From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Apr 24 02:24:06 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3O8O6jb003056; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:24:06 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3O8O2Of028527 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:24:02 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3O5p7FI013742 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:51:07 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k3O5p7Dg013741 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:51:07 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k3NLvhFI012481 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:57:43 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k3O0URm2006562 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:30:27 -0600 X-Envelope-From: omchodoy@gmail.com Sun Apr 23 18:30:27 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3O0URjb006553 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:30:27 -0600 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.230]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3O0ULgh015962 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:30:21 -0600 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i20so713332wra for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hobQrrsXNfN30mSoEEstMpbl6GycTWftaNKPraFE/aj8iI8Aov4ls6QJoNpxoFNDMRXAL9gdhQHyiSDAOnFD3yEigox25AytR/oX/JfcwuB+lqfI9r4F52vIT2Tpkd47ORKxPU5X+b0QNC9E8lShh3dC5zix3SVrhAbF7IHSKWQ= Received: by 10.64.143.3 with SMTP id q3mr1469027qbd; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.243.5 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:22 -0700 From: Colleen To: Joe Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Genealogy Blogging - a brief guide Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by admin.rootsweb.com id k3O0URjb006553 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Don't ever underestimate the power of blogging :). I've been blogging for a year now and have had no less than 3 distant cousins find it and email me with information and friendship; I've had 4 to 5 other cousin connections made through the ones that found me! I don't put everything on my blog (though my current one is the most comprehensive I've ever had in terms of surnames posted on it), so people who email me claiming a connection generally need to have something in their email that I don't have posted so that I know it's a legit email connection and not a scam (I'm getting suspicious in the internet age!). Anyway, go blogging. And feel free to add a link to my blogs to yours :). Which reminds me, if you have any funny idiosyncrasies of genealogy research that you want to share, I need more posts to my Only in Genealogy blog (www.onlyingenealogy.blogspot.com!). On 4/23/06, Joe wrote: > Hello Folks, > I thought I'd share some genealogy-related blog stuff that you might > find useful. There are a number of people sharing online genealogy > tips, news and records through blogs. So why not jump in? Make a blog. > Read a blog. Share a blog. Have fun! > > Mini Directory of Cool Genealogy Blogs > http://paperangels.googlepages.com/genealogy_blogs > > What, Not Blogging Yet? > http://genealogue.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-not-blogging-yet.html > > My very own blog... > Genealogy Roots Blog > for finding online genealogy databases, records and resources > http://genrootsblog.blogspot.com/ > > Here's an example of a blog that's using the blog format to display > and categorize online records (how cool is that?) - note the nifty > search box at the top of the page... > Oxford County, Maine Genealogy Notebook > http://oxfordcounty.blogspot.com/ > > ---- > > Some free places to put a blog of your own making... > > Blogger/Blogspot (owned by Google) > http://www.blogger.com/ > > Live Journal > http://www.livejournal.com/ > > Word Press > http://www.wordpress.com/ > > ---- > > And yeah, Cyndi's List now has a genealogy blog category... > http://www.cyndislist.com/blogs.htm > > Feel free to post this to any genealogy newsgroups or forums you are > subscribed to. Or blog it! :) > > Good luck with your searches. > > Regards, > Joe > > -- Colleen www.omchodoy.blogspot.com www.onlyingenealogy.blogspot.com