Giving Back - Genealogy Style

Hi everyone!
So this video is all about how to give back to the genealogy community and earn yourself some good genealogy karma points.
As you have probably figured out by now, alot of genealogy is through sharing of information - usually for free of cost. People share information out of the kindness of their hearts. (And if you havent experienced this just yet - don't worry - you will).
So in this video I give suggestions on ways to give back. This is by no means includes all the things you could do - but it gives some suggestions.
I know I suggested a group called "Unclaimed Persons" which is a group that can be found at the social networking site of Facebook.com (Just sign up - doesnt require much, and then search thier groups for Unclaimed Persons - if you are having trouble let me know and I can walk you through it)
So that is it!

Enjoy and rate and comment please! I love seeing them.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Charity
• Giving
• Back
• Genealogy
• Family
• History
• Ancestry

[genealogyscrounge]

Thank you for posting this. I am on my local county mailing list on usgenweb & volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness. I am curious about ebay, I don't care about the money but do they charge to list yourself there?

[Elyse90505]

They do charge for you to sell something, but the charges can be very small. It really depends on how fancy you want your post to look and what features you want to include.

Ebay itself doesn't charge to buy something (Obviously you gotta pay for the item/shipping thouhg). There are SO many great things you can find are there. It just takes some time to look for it.

[bjashton]

Great! Some good points here. I have an eBay listing that I put up from time to time. I usually charge $5 (Australian) for a look up etc. Giving is the best way to receive - what goes around comes around....

[Elyse90505]

Aww thank you!

Yes, I recently discovered the amazing things that ebay can do for a genealogist.

I had a brick wall that I have been working on for a while and I paid a wonderful lady only $3 and she helped me out immensely!

[DhoGazza]

I think one of the best ways to give back is to go to familysearch org and click on the :indexing" tab at the top. You get to read images off of pc images of original documents and type them in a format that they can now be accessed with a computer search. They are short projects in all difficulty levels. Thanks to those that do this work because they make every thing we search on the computer possible.

[WSD117]

Great video - I also like both references that you made for giving back to the Genealogy Community.