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For 26 weeks I will take you on a family history journey through the alphabet, one letter at a time.\u00a0 I have decided that each post will be educational in nature, focusing on topics related to resources, methodology, tools, etc.\u00a0 Although the challenge is complete, there are still some people who are finishing up and Alona, the host, is encouraging others to participate anyway.\u00a0 Additional information on the challenge, can be found at Take the \u2018Family History Through the Alphabet\u2019 Challenge<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n In terms of genealogy, this could include pages related to your favorite software, pages for genealogical and historical societies, or pages created for various genealogy-related events.\u00a0 There are even pages for a variety of genealogy topics, such as community pages created by FamilySearch related to a specific state\/country where people can \u201cgather\u201d to help each other out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Liking\u201d a Facebook page is basically like \u201cfriending\u201d or \u201cfollowing\u201d friends, family, colleagues, or associates on Facebook.\u00a0 When you like a page, their status updates and such will appear in your feed, just like your friends\u2019 statuses.<\/p>\n Here are some examples of updates I saw in my feed:<\/p>\n There are plenty of companies and societies on Facebook that have an active presence and share relevant and timely information.\u00a0 I started to collect bookmarks for any society I found with an active Facebook page in my Diigo bookmarks, which you can find here<\/a> (it also includes societies using other forms of social media such as blogs).<\/p>\n Here are a few of my favorite genealogy-related Facebook pages:<\/p>\n Feel free to share links to your favorite genealogy-related Facebook pages in the comments of this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For 26 weeks I will take you on a family history journey through the alphabet, one letter at a time.\u00a0 I have decided that each post will be educational in nature, focusing on topics related to resources, methodology, tools, etc.\u00a0 Although the challenge is complete, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25,300,29],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","category-resources-genblog","category-technology-genblog","tag-family-history-through-the-alphabet","cat-27-id","cat-25-id","cat-300-id","cat-29-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-5y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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If you are on Facebook, you are probably familiar with the Like button.\u00a0 You can \u201clike\u201d someone\u2019s status update, a link they share, or photos they\u2019ve uploaded.\u00a0 Even better than that, you can \u201clike\u201d various Facebook pages created by companies, organizations, and people.<\/p>\n![\"LikeButton\"](\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-jdqpPR6dig4\/UVn_paOIcMI\/AAAAAAAAIdc\/HwPf-VJH-vs\/LikeButton%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" "\\"LikeButton\\"")
Why might you want to \u201clike\u201d various genealogy-related pages on Facebook?\u00a0 Here are a few reasons:<\/p>\n\n
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