ThinkGenealogy

This week RootsTelevision is featuring the video,”A Better Way to Cite Online Sources“.  I appreciate their help in getting the word out.  While you are there check out some of the other great videos they are featuring. Here is a link to the Og Blog post.

We are in class right now talking about blogs and podcasts.

The first line of this blog article was written during our weekly Family History class held during the Sunday School hour at church.  These last two Sundays I was asked to substitute teach the class.  Last week we had each class member bring some documents about their ancestors and we talked about them.  It was fun to see the different types of documents that others had and to learn a little about their ancestors.  That first week, we also talked about the difference between original and derivative sources and primary and secondary information.

This week using an older Dell Inspiron B120 notebook, Sony LCD projector, and a class member’s Blackberry 8330 with internet connectivity, we were able to browse the internet in class and talk about blogs and podcasts.  To illustrate how easy it is to create a blog entry, I started this post during class.  We didn’t have time to write more than the first line.  Our discussion of blogs and podcasts started with a post I wrote back in January highlighting some of the best genealogy blogs and podcasts.  We followed some of the links to give the 9 class members in attendence an idea of what blogging and podcasts are all about.  We first started with the blogs and in addition to those from my previous post, we looked at Stephen Danko’s blog and how he uses it as a research log.  We also talked about how easy it would be to use a site such as WordPress or Blogger to create your own personal or public blog.

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The Og Blog at Root Television has showcased both of the first two videos created by ThinkGenealogy on its weekly New Roots Tuesday post. 

1. DNA Channel: Are You Smarter than a Grade School Genealogist? Episode 1 – Introduction to DNA
2. How To Channel: 10 Things Genealogy Software Should Do

We are having fun coming up with other ideas that we want to share in video.

A few days ago I created and posted to the internet my first genealogy video entitled: 10 Things Genealogy Software Should Do

I submitted it to Roots Television and am happy to announce that it is currently being featured on the RootsTube channel.