{"id":98,"date":"2016-10-10T00:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:16:52","slug":"genealogy-gems-online-resources-you-need-to-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Gems \u2013 Online Resources You Need to Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 17 May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>I was rereading Mills\u2019 Professional Genealogy this past week and the chapter on <em>The Essential Library<\/em> got me thinking of the resources that I consider must haves.\u00a0 Mills was referring to books on a shelf but I find myself using more online resources these days.\u00a0 Wish her books had a Kindle edition; it\u2019s so clunky to carry around!<\/p>\n<p>Besides the obvious Big 5 resources \u2013 Ancestry, Family Search, Fold3, Heritage Quest and American Ancestor \u2013 that I can access as a paid member anywhere or use at my local library for free, I find lots of good info at these <strong>FREE<\/strong> sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genealogy In Time Magazine in their words, \u201cmaintains the most complete list available on the internet of the newest genealogy record sets from around the world.\u201d\u00a0 I love this resource for the time they save me in identifying newly posted internet records from around the world. \u00a0See more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyintime.com\/records\/newest-genealogy-records.html?awt_l=Ou_8E&amp;awt_m=JZXdfuSUzAk.Vy#sthash.p01lTJJ3.dpuf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Crestleaf.com blog has innovative ideas and heartfelt and humorous stories.\u00a0 They email me links to their featured stories so I can quickly click what I\u2019m most interested in.\u00a0 Here\u2019s examples of just a few of this week\u2019s offerings: \u00a021 Ways to Know You Were Raised by Polish Parents \u2013 Infographic, 5\u00a0Simple Ways to Organize Your Digital Family Photos, 7 Useful Smartphone Apps for Genealogy Research, If You Grew Up in the 1960s, You Definitely Wore These Things, The Most Important Step Missing From Your Genealogy Research, and Simple Tips for Dating Old Family Photos Using Women\u2019s Hairstyles-Victorian Era. \u00a0Sign up at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crestleaf.com\/blog\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">http:\/\/crestleaf.com\/blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paper.li allows me to create my own newspaper \u2013 daily, weekly or monthly \u2013 on the topics that I want to read about.\u00a0 I\u2019ve entitled my own newspaper Genealogy@Heart.paper.li and it\u2019s delivered to my email with interesting articles on history, genealogy and genetics.\u00a0 I love the professional formatting and the articles arranged by topics \u2013 for example, science, business, politics, etc.\u00a0 It takes only a few minutes to set up and it\u2019s simple to add or delete sites.\u00a0To create your own paper visit <a href=\"http:\/\/paper.li\/\/?v=1&amp;utm_expid=72755654-17.m4jg63hLTw2rNg4T1M9buw.1&amp;utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Linkedin \u2013were you aware that there are genealogy groups at this site?\u00a0 There are 269 groups noted &#8211; some are open to all and some are private.\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve created a profile go to interest areas and type in genealogy.\u00a0 Click on those that interest you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook \u2013 I don\u2019t use Facebook like most folks do; I rarely post anything about me but I definitely use the info that organizations have posted.\u00a0 Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AssociationofProfessionalGenealogists\">Association of Professional Genealogist<\/a>s,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/GenealogyBuffcom\/214156610691?fref=ts\">Genealogy Buffs<\/a> and ask to join Deciphering Genealogy Script, Lineage Society of America and Genedocs Templates.\u00a0 Also look for your local and state genealogy and historical societies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next time &#8211; 5 more free sites that are simply awesome for genealogy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 17 May 2015. I was rereading Mills\u2019 Professional Genealogy this past week and the chapter on The Essential Library got me thinking of the resources that I consider must haves.\u00a0 Mills was referring to books on a shelf but I find myself using more online resources these days.\u00a0 Wish her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=98\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genealogy Gems \u2013 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":[78],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-tools","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}