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Here’s how to start your own ancestry-television business online on a shoestring budget. Learn how to launch family history/genealogy television shows globally on Web sites.
Customize vintage maps and family atlases. Give visibility to family history educational entertainment businesses.
Supply genealogy tools and videos to followers of the second most popular hobby in the country with more than 113 million people interested in genealogy and related family history topics. Provide or market content and tools to those that want to know more about their ancestor’s roots, migrations, and social history.
What news did the papers print in your ancestor’s lifetime? You’ll learn practical, specific steps on how to adapt real life stories into romance novels, skits, plays, monologues, biographies, documentaries, or newsletters.
Produce genealogy/family history television programs on Web sites or specialty/niche television stations. Follow steps to start genealogy journalism and personal history television, Web-based businesses. Interview individuals tactfully with these sample questions. Record life experiences using oral historian’s techniques.
Avoid pitfalls. Learn to write and/or collect and showcase personal history videos. Produce your own documentaries. Showcase other people’s genealogy tools.
Book Excerpt
How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online
Start Family History/Ancestry Shows Globally
Produce Videos, & Publish Hobby Learning Materials or Life Stories
Table of Contents
Chapters
1 Create Customized Family History and Migrations Maps
2 Writing, Publishing, and Selling Your Own Family History Novels as Small
Booklets or Pamphlets
3 How to Format Your Family History Novel or Novella Manuscript
4 Self Promotion and Plugging Self-Published and Print-On-Demand Family History
Novels
5 Pre-Selling Your Family History Novel with a Web Hub before Publication
6 Getting a Strong and Visible Platform for Print-on-Demand Family History
Novels
7 Writing Family History and Romantic Memoirs as Time Capsules for Internet
Video Theater or Radio
8 Adapting Life Stories and Current Issues in the News to Family History Novels
9 Should You Become a Family History Novel Book Publisher?
10 Writing about Peoples’ Inner Payoffs and Moral Needs in Family History
Fiction
11 Using Fictionalized True Stories in the News as Family History Novels
12 How Family History Novels Actually Sell Solutions to Real Relationship
Problems
13 How to Write a Genealogy Course Syllabus and Teach Online to Market Your
Projects
14 Opening Your Own Genealogy/Personal History Online or Broadcast TV Program
15 How to Open a Business Producing Family History Specialty/Niche Training
Videos
16 Create and Webcast Online or on TV a Training Video on Document Rescue
17 How to Produce Online Broadcasts of Video & Multimedia Extended Family
Newsletters
18 International Family Reunions Online
19 Personal Video News Releases & Success Stories Online
20 Inspirational Video and Print Publications for Genealogists
21 Self-Help Seminar Seminars Online on Family History Research Techniques
22 How to Make Online Family History Documentary Videos with Audio Visual
Software
23 What Genealogy Documentarians Can Learn from Published Authors about
Visibility Online
Appendix A: Directory of Cable and National Broadcast Media
Appendix B: Video Wholesalers and Distributors
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Here’s how to start your own ancestry-television business online. Learn how to
launch family history/genealogy television shows globally on your Web site,
produce videos, and publish hobby materials or life stories as a pay-per-view or
sponsored free entertainment. Create a social history documentary, customize
vintage maps and family atlases, or create an educational business supplying
enthusiasts of the second most popular hobby in the country with more than 113
million people interested in genealogy and related family history topics.
Most people want to know more about their roots, origins, home life, work day,
social status, relationships, migrations, marriages, health, attitudes, customs,
folklore, clothing, foods, environment, and the social issues in the news during
the time in which their ancestors lived.
You’ll learn how to adapt real life stories into romance novels, skits, plays,
monologues, or biographies. You’ll see the techniques of starting and operating
a genealogy journalism and personal history business. Here’s how to interview
individuals or groups and record life experiences as an oral historian.
Avoid the pitfalls. Learn how to start a genealogy television network (station)
on your Web site. Here’s how to finance, write scripts, interview, and produce a
documentary. Here are the techniques and tools for you to write, publish, and
market family or personal history publications such as books or newsletters on a
shoestring budget. Start and operate a business supplying tools, research,
training, and entertainment for those interested in genealogy, family
history/ancestry, vintage maps, and current issues in the news—for the hobbyist,
researcher, or entrepreneur.
