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Ever thought about starting your own blog?
Here are some good reasons to do it:
1. Just like you can learn a lot by reading others' blogs, others can learn a lot by reading a blog hosted by you. Be a giver of information!
2. Blogs are an easy way to get started using the cloud. The data you upload to a blog is saved in "the cloud". Who knew?!
3. A blog is a cheap (as in free!) way to back up your data. Everything you put on the blog is backed up by whatever blog hosting service you use.
4. Sharing your family history finds on a blog gets the info to interested family members quickly. Find it, post it - it's that easy. Forget the photocopies! Eradicate the emails! Lose the links! It's all on the blog for whomever wants it. They can print the images and documents you post or they can save it to their own computer.
Following are a couple examples of using
a blog to share family history information.
The first blog holds images from a scrapbook. Sharing the scrapbook on a blog has several advantages over printing books for family members. One, it's free; two, it can be shared widely; three, it can be printed or downloaded by others...saving you time; and four, distant cousins (whom you may not even know) can find it on the web.
The second blog holds documents and images. It's organized more like a file cabinet of information than like a scrapbook. Viewers can download or print anything from the blog.
Watch these short videos about
how to create a blog on Blogger:
Blog your Family History Part 1
(Click on "YouTube" at the bottom of the screen to
watch it on YouTube with a larger screen.)
Blog Your Family History Part 2
(Click on "YouTube" at the bottom of the screen to
watch it on YouTube with a larger screen.)
Blog Your Family History Part 3
(Click on "YouTube" at the bottom of the screen to
watch it on YouTube with a larger screen.)
Now go share your family history with your own blog!
Thine in the bonds of family history fun! Caroleen
Thanks, Carole. FH is pretty overwhelming but I have high hopes that I'll someday have time (when the kids are all in school?) to get the hang of it. I really appreciate having this class blog as a guide.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to make the video bigger? It was very small with a lot of room around it. Cheryl
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