Heartland Genealogy

Instead of Chasing It For years, my primary focus with Heartland Genealogy has been the blog itself. I research, write a post, publish it, and then try to remember to share it somewhere on social media. As I've been working on moving Heartland Genealogy to Blogger, I've also been looking more closely at how I share those posts. Moving away from WordPress meant giving up some of the automatic sharing features I'd become accustomed to. At first, that seemed like another disadvantage of making the move. However, it has also forced me to rethink how I'm using social media. Discovering Meta Business Suite One of the tools I'm learning to use is Meta Business Suite . Since Facebook and Instagram are both Meta platforms, Business Suite allows me to manage my Heartland Genealogy Facebook page and Instagram account from the same place. More importantly for me, I can schedule posts . Instead of publishing a blog post and then immediately trying to share it everywhere, I can p...

Have you heard about Ancestor DNA Projects on GedMatch? Don't feel bad if you haven't. I first heard about them last month when a member of the Clan Crawford group on Facebook posted about it. Several members of the Clan Crawford Facebook group are trying to get a Crawford Ancestor Project started. However, they need FIFTY Crawford researchers to agree to participate to get the project established. If you are a Crawford researcher who has uploaded your DNA to GedMatch, then please consider participating in the project. To join the project, one must first be a member of the Clan Crawford Association Ancestry & DNA Research Forum on Facebook. If you are on Facebook, then you may submit a request to join the Clan Crawford Association Ancestry & DNA Research Forum . This is a great group that discusses Crawford DNA and/or Crawford Research. Once your membership in the Clan Crawford Association Ancestry & DNA Research Forum, you can use the search box on the righ...

Do you belong to a Facebook group? Perhaps you’ve seen a post (or two or more) about getting ‘removed’ from the group if you don’t participate? I started seeing these posts yesterday and was concerned, not only about all the genealogy groups I belong to, but also about the family groups I administer. Since I was unsure what this meant as a group administrator, I did some research. The following articles helped me understand what is happening. Is Facebook Removing Inactive Members from Groups Facebook Updates Group Invites, Removing Ability to Automatically Add Members   I then turned to Facebook to see if I could figure out how this is affecting the family groups I administer. The first thing I saw when I went to one of those groups was an announcement from Facebook, “Changes to Your Members List.”