Jeff Pytlewski, a genealogist for more than 12 years, has blogged about FamilyLink.com a couple of times. Here is his post from yesterday entitled \”MySpace for Genealogists: FamilyLink…The Sequel.\”
Category Archives: FamilyLink.com
World Vital Records Partnerships Announced
Today is a very big day for World Vital Records, a company that was started less than a year ago by a talented group that included several former Ancestry.com employees. This is quite likely the biggest day in our 11-month history.
At the NGS conference in Richmond, Virginia, the following new partnerships were announced:
Free Podcast Upload Sites
We got permission the other day to take an 8 minute audio clip from the internet radio show interview that I did last week and share it with our FamilyLink.com audience. Kory Meyerink of Family Roots Radio and I discussed our new social network for family history. They have an archived version of the interview on their web site.
FamilyLink Members in 34 Countries
Our development team added a new browse feature this week to our genealogy social network FamilyLink.com that lets members browse by country and by city to see the other genealogists around the world. I quickly counted up members in 34 countries. We have 43 in Australia and 40 in the U.K.
Getting Search Engine Traffic To a New Web Site
If you search for \”family link\” or \”familylink\” on Google, the first hit is not http://www.familylink.com. Today, on the query \”familylink\”, hits #5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 all refer to FamilyLink.com, but they are from blogs and press releases. Google is not yet ranking FamilyLink.com as the most relevant result for these queries.
Connecting With Genealogists Around the World
FamilyLink.com is in beta and is attracting hundreds of new members each day, while we work feverishly to make the site more usable, add new features and new content ever day.
FamilyLink.com soft launch
I have been in NY and Chicago this week, and haven\’t found the time to blog about this yet, but our wonderful sleepless team at World Vital Records has quietly opened up FamilyLink.com to the public.
We are hoping for a few thousand early users, experienced genealogists primarily, to set up personal profiles, tell us what cities they do research in (and where they live), create some ancestor pages, and most of all, give us lots of feedback about the site features and design.
