I spent some time today with what’s got to be the simplest “useful” blogging platform ever built. All you have to do is go to the Throwww.com website, type in a title, and start writing. You don’t even have to log in. You just write, then share the link to what you’ve written. The site [...]
Dwight Radford has posted a lot of GREAT STUFF since I last posted a blog about his The Journey Home Genealogy website. His last 5 blogs alone dealt with the following topics: Presbyterian Identity Prince Edward Island Archives Scots-Irish and Muscogee (Creek) Connection The Un-churched Dictionary of the Churched (1811) – Part 2 The Un-Churched [...]
If you’re are doing Irish and/or Scottish genealogy, and you haven’t checked out Dwight Radford’s Journey Home Genealogy blog lately, you might want to do so. He’s posted a lot of good stuff lately. I keep a daily running listing of his blogs at: http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=18127. Check it out, if you want to get a great [...]
The following is an excerpt from a good article published in the “Mormon Times” section of the Deseret News on July 14, 2011. SALT LAKE CITY —”I’m just kind of flabbergasted that you found me,” said Margaret Cason, a genealogy blogger from Bountiful, when called for an interview. “I’m not accustomed to having anything I [...]
I wrote about Mocavo.com a few weeks ago when I had a brick-wall breakthrough. Now I see that Cliff Shaw has added the genealogy blogs, as well as other genealogist-suggested sites to be searched by his genealogy search engine. Following is a News Release I received last evening. Mocavo.com™ (http://www.mocavo.com), the world’s largest free search [...]
My friend, AC Ivory, has redesigned his website. Following is his news release, sent out today. A FRESH LOOK FOR A NEW YEAR Find My Ancestor Has Received a Makeover January 2, 2011 – Taylorsville, UT. Find My Ancestor has announced the redesign and update to their site. The site has received many new pages [...]
The following was received from my friend, Thomas MacEntee, at Geneabloggers. Win Two Free Admission Tickets Valued at $150 US September 21, 2010 – Chicago, IL. GeneaBloggers, the genealogy community’s resource for genealogy bloggers, is happy to announce the California Family History Expo contest running from September 21, 2010 through September 24, 2010. The prize: [...]
Got Georgia research? If so, you might be interested in the North Georgia Family History Bulletin. Edited by Mike Brubaker, the online monthly periodical deals with Georgia, as well as topics of National interest. The periodical is well done – and free! It’s also available in paper format for $10 a year. The March 2010 [...]
Nine bloggers spent the day at the Ancestry.com facilities on Friday. Most of those in attendance had visited Ancestry.com in January 2009. However, I didn’t because I was just getting back into blogging at that time, after having lost my blog for a few months. So the experience this year was all new to me. [...]
This post is number 1001 since I got GenealogyBlog up and running again in January. So I just thought I should celebrate a bit this evening. Here’s hoping that the last 1000 blogs were of interest and of use to my readers – and maybe even helped some of you advance your genealogy a bit. [...]
When I opened my morning paper (the Deseret News), this morning, I found an article in the business section titled, “FTC Targets Blog Product Reviews.” The article goes on to explain that the Federal Trade Commission has decided that they should use their authority to “make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers.” [...]
In browsing the blogs this evening, I ran across an interesting article called “Filling in That 10-Year Gap,” by Allison Aston at The ProGenealogists Blog. Allison writes about a family whose children were in an orphanage for a period of time following the death of their mother. So when located in the 1900 census, the [...]
Thanks for nominating GenealogyBlog for Family Tree Magazine‘s 40 Best GenealogyBlogs. It’s now time to vote – and there are some great blogs in the running! The voting is done by category with the following categories being listed (in the same order I have them listed below). All you’ll have to do is click on [...]
On September 15, Dick Eastman wrote an article entitled, Survey: Please Tell Us About Your Experiences. He asked the readers of his newsletter to answer an online questionnaire about their genealogy interests, genealogy software, their computers and their Internet connections. Dick posted a compilation of the responses today. Amazingly enough, 2,113 newsletter readers answered the [...]
If you’re anywhere near Oakland, California next weekend, you will want to attend a program being sponsored by the California Genealogical Society. Thomas MacEntee and Craig Manson will speak on the subject of blogging. The Saturday, October 10, 2009 Program: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. How to Use a Blog – MacEntee 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. [...]
