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• Use Trade Directories To Flesh Out Your Family History
  Family history is about more than just dry facts of when and where your ancestor was born. Use the online tools availble to us to to bring your ancestors to life
  Published 28Oct2011, viewed 56 times

• How To Write A Fantastic Press Release
  A great way for marketers to bring their product or service to the media's notice at the same time as adding SEO juice to their own websites through useful backlinks, is by writing a press release and using an online press release service to distribute it.
  Published 25Sep2011, viewed 71 times

• Help Me Get Back Before 1837
  Many people who set out to research their ancestors from the British Isles, find that there is a whole lot of information out there on the web for years back until 1837. Then it just seems to become harder for us. 1837 is when civil registration started in England & Wales with the state taking over from the established church registering the vital records before then we need to look in the Parish Records.
  Published 24Sep2011, viewed 124 times

• Ask Yourself Some Smart Questions Before Developing An Info Product
  Give your self the best possible chance of successs, before you release an info product on to the market, by answering a few simple questions. Here I pose 10 for you to answer before you even pick up a pen, bash out a draft on your keyboard or turn on your video camera to begin making your product.
  Published 30Aug2011, viewed 164 times

• English and Welsh Family History Before 1837
  Once you have been able to get back as far as you are able to do, using the census entries and Birth Marriages and Death records, you will now need to turn your attention to Parish records - these date back to 1538
  Published 02Mar2011, viewed 119 times

• Offer A Bold Gurantee For Your Info Product
  Cutting prices is not only needless, but is probably a dangerous miscalculation to make, in any strategy directed at breathing life back into your organization. Crazy as it may seem to you now, however, the actual reality is that very few consumers order products on cost only.
  Published 12Jan2011, viewed 206 times

• How to Use Headlines to Sell Your Product
  As an information Marketer you need to be able to capture the interest of your potential clients swiftly when they land on your website. Often you will have paid for traffic to come to a page on your website via pay per click or maybe an advertisement in a magazine or newspaper. So now that your prospect has landed on your web page and the first thing that is in their mind is "What's in it for me?" How are you going to answer this?
  Published 27Nov2010, viewed 199 times

• Recession Proof Your Business
  In the current gloomy world of depressing economic news, where we find every day that sales and leads are becoming harder and harder for us to get. With the huge uphill task of persuading your prospects and customers to open their wallets and purses to buy from you then, you might find yourself tempted to make a dangerous and possibly harmful decision to cut your prices.
  Published 20Nov2010, viewed 129 times

• How to Ensure Our Business Doesn't Fail in Present Climes
  How do we ensure our business doesn't fail in these tough economic situation? The simple answer is we must make more sales! But many business owners think that this means chasing after more and more new customers. The technique I am proposing here is really quite a simple one. It is to sell more to our current customers than to try and get new ones
  Published 04Nov2010, viewed 188 times

• Is the Money Always in the List?
  Is the money in the Information Marketer's list or is it in the relationship that we build with our list? The two models considered.
  Published 23Oct2010, viewed 218 times

• 4 Tips For Marketing With YouTube Videos
  A growing number of Information Marketers believe that in the next few months and years video is set to be the most powerful way of getting in front of your potential customers. These four tips should put you ahead.
  Published 26Oct2010, viewed 210 times

• Listen to Family Stories to Research Your Family Tree
  Listening to the senior members of our family can give us fantastic leads for our family tree. But beware of unchecked stories.
  Published 28Sep2010, viewed 193 times

• Don't Rely On One Ancestor Look-Up Site
  When doing family tree research sometimes a brick wall can be hit if you rely on only using one ancestor look-up website. When I started doing family history I was taught to use more than the one and here I show you what happened when I forgot this advice.
  Published 23Jul2010, viewed 197 times

• Nonconformists Buried in My Family Tree
  Family Tree research is always going to bring us up against death or burial records in some form or other. But what happens when our ancestors are not in the established Church of England and so can't be found easily in the parish records? This article explores problems with nonconformist ancestors in the family tree.
  Published 14Jul2010, viewed 167 times

• Clandestine Marriages in Family History
  What are "Clandestine Marriages" in British Family Tree research? The article lifts the lid on Fleet Prison marriages and those from its environs.
  Published 16Jun2010, viewed 188 times

• Help Me With My Family Tree
  Your task, in doing family history research, is to find out as much as you can about where you came from. Here is the case for not restricting yourself to a straight 'genealogy' search. "Tell the stories of your living family members, richly flesh out the lives of your ancestors and so bring to life your family history". This was advice that Nick Thorne was given when he set out and asked a professional to help him with his family tree.
  Published 01Jun2010, viewed 176 times

• Understanding the Census
  The UK censuses can baffle people beginning family history, when they first encounter them. You go on to a commercial site and pay to download the image of your long lost ancestors and you are presented with an official form covered in sometimes difficult to read handwriting and what looks like lots of lines crossing out some of the data. What's it all about?
  Published 09May2010, viewed 162 times

• How a Family History Website Helped Smash Through a Brick Wall
  If you're having problems researching your family tree then maybe you can learn something from my experience here. I'd got nowhere with this ancestor's vital records on or off-line. A chance revisit of a Family History Website and a brick wall in my family history research came tumbling down!
  Published 11Apr2010, viewed 215 times

• Family history terms: Exactly what are Stepmothers, Half-sisters, Second Cousins Twice Removed etc?
  Family historians need to be able to understand the terms stepfather, stepmother, half-brother and second cousin twice removed when creating a family tree. The Nosey Genealogists tries to make sense of it in this extract.
  Published 16Feb2010, viewed 211 times

• Family History Stumbling Blocks with the English Parish Records
  As we research our Family History from the British Isles we may find our selves having difficulties with the Parish records. Here are twelve stumbling blocks to consider.
  Published 30Dec2009, viewed 161 times

• Pitfalls in Family History Research.
  Sometime we can make it easier for ourselves in family history research if we keep a few rules in mind to prevent us falling into the traps that pop up all the time. This article is a reminder of the pitfalls that we may encounter and how to get over them.
  Published 05Oct2009, viewed 196 times

• Family History- The Simple Trick To Boost Your Research
  As I research my ancestors and populate my family tree I have been helped no end by connecting with distant "cousins" who are researching the same or collateral lines of the same family. The input that theses fellow researchers have given has boosted my research and sent me much further forward in the quest to build my ancestral family tree.
  Published 10Aug2009, viewed 219 times

• Family Search and the Family Historian
  Family Search is one of the biggest genealogy organizations in the world and is an important on-line tool for any family historian tracing their ancestors. Although it is run from the USA, for those of us with UK roots it still represents us well with index records with some English counties having excellent coverage. The site, however, has certain issues in the way that you can search it. One way to work around this is explored in this article.
  Published 18Jul2009, viewed 217 times

• Beginning Family history research online
  Family history research on the Internet is a growing pass time for many of us. The amount of information that is publisher may overwhelm the beginner and so this article sets out to explain that is best to learn as much as possible about the techniques of researching a family tree and to continue to learn as one goes along.
  Published 01Jul2009, viewed 226 times

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