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Recently, after years of genealogy research on the internet, I found myself with a massive list of Bookmarks. I struggled to organize them into Folders and Sub-folders but my desktop system was unwieldy.  For instance, if I found a site on life in early Acadie, I would make an Acadie folder, but then the site might contain an interesting tidbit of information about a specific surname or another sub-topic such as the military. My Bookmarks only let me file the site under one category, so when I went back I would often lose time scrolling though all the bookmarks, or worse still lose track of the information.

Well I found a solution to the problem when I was introduced to the idea of social bookmarking tools at one of  Susan van Gelder’s seminars at LEARN Quebec. Social bookmarking tools are available free-of-charge and are basically websites where you can:

1)    Store all your bookmarks as you do now, but with the advantage of powerful sorting features. You still store a bookmark only once, but now you can attach as many “tags” as you wish to that one record. Then you can go back and scroll through all your bookmarks as you do now, or you can call up a specific subgroup (e.g. military, census)

2)    Share your bookmarks – if you wish – with others. This is the social part although you can always choose to keep your site private. For an example of a well-developped, fully-tagged public  site, you can visit one I’ve developed for my own students:

http://delicious.com/EvelynTheriaultStudentSpace

Which brings me back to our family research.

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January 3, 2009 - Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | Genealogy