Have you tried the new way to share your Connection Finder results on Facebook?

Question

Hi WikiTreers,

If you're on a Microsoft browser, you can stop reading now. Sorry IE/Edge users.

If you're on Chrome or Firefox (what about Safari? Opera?) there's now an easy way to share your Connection Finder results on Facebook. Tell your friends and family how you're related to the Queen of England!

1.) Go to the Connection Finder. From a person-related page you can select "Global Connections" on the pull-down menu that starts with their WikiTree ID.

2.) Beneath the connection results, e.g. on Michael Phelps to Queen Elizabeth II, click the "GET SHAREABLE IMAGE" button.

3.) Make a mental note on where the image is being saved, e.g. to a Downloads or My Pictures folder on your computer.

4.) Go to Facebook.

5.) At the top of the status/sharing box click the "Photo/Video" link and select "Upload Photos/Videos".

6.) Find the image where you saved it.

7.) Add text like "This is from http://www.wikitree.com (@WikiTreers). What do you think?" and click "Post".

Does that work for you?

Anything about the instructions you'd add or change? Honestly, I'm not the most Facebook-savvy person. Let me know if you have input and I'll edit the instructions on http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shareable_Images

Cheers,

Chris

Comments

Nothing I would change on this one....but adding one to the relationship finder would be awesome as well!  :D

P.S. - I just did mine and posted to the WikiTree FB page.  :D

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I concur--then I could easy peasy send that 'screen shot' when folks as "how are we kin again Lisa?" LOL

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I don't see a "Get Shareable Image" button in Safari.

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I do not use Facebook or any social medium to share any results on Facebook. There is for me no reason to share the connection finder because it does not have priority - getting the relationships right and validated (and I know just how askew they can be and how much research is needed) has priority. I do use Facebook and other Fora as source however. I have corrected quite some parental connections this way round.

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While I enjoy the Connection Finder for it's entertainment value (as in who is connected to whom) I would not use it for any serious genealogical research and as such I would not put it out there in public. It's fine for me to just know to whom I am connected, but i prefer to keep it inside Wikitrees.

Answer 1

I added a Connection Finder result showing QEII's relation to "Wyannie" for the Bahamas DNA Project Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/BAH.DNA.Project

I hope you will "like" it (-; I need more traffic!)

Wyannie is perhaps the most popular icon of Bahamian ancestry

Using an Apple iPad I could not find a "get shareable image button"  so I just did a screen shot and then in Facebook I grabbed that shot from my camera roll.

Thanks and sincerely,