Genealogy as a Team Sport: Getting Your Message Out
Rootsweb lists will be gone 2 March 2020 Perhaps you have heard that news that Rootsweb mail lists are going away, leaving only the list archives behind. At least those invaluable archives will remain. The notice: Beginning March 2nd, 2020 the Mailing Lists functionality on RootsWeb will be discontinued. Users will no longer be able to send outgoing emails or accept incoming emails. What are the alternatives? Twenty years ago, this would have been devastating. These days, we have lots of other places to place queries, ask questions, get answers and make connections. Where best to post? That depends on what you want to accomplish. We humans work best in connection with others, and getting your message out helps you find new collaborators and new cousins. Let's explore some of the options. Many (but not all) lists are moving elsewhere. Linkpendium.com , among others, will be keeping track of the new locations. A very popular destination for the lists is groups.io and th