How to write a genealogical crime mystery story

Nathan Dylan Goodwin
Sep 10, 2025
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Welcome
2m 25s
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Introduction
6m 01s
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Collecting Stories
5m 07s
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Research
9m 16s
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Plotting
3m 02s
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Genealogist as Protagonist
6m 27s
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Goodies versus Baddies
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Balancing Past & Present
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Dialogue
17m 31s
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Announcements / prize
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Questions / answers
14m 24s

About this webinar

Bring your ancestors to life with this webinar! Author Nathan Dylan Goodwin will teach you the basics of how to write your own genealogical crime mystery. He will cover outlining a story, creating believable characters with realistic dialogue and show how to incorporate genealogy into your story.

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Valid through: September 30, 2025

About the speaker

About the speaker

Nathan Dylan Goodwin is a writer, genealogist and educator. He was born and raised in Hastings, East Sussex. Having attended school in the town, he then completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Radio, Film and Television Studies, followed by a Maste
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  1. Hazel Peterson
    2 days ago

    Excellent presentation Nathan. Thank you.

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    Sue DiGiacco
    3 days ago

    Enjoyed very much. Love that Nathan has so many books published.

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    Rosalyn Dowling
    3 days ago

    A fun & interesting presentation! Thank you! Great writing topics! Very inspiring with new ideas to continue with my ancestor’s bios. Many thanks for WEBTEMBER! Look forward to the presentations week!

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    Lori Kotlowski
    3 days ago

    Fantastic webinar! Loved the walk through Nathan shared on his process of building his storyline into a book. A concept we can use to write out our ancestors stories even if we don’t write an entire book.

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    Kathleen Marine
    3 days ago

    Fantastic webinar…My husbands grandmother was adopted, and after 55 years , the scenarios I have had in my head seem like a mystery, that Nathan was speaking about. I doubt I will ever be able to solve the mystery of her parentage, but it is certainly worth writing a genealogical crime mystery. Hmm…..maybe I will.

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    Patricia Briggs
    3 days ago

    That was an amazing webinar. It would be hard to say that you learned more at any other seminar. So much really useful information, actually necessary information for writing a book. Most of us think we could write a book but clearly we couldn’t unless we go through all the steps we learned from Nathan this afternoon. Many thanks. I will be watching this again as I missed the first 15 minutes.

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    Karen Kontrath
    3 days ago

    This was the best webinar of Nathans. Amazing to see inside his thought process of writing. Also a THEME DAY is absolutely the best way for Webtembers. Love this way of learning.

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    Toni Austin
    3 days ago

    Interesting insight as to how to approach the whole thing and great ideas about authenticity and incorporating genealogy and/or DNA. Definitely need imagination in the mix.

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