Share your unique experiences. Pay tribute to someone special. Tell the human story of an ancestor’s life. Leave a legacy of memories and family history.

Share your family history in ways that suit you and your audience. Perhaps a booklet of ancestor profiles, a custom-made map, or true tales of ancestors’ lives…

Find your ancestors and discover details about their lives, so you can tell their true stories. Here are key places to look as you trace your family history.

Help your relatives connect with their past through stories of your ancestors as real people – not statistics. Leave a legacy of family history for next generations.

Wonder how to tell a real-life story about your ancestor? Line up the info you have, then look deeper to find the story you can tell. Here’s how.

My relatives like brief, visual, real-life stories about our ancestors. Here, I share some experiences telling ancestor stories in short formats such as letters, profiles, and family history booklets.

Apps, learning resources and services are available to help you capture and share life stories – as you research, write, record audio, arrange visuals – and get your project done!

Bring us on a journey with your main character (you, someone in your life, or an ancestor). What do they want, and what’s at stake? Take us through their ups and downs, until…

What if you have memory gaps, lack details, or your story seems too ordinary…should you make stuff up? No need, when you can tell a real-life story in an engaging way.

Choose which experiences to share, then shape facts and memory into an engaging storyline. You don’t need to stray from the true tale to hold your reader’s attention.

Tell some of your stories and family history through images. Engage your viewers with photo books, slideshows, interactive maps and other visual formats.

Share a bit at a time, show images… and most of all, tell the human stories of your ancestors. Check out these ways to interest relatives of all ages in your family history.

Join me as I share findings with relatives, to connect how our family’s past led to our lives today – including some surprising discoveries!