Participating in the Federated Search Engine

The federated search engine

The federated search engine allows a simultaneous research in multiple databases by using a single tool. The display gives a brief overlook of responses to queries generated through the search engine and provides a link for consulting the responses directly in the original database.

Contribution to the federated search engine

Databases belonging to private or public organizations can be part of the federated search engine. In a perspective to collaborate with these organizations, we invite all of you wishing to participate in this project to submit your database so that the federated search engine can conduct a search into it.

The participation to the federated search engine is of interest to genealogists and family historians that can discover new databases, their existence and potential. It also contributes to the diffusion of websites tied to the federated search engine.

Criteria to respect in order to associate your database

The databases associated to the federated search engine must however respect certain criteria.

• They must belong to a private or public organization and not to an individual.
• They must include names of individuals on a priority basis but not exclusively and contain genealogical or family history content.
• The information must be free of charge – either partially or entirely – at least at the first level of consultation.
• The databases must be in French or in English.

Required technical characteristics needed to associate your database to the federated search engine of the website "That's my family". [Word file - 59 KB].

If your database meets these criteria, download the participation application form [Word file - 60 KB].