Cool Projects

One of the coolest features of geni are the "Projects". Projects are a great way to collaborate and gather together in one place profiles of people that share something in common.

I'd love to see spotlighted in this thread some of the projects that you've run across that you think others would want to know about, why you like them, and what you find interesting about them. Feel free to even brag about a project you've started that you feel that others would find of interest.

If you don't know much about geni projects check them out here http://www.geni.com/projects

The project with the most recent changes will always be at the top of the list and with over 7,000 current projects you'll find the search window an absolute must.

Geni also did a webinar on collaborative genealogy and "projects" are an important part of that. You can watch the video on youtube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQgygqK1-II

Yeah projects!

The first project I think is pretty cool is:

http://www.geni.com/projects/Margolis-and-Frankel-Families

It's a very active project started by fellow Curator Hatte B. This project is a great example of good project. It has a complete project description that details the scope of the project, why it was started and what it hopes to accomplish. I think that is one of the reason that the project has attracted 60 fellow collaborators on almost 100 others that are "following" its progress.

Let's start :-) My favorites:

* http://www.geni.com/projects/Scandalous-Women
* http://www.geni.com/projects/Personalidades-Brasileiras
* http://www.geni.com/projects/Imigrantes-ao-Brasil-Immigrants-to-Brazil
* http://www.geni.com/projects/Presidentes-do-Brasil-Brazilian-Presid...
* http://www.geni.com/projects/Os-bandeirantes
* http://www.geni.com/projects/Fam%C3%ADlia-Imperial-Brasileira

Another cool project is ...

http://www.geni.com/projects/Authors-of-Great-Literature

This project is attempting to gather together all the profiles of famous novelists, playwrights and essayists. So far curator Yigal B. and the numerous others collaborating on this project have found over 350 profiles of the people that have contributed so much to world literature.

They have even made the project description into a hyperlinked index to the profiles contained in the project arranged chronologically. This is a perfect example of a great project!

Thanks Lucia it looks like Brazil has some great projects going!

I'm sure there are several users that will be heading over to check out the "scandalous women" project right now:)

http://www.geni.com/projects/New-Amsterdam is an umbrella project that curator George J. Homs led. It is cool for a number of reasons. First, it is linked to related projects. Second, it has a wonderful "table of contents" for the family of projects on New Amsterdam. Third, these projects were developed collaboratively by a number of people through the use of discussions linked to the projects. Look at both the umbrella project and follow the links to the sub-projects. If you are interested in the history of New York City or of the impact of the Dutch on the United States, you will love these projects.

As a former New Yorker, I love the New Amsterdam projects, because I've always wanted to know what it was like when the Dutch ruled New York City.

I like the Jamaican projects we have started, because it gives an eye-opening view of Jamaica, a country with a rich but often lost history.

The http://www.geni.com/projects/Indian-Wars projects have been a real eye opener for me. Most of these wars I never heard of - and as soon as I do, suddenly I find amazing numbers of ancestors who participated.

There is a wealth of original documents available on line which has made the http://www.geni.com/projects/Salem-Witch-Trials-Colonial-America-in... chime alive. We're up to 113 profiles and apparently I'm related to many. When we started the project I had only one family profile to offer. This blows me away.

But my favorite project Is http://www.geni.com/projects/Scandalous-Women. Whenever I get down I find a subversive women to scare the men with. Great therapy.