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A recipe for storytelling in genealogy blogging

6/13/2012

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While I was in Burbank, California, attending Southern California Genealogical Society's 2012 Jamboree this past weekend, I received a wonderful email from a reader who wants to share her family stories with family members, but she wrote that she didn't know where to start. Her problem was with so many stories, how does she start? How does she structure it? One written story for every person?

All very good questions and concerns. I have written about how to start sharing family stories in blogs. And I think a blog is a perfect place to do this, but I thought I'd delve into it a bit more. This technique applies to all genealogy bloggers, whether you're blogging as a cousin hunter, genealogical society, a professional genealogist, or a genealogy-related business.

Here's my recipe for family history blog posts:

You start with passion.
When you look over your tree, your work, your stories, your documents, your photos,  what moves you? What makes you cry? What makes you laugh? What makes you shake your head in disbelief? What makes you ask why?

Why did that have to happen?

To her?

To him?

What did they think about it?

What did their loved ones think about it?

Their neighbors?

Their friends?

What would you have done if you'd been in their shoes?

How would you have felt if it had happened to you?

Would you have made the same choices? Would you have reacted the same way?

Any one of these questions could be, at the very least, one story in a blog post for just one of your ancestors. You don't have to write an ancestor's complete story in just one written story. Take a small aspect of their story and blog about it.

Take your documents & photos and pore over them. The stories are there. I promise. You just have to slow down & remember your ancestors were just like you.

They had problems. They had issues. 

They had decisions to make from choices that were less than perfect.

Sometimes they got it right.

Sometimes they couldn't have been more wrong.

Add your ancestor.
Look at a death certificate. How did they die? Accident? Health-related? Disease? What kind of disease? Look into the history of the disease. Was it a long illness that preceeded their death?

The cause of death is at least one story.

Add a little of you.
Put yourself completely in the moment. Do you have any experience with someone who has died with this disease? Does it seem to run in your family? How about a similar disease? How did that make you feel? Do you think it's possible their loved ones felt the same way?

Likening something that happened to your ancestor with something you have intimate knowledge about makes it personal. And don't be afraid to let the past collide with the present.

In What Order?
Do you have to start your blogging and storytelling with you and work backwards like your research?

No.

While a blog itself is kept in chronological order, your stories can be out of order.

In fact, I prefer to think of them as vignettes.

As quilts.

As tapestries.

What holds them together?

Passion.

And now that you have the ingredients of what goes into the recipe of a story, stay tuned for the appetizer: how to begin a story so that you don't put your readers to sleep before they get to your passion.

~Caroline

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38 Comments
Betsy Cross link
6/13/2012 09:29:23 pm

Exactly!!! You're in my head and heart! Thanks Caroline. Great job.

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4YourFamilyStory
6/14/2012 02:06:42 am

Betsy,

It's more like you're in my head & heart. I know when I visit your blog, that I'm guaranteed an excellent story that will make me stop and just feel. I love how you bring your ancestors back to life through your storytelling.

The music world may have discovered how to bring artists back to life with holograms, but family storytellers have been doing the same since the beginning of time. Who needs smoke, mirrors, & light when you have words?

Thanks for stopping by & commenting, Betsy!

Happy Storytelling,
~C

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Nancy link
6/14/2012 02:36:57 am

I understand you are discussing blogging, but I would assume anyone blogging about genealogy is also researching the family as well.

I would add a very serious caution to some of your prompts.
NEVER try to assess an ancestor's actions based on your own (modern and cultural!) perceptions. What you would do under certain circumstances has little to do with what or how a person living in a different time, place, and/or culture would do. You must take the time to learn about all three before you begin to try to understand why someone did one thing instead of another at some time in the past. If you assess your ancestors based on your time, place, and culture you are doing them a great disservice. They were not facing your world, they were facing a totally different world. When we attempt to tell another person's story we must be extremely careful to leave our own bias completely out of the story. We could also be sending ourself off researching in a totally inappropriate direction looking for things that are not there.

Just my two cents ;-)

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George Geder link
6/14/2012 03:27:58 am

Hi Nancy,

I think one of the first challenges in writing about our selves, elders, and ancestors is putting the proverbial pen to paper.

