Pinterest is so much more than recipes. Learn how you can organize things you find online and avoid the pitfalls of the bright shiny objects.
From tracking down useful information, to organizing your research, to sharing it with your family and friends - Pinterest just might be the genealogy research tool you've been missing.
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A question I frequently receive is "I would love to use Pinterest for my family history and genealogy, but I don't know where to start. Can you help me?" Maybe you are new to Pinterest and feel the same. Or perhaps you have been on Pinterest a long time and you are not sure where to start with your Family History. Let me try to help. Before we get started, I would like to briefly explain what Pinterest is. I like to think of Pinterest as a place to bookmark my favorite websites that contain valuable information that I would like to come back to. These are referred to as "pins" and they are placed onto "boards" on Pinterest. Pinterest is similar to the Favorites tab on your desktop computer except it is prettier, organized, and filled with images. The pins also contain links to the websites you wish to bookmark. Pinterest is also similar to a search engine like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. You can search for pins already on Pinterest and add those pins to your boards. So, Pinterest is not only considered social media, it is also a search engine and a bookmarking system rolled into one. This is why I LOVE using Pinterest for my Genealogy & Family History. Now, lets get started with using Pinterest for Genealogy & Family History The first step is to set up an account with Pinterest. Simply go to www.pinterest.com and sign up. You can use your Facebook or Twitter account or your email address to create an account. Fill out all the information and compete your profile (it will make it easier for others to find you). Now that you have an account, you can create a "board" to store your pinned information. I have written several articles on how to use Pinterest for your Family History and Genealogy. You can find a link to those here. Setting up your account and creating a board are two crucial steps you will need to take before you start pinning your Family History. Now that you have those steps out of the way, it's time to start with the FUN stuff! Let's start pinning! 1. Where do I find information to pin? You can use Pinterest to pin from anywhere on the internet! You can even pin your own pictures, copies of documents (census records), birth certificates, and more. 2. How do I pin? The easiest way to pin a website or image is to use the "Pin It" button on the website. Many websites now have "Pin It" buttons on their images and/or webpages. You simply click the button, select the image you want to pin, select your board, and Pinterest does the rest! Its really easy when there is already a pin it button. 3. What if there is no Pin It button? If the website does not contain a Pin It button, there are a few options for you. You can use your browser's pin it button (which you can install from Pinterest) or you can create a template image and link it to the website (see my article here). 4. How can I add pins to a website using Pinterest? This is an easy way to add a pin to your boards. It may sound a little complicated, but after a few times its a piece of cake. You simply log into your Pinterest account and click the plus sign (near the bottom of the page) and copy/paste the website's address (URL) into the address bar. Hit the search button. Pinterest will pull up the webpage and then you click the red Pin It button provided by Pinterest. Select the image, select your board, and Pinterest will add it to your board. Happy Pinning! I hope you found this information helpful and that it helps you start pinning your Genealogy and Family History. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me (or leave a comment below). Be sure to pin this page and share it with your friends and family! If you are interested in all the articles I have written about using Pinterest for your Genealogy & Family History click here. Remember to keep it fun and simple! Happy Pinning! Last Updated: April 2024
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Use Pinterest for your family history to save, organize, and share your genealogy research.
From tracking down useful information, to organizing your research, to sharing it with your family and friends - Pinterest just might be the genealogy research tool you've been missing.
Have you ever considered using Pinterest for your Genealogy and family history research? I started using Pinterest for my family's genealogy and I love it! It's a great way to organize the family photographs and documents found around the internet. Plus, as an added bonus, the link to the document and family photo is provided and you can easily share with family! There's no need to save old family photos to your computer (and forgetting the source). And there is no more taking other people's photographs and posting them as your own. Now, with the assistance of Pinterest, you can simply share them through a "pin." Want to learn more about using Pinterest for your family genealogy and how it can help you with your family tree? I like to think of Pinterest as an online image search engine. It's a lot like Google, Bing, and Yahoo but with a twist. Once you type in your search words your results are displayed as images and pictures. This can be very helpful for those who do family genealogy. Imagine the surprise when your ancestor's picture shows up and it's a photo you've never seen before! Plus, there is a link attached and you can click to see both the photo and the website where that picture is stored. Pinterest provides many benefits for family genealogy. 1. Pinterest gives you a place to organize your information. This information is placed onto what Pinterest calls boards. Boards can be as broad (or as specific) as you prefer. You create them and decide how to organize them. 2. Pinterest allows you to connect with family members you may have never known. Other people can find your boards and pins (images) through the Pinterest search button. 3. Pinterest also allows you to organize and save the pictures and documents you find online. You simply pin them to your boards and the link is saved along with them image. Check out our related posts about using Pinterest for Genealogy here!
