This week, I released a version of LiveRoots.com as a Facebook application. The Live Roots for Facebook application includes all of the same features as the website, PLUS it allows you to easily share your discoveries with friends and family. If you're a Facebook member, you've got to give this a try.

The CousinConnect genealogy query and surname database is now integrated into the Live Roots search system. Online since 2002, CousinConnect now hosts close to 200,000 queries. Within the Live Roots search, you'll be able to browse all of the query posts for a specific surname, and then click on them to see the message detail.

The FamilySearch Research Wiki may now be browsed from within Live Roots, giving our visitors easy access to this on-line library of articles and how-to instructions about doing family history. A full text search of the Wiki is expected in the near future and will be added to Live Roots as well.