All of your concerns are valid, but let's not scare the folks just starting out with tales of caution. That might stop them dead in their tracks!

Let them begin with their creativity, musings, enthusiasm and reckless abandon! I trust that folks will settle down to check for accuracy and context once they get several drafts under their belts.

I think Caroline's tips are right on, and so are yours, but let the fun and passion flow first!

Peace & Blessings,
"Guided by the Ancestors"

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Nancy link
6/14/2012 05:14:45 am

The problem with "just do it" first and learn later is that once something is posted on the Internet you can't take it back, you can't make it disappear (RSS picks it up the moment it is posted, so deleting a post does not really delete anything), and you can't control how others use it. IMHO it is irresponsible to blog about family history when you are inserting your own bias and not looking at the whole picture before you write. Of course no one can ever get it all correct, but if we start out on the wrong foot chances are we will be learning bad habits and perpetuating questionable family history, not to mention the fact that someone else will certainly decide your personal opinion of why someone did something is actually proven fact and will spread it around like a bad virus before the ink is even dry.

Nancy link
6/14/2012 05:17:17 am

George, the problem with "just do it" first and learn later is that once something is posted on the Internet you can't take it back, you can't make it disappear (RSS picks it up the moment it is posted, so deleting a post does not really delete anything), and you can't control how others use it. IMHO it is irresponsible to blog about family history when you are inserting your own bias and not looking at the whole picture before you write. Of course no one can ever get it all correct, but if we start out on the wrong foot chances are we will be learning bad habits and perpetuating questionable family history, not to mention the fact that someone else will certainly decide your personal opinion of why someone did something is actually proven fact and will spread it around like a bad virus before the ink is even dry.

Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 09:04:47 am

Thanks George. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Most of us started out making mistakes and learning from those mistakes. It's an effective way to learn. My goals with my own personal family history blog are to entertain and to find cousins. However, I don't entertain with half-truths and while I give my opinion on things, it's always given in brackets.

Not only will my descendants get the stories but they'll get what I thought about them, which is another layer to the story.

Thanks for stopping be and commenting, George. I appreciate it.

~C

Mary Anne Price
6/14/2012 03:42:04 am

I am not a blogger but am a family historian who has been a bit blocked with getting started on writing what I have found about my family. I did find Caroline's suggestions and comments helpful for approaching some of my ancestors. I may be wrong, but I do not see blogging as being formal historical research, and it is highly unlikely to be anything I could ever use for documentation for, say, a DAR application. However, to get me off thinking about my research as a pedigree chart, I found her suggestions thought-provoking. I know, for example, that my grandfather's mother died in 1869 when he was only 2, that his father remarried 5 years later, and that his father died when he was 16. I know some of the other facts of his years, from documentation. Since my grandfather died in 1958, long before I was aware of genealogy, and since I never found any comments by my aunts and uncles about his reactions to the loss of his parents, I can only think about how those deaths affected him and some of his life choices, by thinking about how it would have affected me had my parents died. I also can think about how it might have limited some of my resources for where and how I lived and what further education I could get. Career choices might have been severely affected. While I would not assume that my options would have been the same as his, it would give me a perspective to think about his choices and what they might have been. To me, doing a blog, or writing my thoughts on topics like this, could be a way to open up communication with my cousins, get their feedback, see if they can remember conversations that might have made a difference. Actually, reading this blog and the comments, have resulted in my writing about this topic for the first time. Now I need to go further and build on it in my own way. So, thank you, Caroline!

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Mary Anne Price
6/14/2012 03:44:44 am

And in re-reading my comments, I realized that it would be helpful to start with short paragraphs!

Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 09:09:30 am

You're welcome, Mary Anne! And thank you for your perspective. I like to try to understand my ancestors and the decisions they made. However, it doesn't mean I always understand.

But at the very least I have a story about my search of the story. And that's for my descendants. Sometimes on my personal family history blog my story is my search or my frustration in my search of the story. It's a release for me and it's [hopefully] entertaining to my readers.

Thank you very much for stopping by and commenting. I really appreciate it. =)

~C

Peggy
6/14/2012 05:38:48 am

I believe there are two ways of looking at this.

