My contribution to the Kindo site

There are a lot of things to think about when doing a new web page. I guess I started off by doing a site map of what the new page possibly could contain.

As the page will be in many languages and published allover the world, it has been necessary to do a lot of research. That’s the main thing I have been doing.

I started with trying to find out how people get their names in different countries. In Sweden for an example, where I’m from, the parents give their children a name that they think is nice and most of the times also a middle name. In Sweden, a name is just a name, and have most of the time no spiritual meaning or so.
The surname that the children will get is most of the time from the father. Although, in my case, my parents took my mothers surname instead, because they thought it would be boring to have such a common surname as Andersson.

To be able to manage this project, we need some help by students from different universities in Europe. I have tried to find the best suitable universities, and have also posted job descriptions there, so that the students can see it and contact us.

A way to get a big project like Kindo launched successfully and to get the site tested by lots of different people is to find a variety of people that might be interested in genealogy and family life. I have tried hard to find those people and finally we’ve got a long list of people that we will contact.

Another thing I have been doing is to find genealogy pages that already exists, where we can get information and learn from.

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