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Monthly Archives February 2009

This Week’s New Geneablogs

[Note: this is a regular feature of Geneabloggers which highlights new genealogy and family history-related blogs as well as those recently discovered by members of Geneabloggers. Use the Suggest A Geneablog! link in the sidebar to pass along information on new blogs.] This week we offer a baker’s dozen of new genealogy and family-history related [...]

Surname Saturday – A Twitter Meme

Building upon Craig Manson’s Names, Places & Most Wanted Faces meme over at Geneablogie, and in an effort to get more geneabloggers to use Twitter, I am starting a new meme called Surname Saturday. First, you must be a Twitter user to participate.  If you need more information on how Twitter can help genealogists, read [...]

Happy Blogoversary footnote Maven!

Today is the blog anniversary for footnote Maven at http://www.footnotemaven.com – take a moment to visit her site, wish her well, and thank her for all the contributions to geneablogging she has made! Happy Blogoversary footnote Maven!

Geneabloggers Week In Review

This is a weekly feature which will document some of the geneablogger happenings. Here is a list of events, memes and goings-on in the world of geneablogging: Happy Blogoversary! Tomorrow, February 28th, is the blog anniversary for footnote Maven at http://www.footnotemaven.com.  To learn more on calculating your own blogoversary and displaying it in a badge [...]

StumbleUpon Adds Genealogy Category

For those geneabloggers who market their blog posts through various social bookmarking sites (Digg, Diigo, Reddit, etc.) will want to know that I contacted StumbleUpon and requested the addition of the Genealogy category to their drop-down list. It looks like they took about a day to consider my request and came through: I think that [...]

Wanted: Guest Posters

In keeping with Geneabloggers as a community resource, we are always looking for Guest Posters to help us keep content fresh and interesting.  In addition, we could use help from anyone with an idea for an on-going column or series of posts. One example of a Guest Poster is Kathryn Lake Hogan of LOOKING4ANCESTORS who [...]

Upcoming Geneablogger Projects – Your Help Needed

Beginning in March, Geneabloggers will be working on two core projects that are vital to our growth as a group and to providing valuable services to the genealogy community.  I am looking for volunteers and also ideas for completing these by the end of March if possible. gene@pedia – A Wiki Barnraising So far there [...]

How Can I Make Money By Blogging?

Many of us have started our genealogy blogs because we either wanted to document our journey of finding our roots or we wanted to make sure others in our family could access and benefit from our recent discoveries. Over time, besides seeing a proliferation of blogs (which is natural – most geneabloggers end up with [...]

May I Introduce To You…Thomas MacEntee

I think you will agree that I would be remiss if I did not profile this geneablogger for the “May I Introduce to You…” article. He calls himself “The Pearl Mesta of geneabloggers and Facebook. A 40-something genealogy and technology enthusiast looking to combine both. ” May I introduce to you… Thomas MacEntee. Thomas has [...]

This Week’s New Geneablogs

[Note: this is a regular feature of Geneabloggers which highlights new genealogy and family history-related blogs as well as those recently discovered by members of Geneabloggers. Use the Suggest A Geneablog! link in the sidebar to pass along information on new blogs.] We’ve tracked down – with the assistance from some geneablogger sleuths – 12 [...]