I have over 30 years of genealogical research collected on numerous of my family lines. I pretty much self taught myself in the beginning and therefore I have done a lot of things wrong. But, I have learned from my mistakes and try to encourage others to learn from my mistakes.
My biggest mistake was in not accurately documenting my research and citing my sources. I am still going back on previously done research and finding the sources and placing them into my research. The one advantage to this mistake, is that it makes me go back and re-analyze the quality of my evidence. More is not better. Lots of sources do not "trump" good evidence.
I also need to think more about how I want to share my research. And, I have come, finally, to the conclusion that creating a web page is not a bad idea. I just need to make sure that it is open to the public to view but NOT for the public to edit. My work, my credit and MY errors. This should keep it straight about how my work should be accepted or not.
So, I have begun with Google and am trying to create a website on my family line from Sweden and Denmark. The Juhlin line is one where I don't have a great number of names. So, I figure it is the best place to begin learning this web site creation thingy. I picked the site name, MNJuhlinFamily as this Juhlin line settled in Red Wing, MN and it separates my line from other Juhlin lines. I got a page template and that is as far as I have gotten so far. I am still trying to figure out if I can import my Juhlin.paf file from my PAF software program and haven't figured out if it is possible or how to do it. I really would like to do it this way, since the work is already done there and easy to follow. But, maybe it is not possible...will have do do more searching around and see how I can do this.
If anyone else has created a website from Google and wants to offer some suggestions...I am all "ears".
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