This afternoon, one of my genea-buddies posted a blog post about the benefits of joining a genealogy society. She notes that membership of gen societies are down and ponders how more genealogists can be recruited to join & she offers great examples of how mutually beneficial the relationship can be. As I read her post, […]
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This is just one of those totally geeky librarian moments you’re about to read about. Two days ago, the Open Library project announced a soft-launch of their new interface. The Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive with a goal to have one page for every book. I am a fan of the
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Back in October, I posted about my desire to see more genealogy societies and organizations leveraging webconference technology. For those of us that may be interested in attending but aren’t able to physically make it, I wondered if there would be a push from any group to do this kind of e-conference activity.
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Last night I eagerly watched the first episode in the new PBS Series, Faces of America, facilitated by Henry Louis Gates. There’s been a lot of buzz in the genealogy community in anticipation of the show. It comes at the heels of Gates’ popular African-American Lives & African-American Lives 2 series. After the show, I
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I’m in the middle of working on a presentation that I have due tomorrow, but I had to take a break to do this post before I forget about it. So, today I’m in the car on the way home listening to my first Genealogy Guys Podcast. A few minutes into it, I learn from
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Some random thoughts from me as I’ve pondered this over the past several weeks. Are there any genealogy societies out there that Skype in (or use other videoconferencing apps) to the meeting people who wish to participate but are not able to physically be there? Over the past few months, I’ve seen some interesting articles
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Thanks everyone who commented on the NCGenWeb redesign and all of my other crazy activities. Over the past couple of days I’ve continued to work on NCGenWeb “stuff” and am quite excited by all that is developing. As I take the time to futther explore more of the county sites, I am finding information
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I hardly know where to even begin with this post – I have so much going on these days! In the past week, I’ve hardly kept up with all the geneablogsphere activity as I’ve been rather self-absorbed in my newest endeavors. In the past three weeks or so, I’ve agreed to several genealogy activities. #1)
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With the recent news of Ancestry updating their Online Member Trees I have been thinking over this for a few days now. Randy’s excellent post describing his experiences with the new interface prompted me to go ahead and explore it for myself and I was quite pleased. While the changes they have currently implemented are
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I’m feeling particularly uninspired this week with my genealogy, so I was happy to see that this week’s Weekly Genealogy prompt was right up my alley. Thanks to We Tree for creating the weekly prompts, and thanks to Thomas for keeping allo of our events organized and sending reminders via the Facebook Genea-Bloggers group. This
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