Join the Famicity Kickstarter Campaign and create your own family “legacy center.” It’s a private, social network designed for extended family members to tie their past, present, and future stories together into one! Last year at the RootsTech 2016...
How Facebook Users Reunited a Bible with its Family: Facebook for Family History
These genealogy sleuths used Facebook for family history when they responded to a plea to help return a family Bible to its family. Back on March 21, Donna Whitten posted a video on her church Facebook page. Her post says, “How far would you go to get back something...
Turn Facebook Posts into a Book with This Service
Want to record your personal history but never seem to have the time? Turn Facebook posts into a book with this nifty service. It’s journaling for the twenty-first century! As a teenager, I was an avid journal writer. Now, it’s just one more thing I feel...
Use Facebook for Family History: Gather Memories
Here’s an innovative way to use Facebook for family history. It comes from my downloadable video class, Pain-Free Family History Writing Projects. Are you using Facebook to gather family history from your relatives? You can! It’s a version of...
How to See Your Favorite People First on Facebook
Now you can choose whose Facebook activity shows up at the top of your news feed. We hope the Genealogy Gems Facebook page is on your See First list! Facebook now has a new feature to allow you to select which friends and pages you want to see at the top of your news...
Help! My Email Doesn’t Fit in Viewer Window
Recently I heard from Carol in St. Louis, Missouri, who was frustrated that she couldn’t read my entire email newsletter. “Would love to know what you are saying,” she says. But my newsletter email doesn’t fit in her email window. “I...