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Chapter One
Make Customized Family History and Migrations Maps
How to Research, Collect, Customize, Create, and Reproduce Old Maps as a Family
Atlas and Personal History Time Capsule
Yes, there are online markets waiting for you to start your own Family History
Channel online. Choose your niche. Broadcast those historic genealogy maps with
video commentary on your Web site as an online television station. Your family
history videos can improve the quality of life for others by showing how you
made choices and overcame adversities to finally transcend life’s issues by
showing commitment to your most important values.
Family history is one of the fastest growing viewing markets around the world
and the second most popular hobby. It’s social history. It can be an online TV
documentary. It draws global traffic. Make money from your family
history/genealogy hobby by customizing family atlases using historic real
estate, plat, and panoramic maps. Any topic related to your roots and everyone
else’s is show business.
Look at historic railroad maps, real estate maps, and maps of schools and houses
of worship. In some countries, you can trace older maps of the wealthy manor
houses and a variety of large buildings. Look for signs of property changing
hands from the one ethnic group’s nobility to another ethnic group’s peasants
just after the turn of the 20th century.
You might be interested in researching land grants, tax records, deeds to
property, and notary recordings to see whether your ancestors owned one of these
manor houses or ended up in Siberia. A Trans-Siberian genealogy site actually
exists at the Trans-Siberian Railway Forum (genealogy and railway history) at:
http://www.transsib.ru/cgi-bin/UBB/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=4. For example,
suppose you’re Swedish but your ancestors at one time lived in Latvia, and spoke
Swedish. For Latvian genealogy, contact Latvian Research at: http://maxpages.com/poland/Latvian_Research.
You might be surprised to find records kept in several languages.
Vintage Railroad Maps and Family History Hobbies on Video
Video is a great medium for guides to genealogy such as vintage railroad maps.
Upload your vintage maps to the Web as video clips. You can collect or customize
vintage railroad maps from around the world, from a particular area, or from
your local area.
An old Livonian, Finnish, and Estonian proverb about the Baltic Sea peoples
states, “Genetically, they are related, and so are their railroads.” So look at
a vintage railroad map dated to the year that your relatives or clients lived in
a particular area of the world. Videos are learning opportunities when you
provide details. To find a detailed old map of the Baltic countries, a great
place to start is with former editions of Encyclopedia Britannica dated to the
year of your ancestor’s residence in one of the Baltic countries. Follow similar
steps when tracing your ancestry from any other place. Research tools like maps
are global.
A good starting point with a Baltic map also is the Latvian GenWeb site at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~lvawgw/. At this site you’ll see a link for a variety
of resources.
John Bartholomew & Son, Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, published an excellent 9 ¾” by
7 ¼” Baltic Railroad Map that includes only three Baltic nations—Estonia,
Latvia, and Lithuania. Those countries had been under Soviet rule since World
War II. However, they were independent at the time of the map’s publication in
1929.
If you want to learn about the cultural components or history of each country
bordering the Baltic that once belonged to the Soviet Union, try the The Red
Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire. Click on various groups such as the
Latvians (Livonians) at http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/livonians.shtml or for
special groups within Lithuania, such as the Tatars, try the link to the Polish
or Lithuanian Tatars at: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/lithuanian_tatars.shtml.
In tracing family history, it’s important that you find a vintage map like this
one showing details of cities, small towns, railroads, steamship routes, and
natural features. It’s like finding a map of the old neighborhoods, streets, and
houses.
Regardless of the city or nation your ancestors came from, the research tools
are the same—vintage railroad maps, real estate maps, and maps of routes of
orphan trains can point to clues even after stores have been built on top of
historic homesteads. For compelling videos on roots and family trees, you might
focus on matriarchal genealogy folklore. As social history, you can compare
matriarchal societies to patriarchal ancestral nations. After all, family
history is part of social history.
Making a Video about Matriarchs on Genealogical Pedestals
One popular hobby related to genealogy is customizing and/or collecting maps in
several languages and of different countries. The Baltic lands have been putting
their matriarchs on genealogical pedestals since ancient times, and genealogy
folklore often follows women’s maiden names aggrandized through folk songs and
nature.
Finns and Latvians have female presidents. The Latvian president is Vaira
Vīķe-Freiberga, and the Finnish president is Tarja Halonen. Finland is the first
European country to grant women the right to vote (1906). Genealogy is a part of
the Māra — the material world and the feminine. In Latvia, genealogy
incorporates dievturība, the folk religion of genealogy based on folk verses.
