Open-Source Genealogy

Genealogy has a small open-source community. But its not good enough. Genealogy is a big-data problem. And the data is not freely available. The closest thing to freely available records is FamilySearch.org, but they have no APIs for searching their records. Most open-source genealogy software is tackling problems that have already been solved by PAF and RootsMagic. Genealogy data needs to be opened. FamilySearch began to share this vision during Jay Verkler's keynote at the 2012 RootsTech conference. When the open-source community gets access to data, without screen-scraping, we will see a surge of innovation.