For readers who are not Guild members, the Ruby project will be transferring to "real" Rubys the end of September. Michael Ruby has introduced himself and provided a very interesting read on DRY approach to genealogy. I think many of us can relate to the amusing but true definiton of WET! And with Michael's permission, I would love to adopt the sentence " Genealogy as a whole is forever beautifully unfinished." Peggy Homans Chapman Hello, everyone. My name is Michael Ruby. I am part of the team that will be inheriting the Ruby One-Name Study on 30 September. I would like to take this opportunity to express gratitude, to introduce myself, and to offer some initial thoughts about the future of the study by way of this blog post’s main body. In it, I wish to offer something that I hope is at least a little bit fresh: a computer science-style argument for the value of approaching genealogy through the one-name study. I have a feeling that most geneal