{"id":100,"date":"2016-10-10T00:18:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:18:53","slug":"genealogy-gems-more-online-resources-you-need-to-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Gems &#8211; More Online Resources You Need to Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 21 May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I told you about 5 of my favorite free sites and here\u2019s a few more that I think you\u2019ll love as much as I do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every Sunday, with my morning coffee, I look forward to reading The Genealogy News Weekly Edition sponsored by Genealogy Today\u00a0support@genealogytoday.com. \u00a0This newsletter contains lots of press releases from the most well known organizations in genealogy to keep you up-to-date, as well as research tips and findings from historians around the world. I click on the links and when I find one that may help me with a brickwall, I copy and paste the site info as a comment on my ancestry tree associated with the person I&#8217;m stuck on. This way, I don&#8217;t forget the source to check out and I don&#8217;t feel rushed to do it immediately. \u00a0Since my tree is public, others researching the same ancestors can see the comment and check it out themselves. \u00a0Win-Win for everyone!<\/li>\n<li>Another very good newsletter is Genealogy and Technology E-News by Thomas MacEntree, also the founder of Geneabloggers. \u00a0You can subscribe at\u00a0geneabloggers@gmail.com.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ll be writing a future blog soon about info in one of the past newsletters.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve mentioned Legacy before but they deserve to be mentioned again &#8211; weekly newsletter and webinars that are well worth taking. \u00a0Subscribe to their email list at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacyfamilytree.com\/LegacyLists.asp\">http:\/\/www.legacyfamilytree.com\/LegacyLists.asp<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0My infatuation with Pinterest is recent.\u00a0\u00a0I created an account when it was new but I couldn\u2019t figure out how to use the site for genealogy so my husband commandeered it and posted all kinds of building, gardening and craft ideas. That worked for me &#8211; my backyard is gorgeous with all the ideas he&#8217;s found! \u00a0Last winter I returned to pinterest with genealogy in mind and\u00a0organized my site as Genealogy Guffaws (humor), Genealogy Quotes, American History, Middle Ages and Genealogy Organizers.\u00a0\u00a0Go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/<\/a>\u00a0and put your interest area in boards or type my site names (Genealogy Guffaws) to go directly to my pages.\u00a0You&#8217;ll be amazed at all of the genealogy related info that is out there.<\/li>\n<li>My personal favorite of all is Google Picassa\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/picasa.google.com\/\">https:\/\/picasa.google.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0 I have uploaded all my photos and stored them in the cloud. \u00a0This way, I don&#8217;t have to worry about their destruction, my family has access and they&#8217;re organized by person so I can find the photo I\u2019m looking for quickly, wherever I am. \u00a0The absolutely coolest feature, though, is facial recognition. \u00a0I had a lot of old photos in which my dearly departed ones didn&#8217;t bother to identify the people. Picassa gives you suggestions as to who they might be based on photos that you have already identified. \u00a0It does tend to mix up young children &#8211; confused my kids several times but since I knew who they were it was a quick fix. \u00a0I have this downloaded on my desktop but you can view it anywhere, anytime. \u00a0I also have my smart phone photos sent directly to the site. \u00a0For my recent trip to Salt Lake City, Picassa created a book based on the photos that it uploaded. It was a wonderful way to remember the trip and took no time on my part to do that!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;ve found these free sites valuable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always looking for more so let me know about others that are your personal favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 21 May 2015. Last time I told you about 5 of my favorite free sites and here\u2019s a few more that I think you\u2019ll love as much as I do: Every Sunday, with my morning coffee, I look forward to reading The Genealogy News Weekly Edition sponsored by Genealogy Today\u00a0support@genealogytoday.com. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genealogy Gems &#8211; More Online Resources You Need to Know About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}