Category: Family History

  • How to start your Family Tree and Connect with Your Past

    Free Webinars for Beginner Family Historians: ‘How to get your Family Tree started’ Sundays 13 and 20 December 2020 Many people ask me how to get started in Family History. I am always delighted to give them some tips from my own process of researching and writing stories about my ancestors. There are some great…

  • Blogging in lockdown: how to prepare

    Scenario A: You are planning to fill your extra time available during the next phase of lockdown, with some online learning. Blogging is popular right now as are many other self-help type online courses. If blogging is something you have wanted to learn, now is a good time to start planning that out. In this week’s…

  • What to do during a Pandemic?

    Is it October already? Where did the last few months go? Why does it feel like the world has been holding its breath? What’s next on my list? Course Writing I have been head down and fingers to the keyboard whilst preparing my courses for Preserving Family History; in fact I have built an academy…

  • New Course Launches November 1: Advanced Blogging in the Past Lane!

    Are you having difficulty in setting up your WordPress site for family history stories? Are you a family historian who wants to start sharing your ancestral stories? Are you a Toastmaster about to work in the Pathways Elective Project, Write a Compelling Blog? Course content: The Advanced Blogging in the Past Lane course will step…

  • Sense of Place!

    Journal Prompt “What lessons did your ancestors leave that you have carried forward in your own life, that keep your feet on the ground? Do you feel that you have yet become part of the story of your place? “ Many of my ancestors moved around from place to place and established thriving businesses and…