Sharing Your Family History Online: A Guide for Family Historians

Length: 144 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
Publication Date: 2021-03-19
ISBN-10: 1526780291
ISBN-13: 9781526780294
Sales Rank: #289993 (See Top 100 Books)

For many enthusiasts pursuing their family history research, the online world offers a seemingly endless archive of digitized materials to help us answer the questions posed by our ancestors. In addition to hosting records, however, the internet also offers a unique platform on which we can host our research and lure in prospective cousins from around the world, to help build up a larger shared ancestral story.

In Sharing Your Family History Online, genealogist and best-selling author Chris Paton will explore the many ways in which we can present our research and encourage collaboration online. He will detail the many organizations and social media applications that can permit cooperation, describe the software platforms on which we can collate our stories, and illustrate the many ways in which we can publish our stories online.

Along the way, Chris Paton will also explore how we can make our research work further for us, by drawing in experts and distant cousins from around the world to help us break our ancestral brick walls, not just through sharing stories, but by accessing uniquely held documentation by family members around the world, including our very own shared DNA.

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Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Chapter: 1 Researching Your Family History
    Who, what, when?
        Civil registration
        Parish records
        Censuses
        Newspapers
    Genealogy vendors
        Ancestry
        FindmyPast
        TheGenealogist
        MyHeritage
        FamilySearch
    Archives
    Family history societies
    Genealogy magazines
    Learning resources
    Good record keeping
    Privacy and data protection
    Copyright and ownership
    Terms and conditions
    Digital estate
    Online etiquette
Chapter: 2 Communication and Social Media
    Contacting relatives
    Email
    Discussion forums
    Social media platforms
        Facebook
        Twitter
        Tumblr
        LinkedIn
        Other platforms
    Image sharing
        Instagram
        Pinterest
        Flickr
    Blogs
        Blogger
        Wordpress
    Feed Readers
    Virtual meetings and webinars
        Facebook Messenger
        Zoom
        Skype
        FaceTime
        GoToWebinar
Chapter: 3 Collaboration and Crowdsourcing
    Collaborative platforms
        Lost Cousins
        Curious Fox
        Google My Maps
        Historypin
    Cloud sharing
        Dropbox
        Google Docs
        Evernote
    Crowdsourcing projects
        World Archives Project
        FamilySearch Indexing
        FreeUKGEN
        UKIndexer
        FindaGrave
        BillionGraves
        Online Parish Clerks
        GENUKI
    Wiki projects
Chapter: 4 Recording Your Family History
    Software packages
    Online programmes
        Ancestry
        MyHeritage
        FindmyPast
        TreeView
    Collaborative family trees
        WikiTree
        Geni
        FamilySearch Family Tree
Chapter: 5 DNA: it’s in the blood
    DNA tests
        Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA)
        Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
        Autosomal DNA
        X-chromosome DNA (X-DNA)
    Testing platforms
        AncestryDNA
        MyHeritage DNA
        LivingDNA
        FamilyTreeDNA
        23andMe
    Exporting results to other platforms
Chapter: 6 Sharing and Preserving Stories
    Conveying the message
    Creative writing
        What stories do you wish to tell?
        Who are your readers?
        What voice are you using?
    Sharing your stories
        Websites
        Self-publishing
    Audio visual
        Video platforms
        Audio platforms
    FamilySearch Memories
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