Personal History

Writing Family History Tips: Which Programs to Use When Drafting Your Genealogy Stories

Don’t let the programs you use to write a family history prevent you from capturing and preserving your genealogy stories. Instead of wor...

How to Embed YouTube Videos on Your Genealogy Blogs or Websites

Your genealogy blog or website can benefit from sharing family history videos from YouTube with your audience.

Should You Use Proper English When Writing a Family History?

Should you write in proper English when creating a family history book?

Ignore Story Crafting While Recording Family History

You are failing at recording your family history because you need to learn how to IGNORE story crafting practices. That’s right. I said i...

Stop Being Afraid of Writing Your Life Story

Writing your personal story is THE MOST important aspect of family history, yet few people do it. Are you afraid of writing your life sto...

Give Your Photos, Stories

Let’s be brutal. Photos without stories are worthless. They are no better than the photos in picture frames you buy off the shelve with p...

Quick Photo Books for Memory Keeping

Memory Keeping when you’re a busy mom of young ones underfoot, tweens that you chauffeuring all over, or some combination of the two whil...

Stop Thinking Nobody Cares About Your Family History

There is an internet meme that says, “Nobody cares about your story until you win.” The advice then is to go win. Although motivating to ...

Grab A Camera And Preserve the Family Keepsakes

Family history can be found in the artifacts that belonged to our ancestors and that are in our homes or those of older living relatives....

Should I Include That? – Family History Writing Tips

After creating numerous heritage scrapbooks, writing the first draft of 120+ ancestor’s lives and turning two into published books, I’ve ...

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