Social Networking Archives - Genealogical.com https://genealogical.com/subject/social-networking/ The Best Source for Genealogy and Family History Books and eBooks Wed, 28 May 2025 19:41:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://genealogical.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-genappicon-300x300-1-125x125.png Social Networking Archives - Genealogical.com https://genealogical.com/subject/social-networking/ 32 32 Genealogy in Reverse: Finding the Living https://genealogical.com/store/genealogy-in-reverse-finding-the-living/ Sat, 24 May 2025 14:08:49 +0000 https://genealogical.com/?post_type=product&p=84231 Genealogy often feels like a treasure hunt, piecing together the stories of those who came before us. But sometimes the focus shifts from the past to the present as we look for living relatives who can fill in the gaps in our family stories. Learning how to find living relatives can be a valuable skill […]

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]]> Genealogy often feels like a treasure hunt, piecing together the stories of those who came before us. But sometimes the focus shifts from the past to the present as we look for living relatives who can fill in the gaps in our family stories. Learning how to find living relatives can be a valuable skill to help you reach out and connect with living family and descendants of your ancestors who may have the information you are looking for or be able to put you in touch with those who do.

This book aims to help genealogists at every level learn to trace descendants of ancestors, both direct line and collateral. With step-by-step guidance, methodologies, and practical examples, this guide will give you the tools and confidence to find and make meaningful connections with living family members. In fact, finding living relatives isn’t all that different from tracing your direct-line ancestors and their families. The same skills apply—researching, organizing information, and following clues—but with a focus on connecting the past to the present. This process, known as reverse genealogy, involves creating a detailed family tree, identifying relatives down both ancestral and collateral lines, and using modern tools to track them down.

Cheri Hudson Passey is a professional genealogist, instructor, writer, speaker, and owner of Carolina Girl Genealogy, LLC. She hosts the “GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show on YouTube, where she and a panel of professional genealogists meet weekly to discuss all things genealogy. Cheri began working as a genealogist researcher subcontracted by Eagle Investigative Services, Inc., for the US Army Past Conflict Reparations Branch in 2018. She uses her skills to identify and locate the next of kin, along with YDNA and mtDNA candidates for the families of World War II soldiers who are listed as missing in action. The goal is to use DNA to positively identify remains and, with the permission of next of kin, bring our war heroes home.

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]]> Social Networking for Genealogists https://genealogical.com/store/social-networking-for-genealogists/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:16:25 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/social-networking-for-genealogists/ This book describes the wide array of social networking services that are now available online and highlights how these services can be used by genealogists to share information, photos, and videos with family, friends, and other researchers. Each chapter guides you through a unique category of social networking services using genealogy-related examples. From blogs and […]

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]]> This book describes the wide array of social networking services that are now available online and highlights how these services can be used by genealogists to share information, photos, and videos with family, friends, and other researchers. Each chapter guides you through a unique category of social networking services using genealogy-related examples. From blogs and wikis to Facebook and Second Life, author Drew Smith shows you how to incorporate these powerful new tools into your family history research.

Specifically, you’ll find chapters devoted to the following social networking services:

  • Blogs
  • Collaborative editing
  • Genealogy-specific social networks
  • General social networking (Facebook)
  • Message boards & mailing lists
  • Photos & video sharing
  • Podcasts
  • RSS feeds
  • Sharing personal libraries
  • Tags
  • Virtual worlds
  • Wikis

Destined to become a classic, this book is about the type of social networking that has been made possible by the development of international computer networks, the availability of network access to most homes (especially broadband access), the creation of websites dedicated to particular kinds of networking (posting photos, viewing and commenting on videos, seeing what books friends have in their libraries, etc.), and the ease of participating in these sites without having to be a computer expert. More to the point, this book is intended to identify those kinds of social networking sites and services that will be of the most interest to genealogists.

THE AUTHOR
Drew Smith, MLS, is an academic librarian with the University of South Florida in Tampa. An expert in digital genealogy, with a lifelong interest in family history research, he is Director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies and President of the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. He is also a regular contributor to Digital Genealogist magazine and is co-host of the weekly Genealogy Guys Podcast.

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