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What could I do to help get this site going? It has great potential to have lots of traffic and a very diverse user-base... especially including people who are not commonly thought of to be a Stack Exchange user.

Thanks!

Proposal: Genealogy

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No, it's not dead. We're trying. I wish you would change the title of your question. "Is this proposal dead?" It looks bad when someone comes to this page, possibly thinking of committing, and the first thing they see is "is this dead". Not a good first impression. Maybe try changing it to something more positive like: "How do we get more interest?" or something similar. – lkessler Mar 10 at 5:42
Thanks for changing your question. That's MUCH better!!! – lkessler Mar 11 at 0:33
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If you click on the more info link where the commitment score is, you'll see that where this site is particularly lacking is in committers who already have a reputation score of at least 200 on any Stack Exchange site.

So, yes, you need to advertise, advertise, advertise, but in particular, you need to find a way to advertise with people who use stack exchange a fair amount.

For further information, see http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/53650/area-51-commit-percent/53733#53733

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  1. Advertise.
  2. Advertise.
  3. Advertise.

You need to recruit 90 more people, 72 of which have used Stack Exchange at least a little. So advertise the proposal to people you know, and on generalogy communities where you participate.

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Just committed, so hope all will be OK. I have not used Stack Exchange before, so cannot help with the 200+ rep.

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You could find another stack exchange site about a topic you like, and work yourself up to 200 rep. It really isn't very hard to hit 200, you already have 51 here. A commitment by a user who doesn't even know what stack exchange is about really isn't a proper commitment. – Abhi Beckert Mar 10 at 9:02
Good idea! The list of all the different sites people can try is at the bottom of this (and every) page. – lkessler Mar 11 at 0:34
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One way to help advertise is to go to the site proposal page, and under the number committed box is a "Share This" link. Click on that, and it will bring up a box that will give allow you to send an email, post a message to a social site, or embed an ad for the proposal on your website.

I wish we could somehow advertise in the Stack Exchange sites themselves, but I believe that is not allowed.

I'm going to be posting a one-line link to sign up at www.gensoftreviews.com for a while and see if that does anything.

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