First, when we look at the lives of our ancestors we can't help but wonder what we would do in the very same circumstances. We can liken their lives to our own, and ponder how strong we would be, how much of an adventurer we would be, would we have the same pioneer spirit, how would we handle the constant fear of attack, etc. I think you get the idea.

Second, we must guard against "presentism", which is placing today's values on yesterday's circumstances. People didn't bathe very often. My own parents didn't. One took their last bath in October and didn't think about it until spring. Did they smell? Never. And, we must never wash our hair during our "monthly".

Some morals and values never change, while others do with time. That said, I believe the points brought up to help us in our writing of family stories were excellent trigger points to get us started.

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Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 09:12:08 am

Peggy, We can't assume they never smelled, can we? LOL. Point made and understood.

Thanks for reading and commenting! =)

~C

Peggy
6/14/2012 09:27:49 am

Caroline, I had to laugh!

I guess I should have clarified myself. My parents and my grandparents followed the same tradition of bathing that their parents and grandparents followed. What I meant was that my parents and grandparents just did not smell bad, and they didn't use lots of perfumes and powders to cover up any odor. I don't know how they did it!

Today, the norm is for bathing every day, or nearly every day. It's just what we do. But for them, they didn't want to get sick, so in the winter months they did "spit baths".

I can't even begin to imagine not bathing daily. When we have gone camping, I do the best I can while dreaming of my dreamy bath awaiting me at home.

Peggy
6/14/2012 09:27:59 am

Caroline, I had to laugh!

I guess I should have clarified myself. My parents and my grandparents followed the same tradition of bathing that their parents and grandparents followed. What I meant was that my parents and grandparents just did not smell bad, and they didn't use lots of perfumes and powders to cover up any odor. I don't know how they did it!

Today, the norm is for bathing every day, or nearly every day. It's just what we do. But for them, they didn't want to get sick, so in the winter months they did "spit baths".

I can't even begin to imagine not bathing daily. When we have gone camping, I do the best I can while dreaming of my dreamy bath awaiting me at home.

Mariann Regan link
6/14/2012 03:56:55 am

Caroline, I believe you are absolutely right. Writers have to start with passion and engagement, or their family stories in blogs (or books) will be without point. For 40 years I taught college students to write, and my colleagues and I would call the lack of engagement in student writing the "so what?" factor--as in, a student's essay that provokes the response, "So what?" You have to care, or your reader's won't. Of course, genealogical writers are dealing with different past cultures--but simply plugging in "that's the way it was back then" can lead to stereotypes, closed doors, and distancing from our human subjects. We have to reach across the centuries with our own passion, and trust that human universals merge with particular past cultures--they were different, but we can also understand those differences and thus find common ground. We can bridge. Genealogical writing blends science and precision with the values of the humanities. It resembles the profession of being a talented physician--having lots of precise knowledge, but using it artfully and with human understanding.

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Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 09:20:58 am

Mariann,

Thank you. I love that ~ the "so what?" factor. The closest I've ever come to reading and grading a bunch of students' papers is in a rhetoric and composition class in college. We were given a set of 4 papers [from real students] at a time on the same topic, and we had to grade them. 1 being the best and 4 being the worst. Some were completely obvious and some were very hard to grade. Most were so horrible I thought we were grading remedial high school level papers, but, alas, come to find out they were from college freshman. Yikes. And I would agree with you on the "so what?" factor. You just want to say, make me care, make me love it, make me hate it. Just do something.

And I think that it is the same for our blogs. We need to understand the general populace isn't "into" genealogy as much as we are. It is extremely important if we are trying to get them read it, to come back, and to engage. And this is what I'm calling purposeful blogging.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I really appreciate it. =)

~C

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Kenneth Marks link
6/14/2012 06:15:12 am

Wow - when I read Caroline's post at first - I was incredibly impressed with her writing about STORYTELLING. I have read all the comments and those of you who are stating that passing today's judgment on past behaviors is tricky - you have a point, but it is a minor one.

Caroline is providing great insight into what can make a great story. Many of you have lost that fact in your comments.