You might make a Web-based video on the genealogy, family history, or social
history of female presidents around the world.
You’ll find folkloric genealogy alive in the Baltic countries. Folkoric
genealogy is about tracing your ancestry and surname origins based on the
concept of young people taking advice from older people who get their wisdom
from nature. The focus of family history research is that genealogy enriches
dievturība.
Dievturība allows each individual to understand family folklore according to his
own needs and abilities. All new information and research in the fields of
genealogy, science, history, folklore and religion serve to further develop
dievturība.
A vintage map will show major cities where you can begin your search in the
various halls of records in cities such as Riga, Latvia, Tallinn, Estonia,
Jelgava, towns along the Dvina River, Kaunas, Rakwere, Port Kunda, Klaipeda, and
other cities whose names have changed since the twenties. For example, Kaunas
used to be called Kovno, Rakwere had been Vezenbert, and Klaipeda used to be
called Memel.
Depending upon the era, Latvian genealogy records could be recorded in German,
Russian or Latvian. Dundaga, Latvia, had been written in German, as Dondangen,
and Mitau is now called Jelgava.
The eastern Baltic lands, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia witnessed a 1910
dialect struggle that ended with the development of standard national languages.
As a result, some genealogy records are archived in the Russian language, even
in Poland. Germany, Sweden, and Finland have genealogy records archived in the
language of each country. Jewish genealogy records in Poland are recorded and
archived in Russian.
If you want to make a video for the Web about your roots, you can show your
documentary or segment on your Web site with goals of offering regular Family
History television programming to wider TV markets and other Internet sites,
backed up by genealogy journalism and family history publishing. You’ll attract
global viewers. And you can market your videos to advertisers and
research-related sponsors.
Customize maps for genealogists or collect and present historic railroad maps or
ship routes of migrations. Trace overland migrations or show maps of historic
family houses without numbers on streets without names.
Your genealogy/family history business would emphasize researching, collecting,
customizing, and reproducing old maps to create a family atlas and personal
history time capsule. Your goal is to present your client’s or your own family
life and history as part of a world view. This new point of view or perspective
acts as an umbrella.
See family history visually in perspective as a larger view, a big picture, and
a forest instead of the individual trees, a mass migration, or a global
perspective as noted by Roots Magic. You can purchase a CD that allows you to
map and explore your family tree or your client’s. Contact Roots-Magic, Inc., in
Springville, Utah. Their Web site is at http://www.familyatlas.com. Or write to
them at Roots-Magic, Inc., PO Box 495, Springville, UT 84663. Another
alternative is to design your own CDs or DVDs showing clients how to create a
family atlas.
Another way of collecting or customizing family maps is to trace migrations in
various countries during specific periods of time. A family migration map or
social history atlas also can show immigrations, migrations across various
cities, or where old houses used to exist on streets in different countries. You
can find more information about how to publish customize maps in the
January/February 2007 issue of Everton’s Genealogy Helper (magazine) on page 76.
The article on family atlas creation reviews Family Atlas software.
If you want to specialize within a niche area of genealogy or family history,
you can create a small home-based online business where you design for clients
customized family maps in a variety of graphics formats, such as a PDF file.
Your client’s or ancestor’s time capsule or map may be customized to show names
of nearby locations. You can convert coordinates, such as listing a place and
showing events and matches for that event, place, or location. The tools of this
type of software are very powerful for making databases, listing events, and
matching locations to events.
Another way of customizing old family history maps is to put markers on the map
that are easy on the eyes. For example, create time sliders. The Family Atlas
software lets you turn on a Time Slider to filter markers based on event dates.
In this way, you can easily create an animated view of migrations. The software
runs under most of the Windows formats currently in use (Windows XP, 2000, ME,
and NT.) Contact the company if you have Vista to see whether it also runs under
Vista.
The whole point of making and customizing maps in genealogy or family history
research is to make research more visual—closer to a “mind-mapping” experience
instead of text only. Genealogy presentation and journalism is moving toward
multimedia—combinations of text, sound, imagery, and touch or scent as would
appear in a time capsule.
In two dimensions, text, sound, and imagery are possible in genealogy—from
animation to memorabilia, video, and audio. To combat technology become
obsolete, print is always in vogue. Your print will last longer on vellum and/or
other acid-free papers.
