Category: Storytelling

Start Spreading the News: Write a Family Newsletter

Reconnect with your family and friends by sending an informative, engaging family newsletter—these tips will show you how.

Creating a Timeline To Show My Grandfather’s Life

Timelines reveal a lot about your ancestors' lives. Learn how to create timelines for your family history as well as practical tips for using them in your research.

6 Genealogy Questions to Ask Your Relatives Before It’s Too Late

Life is shorter than we like to think, so our time to interview relatives is limited—especially with our elder family members. Be sure to ask your loved ones these important genealogy questions.

How to Stir Your Own Memories for Genealogy Clues

Documenting your own memories can be a great tool for furthering your family history research. Author Sunny Morton shares three tips to help you recall your past.

How Genealogists are Helping Coroners Track Down Family

When someone dies alone, county coroners must track down next of kin to notify—and they’re increasingly asking genealogists for help. See how three determined researchers cracked a tough family-finding case.

How to Trace African-American Ancestry Through Oral History

Oral history plays an important part in African-American genealogy research. Learn how to use the stories passed down to uncover records and find your family history.

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Beginner Tips: Where to Look for Great Ancestor Stories

Just getting started in your quest to discover your family history? Check out our tips for finding great stories in your ancestry!

10 Top Tech Tools for Sharing Family History

You’ve started discovering your family history—now it’s time to share it. These 10 top tech tools will help you tell your family story in engaging ways.

4 Ways to Put the “Story” in Your Family History

You don't have to be a writer to tell a story well. Put the "story" in your family history with these four tips.

10 Family History Conversation Starters for the Holidays (or Whenever)

Ready to learn more about your ancestors? These appetizing conversation starters will get the juicy family history talk flowing at your next get-together.

Family Tree 30-Day Family History Writing Challenge

Join us this November for our 30-Day Writing Challenge. We'll share a daily writing prompt on this page and on our Facebook page. Let's get writing!

Thank-You Notes to Ancestors

If you could write a letter of gratitude to your ancestors, who would you pick and what would you say? As we celebrate Thanksgiving, see our ancestor thank you notes, then write your own in response to the prompt.

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