Follow Your Name – New Genealogy Alert Feature at WikiTree
Wiki Genealogy Feed Tracks New Activity for Specific Family Names
March 7,
2013: WikiTree,
a community of genealogists and family historians committed to growing a 100%
free worldwide family tree, announces its latest new feature: Surname
Following. Now, genealogy researchers interested in any family name can receive
updates via email when other WikiTree users post content related to that name.
Utilizing the new Wiki Genealogy Feed, users at WikiTree can
enter specific surnames to follow. By doing so, they’ll receive an alert when
new content is added to the WikiTree database or when there is a question,
answer, or comment connected to any of their followed surnames at the WikiTree G2G (“Genealogist to Genealogist”)
Q&A forum.
This new feature should prove useful for anyone researching
family history and especially for those participating in a “one name study”
which has increased in popularity.
Thomas MacEntee, genealogy educator and author says, “There’s
just so much information to keep up with on the Internet these days, even when
it comes to genealogy and my own research. Having some form of an alert that
lets me know when there is new information helps me manage my research time
better. This is just another WikiTree feature that helps me research smarter!”
Genealogy and family history researchers are invited to take
WikiTree and the new Surname Following feature for a test drive by visiting http://www.WikiTree.com. This new
feature and all the other innovative tools for genealogists at WikiTree are
completely free.
About
WikiTree: Growing since
2008, WikiTree.com is a 100% free shared family tree website that balances privacy
and collaboration. Community members privately collaborate with close family
members on modern family history and publicly collaborate with other
genealogists on deep ancestry. Since all the private and public profiles are
connected on the same system this process is growing a single, worldwide family
tree that will eventually connect us all and thereby make it free and easy for
anyone to discover their roots. See
http://www.WikiTree.com/.
Thanks for posting this, Myrt. You're a good friend to have. Hope to see you at RootsTech.
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