Digital Genealogist Goes Live

A new genealogy "e-magazine" is available. Digital Genealogist is now online.

As announced last July by Liz Kelley Kerstens:

"Ancestry has discontinued its magazine Genealogical Computing, effective with the July/August/September 2006 issue that is currently in the mail. As editor of GC for the past nearly seven years, I still believe there's a need for a magazine devoted to genealogy and technology. To that end, I am starting my own magazine later this year. It will be called Digital Genealogist and will be delivered to subscribers as a PDF. It will be similar in format and content to Genealogical Computing. In fact, a lot of the authors and columnists will continue to write for me in the new publication, including Drew Smith, popular Cybrarian columnist. The first issue of Digital Genealogist will be sent out via PDF attachment to subscribers in November 2006"

The first issue of Digital Genealogist has appeared on time, as promised. Liz has produced a visually appealing magazine that is available as a PDF file. She has a number of well-known genealogy authors who have contributed articles to the first edition, including: Gordon Gray, Bill Mumford, Elissa Scalise Powell, Laura Prescott, Geoffrey Rasmussen, David Rencher, Drew Smith, Gary and Diana Smith, Juliana Smith, Joshua Taylor, Susan Zacharias, and, of course, Liz Kerstens.

One of the advantages to subscribers of a magazine published as a PDF file is that the URLs in both the articles and the ads will be live links, allowing you to immediately explore ideas suggested by authors as well as the websites of advertisers.

Digital Genealogist will be published bimonthly. The first issue is free and is available now at http://www.digitalgenealogist.com. Starting with the second issue, subscriptions are $20 a year.

Comments

[Bill]

I read and liked the first issue of Digital Genealogist. However I think it is very similar to your newsletter except in color and pictures of the authors. More bells and whistles. I used to subscribe to Genealogical Computing and Digital Genealogist is better. I probably will subscribe but will ABSOLUTELY continue with my favorite newsletter which is your newsletter!!!

[Kathy Meyer]

I have tried this several times today and get the message "Service Unavailable" when I click on the link. Earlier today I got the home page of the Digital Genealogist website but when I clicked on the box to go to the actual magazine, I got the same "Service Unavailable" message. I also subscribed to Genealogical Computing so I am interested to see the content of this new one.

[Jo Dunaway]

I have the same problem. I've tried several times and all I get is "Service Unavailable".

[Sandee]

Same here as with Kathy's posting.... "Service Unavailable"... I'll add to 'favs' and will keeping checking back in to see when 'available'.

[Dick Eastman]

The site worked yesterday but does not work today. That sounds like a server that is overloaded or else is over its allowable traffic limit. Most hosting companies charge by the number of bytes transferred, some companies place a hard limit (maximum) number of bytes. Once the maximum has been met, the service may block any more requests. Of course, PDF files can be very big.

Such is the price of success. It sounds like the e-magazine is generating a lot of interest!

- Dick Eastman

[Kathy Meyer]

It's working now! (7:38pm Mountain Time, Wednesday Nov 1)

[peggy nehmen]

This is one of the ugliest magazines / newsletters out there. It looks very unprofessional. Get a real designer and make it look more appealing.

[Vera]

It is there today but takes so long to load that it times out.

[Dennis Gries]

I just took at look at this magazine. Loaded well on the first shot. I really don't care about pretty/ugly, but rather about the content. These articles are in-depth. If somebody wants pretty, get Vogue or Field & Stream (can't be sexist).