Social Networking and Genealogy. New Version of a very old prac8ce

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1 Social Networking and Genealogy New Version of a very old prac8ce

2 What is Social Networking? A way of using online resources and services to create and maintain a community of individuals who share a common interest. It s usually free.

3 A LiCle History We genealogists were very early users of the internet for social networking, but before that there was telephone- Remember Party Lines? And before that, according to one of the Roots Tech Gurus, there was telegraph- all tools for social interac8on, or networking as we call it now. Usenet Fidonet Geni AOL Compuserve Prodigy

4 US GenWeb Project hcp://usgenweb.org/

5 Rootsweb hcp:// Surname List Family Trees Mailing lists Message Boards Websites

6 Free Websites by Rootweb

7 Genforum hcp://genforum.genealogy.com/

8 Ancestry.Com Family Trees, Search, Collaborate

9 Ancestry Hints

10 Mocavo hcp://

11 Mocavo hcp://

12 Mocavo Surname Search

13 Facebook hcps://

14 Defini8on of Facebook Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc.. [1] As of February 2012, Facebook has more than 845 million ac8ve users. [5] Users must register before using the site, a^er which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automa8c no8fica8ons when they update their profile. Users may join common- interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteris8cs, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site. [

15 What is Facebook for you and me? hcps:// Social Networking Site You can connect with almost anybody from your past. You can make new friends (well sort of, with caveats) You can arrange your 50 th reunion from high school You can embarrass your children You can lose your privacy

16 How Do You Sign On To Facebook? Log on to Facebook.com, and follow the direc8ons Limit the informa8on about yourself to as licle as you can post- name, birth date, address. Look at the account and privacy sefngs This is where people give too much info- Resist Tempta8ons Games, or anything that wants to access your personal info Look for old friends and rela8ves Have fun

17 How Does Facebook Work? You search for people you might know Then you send a message Then a friend request You can chat publicly or privately. Post pictures, post favorite quotes, get in poli8cal arguments with your cousins Find fellow genealogists or other hobbiests

18 It Works For Genealogy You Can Create Pages Ancestorville Polish Genealogy Acadian Genealogy Family Pages Lists Genealogy Facebook Compiles all of posts from the lists I have Liked or have added to my list Places Genealogy Center Fort Wayne Indiana

19 Ancestorville

20 Family Group Pages

21 New Face of Bearden Cousins

22 My Facebook Genealogy List

23 TwiCer hcps://twicer.com/ Twi+er is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text- based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011, [6] genera8ng over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. [3] [8][9] It has been described as "the SMS (Short message service) of the Internet." [10] TwiCer Inc. is based in San Francisco, with addi8onal servers and offices in New York City

24 TwiCer Looks like this

25 To Sign Up for TwiCer hcps://twicer.com/ Follow the direc8ons Choose a sensible user name- especially if you are going to use if for Genealogy Protect your privacy Post an appropriate picture

26 My Profile

27 TwiCer Terminology Tweep or Twit: a TwiCer user Tweet: using TwiCer to send text message Follower: a tweep who tracks your tweets Shorten URL: use a URL trimming site Re- Tweet or RT: resending another twit s tweet DM: direct message in private to a specific reply: sent to a specific tweep but visible to all #: hash mark designa8ng topic as in #genealogy Avatar: your TwiCer profile photo More terminology at TwiConary hcp://

28 TwiCer and Genealogy You can share informa8on with other genealogists Share Surnames Instant News Find Genealogy Resources Find Events, Share successes, Vendor News

29 To Find Genealogy on TwiCer Hash Tag and the Name or #Genealogy

30 Google+ hcps://plus.google.com/?utm Google Plus was established in 2011 to compete with Facebook. Organizes different interest groups into Circles I signed up early on, but don t find it quite as easy to use as Facebook and TwiCer Has some great possibili8es

31 How to Join You need to be over 18 You need a Google Account It s Free

32 Google Plus Genealogy Circle

33 Genealogy Wise hcp://

34 Ellen s Genealogy Wise Page

35 What does Genealogy Wise Offer? Forums Blogs Videos Live chats Surname and locality groups Educa8on from St. Michael s College of the University of Toronto, Including a Cer8cate

36 A Few Genealogy Wise Groups

37 Ellen s Group

38 A Few Genealogy Wise Blogs

39 Blog A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log) [1] is a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consis8ng of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first. Blogs are usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and o^en are themed on a single subject. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

40 A Few Good Blogs hcp://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ hcps:// hcp:// hcp://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/ hcp://blog.dearmyrtle.com/

41 WIKI A Web site developed collabora8vely by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. hcp:// hcp:// hcp:// 8tle=Main_Page&cj=1&ne8d=cj&o_xid= &o_lid=

42 The End.