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Ignore Your Audience When Writing Your Family History First Draft How I Set Up A File to Write About 120 Ancestors

Memorial Boards: Highlight an ancestor with images of the sites, sounds, and documents of their lives Someday Heritage Travel: As you discover new places where your ancestors lived, worshiped, worked, and

Having written over 120 drafts of my ancestor’s life histories and publishing numerous scrapbooks and

break it down into bite-sized pieces and show you how easy and fulfilling it can be to delve into your ancestors

How a Basic Surname Table Fails A basic genealogy surname table is a cheat sheet for 62 direct line ancestral

You can take this exercise further by having your ancestor draw the outside of their home.

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Writing Your Family History First Draft The Easiest Way to Write Family Histories How to Write About Ancestors

Writing about my ancestor revealed that gap, pushing me to get back into genealogy research to verify

As you research, you make many decisions about why a record belongs to your ancestor, why a source documents someone else, why your ancestor's name should be changed, and so much more. Changing the Name of an Ancestor Magdelana's marriage record, gravestone, the 1870 Census, and birth know to be correct, you have to write more effective reason statements and add more sources to your ancestor

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For instance, in my book about my immigrant ancestor, I wrote a chapter on the possible routes he could