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Getting Started
Get started with the GenTutorial, a step-by-step introduction to genealogy. GenGuides offer tips and pointers to help you begin your genealogical journey.

Research Resources
GenGuides, Web links, and a bibliography to help you find both print and online resources to research your family history. You'll also find Genwriters Research Collections covering the following topics:
Online Diaries
Migration Patterns and Trails
Timelines and Chronologies

Wars and the Military

Social History Resources
Learn about the time and place where your ancestors lived. GenGuides will provide insights into resources and research strategies. Web links and a bibliography guide you to specific topics of Social History interest.

Writing Resources
Gather your research and write a narrative. GenGuides help you to create a written family history that will be cherished by your family and treasured by future generations.

GenStore
Stop by the GenStore for must-haves for your personal genealogy library.

 

Thank you to the Genealogy Guys for selecting Genwriters as the Web site of the week on their 12 September 2007 podcast. Visit George and Drew online at www.GenealogyGuys.com to listen to their podcasts.

 

Genwriters is proud to have been featured in the April 2006 issue of Family Chronicle magazine in the Websites Worth Surfing column.

 

 

 
New to Genwriters?
Welcome! Visit the About Genwriters page for a thorough description of all that is available at Genwriters to help you research and write your family history.
 
 
GenGuides
GenGuides are topical research guides to help you along your journey. Visit the GenGuides page for a complete list of all GenGuides on Genwriters.
 
 
Ready to Get Started?
Are you ready to write your family history? The Get Ready to Write GenGuide will help you get on the right path to start your project.
 
 
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Stories ... Stories ... Stories
Every family has them. Some are sad; some are funny. Some are poignant, some you might rather forget. Stories. You probably heard them from your mother. Stories about when she was young. Stories about her life. You laugh with her when she shares a funny story, and watch that tear in her eye when she remembers a sad one. These stories made her the person she is today.

How wonderful to be able to share these stories with your children, and for your children to share the stories with their children. Your mother's grandchildren would be able to catch a real glimpse of their grandmother from these wonderful stories passed down through the generations.

Write your family's stories down ... pass them along. Your family's history is your history. Don't let it be lost or forgotten.

 
 
 

Visit Ancestry.com today
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to find your family

 

 

Breathe Life Into Your Life Story

Breathe Life Into Your Life Story: How to write a story people will want to read by Dawn and Morris Thurston. Read the Genwriters review of this book.

 

Producing a Quality Family History

Producing a Quality Family History by Patricia Law Hatcher will guide your through the process of turning your research notes into a finished family history book.

 

Evidence Explained

Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace by Elizabeth Shown Mills - The definitive guide to source citations.

 

 

Visit Footnote.com to find
original historical documents

 

 

 

Tell Your Story
at Newspaper Archive.com

Everyone has a story.
Share yours today.

 

 

 
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