Tag Archives: Tools & Tech: Diigo

I spent the better part of last week reorganizing my link collection on Diigo.  Diigo is a free social bookmarking website that allows you to save your bookmarks and access them anywhere.  You can also share your bookmarks with others, organize them into lists, tag them, provide a description, and annotate or highlight passages on the website.  I’ve been using Diigo since 2008 and was “sort of” organized, but as I’ve gotten back into my research lately, I noticed that the links were not as organized as I thought.  Now, […]

**An up-to-date listing can be found in my list “Societies Using Social Media” at the social bookmarking website, Diigo.** As I was preparing a contact list for Illinois genealogical and historical societies for an FGS publicity task, I made an interesting discovery.  A fair number of Illinois societies are taking advantage of social media/networking sites such as Facebook and blogs.  Better yet, most of them are active, posting all sorts of information including history tidbits, photos, and events.  It also seems that even those who do not have an actual […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve learned or found.

Prompt:  Talk about the different types of technology you use in your genealogy research. Whether it’s a new search engine, a special application, or anything else “2.0,” let readers know what you’re working with, and how it’s working for you.