Forum: Writing up your family history

Over the past 20 years I drawn about six Family Trees using standard grade white paper. The largest sheet is 54 inches long by 30 inches high, in one piece. My nephew has a surveying business and got the paper from him. They use standard grade peper. The largest Tree has 900 names and about 280...

In my introduction, I mentioned I was adopted, and have recently discovered my biological mother was a British secret agent who was asked by Dutch Intelligence to go to Arnhem just prior to the Market Garden Campaign: there she discovered the 9th and 10th panzer divisions resting and refitting,...

Evening Everybody I have spent the Day Researching SWMBO's G Grandfather - Henry Arthur Moss - Born 1878 (Abt.), Died 2nd Quarter 1950 aged 73. He spent his whole life in Liverpool. Now going through the information we have found out that he worked in the railway yards at Sandhills Station...

Just in the process of rewriting my little pocket family histories as well as a couple of new ones and have only just discovered the British Museum. Dont laugh !! You cant have just words, must have some pictures but if your family album before your grandparents does not exist then you need...

Hi, all of the info for my family tree is saved using GSP The Ultimate Family Tree. I haven't updated the family tree for a few years now and need to buy a new family tree programme to enable me to do this. Is Family Tree Maker the best way to go? I really am not very computer savvy when it...

I've finally made a start on amalgamating all the years of research I have on my father's family tree into a written history, so I'm currently tracing the rise and fall of our ancestors' cork cutting business through several generations. By and large, those involved are in my direct line of descent...

I'm thinking of posting my tree on the web, but am unsure as to what might be the best software for this task. I would prefer to be able to export my current tree which is at present on Family Tree Maker 2012. I should like to export it in full, media and all, as I have over 21,00 relations and...

I have been looking for a programme to catalogue all my findings , and it has to be free or inexpensive I am not the best organized person in the world, and I would like to have all the info at my fingertips . I have seen this system as available on FamilySearch.org and I wondered if anybody...

When I started my family history 25 tears ago it was with the intention of making a book out of it – not for sale you understand, just for my own reference and maybe family members. The title of my research came about 2 years in – Mysterious Origins – and I have stuck with that title ever since. ...

Hi I was just wondering after find the basic records for someone in your tree, how do you fill out there lifes do you search local papers? or other means of getting a more indepth look into your family?

My grand uncle married and his spouse was an Ahlstedt. Many members here know the history of this family from previous threads of mine. I have now been asked by 3 members of this family to produce a history for them. All well and good, --- but: There were 2 bigamous marriages. One was known...

Hi all, I found that I have quite a few relative's diaries and address books, and I was trying to think of an appropriate way to store all the information. Why it took me so long is beyond me, but I realised that Outlook is perfect! It will surely be a long and boring job, but by typing all the...

This week I participated in a "webinar" (an online seminar) on how-to go about writing your family's stories. The 90 minute session was VERY informative, and a great help for anyone starting or in progress with writing your family's history. It was like attending a University course on the subject...

Hi This was the most appropriate section I could find, for a website service I have stumbled across. It's called StoryVault, and from it's pages it says it's free. At it's simplest it's YouTube for personal history, the Introduction video is by Dan Snow the TV history presenter. From...

Has anyone tried this site? www. backupmytree.com I would be glad to hear from any one, I have googled them a bit and all references on forums seem to be people advertising for them. On the face of it it looks like they provide a very useful service, but why? Too good to be true etc etc.

I have written up quite a few little family histories for various lines and have printed them as well as publishing them on my website. I no longer have the laser printer that I used to own which printed off the 20 or so copies that I needed at a reasonable cost. currently in the process of...

Alongside growing my family tree I have been writing a history, concentrating it around the main characters in the immediate family. I would email the Word document containing the history together with a number of mini trees as the whole was too large to easily view. Anyway the file became too...

Hi, I've tentatively started a one name study of the Pile name, its currently in the 'thinking about how to do it' stage. Does anyone have any hints about how to manage the information, which would mostly be on paper? I've started off with a sheet of paper for each Pile (yes I know, its a...

anyone know of a family record sheet that can be download (saved) to "your" computer...printed on then printed out and edited as needed? All these great forms and they can not be typed on...i personally need to use spell check and type edits as needed....thanks ~Leisha

Hi everyone, I love the fact there is a whole section dedicated to writing up your family history, I was sure I was the only one being driven crazy by formatting issues! So far I've written up all my research into an offline website of my own creation, however, I would like to put together a...