Different strokes for different folks. I belong to several Facebook genealogy groups and find them useful, as secure as rootsweb and very interactive. Many of the negative comments here reflect conventional wisdom about Facebook and not necessarily how it actually works -- especially using private groups rather than simple pages. Facebook allows posting of photos and files and allows members to collaborate on documents, features I find very useful. I didn't interpret the original poster as suggesting splintering this group, but as suggesting that there are also Facebook groups available for help with our Baden research. There are more Baden research groups than just this rootsweb group. I'm guessing there are many who are members of both, but there are also others who likely are only members of one or the other style of research support group. Your research style might make you prefer one type over another. You can easily search past posts in Facebook; groups have moderators who can set privacy levels. Most groups I belong to require permission from the moderator to join. Facebook posts from group members do not show up on my wall unless I am friends with the poster, so almost none of my group posts show on my wall. Likewise, your friends don't see any of the group conversations you participate in - these are typically private conversations. And group posts don't clutter up my email the way these mail list groups do (even though i use a digest form for mail lists I belong to) Facebook groups and roots web groups are only as good as their moderators. While rootsweb groups are genealogy oriented, I find the groups I've had experience with don't have any special tools that make them any more useful than the Facebook groups I belong to. Many are woefully out of date and no longer being maintained. Facebook groups depend on their member interaction to continue conversations and research leads, so similar things can happen to these groups. I will continue to use both rootsweb groups and Facebook groups as they both provide me with important information for my genealogy research. Each person should use what they are comfortable with and what they find most useful. If you've tried Facebook groups and found them lacking, then don't use them. If you haven't tried them, do your own research on Facebook -it's more than a generic social media app, it's also a good networking tool. Ask your genealogy friends for their opinions, read the terms of use and decide whether you feel comfortable using the environment. Just my 2 cents worth. On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 4:04 PM, <baden-wurttemberg-request@rootsweb.com>wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Baden Genealogy Group (gundlingen@gmail.com) > 2. Re: Baden Genealogy Group (Paul Rands) > 3. Re: Baden Genealogy Group (Jack & Melanie McConnell) > 4. Re: Baden Genealogy Group (dmhen@aol.com) > 5. Re: Baden Genealogy Group (Patrick Turner) > 6. Re: Baden Genealogy Group (Kevin Bradford) > 7. Baden Genealogy Group (lschling@verizon.net) > 8. Re: Baden Genealogy Group (ToySchach@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 17:36:26 +0100 > From: gundlingen@gmail.com > Subject: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > < > CAEZTZOx5rz8eoXhG20xCAQ07txRbRJSpidMip3sv3NRyp-Mdwg@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > This is a group of volunteers to share information and to ask for > assistance about the BADEN region of Germany which is the smaller part of > Baden-W?rttemberg, as it relates to Genealogy. > Please feel free to join and to post your query if you need assistance for > your ancestry, or to add any information that may help others as well as > links to regional resources. > Please accept that this is a non-commercial offer and that we do no > extended research for you. > > Link to the Baden Genealogy Group: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/ > > > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > > > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:40:14 -0700 > From: Paul Rands <paulrands@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > To: BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Rootsweb List <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BAY167-W482578E38F1CF12E855A4FADF40@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Since I'm not a facebook power user and don't understand all of its > advantages and disadvantages, please help me understand why your group has > chosen facebook instead of a rootsweb mail list like this BW list. Also, > why are you splintering this group? > > Does facebook allow anyone, member or not, to search all previous posts > for interesting references to their own research interests? > > As a member of your facebook group, do all posts to your facebook group > then pile up on ones own facebook wall? > > If I reply to a facebook post for the Baden group, will all of my other > facebook friends then have to wade through the original post to the Baden > facebook post plus all the comments to that post? > > Are there so many posts to this BW list to warrant fragmenting it by > starting another group and therefore weakening the usefulness of the > existing group? > > In addition to these questions, can you explain the advantages to doing > this type of thing in facebook which is a generic social media > site/application versus using rootsweb, a tool dedicated to genealogical > research and sharing? > > Paul in Oregon > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 15:25:26 -0400 > From: "Jack & Melanie McConnell" <jacmac138@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > To: <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <000f01ced801$49245d90$db6d18b0$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Well said Paul. I concur with your query > > Jack > > -----Original Message----- > From: baden-wurttemberg-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:baden-wurttemberg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Paul Rands > Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 2:40 PM > To: BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Rootsweb List > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > > Since I'm not a facebook power user and don't understand all of its > advantages and disadvantages, please help me understand why your group has > chosen facebook instead of a rootsweb mail list like this BW list. Also, > why are you splintering this group? > > Does facebook allow anyone, member or not, to search all previous posts for > interesting references to their own research interests? > > As a member of your facebook group, do all posts to your facebook group > then > pile up on ones own facebook wall? > > If I reply to a facebook post for the Baden group, will all of my other > facebook friends then have to wade through the original post to the Baden > facebook post plus all the comments to that post? > > Are there so many posts to this BW list to warrant fragmenting it by > starting another group and therefore weakening the usefulness of the > existing group? > > In addition to these questions, can you explain the advantages to doing > this > type of thing in facebook which is a generic social media site/application > versus using rootsweb, a tool dedicated to genealogical research and > sharing? > > Paul in Oregon > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 15:40:00 -0400 (EDT) > From: dmhen@aol.com > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8D0A61A738F0DF8-131C-340CC@webmail-d173.sysops.