Presenting your research

I'm just wondering how people present their research to other family
members? Do you do it as a powerpoint presentation, in a book or folder or
videos? Just interested to know :)

C Rihan...

Catch them in a quiet moment, block the doorway, and tell them
some of the interesting discoveries before their eyes glaze over and
they think of some vital things that they have to rush off and do !

As you may have gathered they don't share my interest to the
same degree, but I have sent the main facts of their nearest
branches to those who have expressed a mild interest .

I think it would be nice to have information presented in a book
form so it can be easily carried around and read.
(preferably with photos)

Best wishes
C.Rihan

Hugh Watkins...

on line
latest

and in blogs

free web space

then unknown cousins find me too

all freebies like this

Hugh W

CWatters...

I usually hire a hall, an orchestra to play music and get David Beckham to
put in a guest appearance. Lots of people come :-)

Seriously though I find printing one really big family tree is the way to
go. Everyone wants to know how the person you are talking about relates to
them. Then mostly they are interested in "stories" - tales of how you traced
xyz or quirky things you found out along the way. Pictures of people, houses
they lived in and maps also seem popular.

If you are going to visit someone from a branch of the tree pull info
relating to that branch of the tree from your normal filing system and make
up a small file that's easier to pass around.

Steve Hayes...

I've never had occasion to "present" it, as in getting about 20 cousins in a
room to listen to a lecture or watch a home movie. I suppose of one had a
family reunion there might be a need for a presentation like that.

Is that what you have in mind?

Pat...

I'm one of five children and there are 15 people in the next generation. I
started a quarterly four-page newsletter three years ago as several of my
nieces and nephews had expressed an interest in my research. I send it to
my siblings and our children. Three of my great nieces fight over who gets
to read the newsletter first! Of course, that is quite pleasing. I hope to
put it online one day but am too busy with other things for now.

Last year I started doing a page on the "first cousins" and have a line of
people waiting to submit their story. Since we're scattered from the
Mississippi River to the east coast this helps all of us keep up-to-date on
people's lives.

In the course of doing this research, very kind people have sent me pictures
of relatives from my grandparents back. We didn't know these people, but
we've learned a little about their lives and now we know what they looked
like, how they dressed, etc. This Christmas I'm putting together a CD with
a copy of these pictures to send to the next generation.

Someday I'll put together a book - but for now, I'm happy to have a focus
for my research and, I think, my relatives are happy to have the
information.