Technology has had a very strong impact on family history. It has made family history easier and more efficient. The strongest asset technology has brought to family history is the ability to instantly communicate with people from all over the world and share information. The next strongest asset technology has brought is the ability to store vast amounts of information efficiently, and the ability to efficiently retrieve and search that data.
The utilization of technology can be improved. Deciphering the handwriting of other people can be difficult at times, not to mention tedious. Improvements in character recognition software can eliminate the difficulty and tedium. Users of PAF are encouraged to use multiple files to store their ancestral information, which requires switching between files and splitting files makes it difficult to link information between the files. It would be much more convenient to store all the data in one file. It can also be tedious to search through all the different databases and gather all the information on one's ancestors. In some databases, such work is inevitable. In other databases, the data is already organized into pedigrees. Increased convenience can be achieved if all the ancestors of a particular person can be downloaded into PAF with the click of a button.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Technology and Family History
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I think articles are a fine prediction of how the world has evolved. And because so many of us are busy taking the next breath, it is for the most part passing us by. You can hide all you want from the environment, technology, the eroding of family values, but the world is turing fast. These road signs that Steve has wrriten is posted in each of our lives and like most road signs
if you don't pay attention, you'll pass your exit. Of course with most exits there is no return.
I think these articles are a fine prediction and sheds light on what to come of how the world has evolved. And because so many of us are busy taking the next breath, it is for the most part passing us by. You can hide all you want from the environment, technology, the eroding of family values, but the world is turing fast. These road signs that Steve has wrriten is posted in each of our lives and like most road signs
if you don't pay attention, you'll pass your exit. Of course with most exits there is no return.
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