The end of genealogy projects?
Aside from determining the allocation of public services and other very important uses, the Census has a place in the hearts of a certain group of people that rely on its accuracy: Genealogy Obsessives.
When looking at all the buzz online in the UK about the census, nearly 10% of non-news posts were on genealogy forums, and genealogy forums had the most discussion about the census taking place on them. They’re not really debating its usefulness or arranging to make a statement by listing their religion as Jedi. They’re just trying to learn as much as possible about their ancestors, and they always reference the census.
If such a high proportion of sustained discussion about the census right now comes from these ancestry lovers, what will happen in 100 years time?
With the amount of data floating around about me online right now, when my children’s children start searching for details about me, they will probably find a lot more about me than I can find about my ancestors right now – that my husband is an “expert” at pig massage, I’m “from” Las Vegas, I’m a huge fan of curry (not a falsehood), and a million other things about me that will be available at the touch of a button.
Genealogy Obsessives will become extinct because genealogy and the construction of family trees will be taken over by Facebook and Google, such that the challenge of tracing your origins will be gone. People obsessed with the past will be more into re-enactments.
Source: Brandwatch
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Yes, we will have a lot of information in the future via tne net. But, there is a problem that has yet to be recognized. Finding our cousins was an easy task prior WWII tho few gathered information that was available then by contacting living cousins. Now, divorce, unlisted phones and scattered relatives have made a problem unseen today. The problem is.. little has been recorded in the 20th century. We have hunted the 19th century but forgot ourselves and now, we cant find the living. For those hunting in the year 2100, they will ask, where are they, those that lived in the 1900s. The curse is divorce, as todays children are taught that half the family is good and the other half is bad. We know nothing of the bad. We are now a country of half families. Yes, half of all genealogy is now gone. We refuse to hunt for the ones that we are supposed to hate. The information has never been written let alone find it. They will never be joined. If we must narrow the above problem, it can be told in one word…Divorce.
Kee Rodgers, Mayflower Society.