Total Genealogy

One use of computers is to connect lives through genealogy. Relative's records, both of the living and of the dead, are linked together online. Personal lineages have been combined to form vast online databases of the human family. Though the information transition from personal pedigree to the online community happened seamlessly, there now needs to be a union of all the different online repositories of genealogical information. That is, there is a need if the end goal is to create a single bank of connected names for all humanity to reference. There is, however, a problem. The issue lies with online-pedigree databases that focus on profiting from the names collected. How do you combine information when segments are held under lock and key? I feel that, if money is to be made from genealogy, let it be made by creating applications that access a database of all gathered names, and not from the slice of the names to which someone has the rights.