A lot of church records are online. For example Swedish church records and
genealogy materials have gone from microfilm to online. Genline, in Sweden, at
http://www.genline.com presents digital images for tracing Swedish ancestors.
Instead of being on microfilm in various family history libraries, the church
records that were on microfilm are now on the Genline Web site.
If you decide to customize family history maps as part of a time capsule or
alone, the type of records might include immigrations, church or other house of
worship records, a knowledge of handwriting from historic times, migrations
records, parish records, a browser capable of seeing images, a knowledge of how
the original records were put together, and basic words used in the country’s
genealogical records. Records usually are cross-referenced.
If you’re going to use Genline, the image browser is called the Genline Family
Finder. For other countries, you can open a business transferring genealogy
records from microfilm to digital images and create your own databases. You can
choose a country or city to begin with and focus on serving the needs of a
specific community or ethnography by transferring materials on microfilm to an
online database or a database on a CD or DVD or similar digital device or disc.
An excellent genealogy Web site that has many links to family atlas-type maps is
the Farhi genealogy Web site at: http://www.farhi.org/index.html. Check out the
map of old Smyrna at: http://www.farhi.org/images/Manisa_Tire.jpg.
There’s also a graphic listing (French) a few names from the “1941 Farhi
surnames in Alexandria, Egypt Telephone Directory” online at: http://www.farhi.org/images/Farhi_Alexandria.jpg.
This Web site is an excellent example of showing a world perspective of
customized family history/genealogy maps and text material showing how the
scholarly Farhi family migrated at different times from various Middle Eastern
cities such as Alexandria and Damascus to cities in Europe and the USA during
historic times.
The first known 12th century Farhi moved from France to Spain. See the Web sites
at: http://www.farhi.org/wc03/wc03_202.htm, at: http://www.farhi.org/wc03/wc03_201.htm,
and at: http://www.farhi.org/wc02/wc02_336.htm. A Farhi migration occurred from
Arles, France to Florenza, Spain in 1215. Another migration took place in 1357
when a Farhi descendant moved to Palestine after being educated in Montpellier,
France. The Farhi genealogy continues, emphasizing maps of the Farhi family
after moving to various Middle Eastern countries. There are maps on the
genealogy Web sites.
A notable map is the old Damascus Farhi house map at: http://www.farhi.org/Documents/Farhi_Houses.htm.
The map on the Web site shows the family houses as they existed in the 18th and
19th centuries.
You can make a map of your own ancestor’s homes and streets in the towns in
which they lived. According to the Farhi house map Web site, “In 19th Century
Damascus, Raphael el Muallim Farhi lived in a one of the most opulent houses of
Damascus.” The Farhi Web site at: http://www.farhi.org/Documents/Farhi_Houses.htm
shows a map of the old walled city in Damascus and displays “three Farhi houses
(119, 120 & 277), the Liniado (268) and the Lisbona (4941).” According to the
Farhi map Web site, “From this city plan, the Muallim Farhi house was indeed the
largest of them all.”
Also check out the genealogy Web site depicting some of the descendants of
Deacon Stephen Hart, an early 17th century New England settler with records in
Massachusetts starting from 1632. The Hart Family Web site is at: http://annehart.tripod.com/id12.html.
When you develop world view family history maps, you are changing the
perspective from family to social history, from local to global view. What you
can do is focus on customizing maps or other detailed accounts of the methods
used by genealogists.
When you write any work of genealogy journalism or customize visuals to create
family maps or atlases, you are making an enquiry encompassing centuries.
Anything you create should be on the type of acid-free paper or other medium
such as vellum that can be read without the use of technology because technology
changes rapidly. There’s no way to play a record if the record player can’t be
found. At least languages can be translated for more years than technology
allows recordings to be played. You might also have the materials transferred
each generation to a new medium to keep up with the changes in recording and
playback devices.
With languages, you can always have your relatives with each generation do a
deed in memory of the original ancestor by transferring or translating old
family atlases, maps, and text or multimedia recordings to the newest form of
presentation.
If you customize maps, include place names, family names, house locations,
street locations if the houses don’t have numbers. If the streets are not named,
insert latitude and longitude locations and other markers of where the old
houses were located. Indicate if the homes are still standing or what they
became in recent times. Maps of schools, cemeteries, houses of worship, and
family gathering places may be included in a family atlas.
