Monthly Archives: November 2009

A Heartfelt Thanksgiving

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As many genealogy bloggers are either traveling over the river and through the woods, or getting ready to host family, most of us will take some time and say thanks – either through a blog post, in a prayer, or perhaps aloud to our family and friends.

I would like to thank all the readers of GeneaBloggers for helping to build a vibrant community of genealogy and family history bloggers.  Whether engaged on Facebook, or Twitter or blog posts, it continues to amaze me what a great time it is to be a genealogist!

GeneaBloggers will have its 500,000th visitor (yes, can you believe it?) sometime next week and I want to thank everyone for their support.

Here is a list of Thanksgiving posts from genealogy bloggers:


© 2009, copyright Thomas MacEntee

Wordless Wednesday November 25, 2009

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Today is Wordless Wednesday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Wordless Wednesday. What is it?

Wordless Wednesday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Wordless Wednesday simply create a post with the main focus being a photograph or image. Some people also include attribute information as to the source of the image (date, location, owner, etc.). Some have begun doing a “Not So Wordless Wednesday” with the main focus still being an image but there is a backstory to the image. You can read more about Wordless Wednsday here at gene@pedia.

Here are the latest Wordless Wednesday posts from our member genealogy bloggers:

© 2009, copyright Thomas MacEntee

Resources for PDF

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Many genealogists as well as bloggers take advantage of the PDF file format when creating and posting content.  Here are some tools to leverage the power of PDF:

General

  • YouPublisher (for creating two-page flip PDFs – very slick!)

Converting

Editing

Forms

Printing

  • PDFCreator (free program to create PDFs out of almost any file)
  • Tabbloid (print blog posts to PDF newsletter)
  • tweetbook (print your Twitter tweets to PDF diary)

Security

  • Free My PDF (unlock security, remove passwords, unlock printing restrictions)

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