Ok, I’m having withdrawal. After five solid days of hanging out on GenealogyWise.com, the new social networking site for genealogists, it has been down this morning for at kleast four hours. At least I HOPE it’s down, because I had finally found a social networking home. I never could get into facebook,  nd I use twitter to keep up on politics and current events. But GenealogyWise was fast becoming my home. I had made many groups, and was especially loving my “Scrap Your family History” group, one very close to my heart as you can imagine.

As of when the site went down I had about 82 members in the group, and it has really lit a fire under me to get out the ole PSP program and dust it off, because these people are chomping at the bit to learn. Now it’s down and I’m totally at loose ends. Hopefully it’s just a technical problem, what with so many hundreds flocking to it every day. Keeping my fingers crossed.

GenealogyWise: The Facbook for Genealogists!

I have discovered a wonderful new social networking site called GenealogyWise. it’s a genealogy social network that some are calling the “Facebook for genealogists.”

This is a fantastic site for us geneholics. In the span of several hours I had over 10 friends added and had created several of my own groups and joined others. I was like a kid in a candy shop.

Read more about it here, or just go check it out.

I have finally found a social networking home, and I can see already that it is going to fill a void that I have felt for a very long time.

Check out the lists I have created, and come on by and join any that strike your fancy, or find a group for the family names you are searching, or make a group of your own. See you at GenealogyWise!

My Groups at GenealogyWise:

Today I learned how to make personalized widgets, and I made some for my published articles on other sites. Now you can easily see what my latest articles are and go there without my having to constantly update the list. How cool is that?

One of my publishers, Ezine Articles.com, provides a code for a widget to their writers, but my otehr two do not. I found this rpetty cool site on the net that lets you make a widget for any site you want to and so I made the other two. What do you think of them?

If you have a website, and want to make a widget for it so it can be promoted on other sites, go to WidgetBox and try it out!

Kat

Well I did get ahold of my cousin, and I was totally shocked to find out that she has been holding a “hamper” full of stuff for me that was put together for me by my grandmother and my aunt, intended to be for my hope chest. So whatever is in it has to be about 55 years old. And she has kept it for me all these years in hopes of finding me! I hope I can get it somehow really soon, it’s very exciting.

Kat

I am very excited today because I got some information on my cousins that I knew when I was a child, but our families lost touch. I am going to try to contact them,a nd I’m hoping they will be receptive.