The Genealogy Network Transfer Protocol (GNTP) is an unfinished protocol for a

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer ...

genealogy Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kins ...

network that was not completed because of resource constraints. The idea was to allow genealogists to share GEDCOM files in much the same way that music and other files are distributed on other peer-to-peer networks.Genealogy P2P
- Genealogical Computing 4/1/2002 AncestryLibrary.com

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*C. C. Albrecht, D. Dean, R. B. Jackson, S. W. Liddle, and R. D. Meservy. A Peer-To-Peer Network Protocol for Genealogical Data. In ''Proceedings of the First Family History Technology Workshop'', pages 19–23, Provo, Utah, April 2001. * - E-Business Center - Brigham Young University (Protocol Version 0.75)Last Updated: February 6, 2002 Conan Albrecht
A Peer-To-Peer Network Protocol for Genealogical Data
- Conan C. Albrecht, Douglas Dean, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen W. Liddle, and Raymond D. Meservy (E-Business Center Marriott School of Management) Brigham Young University
Enabling the Distributed Family Tree
- by Hilton Campbell ;Archived Website on Wayback * *

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