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Spammer on GenealogyWise

In the last two days we have repeatedly had a spammer named Joy send messages to the members of GenealogyWise.  We have removed her from the website on both days and added features to the sign up process to try to stop spammers.  However, sometimes spammers still get on the site.

Please know that as soon as we see a spammer we remove them from the website.  If you receive a link that someone has made a comment on your page but when you click on it nothing shows, that is because we removed that pe
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Welcome to 2010 at GenealogyWise

We want to take this opportunity to wish you a  Happy New Year.  We at FamilyLink, the company responsible for GenealogyWise, hope that this year brings you great family history discoveries. And to help you make those discoveries we are working on some exciting additions to GenealogyWise.  In the coming weeks look for:

  • More great Chats on a variety of topics
  • A FAQ link to help answer your questions about GenealogyWise
  • Additions to our Group Indexing Project
We look forward to making this a great yea
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Social Network Privacy

The following is from an article I wrote that appeared in the 18 December 2009 GenWise Newsletter.--Gena Philibert Ortega, Community Manager, GenealogyWise

 

One of the subjects that has come up in the last week has to do with social networking sites and privacy.  I would like to address some of the issues that you may want to consider as you use any social networking site whether that is GenealogyWise, Facebook, Twitter or many others. 

 

I think one of the important things to remember is that by p

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In Memory of Dawn Evans Stringer

This morning, Sunday October 11, one of our members, Dawn Evans Stringer, passed away from a heart attack.  You can read her husband's statement at http://www.genealogywise.com/profiles/blogs/this-will-be-the-last-post-for.

Dawn was a wonderful, kind person that many of us will miss. If you knew Dawn, please feel free to write your thoughts on her member page for her husband and family to read.  Her member page is at http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/DawnEvansStringer.

 

Gena Philibert Ortega   

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 Kelli Davis Underhill Honored as Our 4th GenealogyWise Angel

GenealogyWise has given our 4th GenealogyWise Angel Award to "Kelli Davis Underhill". If you have not met Kelli yet you probably have not been on any of the Texas groups, N.C. groups, or even some Indiana groups. Kelli is a Geneaholic from way back, and has been one of my Look-Up Angels from day one. She is a Group Admin of at least 17 groups.

Kelli loves anything to do with genealogy, and more than that I think she just loves helping p

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GenealogyWise has given our 2nd GenealogyWise Angel Award to Gail Winstanley. If you have not met Gail yet, I am sure you will soon. Gail helped us in the very beginning set up the site, and she continues to help volunteer where needed. She has made graphics for GenealogyWise, she has also helped with some of the content that is going into the “Welcome Center” Faq-Help page that will be released to the members soon. Last, but not least you can find Gail in any volunteer group. She is a Look-Up

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