The oehfamily web site will soon celebrate three years of publication. It was nearly deleted once and then recovered. Recent viewing is spotty and greatly lacking in the five family branches. A new picture feature by JoelG seems sadly ignored.
However, where the overall historical genealogy relevance of the oehfamily web site remains high, the real world interest is low.
Most personal genealogy efforts languish privately as a conglomeration of processed and unprocessed information. Genealogist's ability vary from masters to novice. Newer genealogy computer programs help guide the process but the product is locked in a de facto specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software. Attempts to add visual understanding only result in other embedded de facto standards encoded within the genealogy specification, which is a demanding task.
Amazing 3D graphic genealogy viewers are hopelessly locked away as intellectual property/capability in companies like Xerox and IBM. These multimedia viewing systems have existed for over 25 years but not widely productized. Microsoft, Apple, Google and may others realize information needs to be visualized to increase understanding and ubiquitous use.
I hope the oehfamily web site survives so that someone can move it forward into the next social networking capability in the future.
