I've been monitoring this 16s idea and thinking about ways @Mission: Genealogy can support it. There are obviously problems with searching on Substack for something like this given that there aren't hashtags and Genealogy isn't even a filtered topic. I've been playing with the idea of adding a Google form people could add to that would present itself as a database (out of notion) all of us could explore from a web page. Do you think that would be helpful? It might optionally include links to ones Substack handle as well as shared trees such as to Wikitree and FamilySearch, for example.
Maintaining it becomes worrisome, though setting it up is easy enough. Thoughts?
Honestly, I'm most of all looking for ways for us to collaborate as a community, it sounds like that was your motivation here as well. Standing by.
That's been exciting to watch this week! All of the Sixteens proliferating!
Yes, those two profiles appear to be for the same Samuel Tuttle (it looks like the sources all match). I haven't dug in and looked at the sources for his parents listed on FamilySearch, but I know what I'll probably be doing this weekend!
I'm not sure how to deal with searching on Substack - that sounds like something that will have to mature as the platform grows. If Mission:Genealogy becomes a kind of hub for genealogy and family history newsletters, then the developers will probably notice and/or listen to our suggestions.
I would hold off on trying to create a new database, just because those can get out of hand pretty quickly, and in the end, individual writers will link to some combination of WikiTree and FamilySearch in their posts anyway. Linking from a Substack post to WikiTree and/or linking from WikiTree and FamilySearch back to a Substack post will also boost the Search Engine Optimization of all three - which means that somebody running a search for your common ancestor is more likely to see those results near the top of their page.
Yeah, that’s kind of why I’m on the fence about it. It’s easy enough to create a form, but you’re right that managing it is the hard part. Holding off for now.
I was probably procrastinating about something else… 🤔
So, Tad, the genius of your "Our Sixteens" @Mightier Acorns has taken root and is growing. For one thing, I recognized the name Tuttle and traced it back to my own Amy Tuttle, 5th cousin four times removed to your Samuel L. Tuttle (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tuttle-4044, assuming he's the same as this guy in FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KN6H-F47).
I've been monitoring this 16s idea and thinking about ways @Mission: Genealogy can support it. There are obviously problems with searching on Substack for something like this given that there aren't hashtags and Genealogy isn't even a filtered topic. I've been playing with the idea of adding a Google form people could add to that would present itself as a database (out of notion) all of us could explore from a web page. Do you think that would be helpful? It might optionally include links to ones Substack handle as well as shared trees such as to Wikitree and FamilySearch, for example.
Maintaining it becomes worrisome, though setting it up is easy enough. Thoughts?
Honestly, I'm most of all looking for ways for us to collaborate as a community, it sounds like that was your motivation here as well. Standing by.
That's been exciting to watch this week! All of the Sixteens proliferating!
Yes, those two profiles appear to be for the same Samuel Tuttle (it looks like the sources all match). I haven't dug in and looked at the sources for his parents listed on FamilySearch, but I know what I'll probably be doing this weekend!
I'm not sure how to deal with searching on Substack - that sounds like something that will have to mature as the platform grows. If Mission:Genealogy becomes a kind of hub for genealogy and family history newsletters, then the developers will probably notice and/or listen to our suggestions.
I would hold off on trying to create a new database, just because those can get out of hand pretty quickly, and in the end, individual writers will link to some combination of WikiTree and FamilySearch in their posts anyway. Linking from a Substack post to WikiTree and/or linking from WikiTree and FamilySearch back to a Substack post will also boost the Search Engine Optimization of all three - which means that somebody running a search for your common ancestor is more likely to see those results near the top of their page.
Yeah, that’s kind of why I’m on the fence about it. It’s easy enough to create a form, but you’re right that managing it is the hard part. Holding off for now.
I was probably procrastinating about something else… 🤔
That's how I get my best work done... avoiding something else!
(Oops - time to make dinner!)