This document discusses starting a blog for genealogy and family history purposes. It notes that a blog allows one to preserve and share their family history with others online through thoughts, ideas, photos and stories on various topics and subjects. Setting up a blog provides a platform to organize one's research, write about findings, allow family to find your work, and connect with others researching the same surnames who may help or reunite long lost relatives. The document provides tips on choosing a name, free blog hosting services, and examples of actual genealogy blogs.

1. By Yvette Porter Moore

2. A Website that can be updated on a daily or
ongoing basis.
 A Blog can be a collection of:
 Thoughts
 Ideas
 A Main Subject, Many Subjects, and Various Topics
 Photos
 For our Purposes: Family History & Genealogy
 According to Blogger: “A blog is a personal diary. A daily
pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A
breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own
private thoughts. Memos to the world.”

3.  To Preserve Your Family History
 To Share with Family and The World Wide
Web.
 To Organize What you Know
 To Write about your Research
 Allows you to tell short stories about certain
events
 Family Members Finding You

4.  You Have a Public or even Private Platform in
which to share with Family & Friends.
 I Repeat, It opens the door for family
researching your surnames to find you.
 You may have the opportunity to reunite with
long lost relatives.
 Other’s in the Genealogy Community can
help you with your research.
 Might have enough written material to write
a book.

5.  Choose A Name for your Blog
 Choose A Free Blog Server & Sign Up
 Set Up Your Blog
 Organize What you Know
 Be Aware of other Genealogy Services for
Genealogy Bloggers
 Gather information for your 1st Blog Post

6.  Choose a unique Name for your blog
 The name you choose, make sure it is very
similar to the blog address, so people can
find you.
Example Names of Actual Blogs:
 Between The Gate Posts
 Climbing My Family Tree
 Corn & Cotton: Telling My Family Story
 Digging Roots: My Family History

7. According to Marian’s Roots and Rambles:
“Choose a blog name that you are
 comfortable with
 that you can grow with
 that will appeal to a broad group of people
 that looks good in print
 that reinforces your business goals (if you are
blogging for business)

8.  Blogger: www.blogger.com **
 Wordpress: www.wordpress.com **
 LiveJournal: www.livejournal.com
 Tumblr.com: www.tumblr.com
 Blogabond: www.blogabond.com
(dedicated to travel)
** Most popular

9. The Cully Family: An African American
Legacy. “Moving On Up!”
(Blogger)
http://www.thecullyfamily.com/
Digging Roots: My Family History
http://rootdigger2011.com/
(WordPress)

10. Geneabloggers
http://www.geneabloggers.com/