Thats right, we are one year old and still growing every day!!!  June of 2008 saw my baby come to life.  My wish to have a social networking site without all the "drama" of myspace that was just for genealogists came true.   Many of you know it came as a result of an interview I was asked to take part in, on my opinion if Myspace helped with genealogy...which of course it hadnt helped me one single bit, other than to identify other genealogists with the same thoughts.

My wish was not so much to be a repository for family trees via gedcom files..there are plenty of other sites that do that...my wish was for a place where genealogist could get together, brainstorm, share information, tips, tricks, news and help each other for FREE.  With over 1100 registered users (and growing every day) and 40 discussion groups, hundreds of blogs and thousands of photos, AncestralSpace is carving a place out in the genealogy society that makes me proud.  We have been mentioned in a national genealogy magazine, and written about in other genealogy blogs, groups, forums and mailing lists. 

I grow prouder of it every day and appreciate all of the members that have gone out of their way to get others to join, sometimes getting slapped on the hand for daring to mention it in certain places.  Its members like that, that will make sure we stay around and grow.

Happy Birthday to us!!!  And remember, the more people you tell about its, the more people we can help!!!

Here's to another year everyone

Shannon

So I have joined the ranks of twitter, both personally and for both my genealogy sites.  If you twitter and want to add AncestralSpace and/or AncestrallyChallenged, these are the links

www.twitter.com/ancestral...

www.twitter.com/anchallen...

The feed for this site will feature blogs posted not only by me but by you as well, the feed for Ancestrally Challenged will feature both my blog posts and interesting discussions going on, on the forum

I should have done this from the beginning, but hind site is 20/20 right?  If you're ever interested in seeing past ancestor of the week photo's, click the link under the banner at the top of the page that says "Featured ancestor of the week" and you will be able to find the.  The ancestor pics start as of the ones poste 11/9/08. 

Ok y'all im out of ancestor of the week submissions!!  Email me your pics to get yoru relative on the main page of the site for a week!!  Send pic and information on the person (birth, death, marriage, interesting facts etc) to ancestralspace@gmail.com so we can honor them!!  If you have an unknown person, I'll be glad to post it for a week to see if anyone recognizes them!!

The October/November 2008 issue of the magazine Internet-Genealogy features an article written by John Lindermuth on the merits of using myspace for genealogy.  John approached me for my thoughts on the matter back in June.  When I was answering his questions the idea for THIS site came to mind and the rest is history lol  I havent been able to find the mag anywhere in my town yet, and someone with a subscription very nicely scanned the article and sent it to me and he not only put my ideas on the subject in the article HE GAVE THE URL FOR THIS SITE IN IT!!!!.  Since the article does carry a copy right, I wont post it here, but if anyone wants to see it send me a message and I will send it to you.