I follow the Facebook group Ancestry UK. This is nothing to do with Ancestry the subscription web site. All sorts of queries crop up on Ancestry UK. I also follow many groups that post old photographs of Plymouth as I love going down memory lane. DFHS also have a group site. Many of these groups seem busier than the forums etc that were used a few years ago. I have found many. Sue Sent from my iPad > On 27 Sep 2017, at 22:01, Brian Randell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ed: > > Which Facebook pages are you referring to? > > I ask because I’ve been involved in developing GENUKI’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/GENUKI), which I and colleagues have put quite a bit of effort into in recent months, largely in the hope that it might help us find more volunteers for the GENUKI project. None of us had any personal interest in the “social media” aspects of Facebook, but we had seen how various organisations use it well for publicising their activities (including the Devon FHS). However though we looked at a number of Facebook genealogy sites, and indeed compiled and added a lengthy listing of UK & I-related genealogy Facebook pages to GENUKI (at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Genealogy/FBlinks) I can’t say we found any that operated as well as the better Rootsweb lists. So I’d be interested in your examples - and your comments on the GENUKI Facebook page. > > Cheers > > Brian Randell > > > On 27 Sep 2017, at 02:48, Ed Barbour <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > A properly set up and managed facebook page can function just as well as rootsweb. I am a member of a couple and quite like them, they no more operate like a social media site than rootsweb as long as they are managed well. > Ed > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > — > > School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU > EMAIL = [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 > URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/brianrandell.html > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message