GeneaBloggers
GeneaBloggers is a categorized list of blogs for genealogical research. The site lists roughly 3,000 blogs in over 50 categories. GeneaBloggers is a membership site (gratis) that encourages genealogists and family historians to document their research to share with other researchers.
History
GeneaBloggers began as a group on Facebook in June 2008, and quickly grew to 300 members, all of whom were bloggers documenting their family history.
In January, 2009, Thomas MacEntee created the GeneaBloggers website [1][2] as a resource for genealogy bloggers and as a way of tracking and listing the new genealogy blogs appearing in the blogosphere.[3]
As of July 2014, there are 2,957 members[4] with blogs listed from around the world covering more than 50 different genealogy-related topics.
Structure
Member blogs are tagged with one or more category and can be found at the Genealogy Blog Roll using the search function. The top level divisions are:
- African-American Genealogy
- Australian Genealogy
- Canadian Genealogy
- Jewish Genealogy
- Libraries and Archives
- Genealogy Societies
- Genealogy Vendors
- Individual Family History
- Military
- Photography
- Professional Genealogists
- UK Genealogy
References
- ↑ Collamer, Nancy. "Career Shift: Turn Your Hobby Into a New Job". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ MacEntee, Thomas. "A New Beginning". Geneabloggers.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- ↑ Meece, Mickey (2011-05-18). "Finding Family History Online". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- ↑ "Genealogy Blog Roll". Geneabloggers.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
External links
- Official website
- "What is a "GeneaBlogger" ?". DearMYRTLE.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.