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Was not aware Baden was on FACEBOOK. I use rootsweb and familysearch > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack & Melanie McConnell <jacmac138@comcast.net> > To: baden-wurttemberg <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sat, Nov 2, 2013 12:28 pm > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > > > Well said Paul. I concur with your query > > Jack > > -----Original Message----- > From: baden-wurttemberg-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:baden-wurttemberg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Paul Rands > Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 2:40 PM > To: BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Rootsweb List > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > > Since I'm not a facebook power user and don't understand all of its > advantages and disadvantages, please help me understand why your group has > chosen facebook instead of a rootsweb mail list like this BW list. Also, > why are you splintering this group? > > Does facebook allow anyone, member or not, to search all previous posts for > interesting references to their own research interests? > > As a member of your facebook group, do all posts to your facebook group > then > pile up on ones own facebook wall? > > If I reply to a facebook post for the Baden group, will all of my other > facebook friends then have to wade through the original post to the Baden > facebook post plus all the comments to that post? > > Are there so many posts to this BW list to warrant fragmenting it by > starting another group and therefore weakening the usefulness of the > existing group? > > In addition to these questions, can you explain the advantages to doing > this > type of thing in facebook which is a generic social media site/application > versus using rootsweb, a tool dedicated to genealogical research and > sharing? > > Paul in Oregon > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:04:52 -0500 > From: Patrick Turner <pfturner@mchsi.com> > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <52755AE4.6060106@mchsi.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > */_Under no circumstances, will I join Facebook._/* > > PT > > On 11/2/2013 11:36 AM, gundlingen@gmail.com wrote: > > This is a group of volunteers to share information and to ask for > > assistance about the BADEN region of Germany which is the smaller part of > > Baden-W?rttemberg, as it relates to Genealogy. > > Please feel free to join and to post your query if you need assistance > for > > your ancestry, or to add any information that may help others as well as > > links to regional resources. > > Please accept that this is a non-commercial offer and that we do no > > extended research for you. > > > > Link to the Baden Genealogy Group: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/ > > > > > > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > > > > > > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:27:41 -0400 > From: Kevin Bradford <pugnacious60@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > To: "baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com" <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <COL131-W156ADD146C96C38B22B6C6C7F40@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Facebook is not an appropriate media for a list of this nature. It's > value will degenerate (no more archival storage), and the invasive nature > of Facebook will turn it into a commercial spying game. > > > > Regards, > > Kevin > > > > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 15:04:52 -0500 > > From: pfturner@mchsi.com > > To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > > > > */_Under no circumstances, will I join Facebook._/* > > > > PT > > > > On 11/2/2013 11:36 AM, gundlingen@gmail.com wrote: > > > This is a group of volunteers to share information and to ask for > > > assistance about the BADEN region of Germany which is the smaller part > of > > > Baden-W?rttemberg, as it relates to Genealogy. > > > Please feel free to join and to post your query if you need assistance > for > > > your ancestry, or to add any information that may help others as well > as > > > links to regional resources. > > > Please accept that this is a non-commercial offer and that we do no > > > extended research for you. > > > > > > Link to the Baden Genealogy Group: > > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/ > > > > > > > > > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > > > > > > > > > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:01:55 -0500 (CDT) > From: lschling@verizon.net > Subject: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <26115706.402608.1383426115230.JavaMail.root@vznit170126> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > We are so lucky to have this group to work with, help each other, share > info > and etc. I see no need for face book. Frankly I don't use face book > and > with all you here on the news about Face book why would you want to go > there > with this type of research. > Walk in peace > Linn > This is a group of volunteers to share information and to ask for > assistance about the BADEN region of Germany which is the smaller part > of > Baden-W??rttemberg, as it relates to Genealogy. > Please feel free to join and to post your query if you need assistance > for > your ancestry, or to add any information that may help others as well as > links to regional resources. > Please accept that this is a non-commercial offer and that we do no > extended research for you. > Link to the Baden Genealogy Group: > [1]https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/ > <[2]https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > <[3]https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN[4]-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > References > > 1. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/ > 2. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/ > 3. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/ > 4. mailto:-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 17:04:14 -0400 (EDT) > From: ToySchach@aol.com > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <6fdbf.34c7030.3fa6c2ce@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > I vote for genealogy on Facebook. I joined the Baden group today and wish > there was a Wuerttemberg group. They post photos and charts. This group > is great but oldfashion. Rootsweb needs an upgrade. > > Kent Schach > > > In a message dated 11/2/2013 4:29:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > pugnacious60@hotmail.com writes: > > Facebook is not an appropriate media for a list of this nature. It's > value will degenerate (no more archival storage), and the invasive nature > of > Facebook will turn it into a commercial spying game. > > > > Regards, > > Kevin > > > > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 15:04:52 -0500 > > From: pfturner@mchsi.com > > To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [BW] Baden Genealogy Group > > > > */_Under no circumstances, will I join Facebook._/* > > > > PT > > > > On 11/2/2013 11:36 AM, gundlingen@gmail.com wrote: > > > This is a group of volunteers to share information and to ask for > > > assistance about the BADEN region of Germany which is the smaller part > of > > > Baden-W?rttemberg, as it relates to Genealogy. > > > Please feel free to join and to post your query if you need assistance > for > > > your ancestry, or to add any information that may help others as well > as > > > links to regional resources. > > > Please accept that this is a non-commercial offer and that we do no > > > extended research for you. > > > > > > Link to the Baden Genealogy Group: > > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/ > > > > > > > > > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > > > > > > > > > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405028003059446/> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the BADEN-WURTTEMBERG list administrator, send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the BADEN-WURTTEMBERG mailing list, send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Digest, Vol 8, Issue 176 > ************************************************* > -- Lynn Dosch 608-515-3558 3079 Yarmouth Greenway Drive Fitchburg, WI 53711