Sweden Genealogy Genline Workbook
Publish Results
The effort you are making to collect details about your family history is
huge.
This is because of the scattered location of the facts. Archives hold the
answers yet
someone must be willing to extract them. So if you are working to document the
history
of your family, or your own pedigree, sharing the result will be appreciated
eventually
by someone.
There are many more people who are interested in what you find than will
ever take the
time to do the looking themselves. The busy live of anyone can get in the way of
low
priority activities like genealogical research. Well it is low to others, not to
you
and I.
So for personal reasons which only you can describe you have decided to
collect details
about your ancestors. But they aren't just your ancestors. They are ancestors of
all
your blood relatives. No wonder so many people are interested in what you find.
Because
what you find about yourself is also about them. Since everyone is interested
in
themselves, there you have the reason why your findings need to be shared.
People
want to know.
By publishing your results with copies from an office supply store or
electronic means
on the world wide web, you need to make your history available to any audience
that
shows interest. And then there is the future audience. This is the audience I
am
targeting. I want relatives in the future to think fondly of the effort I made
to
record their family history.
Publish A Family Website
At the Genhomepage, you can find a list of many family and personal genealogy
pages.
Hundreds of such family websites are created each month. Look them over to get
ideas
of what you may want to do. At the URL below, you will find directions to submit
your
website. There is also an index of surnames. You may want to research family
names
here to determine if others in your extended family have submitted their details
to
Genhome page.
With the LDS PAF you can generate webpages that are complete with links. All
you need
to do is send the PAF generated web pages to Genhomepage. You don't need to know
html
computer language to do this. Photographs, certificates, and other documents can
also
be scanned and sent to your Genhomepage. There is no charge for adding your
information
to this website. You may want to look into this wonderful aspect of the
internet.
Feeling Reluctant To Publish?
There comes a time when you just have to try something rather than miss out on
the
good results that may happen. This is no exception. When you have gathered a
respectful
number of ancestors in your pedigree, say fifty, that is the time to get
your
information out to the world. Don't be reluctant. There are instructions on how
to do
everything needed to make your family home page a reality. Just do it.
One suggestion might be of use to you. I have gotten into the habit of
making notes of
what I have to do to load a site to a service like genhomepages. I write down
every
click so that when I want to redo the information, I will have a cheat
sheet
instruction sheet to help me through the process. Forget that you will probably
loose
the sheet and can not find it when you need it. Just kidding.
A spiral notebook seems to work best for this sort of instruction of
procedure for a
computer task. A loose piece of paper is forever getting sifted in and out with
other
pages. But the spiral binding seems to keep showing up from time to time.
Yep.
I figure notes to be the safest if they are in something like that.
And don't tear out the pages. Leave them in regardless of order. You might
find
that to be the case as well. This will probably be the best dollar you ever
spend
on genealogy. Spiral notebooks rule.
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