OurTimeLines.com - Home Page. Family History Writers Share Their Expertise! | The Armchair Genealogist. Each year during The Family HistoryWriting Challenge, I try to bring participants advice from experts in the field. Authors who know the challenges that are unique to family historians. I attempt to seek out writers who bring a variety of experience and this year is no exception. Please enjoy a look at our line-up guest authors for this year's challenge. I’m also sharing with each writer's chosen topic for this year. 1. Jean-Francois de Buren. " which traces a two-year expedition through the New World of the 1850s. 2. Sharon DeBartolo Carmack is a Certified Genealogist with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. Sharon teaches graduate courses in Creative Nonfiction Writing for Southern New Hampshire University’s MA in English and Creative Writing Program. 3.
Julie Cahill Tarr. 4. Lisa Alzo, M.F.A. currently resides in Ithaca, New York. 5. Biff Barnes is a writer, educator, and historian who has published extensively about San Francisco. 6. 1. 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. Security Alert: Writing & Publishing Your Family History - Getting Your Family History in Print. Steps, tips, and guides for writing, editing, and publishing your family history, including family history books, genealogy websites, and family history newsletters. Plus, details on copyright laws and source documentation as they apply to genealogy and family history. Guidelines for Publishing Web Pages on the InternetIf you're building or creating a family history or genealogy Web site, these recommendations from the U.S. National Genealogical Society may come in handy. 10 Steps to Writing Your Family HistoryYes, the research is the fun part. Writing a family history book just seems too daunting to be fun.
But when the relatives start nagging, try these 10 easy steps for making your family history book a reality. 5 Ways to Chart & Display Your Family TreeWhile tracing your ancestry back as far as possible is fun, it's even better when you can present the findings in a handsome family tree chart. Publishing family history - About.com : Genealogy. Publishing Your Family Tree Online - Creating a Genealogy Web Site. Why should you publish your family tree online? It's a great way to share your research with family members, which keeps them connected and encourages them to contribute more of their own photos and knowledge of your shared family history.
A family tree Web site is also an excellent tool for attracting other researchers and "cousins," making it easy for people researching the same ancestors to find you. It's easy to do these days - and requires little technical knowledge. If you can read email, upload files, and use a genealogy software program, then you have enough savvy to handle a genealogy Web site.
Publishing your family tree online can mean simply uploading your GEDCOM file to an online database or creating a beautiful family history Web site complete with photos, digital documents, and sources. Plus, a dozen more options between those two extremes. Define Your Purpose What do you hope to achieve with your genealogy Web site? Find Space for Your Web Site. 10 Steps to Writing Your Family History - About Genealogy. Yes, the research is the fun part. Writing a family history book just seems too daunting to be fun. But when the relatives start nagging, try these 10 easy steps for making your family history book a reality. 1) Choose a Format for Your Family History What do you envision for your family history project? A simple photocopied booklet shared only with family members or a full-scale, hard-bound book to serve as a reference for other genealogists? Considering your interests, potential audience and the types of materials you have to work with, here are some forms your family history can take: Memoir/Narrative: A combination of story and personal experience, memoirs and narratives do not need to be all-inclusive or objective.
Most family histories are generally narrative in nature, with a combination of personal story, photos and family trees. 2) Define the Scope of Your Family History Do you intend to write mostly about just one particular relative, or everyone hanging from your family tree? Guidelines for Publishing Web Pages on the Internet. Appreciating that publishing information through Internet web sites and web pages shares many similarities with print publishing, considerate family historians — apply a single title to an entire web site, as they would to a book, placing it both in the <TITLE> HTML tag that appears at the top of the web browser window for each web page to be viewed, and also in the body of the web document, on the opening home, title or index page.
Explain the purposes and objectives of their web sites, placing the explanation near the top of the title page or including a link from that page to a special page about the reason for the site. Display a footer at the bottom of each web page which contains the web site title, page title, author's name, author's contact information, date of last revision and a copyright statement. Provide complete contact information, including at a minimum a name and e-mail address, and preferably some means for long-term contact, like a postal address. Blogging Family History - Personal Family History Blogs.
Whether you're looking for inspiration for your own family history blog, or just enjoy reading about the searches and stories of others, these family history blogs are beautiful examples of family history publishing via Weblog. Favorite Genealogy Reference Book - Readers' Choice Awards 2013Five genealogy reference books were selected by readers as the books they just can't live without. Meet the 2013 About Genealogy Readers' Choice Winners in the favorite genealogy reference book category. Best Library or Archive Blog with a Genealogical FocusWhat is your favorite archive or library blog that focuses, at least in part, on genealogy? Submit your nomination here for the 2013 About.com Readers' Choice Awards.
A Matter of Life and DeathLee Anders has chosen a beautiful title for her genealogy research blog which is intended to share the details of her research and to serve as an organizational tool for her notes. The Oracle of OMcHodoyWelcome to the ancestral world of Colleen from Arizona. Make your own family history and memory book Online.
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