IMO commenters have a responsibility to respect the initial writer and not get so caught up in their own "stuff" as to be overly critical.

If you want to put yourself out there and write a blog post about the dangers of storytelling - go for it, but I doubt it will be as good as Caroline's.

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Nancy
6/14/2012 06:56:00 am

Thought provoking comments and open dialog - positive, negative, and neutral - help us all grow and learn. ;-)

I am not looking to start a fight, only offering an additional point of view. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but just because you disagree does not mean my ideas have no value to others reading this blog.

I will not make any additional response because I am afraid this thread will degrade into something unproductive. IMHO

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Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 08:59:38 am

Nancy, I value your comments and thoughts. I want you to always feel welcome and comfortable expressing them here on my blog. You did provide a valid alternate point of view of research methods and their potential effects on our genealogy blogs.

And I thank you for that. I, too, don't expect everyone to agree with me either. It'd be very boring if they did. LOL.

Thank you for stopping by so many times and commenting. I really do appreciate it. =)

~C

Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 09:28:52 am

Thank you, Kenneth. I'm glad you caught on to what I was trying to convey, and I'm forever grateful for you trying to get us back on-topic.

Any person has the freedom to do what they want with their genealogy and family history blogs. Anything as long as it's legal, that is.

Here on BloggingGenealogy.com, however, there is an understanding that we are all here to learn how to write on our blogs, how to design on our blogs, and to learn other tips for our blogs as well as other forms of social media so that we achieve our blogging goals and social media goals.

It is very specific. If this is not a person's goal with their family history blog, then this blog is not for you. And that's okay.

But this site is all about marketing your blogs to potential cousins, to potential genealogical society members and current members, and customers/clients.

The basic concepts are the same. The execution for each is a little different for most topics, and sometimes it's the same.

Thanks for stopping by, Kenneth, for commenting, and for getting us back on track. I really appreciate it.

~C

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Kim Cotton link
6/14/2012 06:42:33 am

Writing a blog is different than documenting historical facts, and part of that IS the storytelling. Where, yes, we can't put our own values and priorities on our ancestors, equally, we can't assume that just because we feel one way now that our ancestors felt a different way. We see through history and literature that time and time again, humans are driven by some of the same emotions...it's why Shakespeare is still relevant today. We love. We hate. We anger. We reconcile. It's what we do and what we have done, for ever.
That's not to say that we should present as fact in our blogs our own ideas about why our ancestors may or may not have done something. But as storytellers we can present the facts and make it clear through our language that other elements are fictionalized. Heck, we can post a lovely disclaimer stating so. RSS may pick up our post, but a blog can be edited (they are, every day), and if someone takes the post without the grain of salt required, we as writers can't help that. And if we as researchers, want to use our own experiences to research dead ends, that's our right...to make our own mistakes.
Just as we can't instill our own beliefs on our ancestors, we also can not place the rigors of historical non-fiction writing on our blogs. It is a different medium.

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Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 09:42:09 am

"To be or not to be, that is the question." Shakespeare makes me think of college classes which makes me think of my favorite college English class on John Milton.

Now, usually, a 16th century writer is pretty boring, but Dr. Archer had such a way of bringing Milton back to life. And he didn't do it with falsehoods, but with the facts. It's just that the facts were presented in such a way that I was not only interested, but I wanted to read more because with the added personal insight, I finally understood what Milton was talking about and why he wrote what he wrote. [I know. Crazy, isn't it?]

I think it's human nature to try to understand others, no matter the time period. It's encouraged to do so in classrooms. It's critical thinking, and it's not only important in classes, but in our research as well.

Thank you so much for commenting. I really appreciate it.

~C

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Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 06:46:49 am

First of all, thank you, Nancy, for challenging me and what I wrote. Challenging each other makes us all winners. When one does so, it's either going to change another's mind completely or partially, or it's going to make their position stronger [at least in their heads].

I must say I had a visceral reaction to your comment because for me this post was personal. You see, this is how I write my family stories on my personal family history blog, Family Stories. [Oh, the horror, I know.]

So, I asked for others to chime in, and I walked away from the computer in order to collect my thoughts.

And I came back and reread what you wrote.

Then I reread it again.

