Genealogy Wise
Writing Genealogy and Family History
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How are you telling your family stories?
Some of my thoughts:-------Chronological by Family-------Generation, Era or Historical Event (Revolutionary War, Pioneers, Immigration--families intertwined)-------Use of local flavor, i.e. what were the times like when your relative lived-------Pedigree line with little stories spread…
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Help with writing format basics
There are several interesting and helpful discussions, but none seem to deal with my neeeds.I have a couple of very basic questions - What style and size font do you use. I will be putting the information of a disk and the family can print out the parts they want. I am using word and doing the…
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There are no boundaries for writing your family history. You can develop your own format and be as creative as you want
I started writing my family history book 1 year ago. I had years of genealogical research including volumns of records on many of my lineages, however, I knew I wanted something different from the dry and boring genealogical books I had read in the library. So I tried to weave my own…
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Technology and Writing our Family Histories
As you may have discovered I am very technology enabled. However, as we write our family stories, we don't want the technology or tools get in the way of writing those histories. I started this discussion to help each other with the tools we may use in publishing our family histories. This may…
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My Mother's Memoirs - annotation, consolidation of diaries
My mother wrote constantly. When she wasn't writing letters she wrote diaries, and when she wasn't writing diaries, she wrote memoirs. In fact, I have come across 4 different memoirs, from 4 to 30 pages long, with much overlap. The fascinating thing is that each time she told the same story,…
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Footnotes or Endnotes?
Hi All,I am writing up my notes into something that I can print out and share. My current dilemma is whether to use footnotes (my personal preference because the relevant information is on the same page you are currently reading and you don't have to flick back and forth) or use endnotes. I know…
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Research Support
I know there are family groups, and topic groups, as well as research groups on this network. But I thought we my need a bit of support within this group on the research we are doing.
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How do you know when to start writing?
Hi everyone-I'd like to do a little write up of the work I've done on my grandmother's side, as she is turning 84 this year, and her memory is getting a little sketchy. I think I'd like to make her a little book that has photos, any newspaper articles I can find, some images of documents, and also…
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Spelling
Hello, and I mean this in the kindest way, please don't be offended, but you need to correct your spelling of the word in your title - should be Genealogy. This looks like an interesting group, and I think I can learn some good things. Thanks.
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Proof Reading Circle
I'm thinking this would be a good place for everyone to gather who is interested in being part of a proof reading circle. Since everyone will have different length books, perhaps we should limit the amount of pages at a time to one person, since the task can become quite daunting. My book is going…
