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Write Your
Family History NOW!
We
genealogists are very good at doing research and collecting many
facts about our families. For any of a number of reasons, however,
most of us delay publishing the results of this research. Mike
Karsen shows how you can publish your findings in books that vary
from a simple 30 pages to one that contains detailed biographies and
places your family in historical context. Your goal should be to
organize your findings and share them with your family as soon as
possible.
In
this unique presentation, Mike Karsen walks the audience through the
process of preserving the memories of departed loved ones. Where
genealogy meets family history, this presentation explores the
elements of putting together an individual’s life story. Framed
against the backdrop of historical context, these elements begin
with collecting the information and various formats and styles
available to each author. These efforts result in written portraits
of our ancestors that bring them back to life for future generations
to know and cherish.
How to
Create Your Family History (Two hour seminar)
Have you been doing family research
for years but have not yet shared the results with your relatives?
Mike Karsen, who has published five family histories, will show how
to compile books varying from the simplest to one which includes
historical information, biographies, and many pictures. Sharing the
results of your research can be the most important and rewarding
part of your effort.
Liven Up Your
Family History with Images
Family histories can
contain phenomenal research with every event documented and sourced
with precision but yet no one is interested in reading it.
Because they need to be more than just text, they need to be
vehicles for “Time Travel” taking us back to the days when our
grandparents and great-grandparents lived and raised their families.
We need images to bring them to life. This presentation illustrates
how to “liven up” your family history with images of people, places,
and events that will make the reader keep flipping the pages to be
drawn back in time.
Genealogists’ Higher Calling:
Reaching Out to Family
As we genealogists
collect information needed to compile our family histories, we meet
many family members along the way. We have a unique opportunity—and
obligation—to touch these individuals in a significant way by
reaching out to them. Mike Karsen provides examples of
some simple acts of lovingkindness and their profound impact.
The result of this is that you become the family elder
You CAN Pick
Your Relatives!
Genealogy
has become a rapidly growing hobby today as Americans try to connect with
their past. Mike Karsen puts a novel twist on it by placing a major
emphasis on connecting or re-connecting with living relatives around the
world. By expanding the number of your known relatives, you can make new
friends and thus “you can pick your relatives”!
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