Tag: Facebook

Getting Family History Help with Facebook Groups

Several years ago my friend Sue Maxwell introduced me to an interesting family history resource: Genealogy on Facebook. The site takes you to a free PDF by Katherine Willson that you can download. It has links to Facebook groups that deal with many aspects of genealogy, including geographical research, surnames, societies and more. There are even links to Facebook groups...

Training Tips from Our Facebook Group

If you’re a member of the Trainers/Consultants/Directors Facebook Group for The Family History Guide, you’re likely familiar with the weekly “Training Tips” feature. At the time of this writing, there are 18 tip articles so far on the Facebook page. We’ve decided to make these available on the main website as well, with one difference: new Training Tips articles will...

Facebook and The Family History Guide

These days, Facebook has become a go-to choice for collaborating on family history. The Family History Guide is an active player in the Facebook world, sharing the joys of family history. Here are some of the ways we are involved with Facebook: Main Page Our main Facebook page is approaching 2,000 likes and follows, from many locations around the world....

What’s New in The Family History Guide Facebook Pages

As you are probably aware, we have two Facebook pages: one is for the Main page of The Family History Guide, and the other is for the Trainers, Consultants, and Directors page. The latter is a closed Group, but anyone with an interest in family history training is welcome to join. Below are some of the features we have instituted...

What is the Benefit of Facebook for Family History and Genealogy?

These past couple of months I have had lots of questions about what social media has to do with family history and genealogy.  Most people can name several social media platforms but don’t recognize that there are hundreds and hundreds of Social Media platforms.  In the broadest sense of the definition, social media is any platform that offers interaction with...