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All family members can post Fan photos of the Ancestor - Jesse Stay

I can create a master Family Page, and associate "favorite Pages" to the family Page with the Ancestors we're studying - Jesse Stay

I can only imagine the Facebook apps I could create to support this... - Jesse Stay

MyFamily.com might be a better fit. Especially v2.5 which is a complete rewrite currently in community preview: Facebook-like in interaction but in a more collaborative, private setting. - [ s . m . m ]

smm, when I think of MyFamily.com I think of things I have to pay for. Genealogy and family history should be free. Facebook also has a *much* bigger network of living people than MyFamily.com. - Jesse Stay

Try geni.com; I have pictures & biographies of great-great-great grandparents on there. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Glen, but Facebook Pages do just as well. These sites are all trying to get you off of Facebook so they're not going to work to try and keep you using the tools Facebook already has. IMO you could do some pretty cool stuff just using the tools that are all already there, no app to install necessary. - Jesse Stay

MyFamily.com has both free and paid. I guess it depends how you want to organize the data and if you want it to be out in the public. Facebook's model won't let you easily organize your conversations about family history from other topics. With MF you can contain that within a group. - [ s . m . m ]

Then there's Footnote.com's "I Remember" pages -- also free. - Dean Richardson

smm, I think I could write a few apps that would make that really easy without the annoying app invites other Genealogy apps on Facebook are doing. I'd also like to work with Facebook to integrate as much of that possible as they can - My guess is they just haven't thought of it. It would really fit a specific category of Facebook Page for Ancestors well. - Jesse Stay

But to be really useful long term, you'd also have to build in the ability to link the pages according to family relationships. I agree, though, I'd like to see an app that did that without the faux-viral spam. - Dean Richardson

Dean, I think I could do that with a simple Facebook App. - Jesse Stay

Nothing against the FamilyLink folks, but it shouldn't be that hard to improve on We're Related, for example - Dean Richardson

Sounds good, Jesse, I'd be interested. MyFamily.com is free until you start adding content and then you need more space and end up paying. Facebook wanted to map relationships over the whole world, so why not ancestors, too? - Trish Haley

You can link up current family members now on Facebook but it would be cool to expand and integrate ancestors too! - Nicholas James

Facebook (or any of the various "we're related-type apps") doesn't handle familial relationships. Specifically, it doesn't handle double-first cousins, which occur with disturbing frequency in my family's heritage. It certainly doesn't handle relationships between an individual and a Page. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Really, this is just another example of the MyISAM vs. InnoDB issue. You just want some data you can play with; I'm insisting on keeping the validity of the relationships intact. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder