Twitter: AncestryHour

Are you on Twitter?
Twitter can help you in your research in many ways.

One way is to come join us at #AncestryHour every Tuesday at 12:00 noon MST.

Come join us and use the hashtag #AncestryHour
Genealogists all over the world tweet what they are doing, what they have found with great supportive tweets each week.

Organized and run well by a lady in England. [7:00pm for her]
If you have questions tweet @AncestryHour

Social Media: Facebook

Do you know the town, city, county, state, or province?

Search in Facebook the location. Many locations all over the world have facebook pages.
Join "Like" the group.

Ask small questions in a post.
Learn about the area and the history. Might help with names and places.

Maybe chat with some relatives!

I searched in Facebook for County Monaghan. Facebook gave me a list of posts that my friends had posted that had Monaghan in it. But it also found the County Monaghan Museum.

I have now joined the facebook page. I will add to this post if I find anything about my ancestors on the page. There are lots of beautiful photos of the area.

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Helpful links

Canadian list of Facebook genealogical pages: Genealogy a la carte  

Social Media list of Facebook pages for Genealogical research in the world. Social Media: Genealogy on Facebook

Family Discovery Day Edmonton November 2015

I spoke in Edmonton at this great Discovery Day.

My sessions were:
   Social Media for Genealogists
   Google Search and Drive

Great day and well organized.

Red Deer Rootstech Family History Fair 2015

I had the opportunity to speak at this conference last March in Red Deer.  My sessions were Writing Your Life History and Google for Genealogists.

Very well organized and attended event.

3.0 Narrowing the results

When I type in my name the list of hits includes sites with my first name and other sites that only contains my last night. The sites at the top will contain both names.

To narrow the search we can put our name in quotes. Now it will only list sites that have our name as it shows inside the quotes. 

"Lianne Kruger"

Now the hits will be for those sites that have both names and in that specific order.

If my name appears as the following, it will not be listed
"Kruger, Lianne"
The next lesson will help with this.

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