Family Forest

Family Forest

The Family Forest Project is an ongoing, large academic endeavor to digitize the world's known genealogy and family history information. Family histories once entered in the Family Forest may be traced generation by generation extending back in time over 3000 years to the beginning of recorded history.

The Family Forest Project was launched in 1995 and is the creation of Bruce H. Harrison and his wife, Kristine Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are the principal owners of Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc. headquartered on the Big Island of Hawaii.

The Family Forest Project is the world's most complete, most interconnected and only academically cited digital resource for easily locating and researching deep ancestral histories. It currently lists in its bibliography over 700 published and online resources, including many out of print or rare books and genealogy journals.

In early 2007, the Family Forest Project comprised well over 7 million lines of proprietary computer code that precisely catalogs the family histories of those who left their mark and provided the DNA of over 2 billion living people.

One of the unique strategic concepts that the Harrisons are credited with embracing from the beginning is known today as Stage Three Digital Content. [http://www.familyforest.com/captainslog/66.html]

Family Forest is a registered trademark of Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc. The Family Forest has been often reviewed by, and highly praised over the years by a number of genealogy experts. Perhaps the best known reviewer of the Family Forest is Richard Eastman [ [http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0327.htm Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - July 7, 2003 ] ]

Prior to the presidential election in 2004, the Family Forest was the first to announce and prove the ancestral relationship between President George W. Bush and his chief opponent in the election, Senator John Kerry. In an article appearing on the CBS News website, the Family Forest's founder, Bruce H. Harrison, is credited with discovering that the founder of Playboy Magazine, Hugh M. Hefner also shares ancestors with Bush and Kerry. All are distant cousins. [ [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/04/politics/main604163.shtm CBS News] , March 4, 2004]

In February 2007, the Family Forest Project made headline news by announcing discoveries about the ancestry of presidential candidate, Barack Obama. The Family Forest Project was showcased in a front page article in the Honolulu Star Bulletin (3) newspaper discussing several of the well-known ancestors the U.S. Senator from Illinois. Barack Obama is identified as having ancestral ties to a number of former presidents, including a 4th cousin relationship to Harry Truman. Senator Obama is also mentioned in the article as known to have a distant cousin relationship to U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona as well as the composer Quincy Jones. This ground-breaking announcement of Obama's ancestral presidential heritage was picked up by the Associated Press wire (AP)and set off a large number of genealogy-related stories about the candidate, many concerning his maternal ancestors who were known to own slaves.

References

2.) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/04/politics/main604163.shtml 3.) http://starbulletin.com/2007/02/06/news/story05.html


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Forest Stewardship Council — Infobox Non profit Non profit name = Forest Stewardship Council Non profit founded date = 1993 founder = location = Bonn, Germany origins = key people = Greenpeace, FERN, World Wide Fund for Nature area served = Global focus = Sustainable… …   Wikipedia

  • Forest Shrew — Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

  • Forest Finns — (Norwegian: Skogfinner , Swedish: Skogsfinnar , Finnish: Metsäsuomalaiset ) are people of Finnish descent in the forest areas of Eastern Norway and Central Sweden. The Forest Finns immigrated from Savonia in Eastern Finland during the late 16th… …   Wikipedia

  • Forest Raven — Conservation status Least Concern& …   Wikipedia

  • Forest Hills Cemetery — in the Forest Hills area of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (a primarily residential section of Boston) is a historic convert|275|acre|km2|1|sing=on cemetery, greenspace, arboretum and sculpture garden. Designed in 1848, it is one of the finest… …   Wikipedia

  • Forest Acres Camp for Girls — is a sleepaway summer camp for girls located in Fryeburg, Maine, on the banks of the Saco River. The camp was founded in 1926 by Dr. Abraham and Gertrude Krasker. Its brother camp, Indian Acres, was founded 2 years earlier in 1924. Indian Acres… …   Wikipedia

  • Forest hinge-back tortoise — Conservation status Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3) Scientific classification …   Wikipedia

  • Forest Hills, Queens — Forest Hills is a neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered to the north by Rego Park, to the east by Flushing Meadows Park, the Grand Central Parkway and Kew Gardens, to the west by Middle Village… …   Wikipedia

  • Forest falcon — Forest falcons Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves …   Wikipedia

  • Forest Wagtail — Conservation status Least Concern ( …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”