From Documents to Sentences to Stories: Rebuilding Family Stories
Inspiring instruction for writing your family history stories
Turning your genealogy research discoveries into meaningful stories can be challenging. Follow the re-creation of one family’s story using hands-on, step-by-step, try-this-now story-building strategies. Turn a single record discovery into a simple paragraph, then a paragraph into a story by looking for the “plot” and other interesting elements that make up the most interesting stories. Teaser: in the story you’ll follow, one of the heroes is a dog, my son’s favorite “ancestor.”
This program is possible through the generous support of the William M. Lowenstein Genealogical Research Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation.
Registration
“From Documents to Sentences to Stories: Rebuilding Family Stories” is a collaboration between the Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh and the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center. Please register online. The program is free for JGS-Pittsburgh members and $5 for the general public. To become a member of the JGS-Pittsburgh and receive a free membership code for this program, please visit its website here.
This program will be recorded and made available to current JGS-Pittsburgh members.
Bio
Sunny Jane Morton is a Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine and Director of Content at YourDNAGuide.com, where she teaches storytelling strategies and puts them into practice. She is author of Story of My Life: A Workbook for Preserving Your Legacy, now in its 2nd edition, and co-author of the NGS award-winning book, How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records. She is past Editor of Ohio Genealogy News.