Category: blogging
-
This video is now available on my YouTube Channel. Please view and leave a comment or subscribe to the channel. https://youtu.be/KtaiO3wJDOA
-
What is your goal in your Family History Blogging? Distraction is my biggest enemy – it takes me away from my intended path. I get stuck sometimes knowing what to blog about. So at the beginning of this month, I planned a set of blog posts about blogging and placed them on my Trello board.…
-
Family History Blogging Strategies Sometimes I struggle with remaining focussed on my family history blogging. Time slips away or I am lacking inspiration or something else prevents me from getting my ancestral stories on to my blog. This causes me great frustration as I wish to achieve the goals I set for myself at the…
-
Why do Family History Blogging? In this post, I will focus on the number ONE reason for doing family history blogging, from my point of view. You may be just getting started on your blog posts to share your stories from genealogy research, or you may already have a blog full of posts about your…
-
Courage is a virtue! One of my favourite quotes inspired my blog writing today. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou During the last two months, some health setbacks caused me to lose my confidence and motivation for writing, and…
-
Check It Out is the theme for the #52Ancestors52Weeks challenge for the month of April 2022. Having slipped behind in writing my weekly posts I am now inclined to write them monthly on themes as suggested by Amy Johnson Crow in her challenge. Amy says “We often use this phrase when we want someone to…
-
Stories from your Ancestral Records? How do you get started with your ancestral stories? Do you pick a theme; or a time period; or an incident; or the latest discoveries from your family tree? Google tells me this! How to Write Your Family History Choose a Format. Define the Scope. Set Realistic Deadlines. Choose a…
-
Lesson 6: Upload content, illustrate and publish Once you have your story drafted, edited and ready to post: copy the content from your writing tool create a new post in your blog site paste the content and give it a title add one or two themed images to illustrate preview publish Watch this short video…
-
As I get ready to write my Family History stories I make a choice of where to write them down before posting in my blog! This has become an important strategy for keeping track of my stories, avoiding duplication or enabling quick processing! For quick processing I sometimes write the Family History content directly into…
-
Lesson 3: Blog Planning Tools Plain and Simple: your diary and calendar The easiest way to plan ahead is to use the paper based tools you already use every day, your diary and calendar. If you are preparing a series of blog posts over a period of time then map that out on your calendar,…