Now? Here's my 2 cents. ;)

You are correct. I am discussing blogging. Specifically, I am discussing purposeful blogging, social media, and marketing. Every blog post I write here, as stated on my Home Page and my About Page, is written with that purpose in mind.

Actual genealogy research methods are beyond the scope of this blog unless I can tie them into a marketing concept in order to make a point.

However, since you brought up research methods, I will address this topic. [So, readers, this is your warning. I'm going off-topic.]

Like I mentioned above, I did have a visceral reaction to what you wrote and how you wrote it.

Being a writer, I believe words are powerful tools to be used with careful purpose. Usually, when I write, I choose specific words, verb tenses, person, voice, capitalization, spacing, etc., for a particular reason.

However, not everyone does this. For example, when someone capitalizes all the letters of a word online, the universal online meaning is that the word is being shouted.

But the writer might be capitalizing all the letters of the word because they are placing emphasis on the word. Or they might write in all caps because it's easier for them to read it. Or it's easier for their intended audience to read it if it's in all caps.

The fact is that there's any number of reasons a writer might use all caps. The only thing I can do when it's directed at me is to put myself in the writer's shoes to try to understand their motivation.

Likewise, when a writer uses the word "you" they might not actually mean me, but the universal "you". [Which is why we Texans prefer using the contraction. "y'all". Less confusing. Plus, it's just how we're raised. ;) ]

Further, when a writer writes with passion and cautions their readers on the folly of researching a particular way, it's usually because they're trying to help others with their research. You know, "lemme-help-you-out-so-you-don't-do-what-I-did" kind of thing, which is well-meant. [I write "usually" because some folks argue just to argue.]

Now, I don't know you personally, Nancy. We did not grow up together, and we did not have the same exact experiences in life. I imagine we've a few things in common, but I don't know for sure. I can only guess and wonder why you felt the need to caution me so strongly on genealogical research methods.

But I'm going to err on the side of caution and assume [until I've more information] you meant well, and that it was based on your own genealogical research experiences. As is evidenced on my personal family history blog, in my own experience, I have found it helpful to try to jump inside my ancestors' heads to "see" what they "saw" ~ to "feel" what they "felt". Instead of leading me astray or instead of putting "blinders" on me and my research, I've found it has made me "open" to all sorts of possibilities. Some of which I wouldn't have thought of otherwise.

But that's just me. Everyone is different. I tend to be a results-oriented researcher more than a rules-oriented researcher. [Granted I don't break the law when researching, but I also don't believe there really is a family history police department.] I like to blame it on the artist in me. She can be flighty. And she sees things from all different angles. And she loathes absolutes and rules. She doesn't like it when someone tells her things like, "No, it can't be done." Or "Never do this." She's rebellious and these phrases just dare her to go ahead and do them. And she has served me well while researching.

Anywho, getting back to the "all of me", I've found that negative results can be just as important as positive results. Therefore, I prefer to use all methods of research because the result is, well, a result. Maybe not the one I was hoping for, but a result nonetheless.

Perhaps a particular method will lead me on a wild goose chase or maybe it won't.

Either way, I have a story to tell from the experience. A story that will be for my descendants. I'm not biographer. I'm a family storyteller. I've a particular purpose for my family history blog, and I prefer to get my point across through story. I've found it very effective in getting non-genealogists involved.

And just as my ancestors' DNA is a part of me, I am very much a part of their story. I wouldn't *be* here able to tell

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Nancy
6/14/2012 07:19:25 am

Thank you for writing a well thought out response. Sorry if I offended you. My style is very direct, but intended to teach or at least cause pause for thought (which it apparently did), not to put anyone down.

I promise to learn from this encounter as well ;-)

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Nancy link
6/14/2012 07:20:30 am

Thank you for writing a well thought out response. Sorry if I offended you. My style is very direct, but intended to teach or at least cause pause for thought (which it apparently did), not to put anyone down.

I promise to learn from this encounter as well ;-)

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Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 06:55:05 am

[Can you believe my own blog cut me off? The nerve.]

Here's the last bit:

And just as my ancestors' DNA is a part of me, I am very much a part of their story. I wouldn't *be* here able to tell their story if wasn't *for* their story. [Unless, of course, there was an adoption or if someone was naughty, which is completely possible.]

