This is a personal decision, based on how you want to present your findings and what makes the most logical sense to your story. There is no perfect formula for outlining the information in your book. Once you answer those questions, you are ready to begin
Who and what are you writing about? Is it one specific ancestor or an entire branchĮvent or period of time, or is it a general overview of all the research you Outline and a good organizational system for your research.īefore you begin to draft an outline, you need to define the No matter how you plan toĭocument your family history, there are two crucial components to the process: a solid Spending time getting organized on the front end can save much more time and a great deal of frustration later. Whether you are creating a memoir, biography, scrapbook or some other work, the time invested in creating an organization system is invaluable. “If I had to start again, I would create an organization system from the start and be consistent.” Lynn Palermo, Armchair Genealogist Lynn Palermo, who shares her own story of writing her family’s history on her blog, The Armchair Genealogist, gives this advice to beginners in a how-to post: Materials, it’s easy to misplace or misfile something, leaving a hole in your Perhaps the most daunting part of documenting your family
Or, maybe it ended up in the pile of legalĭocuments, among old property deeds and immigration materials. Side is around somewhere, but it might be buried beneath the notes you took You know the hard copy of the family tree on your mother’s If you are like many people tackling the project of writing your family history book, you probably have a mountain of old paper documents, photos, and information you printed from online sources. PREPARING TO WRITE YOUR FAMILY HISTORY BOOK: HOW TO DRAFT AN OUTLINE AND ORGANIZE YOUR RESEARCH
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