Have you thought about publishing?
Ask yourself: What research have you done or what materials do you have access to that other people would be interested in?
- family history/genealogy, for example, the award-winning More Lasting than Brass: A Thread of Family from Revolutionary New York to Industrial Connecticut
by Peter Haring Judd (2004)
- profile of an ancestor or family group, such as Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
written by his descendant, Eve Laplante (2007)
- surname dictionary (such as a One-Name Study)
- photo book of a person, couple, or family (use a digital photo service to create a hardcover photo book)
- history of a location
- photo history of a location
- house history
- transcriptions of cemeteries, business ledgers, personal letters, journals, Bibles, family memorabilia, etc.
- abstracts of wills, probates, newspapers, etc.
- indexes for obituaries, old town/county histories, court cases, etc.
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