Here is a snapshot of all of our RootsTech Twitter activity the past 7 days. Almost 3500 tweets from 334 contributors. 494 tweets/day. That’s a lot of talking people! The peak was on Saturday, the last day. But think about it. There were 3000+ attendees and only 10% on Twitter. Imagine what it would […]
Over the weekend, many of us were busy online tweeting & blogging about (as well as following along) to all the events at RootsTech. I personally spent hours reading about all the great things going on. On Tuesday, another conference starts that some of my geneabuddies & library friends may be interested in – the
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Do you have an iPad? Do you use Flipboard? If not, you are missing out! Flipboard turns content from various resources from basic streams into a visual smorgasbord. Today, I realized I should add a section on my Flipboard for showing my @taneya/genealogy list I have through Twitter. How cool is this? Browsing is as
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I love infographics. Saw this one on iMortuary via Ancestry Insider Blog. Via: Funeral Flowers at iMortuary.com
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Today my genealogy blog is 5 years old. Wow! My first post on the blog was not lengthy, but in it, I hypothesized that I’d use this blog to “document what I learn as I research my family’s genealogy.” That has certainly turned out to be the case too. While I initially was not sure
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Last night while browsing through my RSS feeds I happened across a blog post on the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society News website requesting help in finding a photo of Dwight Hillis Wilson. Dwight Hillis Wilson (1909-1962), a native of Raleigh, NC , was a former archivist at Fisk University (here in my city of
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Last night, my husband and I were watching Roots: The Next Generations. We watch this periodically and each time I watch it, I do some online searching to add to the tree I’m building for Alex Haley’s family. It’s just a curiosity I have. One storyline that fascinates my husband is that of the interracial
Over the past few months I have been contributing to FamilySearch’s Research Wiki. In August I did a post describing my overall & positive impressions of the site. Essentially, it could become the Wikipedia for Genealogy if enough of us contribute to it. FamilySearch already has an impressive number of volunteers contributing to the Indexing
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Challenger Explosion, and upon that shuttle was astronaut Ronald Erwin McNair. (Photo credits: 1971 Senior Yearbook Photo – A&T University, North Carolina) Family lore has that he is related to us — my maternal grandmother is a McNair from Washington County, North Carolina. As yet I’ve not further
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