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Besides being the editor of Upfront with NGS, I am also the editor
of the Wake County Genealogical Society (WCGS) journal, Wake Treasures.
One of our biggest challenges is getting quality and varied content for this
publication. We know that there are
potential authors “out there” and yet besides regularly querying our membership,
having a FB page, using mailing lists, seeing material elsewhere and asking for
permission to republish, etc, we’ve been severely limited in how to acquire the
material needed to keep our award-winning journal relevant and chock full of
timely and quality content.
A new publication planned by Harold Henderson, CG and
Michael Hait, CG might make the content element of producing Wake Treasures easier in the
future. Please read below about what you
can do to help make this planned publication a reality. I have already filled out the short online
questionnaire for Wake Treasures. I am excited about it’s potential and
encourage all genealogy periodical creators to take a few minutes and fill out
the questionnaire!
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19 August 2013
Dear Genealogy Periodical Editors:
How do genealogical authors find your publication?
Genealogy periodicals—from popular magazines to state and
national journals to the newsletters of local genealogical societies—are vital
to the genealogy community.
Among other vital roles, periodicals
- educate genealogists about records and research methodology;
- enable genealogists with similar research interests to communicate
with each other;
- share local, national, and international news of concern to
genealogists; and
- allow researchers to publish the fruits of their research efforts.
Despite this central position in the genealogy community,
there exists no central resource bringing together all of the genealogy
periodicals published in the United
States
To do this we plan to publish the first U. S. Genealogy
Writer's Market in early 2014. This book will list basic details about
genealogy periodicals, so that genealogical researchers and prospective writers
can quickly and easily locate their ideal publishing markets.
In order to do this we need your help—just fill out the
short online questionnaire at this address:
Please feel free to alert other editors to this project. If you have any questions or comments, please contact either of us at our respective emails.
Harold Henderson, CG
Editor’s Note:
original blog post, http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com/2013/08/us-genealogy-writers-market-quick.html
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