This is a slide I presented for Blogging. It is a beginners level presentation.

1. By Yvette Porter Moore

2. A Website that can be updated on a daily or
ongoing basis.
 A Blog can be a collection of:
 Thoughts
 Ideas
 A Main Subject, Many Subjects, and Various Topics
 Photos
 For our Purposes: Family History & Genealogy
 According to Blogger: “A blog is a personal diary. A daily
pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A
breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own
private thoughts. Memos to the world.”

3.  To Preserve Your Family History
 To Share with Family and The World Wide
Web.
 To Organize What you Know
 To Write about your Research
 Allows you to tell short stories about certain
events
 Family Members Finding You

4.  You Have a Public or even Private Platform in
which to share with Family & Friends.
 I Repeat, It opens the door for family
researching your surnames to find you.
 You may have the opportunity to reunite with
long lost relatives.
 Other’s in the Genealogy Community can
help you with your research.
 Might have enough written material to write
a book.

5.  Choose A Name for your Blog
 Choose A Free Blog Server & Sign Up
 Set Up Your Blog
 Organize What you Know
 Be Aware of other Genealogy Services for
Genealogy Bloggers
 Gather information for your 1st Blog Post

6.  Choose a unique Name for your blog
 The name you choose, make sure it is very
similar to the blog address, so people can
find you.
Example Names of Actual Blogs:
 Between The Gate Posts
 Climbing My Family Tree
 Corn & Cotton: Telling My Family Story
 Digging Roots: My Family History

7. According to Marian’s Roots and Rambles:
“Choose a blog name that you are
 comfortable with
 that you can grow with
 that will appeal to a broad group of people
 that looks good in print
 that reinforces your business goals (if you are
blogging for business)

8.  Blogger: www.blogger.com **
 Wordpress: www.wordpress.com **
 LiveJournal: www.livejournal.com
 Tumblr.com: www.tumblr.com
 Blogabond: www.blogabond.com
(dedicated to travel)
** Most popular

9. The Cully Family: An African American
Legacy. “Moving On Up!”
(Blogger)
http://www.thecullyfamily.com/
Digging Roots: My Family History
http://rootdigger2011.com/
(WordPress)

10. Geneabloggers
http://www.geneabloggers.com/