Publishing your Family History

Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num

Noeline Kyle's Writing Family History. This Australian site offers access to information, and links relevant to writing and publishing your family history. Updated

State Library of Victoria Research Guides. Click on the Family History link for access to Preparing your family history for publication. Updated

Genealogy.com. An online tutorial titled The Mechanics of Writing Your Family History.

GenWriters. This US site focuses on writing family histories and aims to help the genealogist turn facts into real people by showing them how to add social history elements to genealogy research.

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger. Citation Styles lists details of how to cite and document Internet sources including web sites, email messages and forum postings using various styles.

Australian Copyright Council's Online Information Centre with everything you need to know about copyright including copying from the Internet and creating and publishing on the Internet.

Thorpe-Bowker manages the Australian ISBN Agency. The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a unique code for the identification of printed books and other material. An ISBN application form and a self publisher guide are available online.

Who Owns Genealogy? Cousins and Copyright by Gary B. Hoffman, This excellent article explores the tricky question of who owns a compiled genealogy. The one who compiled it? The one who possesses a copy? The one whose ancestors are the subject of the compilation?

Great Family Newsletters. This site offers tutorials on how to produce family newsletters. It also offers resources and communication tools for family newsletter publishers.

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Publishing your Family History