Record Linkage

Refocusing Family History Software and Capturing Research Intent
Chris Chapman

Using a Family Perspective Over Household to Improve Record Linkage Success with Census Data Collections
David S. Barss, AG, FamilySearch

Reconstituting the Population of a Small European Town Using Probabilistic Record Linking: A Case Study
Sue Dintelman and Tim Maness, Pleiades Software Development, Inc.

Demo Fast-Forward Session
Session Chair – Jim Ericson, FamilySearch

Data Extraction
Session Chair – Geoffrey M. Draper, BYU‐Hawaii CIS

Extracting Names Using Layout Clues: An Initial Report
Aaron P. Stewart and David W. Embley, BYU CS

Extracting Person Names from Diverse and Noisy OCR Text
Thomas Packer, Joshua Lutes, Aaron P. Stewart, and David W. Embley, Eric Ringger, Kevin Seppi, BYU CS, Lee Jensen, Ancestry.com

Automatic Extraction from and Reasoning About Genealogical Records: A Prototype
Charla J. Woodbury, David W. Embley, BYU CS, and Stephen W. Liddle, BYU IS

Geospatial Visualization of Family History

Family History Archives: Research on New Media
Barry Lunt and Matthew R. Linford, BYU IT

Know Your Ancestors Better: Demographic Visualization for Large Genealogical Sets
Tae Woo Kim and Geoffrey M. Draper, BYU‐Hawaii CIS

Geospatial Genealogy: Visualizing and Exploring Ancestral Place
Stephen L. Egbert, Dept. Geography, U. Kansas, and Karen G.R. Roekard, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, CA

Genealogical Forests and Family Trees
Peter A. Ivie and Evan L. Ivie, GeneSys Foundation