A semi-distant relative recently contacted me about one of my domains, heberlie.com. He said he’d always envisioned it being some kind of family history resource.

I’ve always been curious about my family history. I received an interesting document about the name history and derivation of the heberlie name.

I’m considering a flash family tree visualization tool as a potential project. Sites like genealogy.com make it easy to get the data. Coming up with an xml fed flash experience could be a fun way to browse the “tree”. Thoughts?