Another graphic project in addition to a map or atlas would be a decorative
family tree. You can specialize in genealogical clip art or other family tree
designs. Highly recommended to learn this are the books Paper Trees:
Genealogical Clip-Art, by Tony Mathews, available from Genealogical Publishing
Company, and the book titled, Creativitree, by Tony Mathews, from Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD 21211, or
http://www.genealogical.com.
Another business you can create includes legacy guides that offer the social
history surrounding your ancestors or your client’s ancestors. You can create a
book on any ancestor’s life by writing detailed descriptions of the local
environment or even the entire world in which that ancestor lived. Include time
lines of what happened nearby as well as internationally at the time of a
particular ancestor’s life span.
It’s taking social history and using events and historic issues in the news to
expand the life of an ancestor of a family living at that period of time. You
might also include the ancestor’s wishes, plans, highlights, accomplishments, or
collected wisdom, proverbs, slogans, and quotations. If you want to create a
legacy book, then highly recommended as a guide is the Legacy Guide by Carol
Franco and Kent Lineback, published by Penguin Group, Inc. 2007. Use all these
resources to help you put into perspective the various possibilities you can
offer to clients when you start a genealogy and personal history communications
business.
You not only want to capture maps or make atlases, but you also can include
facts in addition to memories. The goal is to share with others the meaning of
life. These recommended books all offer frameworks for capturing personal
history as a documentary.
These keepsake heirlooms are more than albums or time capsules and more than
gift books or diaries. The books guide you to weave personal history into
turning points. Life story highlights are milestones. These events shape worlds
as well as families. The whole idea of a book, a database, or a customized map
of migrations and locations of ancestral homes preserves legacies for
generations.
Resources for Research and Reviews of Great Articles and Books on Genealogy
Research Techniques
Highly Recommended….
See Everton’s Genealogical Helper (magazine) Jan/Feb 2007 Historical Maps Can
Help, Jeffrey A. Bockman, pgs.16-24. The article mentions key Web sites for
persons interested in creating and customizing family maps. One of the most
useful Web sites is at the Bureau of Land Management online at: http://www.glorecords.glm.gov/.
For your rural research, look at county atlases.
Bockman’s article also notes that the Web site at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html
contains “a large collection of historic railroad maps online.” The article
refers searchers for transportation maps also to the Map section of the
Everton’s Handybook for Genealogists.
Here's how to start your own ancestry-television business online on a shoestring
budget. Learn how to launch family and personal history videos online with video
podcasts (vodcasts) or other public access television programming on Web sites
or on various niche broadcasts.
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One true life example for a skit is the scene in the sample play written from first-person point-of-view about a 1964 five-minute train interlude when a male passenger commands the protagonist not to cross between cars while the train is in motion. The passenger stands between the cars next to his wife who says timorously, "Let her go, dear," after the wife notices the young protagonist wears a wedding ring. The protagonist tells him she's pregnant, returning from the john, and needs to get back to her family. Instead, he squeezes her head in a vise-like grip, crushing her between his knee and the wall of the train. He kicks at the base of her spine, yelling stereotypical ethnic epithets while passengers ignore events. After the sample play and three monologues for performance, you will have learned how to write ethnographic dialogue and select appropriate scene settings. Also included are e-interviews with popular fiction writers.
Ethno* Playography
See the abstract from a book abstract database at: http://www.shvoong.com/books/play/1623015-ethno-playography-create-salable-ethnographic/
Ethno * Playography: How To Create Salable Ethnographic Plays, Monologues, &
Skits
By: Anne Hart
Ethno * Playography
How to Create Salable Ethnographic Plays, Monologues, & Skits from Life
Stories, Social Issues, and Current Events—For all Ages with Samples for
Performance, by Anne Hart, ASJA Imprint, paperback, iUniverse, Inc., July
2007, ISBN: 978-0-595-46066-3 (0-595-46066-6).
The craft of ethnoplayology is about instructional play and video writing. You
also can use the method to study play around the world as well as
dramatizations or actual stage or radio plays that emphasize ethnic and
folkloric themes.
My book is about how to research, interview, write, and market full-length,
one-act, or monologue and skit-type ethnographic plays, ethnic science
monologues, or skits, docu-dramas, or documentaries from life story
experiences, highlights, Social issues, current events, rites-of-passage,
coming-of-age, and life’s turning points. This book is a compelling tattoo of
precise instruction on how to write ethnic or ethnograpic plays based on
folkoric themes or life stories.
