Facebook? Facebook is for college kids, right? My friends had to nudge and nudge me to join since it has more than a few years since my college days.But here are the facts: Facebook is growing 3% month with 100,000 new members every day. The fastest growing segment is OVER the age of 25.And those interested in genealogy and family history are joining Facebook and making it a place to network,

Zillow.com is a pretty cool free real estate website. Type in any U.S. address and you will receive information about the house - even if the house is not up for sale. This info includes public information such as:the year the house was built, how many bedrooms and bathrooms, square footage, taxes, lot size, the approximate house value as of today,the name of the neighborhood, a Microsoft Virtual

Back Up Your Data!Protecting genealogy research that has taken years to gather is a must because, sadly, computers are vulnerable to hard drive crashes, viruses, theft and natural disasters. It's possible to lose all your files in an instant. Scary thought. We all need to have both a comprehensive backup plan for our digital research files and a security plan for our hard copies and photos.Here

I think the Genea-bloggers Games are exactly what I need. A fun reminder to do some genealogy that I always seem to put off until tomorrow - with tomorrow never arriving, of course.Each Games participant was asked to create a flag for the Opening Ceremonies using the tool on http://www.wear...colored.com/ . The tool allows a combination of 3 country flags, so I chose the United States, France

Google recently posted in its blog:Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!The first Google index in 1998 had 26 million pages (not websites), and by 2000 the Google index reached one billion.