Abstract. There are many people working on genealogy throughout the world. Unfortunately, much of their time is spent duplicating the work of others or doing work that will be done again later. This paper discusses the reasons behind this duplication of efforts. It then proposes the use of bidirectional source linking in conjunction with evidence-based genealogical research methods to make it possible to quickly find out what work has already been done with regards to a particular record or set of records, and to more easily know what else remains to be done. The proposed methods also make it possible for genealogists to do work just once that can then benefit everyone.

Reference: In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Family History and Technology Workshop, pp. 54-60, April 4, 2002. (see Family History Technology 2002 workshop).

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