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Registration now open for our next three webinars

Posted by Geoff Rasmussen on October 6, 2010 at 8:11am

To celebrate Family History Month we are announcing our next three webinars:

  • Blogging for Beginners with DearMYRTLE on Wednesday, October 20, 2010
  • New Family History Technology with Paul Larsen on Wednesday, October 27, 2010
  • Organize, Share, and Publish Your Digital Photos with Heritage Collector Suite with Marlo Schuldt on Wednesday, November 3

Join one or join all three! Registration for every webinar is free and open to anyone. Register at www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/webinars.asp.

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Two family history blogs

Posted by Steve Hayes on September 30, 2010 at 12:46am
I now have two family history blogs (apart from this one):
  • Personal Family History and Family News. This blog, on Wordpress, is a log of our family history research, and also has snippets of information about our family, either family news in the present, or anecdotes from the past.
  • General Genealogy Research: This is a more general blog (on Blogger) on family history and genealogical research, discussing sources and resources, method, technique and theory, including software tools for research.
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Elyse Doerfinger the revelation on genealogy blogging

Posted by Daniel Horowitz on July 20, 2009 at 5:00pm
Elyse DoerflingerElyse Doerfinger is only 19 years old, but she is already a seasoned genealogist, which makes her a bit of a prodigy in the usually older genealogy scene. Elyse is a member of the Youth Genealogists Society and the Graveyard Rabbit Student society, a student and a blogger.She attend the past Genealogy Jamboree in California were she meet and impress a lot of experienced geneablogger.You can read the complete interview with this incredible young genealogist on MyHeritage blog
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Your Genealogy Blog - Content Theft and Guarding Your Internet Reputation

Posted by Thomas MacEntee on July 12, 2009 at 12:00pm

Just a heads up that many genealogy bloggers are seeing their recent blog content reused at splogs (spam blogs). Just like spam and every other scam that seems to invade the Net, periodically blog content theft rears its ugly head and hits even genealogy blogs.I've written about this extensively over at the GeneaBloggers.com website and you can read more here.You'll find ways to detect blog content theft, how to send a cease and desist notice, how to set up automatic alerts for your content, and
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What is a blog carnival?

Posted by Thomas MacEntee on July 14, 2009 at 9:00am
Anyone who has been following me or my group GeneaBloggers here on Genealogy Wise will know that I post several events each month including blog carnivals.I often need to be reminded that - just because I've been blogging about my genealogy research and family history for almost three years now - not everyone is familiar with the concept of a blog carnival. So here is my attempt at an explanation:- A blog carnival is usually hosted by a blog owner and runs on a regularly scheduled basis such as
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Do I Need A Genealogy or Family History Blog?

Posted by Thomas MacEntee on July 11, 2009 at 9:01am
Technology - and specifically the Internet - has allowed many of us to make great advances with our own genealogy research. And it has given us the ability to connect and network with other genealogists on sites like GenealogyWise.My colleague Elyse Doerflinger who runs the Elyse's Genealogy Blog has another great post that takes her genealogical societies discussion one step further into the technology realm.Elyse points out how relatively easy it is for people to create a blog these days and h
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What is a blog meme?

Posted by Thomas MacEntee on July 14, 2009 at 3:30pm

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As a follow-up to my recent post - What is a blog carnival? - I received several inquires about events such as Madness Monday and Tombstone Tuesday in which many genealogy bloggers seem to participate.A blog meme is different from a blog carnival in that there is no formal "hosting" portion of the event. This means it is loosely organized - often spreading by mere "word of mouth" or "word of blog post" as it were. Some memes are regular and long-running such as Wordless Wednesday.Some blog meme
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GenealogyWise blog posts

Posted by Tamura Jones on July 11, 2009 at 11:00am
GenealogyWise blog postsI've updated my GenealogyWise article (http://bit.ly/genwise) with links to over twenty blog posts about GenealogyWise.I did not attempt to create a complete list, that's a job for FamilyLink PR :-)Heck, someone is probably writing yet another blog post about GenealogyWise as I post this.I just wanted to show how varied the reactions and opinions are and how much it has been blogged about already.You're welcome to check out the list in the article, but the idea of posting
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