One of your goals is to perhaps collect enough information to sit down and write a family history or a biography of particularly interesting or favorite ancestors. Regular readers of this column have often seen me refer to the wonderful town of Rome, Georgia, and to my great-grandfather, Green Berry Holder. He is my favorite ancestor and one to whom I feel very close. He was an exciting man, born in 1843, who served as a Confederate soldier, relocated with his parents and older brother after the war to western Georgia, became a merchant, was the first postmaster of two post offices, and bought land on which there was a cave and started the North Georgia Fertilizer Company, and much more. He had a successful marriage and produced twelve children. I’ve been working on a biography for quite a while, but it has been a slower process than I have hoped.

I attended the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Salt Lake City this month and found some very interesting books and software to help your (and my) writing efforts. In "Along Those Lines. . ." this week, I want to share a few of these with you...

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