I have been meticulously going through my creole ancestral line from Louisiana, but the hardest feat of all is that my creole ancestors had kept an immense amount of secrets for which have hugely deterred their future descendants from growing the family tree. The most effective genealogical site of all has been ancestry.com for which I have gotten a wealth of information by searching through the U.S. Federal Census recently. It was definitely a wonderful ancestral site to connect to your great a… Continue

Just for fun, I started a Twitter Group http://twittgroups.com/group/lagenealogy. The twitters to follow for Louisiana Genealogy can be searched using the following terms on http://search.twitter.com with #lagenealogy OR #surnames. I cannot foresee Twitter as a major means of research, but I am using it to broadcast surnames for the group and the database. If you are a fan of Twitter you can follow me or add me as a friend. I am lagenealogy on Twitter.

Kimberly Powell, About.com's, genealogy editor, noted several Family Social Networking sites. The first listed among them was My Heritage. Here is more info from her website:

2. Geni.com

Launched in January 2007, Geni.com has attracted a lot of interest, receiving nearly $11.5 million in venture capital, and registering nearly 1 million use… Continue

Since 1996 everyone has been looking to Cyndi's list for their genealogy on the internet. The website offers tips on research, free website information, and so many genealogy related links that I can't possibly name them all here. According to her site, 265,850 links to genealogy information are provided on her website!

Our Story is an application that follows a timeline format. It allows you to upload photos, write family stories, and collaborate with others. I began a website on Our Story and have attempted to occassionally add a story as I find it. You can visit my Louisiana site, join it and collaborate with me or start your own site at Our Story here.