Tonight’s show will be all about Genealogy. Where to go to look for families, groups on several social networks, sites to create your own family tree and more. Visit Blogs and Social Networks Blog Talk Radio Genealogy Social Networks for more.

Free Charts at About.com Genealogy

I thought that the definition of Genealogy (I looked it up on Dictionary.com) would be appropriate here

ge⋅ne⋅al⋅o⋅gy

–noun, plural -gies.

1.	a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.

2.	the study of family ancestries and histories.

3.	descent from an original form or progenitor; lineage; ancestry.

4.	Biology. a group of individuals or species having a common ancestry: The various species of Darwin’s finches form a closely knit genealogy.

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Origin:

1250–1300; ME genealogie < MF < LL geneālogia < Gk geneālogíagene race (see gene ) + -logia -logy

pedigree, equiv. to

This is a good place to start

Then we ventured over to some major social networks like Facebook and MySpace to see how many groups they had over there specific to certain families and groups:

Our friend Kathy Paquette had recently joined a group for the “Paquettes” which I thought was a brilliant idea. If you have family that you are searching for, look into joining an existing group at a major social network or start your own group. Here are a few groups for the Paquettes we found at Facebook:

Paquette Group on Facebook

Paquette on Facebook

I searched for a Haile group as well No luck there, maybe I will start one in the future (If anyone starts one, let me know:)

Onto Genealogy topic groups at Facebook:

Genealogy Group at Facebook

There are over 5,000 members in this group. Other groups have been started at Facebook as well for Genealogy but this seems to be the biggest one. They offer connectivity for individuals excited about finding their family histories. Included resource links for across the Globe, Census, Military, and more.

To find a whole bunch of cool free clip art just for Genealogy sites visit HaileFamilyTree.wetpaint.com I don’t have the family tree info up and complete yet but I do have a huge list of the easiets to get to and navigate Genealogy clip art sites and coolness out there

The My Heritage Family Tree Builder (free download is a cool tool for getting your layout going and tree constructed! The My Heritage site has a whole bunch of great Genealogy info as well

A Genealogy group at MySpace (has almost 5,000 members where you can search for people by surname, post an alert bulletin to get some information and find some great sites linked here

Visit Blogs and Social Networks Blog Talk Radio Genealogy Social Networks for more.

Here’s the link to search Google for Genealogy based Blog sites

More on the show tonight

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