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Okay, so we've all done it. We have all pinned pictures that were not our own onto Pinterest. We've all found photographs of ancestors, saved them to our computers, and shared them without linking to the source, right? This, my friend, is bordering on copyright infringement and I know I'm not alone in this. I am not an attorney (nor do I pretend to play one on the internet) but I believe I have a "system" that will assist many of us from dancing around that awful "copyright infringement line" and prevent us from crossing that fuzzy gray area. Want to learn more? In my genealogy and family research via the internet, I have encountered many photographs of my ancestors, census records, biographies, cemetery photographs, and more. These are not my own personal creations - I didn't take the pictures or create the documents. I don't have the copyright on these either. Therefore, am I allowed to create screenshots of them, copy and save the image to my own tree or computer, or even "pin" them to Pinterest without a link? What if the website I found them on doesn't have a "pin it" button - which kinda allows you to pin them, right? This is that gray area of copyrights and it creates many questions for me personally. So, how do I do it? For me, personally, I do not seek out disobeying copyright laws. My intention is not to steal photos or take documents. When I use Pinterest and pin these images, I want to share these with others not break laws. So, I typically will use templates that I have created. I use a photo editing program that allows me to overlay text on these templates. Then I upload (or pin) these images to my boards and edit the source link to direct anyone who clicks on the image to the website where I found the item. All that may sound complicated, but once you do it a few times, you will see how easy it actually is. Have you used Templates for your Pinterest images?
All Things Genealogy & Family History!
Have you ever considered using Pinterest for your Genealogy and family history research? I started using Pinterest for my family's genealogy and I love it! It's a great way to organize the family photographs and documents found around the internet. Plus, as an added bonus, the link to the document and family photo is provided and you can easily share with family! There's no need to save old family photos to your computer (and forgetting the source). And there is no more taking other people's photographs and posting them as your own. Now, with the assistance of Pinterest, you can simply share them through a "pin." Want to learn more about using Pinterest for your family genealogy and how it can help you with your family tree? I like to think of Pinterest as an online image search engine. It's a lot like Google, Bing, and Yahoo but with a twist. Once you type in your search words your results are displayed as images and pictures. This can be very helpful for those who do family genealogy. Imagine the surprise when your ancestor's picture shows up and it's a photo you've never seen before! Plus, there is a link attached and you can click to see both the photo and the website where that picture is stored. Pinterest provides many benefits for family genealogy. 1. Pinterest gives you a place to organize your information. This information is placed onto what Pinterest calls boards. Boards can be as broad (or as specific) as you prefer. You create them and decide how to organize them. 2. Pinterest allows you to connect with family members you may have never known. Other people can find your boards and pins (images) through the Pinterest search button. 3. Pinterest also allows you to organize and save the pictures and documents you find online. You simply pin them to your boards and the link is saved along with them image. Check out our related posts about using Pinterest for Genealogy here!
Have you ever considered using Pinterest for your Genealogy and family history research? I started using Pinterest for my family's genealogy and I love it! It's a great way to organize the family photographs and documents found around the internet. Plus, as an added bonus, the link to the document and family photo is provided and you can easily share with family! There's no need to save old family photos to your computer (and forgetting the source). And there is no more taking other people's photographs and posting them as your own. Now, with the assistance of Pinterest, you can simply share them through a "pin." Want to learn more about using Pinterest for your family genealogy and how it can help you with your family tree? I like to think of Pinterest as an online image search engine. It's a lot like Google, Bing, and Yahoo but with a twist. Once you type in your search words your results are displayed as images and pictures. This can be very helpful for those who do family genealogy. Imagine the surprise when your ancestor's picture shows up and it's a photo you've never seen before! Plus, there is a link attached and you can click to see both the photo and the website where that picture is stored. Pinterest provides many benefits for family genealogy. 1. Pinterest gives you a place to organize your information. This information is placed onto what Pinterest calls boards. Boards can be as broad (or as specific) as you prefer. You create them and decide how to organize them. 2. Pinterest allows you to connect with family members you may have never known. Other people can find your boards and pins (images) through the Pinterest search button. 3. Pinterest also allows you to organize and save the pictures and documents you find online. You simply pin them to your boards and the link is saved along with them image. Check out our related posts about using Pinterest for Genealogy here!