~C

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Kim von Aspern-Parker
6/14/2012 08:52:04 am

I happen to admire the nationally known speakers such as Rick Sayre, Elisabeth shown Mills and the like. I don't think anyone in the genealogy world would dare say they don't do exceptional research. They cross their Ts and dot their I. Yet, Elizabeth told the story of Isle of Canes and as I was reading this blog and following comments Rick Sayre said, "Just think what life would be like with all those stockyards around your boarding house. This was one tough lady who would do anything to raise those four kids. Now I can't say definativly but don't you think..." If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for me.

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Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 09:50:16 am

Kimmy,

You are awesome.

That is all.

Well, also, thank you for coming by and commenting. =)

~C

Peggy
6/14/2012 09:28:46 am

Caroline, I had to laugh!

I guess I should have clarified myself. My parents and my grandparents followed the same tradition of bathing that their parents and grandparents followed. What I meant was that my parents and grandparents just did not smell bad, and they didn't use lots of perfumes and powders to cover up any odor. I don't know how they did it!

Today, the norm is for bathing every day, or nearly every day. It's just what we do. But for them, they didn't want to get sick, so in the winter months they did "spit baths".

I can't even begin to imagine not bathing daily. When we have gone camping, I do the best I can while dreaming of my dreamy bath awaiting me at home.

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Caroline M. Pointer
6/14/2012 09:48:41 am

Peggy, LOL!

And see? There's a blog post on bathing habits then and now. Possible title: How did they not stink? And *that* is a story based in fact that expounds on the hygiene habits -or lack thereof- of our ancestors. If you write it, you get the information about your ancestors out there [names, dates, locations], which is cousin bait, *and* you educate in a fun way about hygiene of yesteryear *and* you make someone laugh.

*That's* what I'm talking about. [And when you do write it, let me know. I'm always up for a good laugh. And? We might be related! LOL.]

~C

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Peggy
6/14/2012 11:16:16 am

I did it!

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4YourFamilyStory
6/14/2012 11:55:07 am

Peggy, you wrote the blog post? Awesome! Care to share the link? I'd love to read it. :)

~C

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Peggy
6/14/2012 12:50:04 pm

Here you go: http://alwaysanxiouslyengaged.blogspot.com/

4YourFamilyStory
6/14/2012 01:18:29 pm

Well done, Peggy! I really, really needed that great read & laugh.

~C

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Emma North
6/14/2012 11:26:07 pm

Caroline,
I myself am fairly new to the world of blogging. I decided that blogging was the easiest way to add more "greenery" to my online trees along with keeping an ever growing list of people informed on new discoveries. I have always taken the approach that genealogy research should be much more than just names and dates. I constantly find myself going off at a tangent and looking into historical events and opinions at the time of my newest discovery. Then I realised that I kept all this just to myself!

I found your website (now subscribed) through the Genealogy News Daily and I must congratulate you on such thought provoking blogs, tips and ideas. I am sure my family will be wanting to thank you as well when they start to reap the benefits of your guidance.

I look forward to following your blog.

Emma

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4YourFamilyStory
6/15/2012 08:30:37 am

Emma,

Welcome to blogging! I'm glad you've found my site helpful. I really enjoy blogging my family history when I get the chance to do it. I love finding out about my ancestors and then telling their stories.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Emma. I appreciate it. :)

~C

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Ezri J. Rediker link
6/15/2012 10:11:02 pm

The cold air smoothly filled my breath. As my thoughts drift back to home I begin to worry again. Will I make it in this country that is said in my homeland to be a "land of the free." Where will I live, what will I eat, what will I do if this dream of freedom is found to be just that "a dream."
"These are all very real worries that an immigrant (probably) would have when arriving at America during the migration era. Cold air, was cold even then. Being worried about success in an endevour was distressing as well. My point is that some feelings and emotions will never change." These thoughts are my own and a blessed day to you all.

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4YourFamilyStory
6/16/2012 03:03:49 am

Ezri,

Exactly. Well said. And I thank you for your viewpoints and thoughts.

~C

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