Category Archives: Writing / Editing

As I suspected, 2021 was much like 2020, and I wasn’t able to get all of my 2021 goals accomplished. Let see how I did. I wanted to attend SLIG and IGHR, and CHECK, I did both. I took Judy Russell’s Corpus Juris: Advanced Legal Concepts for Genealogy at SLIG (and LOVED it!) and I took Michael Strauss’s Military Records I: The Colonial Era to the Vietnam War (which was GREAT!). I also attended RootsTech 2021, NGS 2021, and the 2021 International German Genealogy Conference.

Title: A Recipe for Writing Family History By: Devon Noel Lee Format: Kindle Published: 2018 My Rating: Devon Noel Lee has put together a wonderful, practical guide outlining a simple seven-step process to get people over the hump of writing their family history. Using the recipe analogy, she likens the writing process to preparing a dish—“you will gather your ingredients and mix them together and have something worth sharing at the end (location 145). Written in an upbeat, conversational tone, Lee guides you through her writing process, which is actually […]

The National Genealogical Society 2017 Family History Conference will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 10-13, 2017. There are so many sessions available, covering a wide array of topics.  Following is a list of the writing-related sessions. The entire schedule can be found on the NGS Conference website. Wednesday, May 10 StoryMaps: Using Web Maps to Tell Family Stories (4:00 p.m.)Charlie L. WellsThe use of StoryMaps, a simple and effective approach for publishing web maps to tell family stories, is described with several examples.

Entries will be accepted January 1, 2016 to March 1, 2016 for the Oklahoma Genealogical Society’s 2016 Family History Writing Contest.  Everyone is invited to enter; there is no entry fee and you do not have to be a member of the society.  Submissions must be original, unpublished, and less than 2,500 words. Complete rules, along with the entry form, can be found at the society’s website.  Good luck! Need some convincing to write about your genealogy research?  See my post 4 Reasons to Convert Your Genealogy Research Into Writing.

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found, such as new blogs, interesting posts/articles, useful websites and resources, and of course upcoming webinars.

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found, such as new blogs, interesting posts/articles, useful websites and resources, and of course upcoming webinars.

The National Genealogical Society 2015 Family History Conference will be held in St. Charles, Missouri, from May 13-16, 2015.  There are so many sessions available, covering a wide array of topics.  Following is a list of the writing-related sessions.  There aren’t as many as there have been in years past.  The entire schedule can be found on the NGS Conference website. Wednesday, May 13 Principles of Good Writing and Good Storytelling (John Philip Colletta, 11 AM) Thursday, May 14 Genealogical Research & Writing: Are You a Saint, Sinner, or Bumfuzzled […]

The RootsTech 2015 Conference will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 12-14, 2015.  The early registration deadline ends today, so if you haven’t registered yet, head over and do so to save some $$$. Since one of my passions is writing, I always try to compile a list of writing-related sessions at the major genealogy conferences.  So here’s the list for RootsTech 2015, along with the topics related to preservation, since these topics sometimes go hand-in-hand.  The full schedule can be viewed here.  If you are attending the […]