What Happens to Your Family History Research When You’re Gone? Find Out in My New Book
Let me ask you something that most genealogists never want to think about. You’ve spent years, maybe decades, tracking down ancestors, building out your family tree, filling binders and hard drives and Dropbox folders with documents, photos, DNA results, and research notes. Thousands of hours. Real love poured into every discovery.
Now picture this: your family doesn’t know what to do with any of it.
I’ve heard this story more times than I can count. A fellow genealogist passes away, and within a few months, their entire research collection, boxes of original documents, annotated county histories, printed census records, irreplaceable photographs, ends up at an estate sale. Priced at a dollar each. Or worse, it goes straight to the recycling bin because nobody in the family knew what they were looking at or why it mattered.
That image is exactly what inspired the title of my new book. CLICK HERE or the image below to get your copy TODAY!
What Happens to Your Family History Research: Have You Ever Seen a Hearse Pulling a Moving Trailer?
No, you haven’t. Because you can’t take it with you.
Have You Ever Seen a Hearse Pulling a Moving Trailer?: The Complete Guide to Future-Proofing Your Family History is my most personal and, I’d argue, most important book yet. It’s a complete, practical guide to making sure your decades of family history research actually survives you and ends up in the hands of people who will value it.
This isn’t a book about dying. It’s a book about protecting something you’ve worked incredibly hard to build.
The guide walks you through the full picture of future-proofing your genealogy research: organizing and documenting your files so they make sense to someone who isn’t you, identifying the right repositories and family members to receive your work, creating a research legacy plan, and handling everything from digital files to physical documents to DNA kits. It covers the conversations most of us keep putting off having with our families. And it gives you real, actionable steps you can start on today.
Think about it. If something happened to you tomorrow, could anyone in your family find your research? Would they know what software you used, which genealogy websites you subscribed to, where the original documents are stored? Would they even know the research existed?
That’s exactly the gap this book fills.
What Happens to Your Family History Research: Get Your Copy Now
Have You Ever Seen a Hearse Pulling a Moving Trailer? is available in three formats so you can choose what works best for you. Grab the print edition if you like working through a book with a highlighter and sticky notes. Prefer reading on your device? The Kindle edition is ready for you. And if you do your best thinking while driving or walking, the audiobook lets you absorb the material hands-free.
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What Happens to Your Family History Research: Already Read the Book? Please Leave a Review
If you’ve already picked up a copy, I have a favor to ask, and it’s a big one.
Please take a few minutes and leave an honest review on Amazon.
I know, I know. It feels like a small thing. But for independent authors like me, reviews are genuinely everything. Amazon’s algorithm uses the number and quality of reviews to decide how visible a book is in search results. More reviews means more genealogists find the book. It means I can keep producing affordable resources like this one instead of having to charge three times as much to make the economics work.
Your review doesn’t have to be long. A sentence or two about what the book meant to you, what you found most useful, what made you think. That’s enough to make a real difference for someone else who’s wondering whether to click that buy button.
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Preserving your family legacy isn’t just about finding ancestors. It’s about making sure the work you’ve done to find them doesn’t disappear when you do. Your family history deserves better than a dollar bin at an estate sale.
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Author’s Note: I want to be transparent that this content – What Happens to Your Family History Research When You’re Gone? Find Out in My New Book – was created in part with the help of an artificial intelligence (AI) language model – Claude Sonnet 4.6. The AI assisted in generating an early draft of the content, but every paragraph was subsequently reviewed, edited, and refined by me. The final content is the result of extensive human curation and creativity. I am proud to present this work and assure readers that while AI was a tool in the process, the story, style, and substance have been carefully shaped by the author.
