May 2012
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Use Newspaper Articles to Give Your Family History...
I’ve seen many family history websites that have hundreds of words strung together to tell a story of a person or a family. I’ve even had posts like that myself. But it is BORING! No one likes to read a blog post like they read a novel. How about a photo or two - or better yet - if the story is mostly represented by a newspaper article - then include the article. See how these...
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Why You Should Source Your Research Immediately
This is an easy trap to fall into for all newbies (as well as those of us who are more experienced).
Because if you don’t document where you found the information, you will do what I have done on more than one occasion:
Ask yourself - WHERE DID I GET THIS INFORMATION???.
And you will spend more time than you need to trying to find where you found the information in the first place....
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Be Careful With Family Trees
For many years, family trees have been readily available on many genealogy websites, whether free or via subscription. When using the information please heed the following warning: IN MANY CASES THE INFORMATION IS WRONG!
Often the information has no source information or no citations. Many inexperienced family history researchers will go ahead and add the names to their own tree and post it...
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Another Reason To Create A Family History Website
In a previous post, I had written about the reasons for creating a family history website, custom tailored to the stories of your ancestors and relatives. In my case, it was a way to document these stories, as well as keep my “known” relatives up to speed with all the findings of my research. In addition it has been extremely helpful in “attracting” unknown relatives, those...
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Try Ning for a Private Family History Network
Recently I created a Ning network for the Braunhart family. It is a private family history network with many of the same features as Facebook. I left out the status updates, but have uploaded unidentified family photos, census records, naturalization records, immigration records, etc. Also German letters and their translations. This allows my relatives who have signed up to see the same...
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Why You Should Create A Family History Website
One of the best research tools that will help you find other family members (living, of course) is to create a personalized Family History website. I did so about 3 years ago, and posted photos, family stories, articles in the newspaper, etc. There are four VERY good reasons to create such a website:
It is fun.
It enables you to document interesting family stories and photos that will be...
