Fan Favorites
Navigating social media can be like trying to find a specific book in a vast, disorganized library—where new books are added every second. Face book <www.facebook.com> now reports over 1.5 billion daily users, and more than 70 percent of US adults now use at least one social media site.
With so much information to sift through, it can be difficult to find the best of these platforms. But that doesn’t mean you should ignore sites like Facebook and Twitter <www.twitter.com!> As social media use has become more mainstream, more and more users have found ways to make their accounts valuable resources for genealogists—either to share information or facilitate discussion.
We’ve gathered our favorite Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest <www.pinterest.com> and YouTube <www.youtube.com> accounts that are fun and informative—and that provide opportunities to connect with experts and other genealogists like you. Social media is constantly changing, but these accounts are a great starting point for making social media a valuable tool for your genealogy research.
One of the main benefits of Facebook is the ability to join global forums such as DNA> national groups such as Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness <> and state- or region-focused groups. We could dedicate a whole article to Facebook for genealogy—the “Facebook Groupies” sidebar names just a few—so instead, this list includes just the Facebook we really “Like” (pun intended).
