Hi John
HRE is not simply a front-end to an online database, but is a
fully-featured open source desktop research application which
incorporates its own database. The primary use is genealogy, and to that
end it's designed to take over and extend the features of the most
capable but
There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the
Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests
in family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1]
has been set up on Meta.
I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian