Genealogists can easily set up their very own genealogy blog. The hard part is figuring out what to put in it. Sometimes, it is best to go with what you know. Write about your favorite genealogy websites. You use them all the time, so it won’t be difficult to discuss them in your genealogy blog.
Your genealogy blog can be whatever you want it to be. Some genealogists focus on blogging only about their research techniques, and the results of each effort. Others like to include mostly photos with a few sentences that describe the ancestors who are in the photographs. What you choose to include is entirely up to you.
Blogging on a regular basis requires an endless supply of ideas. If you are “stuck”, then I have a suggestion for you. Blog about your favorite genealogy websites. This should be really easy for you to do, since they are resources that you frequently use. It is perfectly acceptable to do some blogging about the resources that you use. Other genealogists, who come across your blog, can use that information to help with their own genealogy research.
There is more than one way to set up this kind of blog. The most simple way to do it is to make a list of the genealogy websites that you like best. Maybe you prefer Ancestry.com and FamilySearch. Perhaps you enjoy MyHeritage, or 23andMe, or something else. List them off. Add a link to the website into your blog, if you are able. This will help other genealogists to find the websites.
Reviews are helpful. Write about the things that you like about your favorite genealogy website. How has this website helped you with your research? You could include a brief story about a relative or ancestor whom you found information on while using a particular website. Is there something that you don’t like about a certain genealogy website? Write about that as well. This will give other genealogists a quick glimpse of the pros and cons of the website you are blogging about.
What if you have so much to say about each of your favorite genealogy websites that your blog becomes too long for people to want to read? In this case, I would recommend writing about one website in one blog post, and starting a new one to review the next website on. This could become an interesting and informative series of posts on your genealogy blog.
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