Thus the title, Ethno*Playography, which also encompasses all types of play
activities among all ethnicities around the globe, including their folklore
and drama as well as documentaries, docu-dramas, videos, life stories, social
history, and current issues. Play around the world geographically, write plays
or produce dramatized videos.
Emphasis is on ethnography and playwriting research, performance, and
publishing with writing instruction interweaved with sample plays and
monologues to perform. The book also contains help for you to adapt your own
story or novel from which a play and monologues can be adapted. So you can
readily adapt your own novel to a play or theme. The book contains a play and
several monologues.
Use the format of the play and monologues based on life stories and social
issues to create your own novel based on your own life story. There is a
sample copyrighted, published play written and published by the author, for
performance (or to adapt to your own novel or story changing the characters,
location, and ethnicities--or for inspiration) and three monologues as well as
24 chapters of instructional material, such as "What Ethnographic Playwrights
and Documentarians Can Learn from Published Authors about Visibility Online."
Start your own play-based or dramatized life story, news, and social issues or
current events-based documentary and/or ancestry-television business online.
Ethno-playography is a word coined many decades ago by the author who has been
writing several books a year since 1959. The term describes the geography and
joy of play, song, dance, music, art, writing, oral traditions, poetry, and
drama around the world encompassing ethnic customs, folklore, games, life
story experiences, reminiscence, and traditions.
Learn how to launch ethnographic or multi-cultural family history/genealogy
television shows globally on your Web site, produce videos, and publish hobby
materials or life stories as a pay-per-view or sponsored free entertainment.
Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the country, with more than 113
million participants and researchers. Create social, oral, or personal history
documentaries highlighting life stories.
Here’s how to finance, write scripts, interview, and produce a documentary.
The second chapter includes the techniques and tools for you to write,
publish, and market family or personal history publications such as books or
newsletters on a shoestring budget.
Start and operate a business supplying tools, research, training, and
entertainment for those interested in genealogy, family history/ancestry,
vintage maps, and current issues in the news—for the hobbyist, researcher, or
entrepreneur. For further resources for writers, see the author's Web site.
Yes, there are Online markets waiting for you to start your own play, skit,
monologue, or documentary script adaptation writing service for classrooms,
drama groups, learning materials publishers, or a Family History Channel
online. Choose your niche. Use maps for stage and script props. Show those
historic genealogy maps accompanied by video commentary.
Or create a virtual family history or current events theater on your Web site
as an online television station. Your family history videos can improve the
quality of life for others by showing how you made choices and overcame
adversities to finally transcend life’s issues by showing commitment to your
most important values.
Family history as drama is one of the fastest growing viewing markets around
the world just as genealogy is becoming the USA’s second most popular hobby.
It’s social history. It can be an online TV documentary. It draws global
traffic.
Make money from your family history/genealogy hobby by customizing family
atlases using historic real estate, plat, and panoramic maps. Any topic
related to your roots and everyone else’s is show business.
Look at historic railroad maps, real estate maps, and maps of schools and
houses of worship. In some countries, you can trace older maps of the wealthy
manor houses and a variety of large buildings. Look for signs of property
changing hands from the one ethnic group’s nobility to another ethnic group’s
peasants just after the turn of the 20th century.
In tracing family history, it’s important that you find a vintage map like
this one showing details of cities, small towns, railroads, steamship routes,
and natural features. It’s like finding a map of the old neighborhoods,
streets, and houses.
Regardless of the city or nation your ancestors came from, the research tools
are the same—vintage railroad maps, real estate maps, and maps of routes of
orphan trains can point to clues even after stores have been built on top of
historic homesteads.
For compelling videos on roots and family trees, you might focus on
matriarchal genealogy folklore. As social history, you can compare matriarchal
societies to patriarchal ancestral nations. After all, family history is part
of social history.
Relevant Links: http://www.iuniverse.com
http://annehart.tripod.com
How to Start, Teach, & Franchise a Creative Genealogy Writing Class or Club
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It's easy to start, teach, and franchise a creative genealogy writing club, class, or publication. Flesh out each category with your additional research and resources.
You can make keepsake albums/scrapbooks, put video online or on disc, and create multimedia text and image with sound productions or work with researching records in archives, oral history, or living legacies and time capsules. A living legacy is a celebration of life as it is now.
