Comments on: What are the Best Genealogy Tweets?

By: Joe Mann

Joe Mann — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:04:29 +0000

I’m the webmaster for the Hudson County (New Jersey) Genealogical Society. I don’t think everything we tweet at @HudsonCtyGeneal is earth shatteringly brilliant, but I think we do a pretty good job of using Twitter to keep our audience aware of our programs and genealogy-related info as well as creatively integrating hashtags for expanding the reach of tweets like in this one: http://twitter.com/HudsonCtyGeneal/status/4007616112

But one of my favorite non-promotional tweets was this one: http://twitter.com/HudsonCtyGeneal/status/4928875380

By: Yvette Hoitink

Yvette Hoitink — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:37:29 +0000

I used Twitter to ask an archivist for help with finding out more about a woman with 12 (!) illegitimite childen. Her reply was priceless: she suggested it might have been an occupational hazard The tweets were in Dutch: my question and her answer.

By: Mark Tucker

Mark Tucker — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:47:31 +0000

That is a great use of Twitter for genealogy purposes! Share the link.

From your example we learn that we can use Twitter to ask a genealogy question or to corroborate information.

By: Amy Coffin

Amy Coffin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:40:21 +0000

What is the definition of a “good” tweet? The reason I ask is that I have plenty of my own examples of how I use Twitter for genealogy, but the tweets themselves aren’t very exciting.

Case in point: a third cousin told me that our common ancestor was interviewed by Edna Ferber and that she credited him in one of her books. I put a call out, via Twitter, to have all my library friends check their stacks for a copy of this book and see if it was true. Within minutes I had several replies and got my answer. In this case, Twitter was the fastest way for me to answer a genealogy question. However, the tweet itself was not very exciting to read…which is why I asked you the question. Good examples may not stem from good tweets.

Aren’t you glad we’re not in the same ProGen? I ask these questions all the time.

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