Researching for information on your ancestors and distant relatives can be a lifelong passion. It’s a great way to learn about your personal connection to history and perhaps to discover something about yourself as well.
But do you have any genealogy goals other than continuing to search? Is it proving or disproving a family story? Is it identifying who is in that old picture? Is it tracking as many ancestors as you can? Is it locating as many descendants as you can of a specific set of ancestors?
Think about what your genealogy goal is and how you are working to achieve it.
And it’s ok to just want to locate more information–there’s fun in that too.
But sometimes a little direction is helpful.
What are your genealogy goals?
3 Responses
Hello Michael,
I have a lot of family photos and I want to share stories about them. I have a blog on Blogger with a few entries, but I am hesitant to put a lot of work up there in case Google were to discontinue that. I don’t have the technical expertise to do my own website. In fact, I don’t even know enough to ask intelligent questions. Any suggestions? Also, I would rather not spend a lot of money on something I don’t understand.
Thank you!
Patricia,
I would first ask you what you goals are with sharing stories about your photos. Is it to preserve them for as long as possible (publishing them in some way perhaps), share them with people in the present, or probably a little bit of both. I’m assuming the latter is the case. If you are comfortable using Word, inserting the images into that document and then writing the text may be an option. You could save that as a PDF to share with others or possibly print and have a limited number of copies bound.
Just an off-the-cuff thought.
Thank you for your response. I will give this some thought. This might work for me in some form.
Patricia