Our meeting in April will be a presentation by Steve Hartwell entitled “Building a Custom Website for your Family History”

Pedigree charts may be an interesting way to share our genealogy, but what about the “rest of the story” – our family letters, photographs, heirlooms, tales, etc.? How can we share our ancestral stories online with everyone in our extended family? Learn how to bring your stories to life by using an easy building-block approach to create a custom website. You will see techniques and examples to give you ideas on how best to showcase your own family history.

Steve Hartwell lives in North Reading, Massachusetts, and has been researching his family for over 30 years. He retired from a long career at IBM in 2014 and has since become a professional genealogist specializing in both ancestral research, particularly in New England, and custom website design. Steve is a graduate of the Boston University Genealogical Research Certificate Program  and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, and is a board member of the Society of Essex Genealogists. His website can be found at shartwell.com/services.