blogging your ancestor’s history
DESCRIPTION
This is a slide I presented for Blogging. It is a beginners level presentation.TRANSCRIPT
By Yvette Porter Moore
A Website that can be updated on a daily or
ongoing basis.
A Blog can be a collection of: Thoughts
Ideas
A Main Subject, Many Subjects, and Various Topics
Photos
For our Purposes: Family History & Genealogy
According to Blogger: “A blog is a personal diary. A daily
pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A
breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own
private thoughts. Memos to the world.”
To Preserve Your Family History
To Share with Family and The World Wide
Web.
To Organize What you Know
To Write about your Research
Allows you to tell short stories about certain
events
Family Members Finding You
You Have a Public or even Private Platform in
which to share with Family & Friends.
I Repeat, It opens the door for family
researching your surnames to find you.
You may have the opportunity to reunite with
long lost relatives.
Other’s in the Genealogy Community can
help you with your research.
Might have enough written material to write
a book.
Choose A Name for your Blog
Choose A Free Blog Server & Sign Up
Set Up Your Blog
Organize What you Know
Be Aware of other Genealogy Services for
Genealogy Bloggers
Gather information for your 1st Blog Post
Choose a unique Name for your blog
The name you choose, make sure it is very
similar to the blog address, so people can
find you.
Example Names of Actual Blogs:
Between The Gate Posts
Climbing My Family Tree
Corn & Cotton: Telling My Family Story
Digging Roots: My Family History
According to Marian’s Roots and Rambles:
“Choose a blog name that you are
comfortable with
that you can grow with
that will appeal to a broad group of people
that looks good in print
that reinforces your business goals (if you are
blogging for business)
Blogger: www.blogger.com **
Wordpress: www.wordpress.com **
LiveJournal: www.livejournal.com
Tumblr.com: www.tumblr.com
Blogabond: www.blogabond.com
(dedicated to travel)
** Most popular
The Cully Family: An African American
Legacy. “Moving On Up!”
(Blogger)
http://www.thecullyfamily.com/
Digging Roots: My Family History
http://rootdigger2011.com/
(WordPress)
