One of my hobbies (which has unfortunately taken a back seat) is genealogy. Thus I was thrilled at the opportunity to explore the 1st place winner for genealogy websites, My Heritage. Below are a few of their impressive offerings:
- Facial recognition
- Free download to Family Tree Builder 4.0
- Genealogy Blog (I subscribed to it right away using the RSS feed!)
The website is a combination of a blog and social network. The initial set up is free, offering the user 250 MB of web space, or approximately 250 in the family tree. For $6.25 per month, users can upgrade to Premium status and receive 500 MB. Or for the serious genealogist, $9.95 per month can upgrade the user to unlimited MB and people in their family tree.
Libraries have been a crucial resource for the field of genealogy (see MyHeritage.com's blog on September 24, Genealogy Blog). Thus there is most certainly a use for these web resources in the library community, especially in public libraries.
As for the Travel IQ suggested by 23 Things, lets just say geography is NOT my forte.
3 comments:
I also wanted to mention, Rollyo and Flickr made the impressive list of winners!
Corinne,
The My Heritage site sounds really impressive. I will have to try it out. I am not into geneology but I feel like I should do at least a rudimentary family tree before all of my sources pass away. Thanks for sharing the site.
Your comment about the quality of the sites used is a good one. I guess it it our responsibility to check them out before they are added to the Rollyo.
Brandy Elford
Even in this forward thinking world we want to know about our past...
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