1/1/2008
By Rick Crume
Get friendly with the newest trend in online genealogy: social networking Web sites that let you link up with fellow researchers and build trees online.
Store and Share Trees
The sites in this section excel at helping you organize your family tree data and find other researchers interested in your ancestral surnames and places.
FamilyLink
Note: This site is no longer available. FamilyLink now offers a genealogy social network called Genealogy Wise <www.genealogywise.com>.
Of any site here, this one from the growing database service World Vital Records <worldvitalrecords.com> most resembles popular social networking destinations such as Facebook. So far, 11,000 users from more than 1,700 cities have signed on.