Leaves of the Tree: My RootsMagic - New Place to Publish Your Family History

Leaves of the Tree: My RootsMagic - New Place to Publish Your Family History:

If you are interested in using RootsMagic6 to publish your genealogy on the Internet take a look at this page and the Our Family link at the bottom.  It's a quick way to see what to expect.

This is a project I'd like to attempt in the near future.

Thanks to Kay Haden who shared her work.

'via Blog this'

Personal Publishing: HTML for Genealogy Bloggers

Personal Publishing: HTML for Genealogy Bloggers:

'via Blog this'

Blog Your Family History

Personal Publishing: Blog Your Family History | TechTips | FamilySearch:

'via Blog this'

A very nice article on the Family Search website about using blogs to share your genealogy information. If you are reading this blog you already know that I have been doing this with two Google blogs for a number of years.

16 September 2011

Mr. Dickie

Getting Started With Scribd

Getting Started With Scribd

If you are thinking about publishing on the Internet this sixteen-page description of Scribd might be of interest. I don't have experience to offer any comments. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has tried the service. Feel free to add comments to this post.

Mr. Dickie

Origins of the GANDER Name

This is a link to a Gander website. Scroll down to see a photograph of my friend, Chuck Gander. He's published several genealogies and is currently (September 2009) working on another genealogy project.

Origins of the GANDER Name

Mr. Dickie

My Genealogy File

Yesterday I did some work on my own genealogy file. I posted the obituaries of two of my Henthorn relatives. They both died at the end of 2006. That gives you an idea of how much interest I've had in working on genealogy in the last couple of years.

If you are interested in those obituaries I posted a pointer to the one for my cousin, Wrex Henthorn, Jr. on my obituaries blog. The other obituary, for Jack Charles Henthorn, was featured in the same blog some time ago.

BTW, a register report for my Henthorn family is now a 311 page document. If you are a member of my family and if you have an interest in such a document feel free to contact me. To read the report you need a copy of the free Adobe Reader (PDF) installed on your computer.

Genealogy Publishing with PDF

I've started a project to post bookmarks to websites of interest on the social bookmarking website: Delicious.

This link presents a series of websites that would be useful if you are interested in using PDF to publish genealogy or anything else. A number of articles written by Dick Eastman are very useful. There are three sites for affordable PDF publishing programs. One of them, Ancestral Author, uses a GEDCOM file to publish a hyper-linked genealogy report.

To display PDF website links from Mr. Dickie's bookmarks on Delicious click the link below.

http://del.icio.us/MrDickie/pdf

Publishing Your Work

Have you published any of your work yet? If you haven't maybe it is time you think about it. After you are gone will anyone be able to find the genealogy work you did?

Please consider using your genealogy program to print out a report about your family. Put a copy in a binder that you keep in your house. Make one or more copies that you send to one or more genealogy libraries. Consider donating copies to the genealogy library of the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah and to the library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

It isn't necessary to bind the copies you send to these libraries. The LDS library will probably photograph the pages either on microfilm or microfiche. That's easier to do when the pages aren't bound. Once the genealogy is on film and in the LDS catalog a copy of the genealogy can be sent, on film, to any Family History Center in the world for use there. In the case of microfiche the film remains at the local Family History Center. The last time I checked microfilm was returned to Salt Lake City after the loan period.

Putting your genealogy in either of these libraries will insure that others can find the document because both have online catalogs of their holdings.

There are many other good candidate libraries where you could also donate. Consider The Library of Congress; the DAR Library; the libraries of your local historical or genealogical societies.

During the years when I was very actively working on genealogy I often found reference to the work that someone had done in the past. Most of the time, even when I was able to contact members of the family where the work was done, I wasn't able to find a copy of the genealogy. What a pity.

Don't let this happen to your work.

Tags: Publishing, Genealogy, Libraries