Welcome to our Using Pinterest for Genealogy & Family History Page! Below you will find our most recent articles regarding Pinterest For Genealogy. Click on the image to view the page. New paperback book available by Genealogy Girl Talks (Melissa Dickerson): Using Pinterest For Your Family History & Genealogy Creating Pinterest Boards for Genealogy How To Get Started Using Pinterest for Genealogy & Family History How to use Pinterest for Genealogy Using Templates for Pinterest and Genealogy GGT 006 Using Pinterest for Genealogy & Family History Creative ways to use Pinterest for Genealogy The New Pinterest Messaging for Family History & Genealogy Now available on Amazon! 10 Tips for Using Pinterest for Genealogy by Genealogy Girl Talks [BELOW IS OUR AFFILIATE LINK]
Are you stumped on how to use Pinterest for Genealogy? Are you looking for some new ideas for your boards? The image below shows some creative ways to use your boards on Pinterest for your Family's Genealogy. There is no limit to the number of boards you can have on Pinterest. Why not have some fun with it! Are you interested in reading articles from Genealogy Girl Talks about using Pinterest for Genealogy? Click {here} for a list of our articles! How are you using Pinterest for Genealogy?
Have you ever considered using Pinterest for your Genealogy and family history research? I started using Pinterest for my family's genealogy and I love it! It's a great way to organize the family photographs and documents found around the internet. Plus, as an added bonus, the link to the document and family photo is provided and you can easily share with family! There's no need to save old family photos to your computer (and forgetting the source). And there is no more taking other people's photographs and posting them as your own. Now, with the assistance of Pinterest, you can simply share them through a "pin." Come join the Genealogy Photo A Day on Instagram! Want to learn more about using Pinterest for your family genealogy and how it can help you with your family tree? I like to think of Pinterest as an online image search engine. It's a lot like Google, Bing, and Yahoo but with a twist. Once you type in your search words your results are displayed as images and pictures. This can be very helpful for those who do family genealogy. Imagine the surprise when your ancestor's picture shows up and it's a photo you've never seen before! Plus, there is a link attached and you can click to see both the photo and the website where that picture is stored. Pinterest provides many benefits for family genealogy. 1. Pinterest gives you a place to organize your information. This information is placed onto what Pinterest calls boards. Boards can be as broad (or as specific) as you prefer. You create them and decide how to organize them. 2. Pinterest allows you to connect with family members you may have never known. Other people can find your boards and pins (images) through the Pinterest search button. 3. Pinterest also allows you to organize and save the pictures and documents you find online. You simply pin them to your boards and the link is saved along with them image. Now available on Amazon! 10 Tips for Using Pinterest for Genealogy by Genealogy Girl Talks Check out our related posts about using Pinterest for Genealogy here! Check out our new 30 Day Genealogy Pinterest Challenge! It starts in November 2014! Be sure to join us for all the fun!
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Use Pinterest for your family history to save, organize, and share your genealogy research.
A genealogy research plan is more than a to-do list. It's a framework that guides your research and helps you be more productive and less frustrated.
From tracking down useful information, to organizing your research, to sharing it with your family and friends - Pinterest just might be the genealogy research tool you've been missing.
Looking for genealogy writers to follow on Pinterest? Here are 10 active family history pinners to save to your research, writing, and DNA research boards.
Okay, so we've all done it. We have all pinned pictures that were not our own onto Pinterest. We've all found photographs of ancestors, saved them to our computers, and shared them without linking to the source, right? This, my friend, is bordering on copyright infringement and I know I'm not alone in this. I am not an attorney (nor do I pretend to play one on the internet) but I believe I have a "system" that will assist many of us from dancing around that awful "copyright infringement line" and prevent us from crossing that fuzzy gray area. Want to learn more? In my genealogy and family research via the internet, I have encountered many photographs of my ancestors, census records, biographies, cemetery photographs, and more. These are not my own personal creations - I didn't take the pictures or create the documents. I don't have the copyright on these either. Therefore, am I allowed to create screenshots of them, copy and save the image to my own tree or computer, or even "pin" them to Pinterest without a link? What if the website I found them on doesn't have a "pin it" button - which kinda allows you to pin them, right? This is that gray area of copyrights and it creates many questions for me personally. So, how do I do it? For me, personally, I do not seek out disobeying copyright laws. My intention is not to steal photos or take documents. When I use Pinterest and pin these images, I want to share these with others not break laws. So, I typically will use templates that I have created. I use a photo editing program that allows me to overlay text on these templates. Then I upload (or pin) these images to my boards and edit the source link to direct anyone who clicks on the image to the website where I found the item. All that may sound complicated, but once you do it a few times, you will see how easy it actually is. Have you used Templates for your Pinterest images?
