Expert: Nancy Janyszeski - 7/26/2008

Question
Hello

For a college history course I am doing a genealogy report on my mother’s house.  I have gathered all the information on the house deeds, mortgages, wills building records, voting records .......  and I am very happy with the data collection aspect of the report

Hoverer, now I must  write the genealogical report in some nice, presentable, informative, and functional way.  I guess a timeline format is the most logical way to proceeded but I am not sure what the standard methods are.  Perhaps a PowerPoint presentation might work too?

Do you have any examples to help me get started?

Are you aware of any software programs that might help?    I see a lot of freeware programs for people genealogy but not house/home genealogy

I must also cite all the material I have collected in the report. What is the best format to use for the works cited in a genealogy report Chicago, MLA, APA?   

Any thoughts or comments would be much appreciated.   

Sincerely,

Kevin  

Answer
Kevin, certainly a Powerpoint presentation will give a nice presenation.  YOu can simply put photos in chronological order and provide handout notes with the data.

Microsoft.com has a free genealogy database that is pretty neat, you have ever used Access. I dont' know why you can't substitute the House, address and date for family name and date.  I am sure you can do this with any genealogy software.

If you use any database (which is what genealogy programs are) you will have the option of entering sources which can then be noted and/or printed out.

Nancy