I received this press release from WikiTree today:
WikiTree
Announces “Cousin Bait” Toolkits
Dec 4, 2012: WikiTree.com has
released a special set of tools for genealogists who want to lure
distant cousins to help grow their family history and share photos
and memories.
Many Internet-savvy genealogists
already recommend
using WikiTree as a way to fish for new information. Blogger Valerie
Craft wrote in her recent post Using
WikiTree: The How and The Why: "[T]he biggest
reason why you should use WikiTree: cousin bait. ... In my years
doing genealogy, I've had the most success thanks to WikiTree."
WikiTree’s new toolkits are for those
who want to bait the hooks.
Every ancestor profile has a toolkit
that contains a customized set of easy-to-follow action items, such
as:
- Direct links to specific surname forums around the Internet where you can ask for help.
- A way to create a “family mysteries” page for the surname in order to fish for specific information.
- Asking a question about the person in WikiTree’s Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Q&A forum.
- Socializing the profile on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter.
- Sharing the person’s photo on Pinterest.
- Increasing the profile’s ranking in Google with quick and easy steps.
Cousin Bait Toolkits are free for all
WikiTree members, along with all other other features and functions.
WikiTree membership is free and unlimited for all those who share the
community’s mission
to create a collaborative worldwide family tree and agree to abide by
the Wiki
Genealogist Honor Code.
About WikiTree: Growing since
2008, WikiTree.com is a 100% free shared family tree website that
balances privacy and collaboration. Community members privately
collaborate with close family members on modern family history and
publicly collaborate with other genealogists on deep ancestry. Since
all the private and public profiles are connected on the same system
this process is helping to grow a single, worldwide family tree that
will eventually connect us all and thereby make it free and easy for
anyone to discover their roots. See
http://www.WikiTree.com/
Contact: Elyse Doerflinger
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