
When a site covers many area, you should be
practical! Someone looking for a specific
area will not check the sites having a lot
of content and covering many area.

FORMER REPLY:
The 2005 FGS Conference "highlighted many
leading-edge trends and technologies that
are improving genealogy." The wave of
the future includes sites having content
covering many areas; indeed, eventually
the effort will be to have worldwide
surname searching. The Genealogy
and Family History Internet Web Directory
promotes future trends for genealogy
and family history research.
Denis Beauregard wrote:
Typical paper work: you put the data in
one place because you need physical place
for it. Computer based data has not that
problem and you should put as many links
as needed.
.. . .
BTW, your presentation of the French sites
is quite strange.
.. . .
But if you want to introduce the site,
then you should give more details.
.. . .
.. . . another FORMER REPLY:
This is an excellent comment. That is why
I have already included your site: FrancoGene.com
Denis Beauregard wrote:
Where ? I don't see it under Canada
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/regio ... htm#CANADA
So, someone looking for a catholic migration
path will miss it.

PRESENT COMPREHENSIVE REPLY:
College used Web Search Garage, by Tara Calishain,
co-author of Google Hacks, is an excellent
book for Basic Guidance for Newbies. It has
interesting comments, such as Chapter 13,
"The Principle of Salt Grains: You should take
every page on the Internet with a grain of salt."
There is Chapter 20, "Genealogy Research Online"
and Chapter 11, the KEY: "The Principle of
the Expanding Web: The Web is always expanding,
always changing, always (unfortunately) breaking
down, and always rebuilding. If you're planning
to do ongoing research, it's imperative to have
a strategy to keep up with new sites and resources
in your field of interest."

The Genealogy and Family History Internet
Web Directory is my strategy for keeping
up with new sites and resources in the ever
changing field of genealogy and family
history research. Mind you, the title
includes the word "Web", something intricately
constructed, i.e., a complex network.
Current great "Roundup Sites" include
Cyndi's List, with "as many links as needed"
connected in various horizontal subject
sections. Pedigree, on the other hand,
comes from the Old French pie de grue,
or "crane's foot", "from the three-line,
claw-shaped mark formerly used to show
the succession in a pedigree", "the act
or process of following in order or
sequence", the right of a person or line
of persons to so succeed, generally
in order of time.

Complex pathways to the past are made simple
by a careful review of this "fundamental"
genealogy guide and advanced research directory,
a combination of series events links,
in horizontal relationships, additionally
tied together by vertical pedigree node
descending or connecting relationships.

A simple Google Search of "French", using:
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/searchthissite.htm
provides the following connections:
http://www.google.com/custom?q=French&s ... ealogy.com
Both the Canada site and European site,
as well as many other sources are immediately
connected together. Example:
"Reconstruction of the population of Quebec
from the beginnings of French ...
Franco-American, French and French-Canadian
Genealogy. - Gallica (French) ..."
(Use the Browser Find: CTRL + F
to single key word search pages)

Respectfully yours,

Tom Tinney, Sr.
Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] - 2004
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, {both editions]
Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com