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GeneaBloggers

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GeneaBloggers is a categorized list of blogs for genealogical research. The site lists roughly 3,000 blogs in over 50 categories. GeneaBloggers is a membership site (gratis) that encourages genealogists and family historians to document their research to share with other researchers.

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History

GeneaBloggers began as a group on Facebook in June 2008, and quickly grew to 300 members, all of whom were bloggers documenting their family history.

In January, 2009, Thomas MacEntee created the GeneaBloggers website as a resource for genealogy bloggers and as a way of tracking and listing the new genealogy blogs appearing in the blogosphere.

As of July 2014, there are 2,957 members with blogs listed from around the world covering more than 50 different genealogy-related topics.

Structure

Member blogs are tagged with one or more category and can be found at the Genealogy Blog Roll using the search function. The top level divisions are:

  • African-American Genealogy
  • Australian Genealogy
  • Canadian Genealogy
  • Jewish Genealogy
  • Libraries and Archives
  • Genealogy Societies
  • Genealogy Vendors
  • Individual Family History
  • Military
  • Photography
  • Professional Genealogists
  • UK Genealogy
  • References

    GeneaBloggers Wikipedia