About Us

GeneaBloggers is a volunteer organization created by a core group of bloggers dedicated to advancing those who blogged genealogy. If you’d like to help out, please contact us.

The expressed purpose of GeneaBloggers is to:

• To promote an awareness of, and interest in, sharing genealogical content online through blogging, vlogging, and other formats.
• To provide support and educational opportunities for online genealogy content providers.
• To recognize the achievements and milestones of genealogy content providers.
• To promote fellowship and cooperation among our members.

We’ve been granted nonprofit status. (That’s 501(c)(3) in USA parlance).

Last updated: May 15, 2022

Meet the GeneaBloggers Board

A Little Bit of GeneaBloggers History

What began in 2007 as Jasia Smasha’s Carnival of Genealogy morphed into the GeneaBloggers group supporting online genealogy writers. In Jan 2008 Kathryn Doyle and LindaRae Palmer (footnoteMaven) wanted to produce a style guide for the term “GeneaBloggers” because at the time various genealogy bloggers were referring to the fledgling organization as genea-bloggers, GeneBloggers, genealogyBloggers, etc.

Back in the day, WikiPedia did not wish to add a GeneaBloggers topic not seeing it as an “entity” and footnoteMaven said “Let’s make us one.” Jasia Smasha, Kathryn Doyle, LindaRae Palmer (footnoteMaven), Miriam Robbins, Randy Seaver, and Terry Thornton aka The Graveyard Rabbit (deceased) were part of that core group. The Facebook group provides an outlet including distribution of the GeneaBloggers logo and the GeneaBloggers Facebook Group logo created by LindaRae Palmer (footnoteMaven) that she has graciously donated to the group. Though a 1995 weblog-er, DearMYRTLE didn’t enter the GeneaBloggers group until this point.

Thomas MacEntee joined the group in the summer of 2008, and by Jan 2009 reserved the domain. He wrote:

“Out of an abundance of caution I have decided to reserve the domain name geneabloggers.com (as well as genea-blogger.com, geneablogger.com and others – they all forward back to geneabloggers.com) in trust for the good of the Geneabloggers group. I am fronting the domain registration fees as well as the website hosting fees.  I’ve also taken care of the gene@pedia website hosting (more about this exciting new feature soon).” Source: Thomas MacEntee’s “Inquiring Minds Want to Know” posted 22 Jan 2009 at GeneaBloggers.com. (https://www.geneabloggers.com/inquiring-minds-want-to-know : viewed 21 May 2017.)

In January 2009, Thomas began robust community building around conference attendance, blogger beads and a website of resource assistance. In June 2017, after years of community building service, Thomas has stepped down to focus on his other genealogy interests.

Today, we’re on a path towards obtaining official nonprofit status. We continue to provide helpful resource links, daily blogging prompts, blogiversary listings, and welcome posts.

Pat Richley Errikson and Laura Hedgecock contributed to this article. Please also read It’s not just about blogging…
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