Love That Blogging

One of the obligations of a family historian or genealogist is to preserve and share their research. This can be a daunting expectation since in my experience the majority of those out there doing this type of work, are beginners. Source citations, creative writing, research skills, all come into creating a genealogical product that the experts will approve.

So, I am not going to appeal to the experts. I want all those family historians out there to consider sharing and preserving their family stories on a blog. Now, I know what you are thinking.....how will I know whether the information on their blog is accurate? You don't. But like so many records that we use, such as "Mug" books (aka County History Books), obits, tombstones, and others research, we have to use the information as a clue to find further documents and evidence that may support the information. And one thing that the experts will not have is our family tales and traditions. I have journals from family members of their memories, and in some cases some old letters. These are going to make my "stories" really become their story.

I have been inspired by Thomas MacEntee to blog. I use Google Blogger and find it so easy its almost painless. I separate my blogs by surname and geographical origination, cause that is how I separate my family trees for ease of researching within a given area. At present I have 8 blogs;  GeneaGunkie about All Things Genealogy but not my Trees, AbbottAncestry, ErvastiTree from Finland, JuhlinFromSweden, MyLarueLinks, PloegerPast from Germany, RiedellRoots from Prussia/Silesia/Posen, and StreseStories from Germany.

This is how I also have scanned and saved to files those photos, documents, etc. that will pertain to the blog. I named these Scanned Files the same as the blog. Makes it so easy to go back and find what I need for the blog.

Remember this. A blog is personal and expresses my personal opinions and experiences. You may want to disagree with my opinions, and that is your right. But, my experiences are uniquely mine, and you cannot disagree with them, as "they are what they are, and they are mine!"