Have you ever considered using Pinterest for your Genealogy and family history research? I started using Pinterest for my family's genealogy and I love it! It's a great way to organize the family photographs and documents found around the internet. Plus, as an added bonus, the link to the document and family photo is provided and you can easily share with family! There's no need to save old family photos to your computer (and forgetting the source). And there is no more taking other people's photographs and posting them as your own. Now, with the assistance of Pinterest, you can simply share them through a "pin." Come join the Genealogy Photo A Day on Instagram! Want to learn more about using Pinterest for your family genealogy and how it can help you with your family tree? I like to think of Pinterest as an online image search engine. It's a lot like Google, Bing, and Yahoo but with a twist. Once you type in your search words your results are displayed as images and pictures. This can be very helpful for those who do family genealogy. Imagine the surprise when your ancestor's picture shows up and it's a photo you've never seen before! Plus, there is a link attached and you can click to see both the photo and the website where that picture is stored. Pinterest provides many benefits for family genealogy. 1. Pinterest gives you a place to organize your information. This information is placed onto what Pinterest calls boards. Boards can be as broad (or as specific) as you prefer. You create them and decide how to organize them. 2. Pinterest allows you to connect with family members you may have never known. Other people can find your boards and pins (images) through the Pinterest search button. 3. Pinterest also allows you to organize and save the pictures and documents you find online. You simply pin them to your boards and the link is saved along with them image. Now available on Amazon! 10 Tips for Using Pinterest for Genealogy by Genealogy Girl Talks Check out our related posts about using Pinterest for Genealogy here! Check out our new 30 Day Genealogy Pinterest Challenge! It starts in November 2014! Be sure to join us for all the fun!
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Get your research, tips & tricks and family history products in front of the people who actually want to see them, and your efforts will have a lot more impact. I scoured the internet to find the best genealogy themed group Pinterest boards out there. These are all welcoming new members. See which ones are relevant for you, and send them some requests today.
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Are you stumped on how to use Pinterest for Genealogy? Are you looking for some new ideas for your boards? The image below shows some creative ways to use your boards on Pinterest for your Family's Genealogy. There is no limit to the number of boards you can have on Pinterest. Why not have some fun with it! Are you interested in reading articles from Genealogy Girl Talks about using Pinterest for Genealogy? Click {here} for a list of our articles! How are you using Pinterest for Genealogy?
Family history research is never complete. There are always more records to be discovered, photos to be identified, and additional connections to uncover. But maybe you’ve reached the point when you want to share what you’ve learned so far. Here are some great options. Family history research is never complete. There are always more records to be discovered, photos to be identified, and additional connections to uncover. But maybe you’ve reached the point when you want to share what you’ve learned so far. Here are some great options.
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Mark Orwig is the writer of the Genealogy Explained website, and he has created a neat graphic to explain the answer to the question posed in "Do Siblings Have the Same DNA?" I encourage all of my readers to read the entire article because the science is interesting and the "deck of cards" example is familiar to most of us. The graphic is: Pictures are always better than many words, and this graphic shows why siblings (assuming they aren't identical twins) may not have the same ethnicity estimate even though they have the same parents. In the graphic, there are four grandparents who have perceived ethnicities of: * Paternal grandfather: 50% Scottish, 50% Irish * Paternal grandmother: 100% Italian * Maternal grandfather: 100% German * Maternal grandmother: 50% Italian, 50% Irish Based on the percentages, one would expect the ethnicities of the parents to be: * Father: 50% Italian, 25% Scottish, 25% Irish * Mother: 50% German, 25% Italian, 25% Irish Based on those percentages, one would expect the ethnicity of a child to be: * 37.5% Italian, 25% German, 25% Irish, 12.5% Scottish. However, the graphic shows that the two children have significantly different ethnicity estimates (based on a DNA test) than the expected ethnicity based on the expected ethnicity of the parents. This occurs because of the random nature of admixture - how the DNA segments are passed down to the next generation. For me, I have noted that the six different ethnicity estimates I have received are completely different, and do not match my perceived ethnicity based on classical genealogy research. See Comparison of My Autosomal DNA Ethnicity Estimates. I understand better now that I need to test my two brothers and both of my daughters to get a better handle on the ethnicity estimates for my family members. Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to test my parents (who died in 1983 and 2002) and grandparents (who died in 1942, 1962, 1976, 1977). Like I said - Read the entire post! Thank you to Mark for permitting me to use the graphic in this blog post. ============================================== The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2018/07/genealogy-explained-do-siblings-have.html Copyright (c) 2018, Randall J. Seaver Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at [email protected].
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