Ever wanted to craft a narrative for your ancestors, but you weren’t sure where to start? In this episode, we’ll discuss how to use the facts you’ve gathered to create a narrative that can be used across all different types of media.
Click here to watch episode 103
Previous episodes of interest:
- Ep 66: Publishing the Family Story – From Oral History to Narrative
- Ep 63: What About You?!? Documenting Your Own Story
- Ep 95: Birthright: Who Has the Right to Tell My People’s Stories?
- Ep 47: Pad and My Pen: Writing Your Family History
- Ep 23: Telling the Story Without Boring Your Family
Resource links
- Genealogist’s Writing Room
- Pep Talks – NANOWRIMO
- Virtual Genealogical Association – Telling Your Story, Bernice Bennett, webinar from 2019 VGA Conference
- StoryCorps DIY
- MasterClass
Examples
- Example (Video): The Loving Generation Web Docuseries
- Example (Multimedia Series): Trask 250
- Example (Podcast): Uncivil
- Example (Podcast) : Bronzeville
- Example (Book): Tracing Their Steps: A Memoir, Bernice Bennett
- Example (Book): Freedmen of the Frontier Volume 1: Selected Cherokee, Choctaw, & Chickasaw Freedmen Families, Angela Walton-Raji
- Example (Book): On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, A’Lelia Bundles
- Example (Book): Atlas Family History, Volume VIII, Nicka Sewell-Smith