{"id":5245,"date":"2017-10-06T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2017-09-29T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:26:21","slug":"friday-finds-writing-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/friday-finds-writing-family-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday finds – Writing family history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a number of article about writing family history<\/p>\n

This week I present these theme based Friday Finds, as I have done very little in regards to genealogy this week. Actually, I put this article together last week, as my wife and I are now in Greece.<\/p>\n

We spend a lot of time collecting information about our ancestors. We should also spend some time thinking of how to present our findings. Here are some articles that gives us ideas as to how to present a family history.<\/p>\n

This is different takes on the same topic and a lot of the information given in the different articles are similar.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Armchair Genealogist, Lynn Palermo<\/strong>\u00a0has a lof of interesting articles about creating and publishing. Check out her articles at\u00a0\u00a0Writing Your Family History<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Kimberly Powell\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0ThougthtCo. <\/strong>claims that\u00a0“Writing a family history may seem like a daunting task\u00a0but when the relatives start nagging, try these 10 easy steps for making your family history book a reality.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Lilian Magill<\/strong> from Sydney, Australia\u00a0recently finished writing a family history for her family and published it too.\u00a0Read how Lilian succeed in\u00a0Devon Noelle Lee*s Family History Fanatics\u00a0<\/strong>Celebrating Lilian’s Writing Success<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Here is an article from……..my blog, presenting two books on writing family history.\u00a0 Read\u00a0Books on Monday: Writing family history<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Maybe you like to learn by listening? At the Open University\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>there are seven Podcast tracks that talks about writing family history. The website claims that when writing on a topic with little research, interviewing witnesses and relatives becomes paramount. Therefore some of the tracks deal with\u00a0\u00a0interviewing technique Check out the podcast\u00a0Writing family history.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"There are several YouTube videos about writing family history. here is one from\u00a0BYU Family History Library<\/a>. It is a recorded webinar by\u00a0Heather Pack\u00a0<\/strong>called\u00a0How to Write a Compelling Story About your Ancestor<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"One way to get started writing family history is to write your own personal history.\u00a0In the blog\u00a0Family History Quick Start<\/strong> we are presented with\u00a0a way to write that personal history and finish it bit by bit. Read\u00a0Writing your Personal History<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here are some other blogs that presents links under the \u201cfinds\u201d meme:<\/p>\n