You can also find me on Facebook. Stop by and leave a message. I often will link some great finds there as well. You can also follow me on twitter at @LynnPal or my twitter paper The Armchair Genealogist Journal.
At the Armchair Genealogist this week, posts included the following:
Monday Morning Mention
Writing Family History - Check Out Their Blogs
Marketing Your Genealogy Business with Social Media
A Family History Needs A Frame
Recent Posts over at The Family History Writing Challenge include:
Your Family History Story Structure
A Family History Needs A Frame
What Does your Family History Story Mean?
Your Family History Story Structure
A Family History Needs A Frame
What Does your Family History Story Mean?
Internet Genealogy – a great genealogy or internet tip that will benefit any armchair genealogist.
This week’s mention:
Susan Petersen from Long Lost Relatives brings us her post Kindle Fire for Genealogy Podcasts. Susan introduces us to a great app and a wonderful round-up of genealogy podcasts and radio shows that allows her to maximize the app to its fullest genealogy potential.
First, Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings brings our attention to some great video's by Family Search. Randy provides an outline of what is available and where to find them in his post Tuesday's Tip- Watch the FamilySearch Research Course Videos.
Secondly, Kathryn Lake Hogan from Looking 4 Ancestors is serving up a selection of webinars for researchers with Canadian ancestors. You can learn more about the details of Kathryn's first 5 webinars at her post Announcing Free Canadian History Webinars.
Writing Family History - great advice or information on writing your family history.
This week’s mention:
Mary Carroll Moore offers some great advice on using Storyboards for developing your family history or memoir. Making a Map of Your Book's Structure- Three Different Kinds of Storyboards can be read at her blog How to Plan, Write and Develop a Book.
Biff Barnes at Stories to Tell brought our attention to a great writing tool this week for those who have old documents, diaries or letters that you want to use in a story. Read his post OCR: A Tool for Family Historians. This is not just a tool for family history writers.
New Genealogy Blog – we will tip our hat to a newcomer who impresses us right out of the box
This week’s mention:
I am really intrigued by a new blog called The Genealogy Workshop. I loved that Nicola Elsom has put a lot of thought into her blog, from her ask Nick page, to her blog page to her resources page. Her specialty is English research, I encourage you to check her out.
Books that Move and Matter - each week we will feature an ebook or print book with the family historian in mind. It may come as a great source of information, for research or writing or playing to our historical interests, or may just be a great read I think genealogists will love.
How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers by Lisa Louise Cooke was released this week in PDF format. You can dowload it from lulu.com for $14.95. I have a hard copy that I will be reviewing for you shortly.
You can find more new genealogy bloggers at Thomas' list of New Genealogy Blogs at Geneabloggers.
For other great reads, Randy at Genea-Musings offers the Best of the Genea-Blogs
Consider Julie Cahill's Friday Finds at Genblog.
Dan Curtis, Professional Personal Historian always puts together some interesting selections in Monday's Link Round-Up.
Deb Ruth at Adventures in Genealogy offers Follow Friday Gems.
Have a great genealogy week, keep researching and writing!
This week’s mention:
Susan Petersen from Long Lost Relatives brings us her post Kindle Fire for Genealogy Podcasts. Susan introduces us to a great app and a wonderful round-up of genealogy podcasts and radio shows that allows her to maximize the app to its fullest genealogy potential.
First, Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings brings our attention to some great video's by Family Search. Randy provides an outline of what is available and where to find them in his post Tuesday's Tip- Watch the FamilySearch Research Course Videos.
Secondly, Kathryn Lake Hogan from Looking 4 Ancestors is serving up a selection of webinars for researchers with Canadian ancestors. You can learn more about the details of Kathryn's first 5 webinars at her post Announcing Free Canadian History Webinars.
Writing Family History - great advice or information on writing your family history.
This week’s mention:
Mary Carroll Moore offers some great advice on using Storyboards for developing your family history or memoir. Making a Map of Your Book's Structure- Three Different Kinds of Storyboards can be read at her blog How to Plan, Write and Develop a Book.
Biff Barnes at Stories to Tell brought our attention to a great writing tool this week for those who have old documents, diaries or letters that you want to use in a story. Read his post OCR: A Tool for Family Historians. This is not just a tool for family history writers.
New Genealogy Blog – we will tip our hat to a newcomer who impresses us right out of the box
This week’s mention:
I am really intrigued by a new blog called The Genealogy Workshop. I loved that Nicola Elsom has put a lot of thought into her blog, from her ask Nick page, to her blog page to her resources page. Her specialty is English research, I encourage you to check her out.
Books that Move and Matter - each week we will feature an ebook or print book with the family historian in mind. It may come as a great source of information, for research or writing or playing to our historical interests, or may just be a great read I think genealogists will love.
How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers by Lisa Louise Cooke was released this week in PDF format. You can dowload it from lulu.com for $14.95. I have a hard copy that I will be reviewing for you shortly.
You can find more new genealogy bloggers at Thomas' list of New Genealogy Blogs at Geneabloggers.
For other great reads, Randy at Genea-Musings offers the Best of the Genea-Blogs
Consider Julie Cahill's Friday Finds at Genblog.
Dan Curtis, Professional Personal Historian always puts together some interesting selections in Monday's Link Round-Up.
Deb Ruth at Adventures in Genealogy offers Follow Friday Gems.
Have a great genealogy week, keep researching and writing!