If there was a perfect genealogy portal, what would it allow you to do?

Question:

If there was a perfect genealogy portal, what would it allow you to do?

Also, what are the best sites I can use to track down my family and what makes them so good compared to others?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The best site would incorporate civil BMD registries, religious records from every church of every faith in the country, all land-probate-titular records, all voter registrations, all census records and family registers for the country from their inception, and index/digitize all archived records.

The closest we have to that is Genlias from the Netherlands. Their only shortcoming is that the archives for Amsterdam didn't join the others in populating the information base.

Ancestry.com is a pretty decent site, but people don't understand what to do with some of the information. For instance, the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is one of the most misunderstood databases. It's great for what it does, but it has a shortcoming in not telling you where someone actually died. If Uncle Irv was on vacation in Hawaii when he died, you'd have no clue to look there if SSDI tells you only that his last residence was in New Hampshire.

Our real problem is how to archive all this wonderful information without having perverted idiots try to co-opt it to invade people's privacy.