Historylines.com Website Review

Ja*aScript is disabled in your browser. HistoryLines cannot function fully without it. View personal events, family, and historical context on an interactive timeline Add your own photographs, stories, and memories to your story Explore lifestyle and culture surrounding your ancestor Follow your ancestor's migration history on an interactive map Read your ancestor's instantly-created, expansive personal narrative Imagine what life would look like through their eyes, with photos of events, people, and life Tried this out at RootsTech and fell in love with it. Can't wait to use this at home. This is what will get my family into family Love this format! I will be sharing it with my living relatives when we gather to celebrate Mom's 90th birthday. I know she will love it HistoryLines has been a big help to me in my effort to finally write my family history. First, it has motivated me to finally organize, research, and write what I have been putting off for years -Kathleen D. This is wonderful. I love it. It outlines my life so easily. Even I could not remember all these events that have happened in my » Saving and Printing the Story Subscribers can do*nload and print the story, by clicking on the Save and Print link on the story page. This will generate the PDF and open it in a window, where you can save or print. » Add a Child, Spouse, Sibling To add a child, spouse, or sibling to a person on the family tree: » Edit a Person on the Tree To edit the information of a person on the tree, click on the person's box. This will open the edit form. Make any changes, then click Save and Close. » Dots on Children and Spouses The dots on spouses and children help to indicate the link between the parent and the child. A person may have multiple spouses, and multiple children from each spouse. The color of the dots links the child to If your ancestor had a nickname or a given name that is preferred to be used in the story, you can add a nickname to the person: