Content
Welcome
2m 46s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 4s
Introduction
4m 5s
Multi-generational Family Histories
6m 47s
Pyramid-shaped Family History
4m 10s
Broom-shaped Family History
8m 9s
Hour-glass Family History
13m 16s
The Introduction
17m 13s
Biographical Structure
13m 28s
Announcements / prizes
8m 24s
Questions / answers
10m 8s
About this webinar
To write a family history, we must convert our ancestral information into paragraphs of prose. But how do we group the resulting paragraphs to produce a coherent structure? We start by asking ourselves what we wish to achieve. Are we writing a history that focuses on a surname line? Or one that covers all of our ancestors, or all of our descendants, or all of the ancestors and descendants of a particular person? And how do we craft an individual biography? Do we produce a family history that is a group of stand-alone biographies or one that has a narrative-style flow? These and other subjects are discussed in this simple guide to structuring a family history.
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About the speaker
Carol Baxter is an experienced and informed historian and genealogist, an internationally-acclaimed, award-winning author, and a dynamic, inspirational presenter. Carol has been a genealogist for four...
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Comments (108)
Was unable to watch this live, but Carol is fabulous! Very funny and has great advice about writing family histories. I'll be watching all of her other webinars.
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Carol's writing webinars are a must if you want people to actually read your family history. This was a great presentation on something that is quite a dry topic and not the easiest thing to teach. Looking forward to the rest!
Truly an enjoyable evening with a very creative but amazingly practical minded individual. What a fun time! I learned so much.
excellent
I'll have to watch this again to absorb everything!
Now I see! The hard part is putting this into practice in my own work.
Excellent presentation! Thank you, Carol!