Madness Monday September 21, 2009 Today is Madness Monday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Madness Monday. What is it? Madness Monday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Madness Monday simply create a post with the main focus being an ancestor who may have suffered from some form of mental illness or an ancestor who drives you “mad” because you have trouble locating them or locating more information about them. You can read more about Madness ...

Ahnentafel Roulette | GeneaBloggers Learn about this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun and how you can use an Ahnentafel report to learn more about your ancestors. The Value of Play | GeneaBloggers Is play more than just fun? Is play also educational? Saturday Night Genealogy Fun and its role in the genealogy blogging community.

SNGF – Ahnentafel Roulette This week's edition of Saturday Night Genealogy Fun (SNGF) organized by Randy Seaver of the Genea-Musings blog has been posted. This week's theme involves determining your Ahnentafel Roulette number based upon your father's birth year and then writing about the ancestor assigned that number in the Ahnentafel report. See Randy's post for details on how you can participate. Many genealogy bloggers have participated so far and it is still early Sunday morning in some parts. Below is a listing of the last blog posts and here is a link to all the posts. ...

The Value of Play Many of us in the genealogy blogging community are very familiar with the wonderful series of blogging prompts called Saturday Night Genealogy Fun (SNGF) created by Randy Seaver of the Genea-Musings blog. But have you ever thought of the concept as more than just “games” or “play?” If you have children or grand-children you know that play is an important part of the educational process. So too with adults. There are times when we don't allow ourselves time to play, time to educate ourselves. So how valuable is SNGF? Well if you look at this ...

Black Sheep Sunday September 20, 2009 Don't forget that today is Black Sheep Sunday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Black Sheep Sunday. What is it? Black Sheep Sunday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Black Sheep Sunday simply create a post with the main focus being an ancestor with a "shaded past." You can read more about Black Sheep Sunday here at gene@pedia . Here are the latest Black Sheep Sunday posts from our member genealogy bloggers: ...

New Genealogy Blogs September 19, 2009 [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 menu bar to pass along information on new blogs.] This week we offer 17 new genealogy and family-history related blogs and we now list 619 in our blog list! Remember to try and help out these new blogs by: - using the Follow feature if the blog is hosted on Blogger - adding them to your blog reader - adding a comment on their blog ...

Upcoming Genealogy Blogging Events Week of September 18 – 25, 2009 Here is a list of events, memes and goings-on in the world of genealogy blogging and what's happening in the coming week: Happy Blogiversary! On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, Luxegen Genealogy and Family History celebrates its first anniversary! If you haven't check out this great Canadian genealogy blog yet please stop by and tell Joan congratulations. There are no blogiversaries this coming week! Remember to send your blog anniversary info to GeneaBloggers . Genealogy Blog Carnivals The 23rd Edition of the ...

Treasure Chest Thursday September 17, 2009 Today is Treasure Chest Thursday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Treasure Chest Thursday. What is it? Treasure Chest Thursday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Treasure Chest Thursday simply create a post with the main focus being a family treasure, an heirloom or even an every-day item important to your family. You can read more about Treasure Chest Thursday here at gene@pedia . A special thanks to Leslie Ann ...

TweepML – Genealogy Companies and People on Twitter If you are a user of Twitter as well as interested in genealogy and family history, you may know that GeneaBloggers maintains a list of Genealogy Companies and People on Twitter over at gene@pedia . I just did a major update of that list and please, if I missed you or your company accept my apologies and send me an email so I can add you! It was rather time consuming and I keep looking for better ways to generate these types of lists. Well thanks to a new web-based application called TweepML anyone can create lists of Twitter users ...

Wordless Wednesday September 16, 2009 Today is Wordless Wednesday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Wordless Wednesday. What is it? Wordless Wednesday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Wordless Wednesday simply create a post with the main focus being a photograph or image. Some people also include attribute information as to the source of the image (date, location, owner, etc.). Some have begun doing a “Not So Wordless Wednesday” with the main ...

Blog2Print Turns Your Blog Into A Book If you've ever considered printing selected posts and images from your genealogy blog to share as a keepsake with family, consider Blog2Print . Blog2Print lets you choose your posts and photos to include in a full-color, soft-cover or even hard-cover book. You can even include comments and add other materials not posted on your blog. Blogger has just announced a partnership with Blog2Print but you can also take advantage of its features if you have a Wordpres s or Typepad blog. (via Blogger Buzz ) © 2009, copyright Thomas MacEntee Post from: ...

Dealing With Duplicate Blog Names While not common, recently a member of GeneaBloggers realized that their blog name had been used by a new blogger when creating a blog. Usually this happens when there is a fairly common name in use. But there are times when someone is simply trying to work off of the reputation you've worked long and hard to build as a blogger. Why Worry About Another Blog With The Same Name? One aspect of the genealogy blogging community that I cherish is the lack of competition. What I mean is that many bloggers understand there is room for many at the table: we all ...

RollGator – Display Your Blog Feed If you are in need of a way to display items such as a blog feed, tweets from Twitter etc. on a monitor or projected on to a wall, check out RollGator . Why Display Feeds? Now you may ask, "Why would I want to display something like that?" Here are some ideas: as a vendor at a genealogy conference, if you have a blog or use Twitter, you could display those items constantly scrolling at your booth if you are the organizer of a genealogy conference and have encouraged the use of a hashtag on Twitter, you can display what others are saying about ...

Tombstone Tuesday September 15, 2009 Today is Tombstone Tuesday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Tombstone Tuesday. What is it? Tombstone Tuesday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Tombstone Tuesday simply create a post which includes an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors and it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor . You can read more about Tombstone Tuesday here at gene@pedia . Here are the latest Tombstone ...

Madness Monday September 14, 2009 Today is Madness Monday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Madness Monday. What is it? Madness Monday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Madness Monday simply create a post with the main focus being an ancestor who may have suffered from some form of mental illness or an ancestor who drives you “mad” because you have trouble locating them or locating more information about them. You can read more about Madness ...