Family Forest®: Product, or Service?
The Family Forest® appears to be a product because it is
delivered on a disc.
But the disc is only the delivery vehicle, the packaging.
Within a few years (when web technology advances and bandwidth increases), the
need for the disc will disappear. Our Family Forest® service, although far more
comprehensive and far-reaching by that time, will be deliverable without any
“thing.”
The Family Forest® is actually a collection of services;
services that are stored similar to pickles or preserves, yet have a limitless
shelf life. Some of the types of services are:
Tour Guide & Mapping: Tens of thousands of
hours have been spent traveling through the fine print of hundreds of
fascinating historical and genealogical books and periodicals (many of which do
not have indexes or are only partially indexed) in search of stories about your
ancestors (as well as everyone else’s ancestors). We have left extremely well
marked digital trails of everywhere we have visited, so you can instantly zoom
in to the parts that are of interest to you, and visually display maps of the
ancestral pathways leading to and from that point (often for many centuries).
Text to Visual: Everyone knows that a picture
is worth a thousand words. This is abundantly obvious in family history, where
it can take a number of pages of tedious text to explain (and much time and
effort to decipher) family relationships that are quickly and easily
understandable in chart form (after we provide our service of converting that
knowledge to stage-three digital content).
Static to Dynamic: Paper-based knowledge just
sits there hiding, waiting for a person to find it. Once we upgrade that
knowledge to stage-three digital content, computers can locate, sort, group, and display that
knowledge in new and exciting ways that increase and enhance its value, and
present it virtually instantly to the people who summon it.
Checks and Balances: Through the power of
computer technology, combined with human steering, every new statement and
connection that is input into the Family Forest® is compared against every other
statement and connection from hundreds of sources that was input during
previous years, and any conflicts are flagged as warnings.
Filtering: With family history on the
Internet, one must sometimes wade through hundreds or even thousands of
duplications of basically the same information. Our mission is to filter out
confusing and time-wasting duplication, so that no one else has to, with the
goal of all information (including the conflicts) about an individual being
stored in a central location.
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