Want to record your personal history but never seem to have the time? Turn Facebook posts into a book with this nifty service. It’s journaling for the twenty-first century! As a teenager, I was an avid journal writer. Now, it’s just one more thing I feel...

The biggest obstacle to writing family history can be getting started. Try one of these prompts to jump-start past the opening paragraph – then join me for my workshop! Have you ever started to write a family history narrative, only to get stuck on the opening...

This 3-step project will help you capture a relative’s life story in plenty of time for the holidays! Reconstructing the life stories of our ancestors can sometimes feel like squeezing water from a stone. By comparison, gathering the life stories of the living...

It’s time (maybe past time!) to write your family history. Should you write a book or throw everything into a digital archive? Recently Joyce attended a genealogy conference I taught that was sponsored by the Central Arkansas Library System. She wrote to us that...

Are you ready to start a genealogy blog (or improve one you already write)? Here’s a quick Q&A for you, prompted by questions by Genealogy Gems Premium member Kevin: Q: “I am ready to start writing a blog but my typing is slow. Is there a dictation app...

Just over a year ago, we shared the news that the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) was migrating to FindMyPast.com. The big news was that this index to over 2.5 million names and topics in thousands of genealogy, history and ethnic publications would begin to link to...