Forum: Writing up your family history

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 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?

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...

I had 7 years of research data, and wanted to share it with my extended family ... especially younger members. I wanted something that was lively - not just who married who, and a bunch of dates. I have old photos, newspaper clipping and an interest in maps and social history. That became the...

I have transcribed the diaries of an ancestor written between 1849 & 1862 and now seem to be going around in circles. To date I have used Word, but feel I may need another programme. I would like to publish them for distribution (sale) to interested family and maybe to the Local History...

Whilst my researching history isnt as long as many of you folks i've gathered up quite a bit over the last 2.5years and this is due to the internet and making contact with me because i'm in google. I promote my ancestry in 3 ways. I first started with a website that was made from the software...

I am not good with computers and I need to make a gedcom. I can get to the bit in Family Tree Maker where you make the Gedcom, but then it has to be saved somewhere. I don't know how to find it when it's been saved and I don't know how to attach it to an email. I can send emails, but I have never...

Can anyone tell me which of the James's is the patron saint of Gorton chapel, and what does St James Tyde refer too? Many Thanks Steve.

Hello, Most of my extensive family history is recorded on a PAF Family Tree. I also have the companion report maker programme. I have a subscription to A*try and have some of my family info is on a A*try family tree. I like that I can search A*try and directly attach infomation such as...

I am editing my aunts memoir, by filling in dates and background details which she has omitted. She started work at the age of 17 (1917) as a childrens nurse in a "country house" in Essex. I have been wondering how this would have occured bearing in mind that she was born and bred in Stepney. ...

I am now at saturation point with ancestral information, and although I wanted to start writing up the history a couple of months ago, the new discovery of yet another of my Mum's lines got in the way of this and I found myself researching yet more folk. For the moment, I have decided I MUST call...

Could someone tell me whether I'm right or wrong on this question please? I had always thought that if you uploaded your Family Tree to the internet, you had to obtain permission from any living people first, before their names and details were included on it. For example, the GenesReunited site...