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

  1. ↑ Collamer, Nancy. "Career Shift: Turn Your Hobby Into a New Job". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
  2. ↑ MacEntee, Thomas. "A New Beginning". Geneabloggers.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  3. ↑ Meece, Mickey (2011-05-18). "Finding Family History Online". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  4. ↑ "Genealogy Blog Roll". Geneabloggers.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  • Official website
  • "What is a "GeneaBlogger" ?". DearMYRTLE.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.


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