Did you wish that you could follow your favorite blogs and favorite YouTube
channels in one place? You're in luck today I have a solution that will
simplify your life.
Welcome to Family History Fanatics where we help you
understand your DNA, climb your family tree, and write your ancestors stories
along the way while having tons of fun. And it's not a lot of fun trying to
figure out how to follow blogs and videos in one place but today I have a
solution. In order to simplify your life you're going to need an RSS feed reader,
and what that does is it takes all of the new content releases from blogs,
vlogs, and video channels, and put them into one place. How cool is that
instead of running around scattered brain trying to remember where to follow
all of that content you can go to just one place. So how are you going to get
the RSS feed? Let's hop over to YouTube and I'll show you how to do that. So here
I am at YouTube and in actuality what you're going to need is you're going to
need to open two web windows, browser windows. So I'm going to go ahead and
make sure I have my extra one open just ready to go over here and I'm going to
go back to YouTube. So what you're going to need to do is find your favorite
YouTube channel that you would like to get the RSS feed for. So in this case I'm
going to pick family history fanatics and look I didn't even type the F and
YouTube figured it out for me, they're pretty smart. So I'm gonna click on
family history fanatics and I'm gonna go to their channel page up there in the
bar that I have highlighted we're going to look at the last bit of information
it's a bunch of coded numbers we're gonna grab that and we're gonna
temporarily place this the URL in that other tab, but don't
click okay because that's not what you want to do. So now that you have that
channel ID in the extra tab go to the description section of this video. It
will look very much like this even though yes it's in a Word document right
now. And after the video description you're going to see this little code
code to add to YouTube channel IG just highlight and copy that code right there.
Once you have that code from the description come back to the tab that
you opened that had the channel ID information place your cursor in front
of that and hit paste however you do on your device and you make sure
there's an equal sign before that first letter of the channel IG code and you
should hit Enter or return and you'll see a whole bunch of gibberish. You don't
really care about the code you just want to see that and you know laughs or
cringes baby attempts and then you're gonna see other descriptions here that
look very similar to that YouTube channel that you were looking at. Okay so
now what you're gonna do is you're gonna highlight and copy that ID one more time
all of it together and then you're gonna go to a feed reader and here I'm at
Feedly. It is one of the most highly recommended feed readers out there I've
been using it since Google readers decided to no longer exist. So after you
log in you can see the list of your blogs that you're following so if you
wanted to follow a new blog all you have to do typically is come over here and
type the name of a blog that you're interested in. So let's say you want to
just follow the Amy Johnson crow podcast and blog so I can type in Amy Johnson
Crow and there she shows up and it actually turns out that I am following
her. Oh but look here's some other channels that I might be interested in I
can follow genial webinars I could follow legacy news and I could follow
genealogy tip of the day. I'm going to just go ahead and add that and select a
board that I want to put it to so I'm just gonna put it in genealogy and now
I'm following a board. So again adding a blog post is really easy, but let's say I
wanted to try to add the family history fanatics YouTube channel. Well it has my
blog post and I really hope that you are following our blog. But how do you follow the
YouTube channel? Well remember in this box it said search by topic website or
RSS link that is where you copy and paste your URL that we
copied from over here to right here and now we can click follow and I put that
in genealogy as well and now when I go to the genealogy theme I should be able
to see in just a few minutes might have to take a moment to repopulate. Now that
it's repopulated I can scroll down and I can see people have posted within the
last few hours 7 hours 18 hours. Well it turns out here is one of the videos. So
if I go ahead and click on this I'm gonna go to either watch in feedly or I
can click on and make it so you can see it you can click on this YouTube icon
right there and go straight to the channel. Now Lifehacker recommends that
you use either feedly or you know Reader
and I'll have links to those blog readers in the description for you that
these are the most popular feed readers for 2020 so go ahead and check out those
feed readers so you can follow your favorite blogs and your favorite videos.
So that's all I have for you in this video I hope it was super duper helpful
and if you have any further questions be sure to put them in the descriptions
otherwise go ahead and check out these videos about how to be a better
genealogist and then check out this video for the latest release from family
history fanatics.