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Spring Seminar: Crafting Your Ancestors' Stories
What is Social History and Why Should a Genealogist Care?
Social history is the history of ordinary people and how they lived their daily lives. It seeks to fill in the rich details of the past. Learn how social history can both improve your research skills and help you better understand and tell the stories of your ancestors’ lives.
Turn Family History Facts into Stories You Can Share
You’ve uncovered lots of wonderful facts about your ancestors and you want to share them with your family, but pedigree charts put them to sleep. You need to turn those facts into stories. Does the idea of trying to tell the stories of your ancestors seem like too big a job? Two simple principles can get you started writing your family stories: look at what the facts imply and “take small bites.”This presentation will introduce a four-step process for putting those principles into action, allowing you to share your family stories with ease.
Enhancing Your Family Stories and a Word About Publishing
Once our stories are written we can enhance them with photos, maps, images of documents, and other visuals to engage our readers. We’ll also look at the many ways we can share our stories.
Program Schedule:
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM "What is Social History and Why Should a Genealogist Care?"
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM " Turning Family History Facts Into Stories You Can Share"
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM "Enhancing Your Family Stories and a Word About Publishing"
Annette Burke Lyttle owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She speaks on a variety of genealogical topics at the international, national, state, and local levels and loves helping people uncover and share their family stories. She is coordinator of the Foundations: The Research Process course and the Writing the Stories of Our Ancestors course for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Annette leads Best Practices Study Groups for a number of organizations, providingin-deptheducationonthegenealogicalresearchprocessinaninteractivesetting. Sheis past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists and editor ofThe Florida Genealogist.
To register for this event, click on the button below. The cost for members is $30, and the cost for non-members is $40. If you want to purchase a lunch the cost is $14, paid at time of registration. For FxGS members, the discount code is on the "Members Only" page.
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