A time capsule contains projects and products, items, records, and research you want given to future generations such as genograms of medical record family history, family newsletters, or genealogy documents, diaries, photos, and video transcribed as text or oral history for future generations without current technology to play the video discs. Or start and plan a family and/or school reunion project or franchise, business or event. Another alternative is the genealogy-related play or skit, life story, or memoir.
Paperback Books in Print Written by Anne Hart
2. 101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients
3. 102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy
4. 1700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity
5. 30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open
6. 32 Podcasting & Other Businesses to Open Showing People How to Cut Expenses
7. 35 Video Podcasting Careers and Businesses to Start
8. 801 Action Verbs for Communicators
9. A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book
10. A Private Eye Called Mama Africa
11. Ancient and Medieval Teenage Diaries
12. Anne Joan Levine, Private Eye
16. Cover Letters, Follow-Ups, Queries and Book Proposals
17. Creating Family Newsletters & Time Capsules
18. Creative Genealogy Projects
19. Cutting Expenses and Getting More for Less
21. Diet Fads, Careers and Controversies in Nutrition Journalism
22. Dogs with Careers: Ten Happy-Ending Stories of Purpose and Passion
23. Dramatizing 17th Century Family History of Deacon Stephen Hart & Other Early New England Settlers
24. Employment Personality Tests Decoded
26. Find Your Personal Adam And Eve .
27. Four Astronauts and a Kitten
29. How Two Yellow Labs Saved the Space Program
30. How to Interpret Family History and Ancestry DNA Test Results for Beginners
31. How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results For Family History & Ancestry
32. How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online
33. How to Make Money Organizing Information
34. How to Make Money Selling Facts
35. How to Make Money Teaching Online With Your Camcorder and PC
36. How to Open DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting & Interpreting Businesses
37. How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, or Success Stories for Clients
38. How to Publish in Women’s Studies, Men’s Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family History Research
39. How to Refresh Your Memory by Writing Salable Memoirs with Laughing Walls
40. How to Safely Tailor Your Food, Medicines, & Cosmetics to Your Genes
41. How to Start Engaging Conversations on Women's, Men's, or Family Studies with Wealthy Strangers
42. How to Start Personal Histories and Genealogy Journalism Businesses
43. How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books
44. How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story
45. How to Write Plays, Monologues, or Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, or Current Events
46. Infant Gender Selection & Personalized Medicine
48. Job Coach-Life Coach-Executive Coach-Letter & Resume-Writing Service
49. Large Print Crossword Puzzles for Memory Enhancement
50. Make Money With Your Camcorder and PC: 25+ Businesses
51. Middle Eastern Honor Killings in the USA
52. Murder in the Women's Studies Department
53. New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman .
54. Nutritional Genomics - A Consumer's Guide to How Your Genes and Ancestry Respond to Food
55. One Day Some Schlemiel Will Marry Me, Pay the Bills, and Hug Me.
56. Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines
58. Predictive Medicine for Rookies
59. Problem-Solving and Cat Tales for the Holidays
60. Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome
64. Search Your Middle Eastern and European Genealogy
65. Social Smarts Strategies That Earn Free Book Publicity
66. The Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Ethnic DNA Origins for Family History
67. The Courage to Be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik
69. The Date Who Unleashed Hell
70. The Freelance Writer's E-Publishing Guidebook
71. The Khazars Will Rise Again!
74. Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry Online
75. Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry
77. Where to Find Your Arab-American or Jewish Genealogy Records
78. Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying?
79. Why We Never Give Up Our Need for a Perfect Mother
80. Writer's Guide to Book Proposals
81. Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops
82. Writing 7-Minute Inspirational Life Experience Vignettes
84. Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries
85. How to Start, Teach, & Franchise a Creative Genealogy Writing Class or Club: The Craft of Producing Salable Living Legacies, Celebrations of Life, Genealogy Periodicals, Family Newsletters, Time Capsules, Biographies, Fiction, Memoirs, Ethno-Plays, Skits, Monologues, Autobiographies, Events, Reunion Publications, or Gift Books
86. How to Make Basic Natural Cleaning Products from Foods: Solve your stain removal problems with spices, oils, salt, baking soda, vegetables, cream of tartar, milk, vinegar, or alcohol, and make your own mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo, and pesticides from zinc, plants, calcium, oils, or vitamins. Shine hardwood floors and furniture with tea and linseed oil. Here are the best of the recipes and also where to find more home-made cleaning or greening recipes on-line.
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