Additional integrated real-time searches include YouTube (videos) and RootsWeb Search. There is also a new feature on the site called "Discover More Genealogy (within Live Roots)" that guides you to all of the feeds (blogs, podcasts, video channels and tweeters) that are currently followed. You'll find this feature below the Roots Discover option, and throughout the site whenever you are looking at a feed. We were mentioned recently on DearMyrtle's blog (see "LiveRoots.com: saving time for online researchers"), in Tamura Jones' coverage of Facebook applications (see "Facebook Genealogy") and Randy Seaver has been writing a very interesting multi-part review of Live Roots (see "Using LiveRoots.com - Post 1" and "Post 2").

I've expanded the options for several of the real-time search partners, including Ancestry.com, Footnote.com, Genealogy Bank and World Vital Records. You are now able to filter searches by adding given (first) names, regions, year (or range) and keywords. The options currently vary between partners, but I am working with each partner to expand each preview feature. Once you enter the options for one partner, you are able to click on the preview links for the other partners without have to re-enter them.

The Family History Archive collection is being added to the Live Roots catalog. Currently over 10,000 online books (all free access) have been included. Also this week, a preview for Genealogy Bank was added so you can search from within Live Roots and see what they have available for your surnames. Links to the major collections of HeritageQuest Online were added. Links for the library version of Ancestry.com are now included for anyone using Live Roots from within a library that subscribes. Additional sharing options were added to the Facebook version of Live Roots.

I am pleased to announce the addition of the Family History Library Catalog to the Live Roots Project (i.e. LiveRoots.com and Live Roots for Facebook). Visitors using either platform may now perform Place, Surname, Keyword, Title, Author and Subject searches from within the Live Roots environment. Visitors using the Facebook application are able to "Share" any of the FHL Catalog results with their friends and family directly from within Facebook. A similar feature is under development for the LiveRoots.com website.