Moorshead Magazines Launches Discovering Family History

Posted on March 7, 2008

Moorshead Magazines has launced a new print magazine called Discovering Family History. They also publish two other genealogy magazines: Family Chronicle and Internet Genealogy. Moorshead also publishes History Magazine. Discovering Family History is a bimonthly magazine targeted at people who are starting their genealogy, need a refresher course or are tackling a new aspect of genealogy.

Moorshead publisher Halvor Moorshead says in the debut issue's editorial that he realized there was a need for a genealogy basics magazine when he was sending people to websites like Cyndi's List for beginner's resources.

We sold plenty of subscriptions to both magazines, but I found that I was continually explaining to new subscribers some real genealogy basics - steering them to Cyndi's List and other places that listed beginner's courses. These people were smart enough; they just needed something more basic than what we were selling. It was sobering to realize that there might be a big market for a genealogy magazine that dealt with the basics.

Discovering Family History's editor is Ed Zapletal.