Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #668454 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 186 pages

Synopsis
Are you online and ready for global smart card and database genealogy for virtual travelers? Here's how to search family history for nations bordering the Baltic Sea, the Balkans countries, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The nations listed in this guide (all faiths) include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Armenia, Assyria, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, and many other lands in the Middle East, the Balkans - Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Eastern Europe - Hungary, and more. Collecting details about people is moving toward smart card technology and its offspring. The new wave in genealogy is authentication technology. Authentication begins with new-wave technology used to gather population registers. Compare the new technology to the old method of door-to-door census taking, tombstone tracings, and city directory publishing. No, genealogists are not using smart cards this year, but smart card technology is being used to compile population registers in Europe. The future holds a new wave of technology used for authentication for banking transactions being applied to other areas.

Currently this technology is used for collecting details for population registrars such as census taking. The application for research is of interest to family historians, librarians, and governments. It's already in use by private industry for electronic authentication. Family history is now about intelligent connections, whether it's a population registrar, census detail, or electronic identity for banking. Smart card genealogy began in 1998 in Finland with governments seeking to put census and population registers in an electronic form that would be available to researchers, and these applications are going global.

Customer Reviews

Written for the American market, not the UK one
I purchased this book in hope that it would assist me (based in the UK) to research in Eastern Europe. What a disappointment! It is written from an American perspective with links to the American Society of this and that, but with no UK alternatives.

Also, if your especial area of interest is the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad (which happens to be one of mine), this isn't mentioned at all - it skips from Poland to the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithunia, completely ignoring the little bit of Russia in between Poland and the latter. It also ignores Russia as a whole, although at least part of Russia is in Eastern Europe and borders the Baltic coast (both reasons I would expected at least some coverage of the country).