Finding Out More - Writing and Publishing Your Research

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Writing and Publishing Your Research

There are three main ways of doing this:

Book or pamphlet: You may be able to persuade a family history society to publish your work, alternatively you can either publish the book yourself or approach a publisher to do it for you. Paul Crooks used his ancestors' experience as slaves in Jamaica as the basis for a novel Ancestors (Black Amber Press, 2002).
Submit an article to a family history society journal or magazine. Editors welcome well-written, interesting contributions. Don't make it too long or complicated. Two thousand words is the maximum length most editors will consider.
Putting your research on the Internet. It is almost free and there is a world-wide audience waiting to see what you've written. If you are using a genealogical software package it may include an application to help you put together a simple site. Most internet service providers (ISPs) will display your web pages for free. There are also a number of books and internet magazines, as well as sites on the Internet itself, that can help you. A very typical site is maintained by Avis Saltsman about her ancestors who originally came from Alsace in eastern France and presents family trees, research notes, links to other relevant sites and a diary of the recent trip she took to the area to find information about them. See www.art-science.com/Avis/Avis_family/index.

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Book or pamphlet: You may be able to persuade a family history society to publish your work, alternatively you can either publish the book yourself or approach a publisher to do it for you. Paul Crooks used his ancestors' experience as slaves in Jamaica as the basis for a novel Ancestors (Black Amber Press, 2002).
Submit an article to a family history society journal or magazine. Editors welcome well-written, interesting contributions. Don't make it too long or complicated. Two thousand words is the maximum length most editors will consider.
Putting your research on the Internet. It is almost free and there is a world-wide audience waiting to see what you've written. If you are using a genealogical software package it may include an application to help you put together a simple site. Most internet service providers (ISPs) will display your web pages for free. There are also a number of books and internet magazines, as well as sites on the Internet itself, that can help you. A very typical site is maintained by Avis Saltsman about her ancestors who originally came from Alsace in eastern France and presents family trees, research notes, links to other relevant sites and a diary of the recent trip she took to the area to find information about them. See www.art-science.com/Avis/Avis_family/index.


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