Many family historians collect a lot of information and find a lot of stories over time. What do you do with your research and the stories you’ve found so that when you go, they are not lost again?
A few ideas to consider:
- Book – write a book about what you’ve found. Each generation could be a new chapter. Many places allow small or single book runs nowadays.
- Articles – if there’s specific people that were of interest you could write articles about those people, you could have them printed in family history magazines who are always looking for content. Just check the copyright clauses of the magazines to ensure you retain copyright over your own work. Alternatively put your articles into to a flier or book to share with family.
- Photobook – not interested in too much text but have collected a lot of photo’s and documents, a photobook might suit your purposes.
- Website – create your own website and set up your trees and information about various family members. Keep in mind the ongoing hosting costs and what happens when you are gone, will someone continue your website or will it be closed and the information gone.
- Social Media – Start a facebook page and invite family members. Regularly create posts, these only need to be a paragraph or two about an ancestor or family event and a photo or document can be added. Even the busiest family member would have time to read short posts.
- Family Tree on one of the larger family history sites. Most allow you to have a tree online for free. Best to stick to ones where you have the authority over who can edit your tree.
- Newsletter – go the old fashioned way and send out a newsletter once a month or so, a newsletter may cover an ancestors family from a certain generation and each month you could move back or forwards another generation.
There are so many options available for ways you can share your research with family and friends, the above are just a few. If you need assistance then you may wish to contact one of our genealogists or records agents.
