Bringing Your Ancestors to Life, taken from notes used to successfully to teach hundreds of genealogists, focuses on how to define and organize your project, where to start, how to obtain background information and the best way to use proven writing techniques to create an interesting family history.This booklet also includes exercises after many sections to practice each skill presented. If you follow all the suggestions and do all the exercises, when you get to the end, you will have a detailed layout of the story you wish to write.

Create interesting family history stories! Go beyond the names and dates. Flesh out the bones in your genealogy to make your family history come alive.

Researching your family history can be an absorbing hobby, or a one-off project that your whole family will value and build on. This book is packed with ideas about the different aspects of genealogy and the main free or low cost resources available to help you in your quest. CONTENTS: Getting started - online family searching - harnessing internet sources - tearless transcribing - organised support - vital public records - interpreting old records - getting to know your ancestors About the author Dr Harry Alder is a prolific writer and long-time researcher. Here he passes on his passion for genealogy, his first-hand experience, lots of practical tips and key websites to support your research.

This book tells the story of Flight Sergeant Jack Clyde, a 19-year-old wireless operator serving with 10 Squadron between 1943 and 1944, and his crew.

In Workbook No. 2 of her series, Write Your Family History, author, and genealogy professional Lynn Palermo offers 100 pages of tips, tools and worksheets to help turn your ancestors into compelling characters. Authentic Ancestors digs deep to help you learn about your ancestors on a more intimate level. You'll gain knowledge and confidence to write about your ancestors using the writing tool of characterization. You'll learn to: Identify your protagonist, antagonist and the cast of characters for your family history story. Identify the goals, motivations and stakes that will drive your ancestor's story. Uncover the physical, psychological and sociological aspects of your ancestors. Develop and intimate and personal knowledge of your ancestors using the Authentic Ancestor Profile. Learn to craft multi-dimensional characters that come to life on the page."

Whether your family tree is partially filled out, mostly complete, or full with many LDS relatives, this step-by-step method will help you discover new relatives and reserve their temple ordinances. You will review the accuracy of your tree, analyze your pedigree, and make a list of ancestors to research. Those with many LDS relatives will locate research opportunities by diving deeper into tree analysis and listing ancestors who were not members of the LDS Church. Using descendancy research to find cousins will open doors for those will full family trees. Instead of selecting random ancestors, you will systematically view descendancy trees for each of the ancestors in your list. By evaluating each descendancy tree, you can determine which branches are most likely to contain candidates for further research likely to be found in available records. Once you have chosen a relative to focus on, you'll begin a research project. Research begins by choosing a research question. Next you will create a simple research plan and research log. When you have completed your searches, you will then record what you found in FamilySearch, including adding sources and new relatives to the tree, and then write a summary of your research. After merging duplicates you will be ready to reserve temple ordinances. After you've successfully found names for the temple, you can repeat the process by going back to your list of candidates for further research and begin again with a new research question. Now you won't run out of research opportunities! As you research each relative one by one, you will grow to love them and think of them as friends. As President Eyring said, "your heart will be bound to theirs forever."

Katherine Scott Sturdevant shows you how to use social history -- the study of "ordinary people's everyday lives" -- to add depth, detail, and drama to your family's saga. Book jacket.