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Make Easy Video Stories Your Family Will Cherish

Rhonda Lauritzen
Jan 28, 2026
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Welcome
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Blueprint for a Big Project
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Video Editors
6m 12s
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Gather & Digitize
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Draft Your Script
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Choose Music
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Narrate or Add Words
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
30m 24s

About this webinar

Turn genealogical facts into captivating videos. This session will empower family historians who have only modest tech skills to create short, shareable videos that resonate with all ages. Using Animoto, Canva, iMovie, or Camtasia, learn to blend photos, music, and narration. The result will be magic! Discover how to digitize artifacts, and source public-domain images from places like the New York Public Library’s scanned books. Use AI transcription tools for. Attendees will leave excited to produce a 2–3-minute video story. No video editing skills are needed. This session will draw upon real examples created with the simplest of tools.

Discount code: video26 (valid at Familytreewebinars.com)

Valid through: February 3, 2026

About the speaker

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Rhonda Lauritzen
Rhonda Lauritzen is a professional biographer with multiple published books. She does client work including building nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and writing client family history stories. She believes that when you tell
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    Julianne Geisler
    16 hours ago

    Excellent and entertaining. She loves what she does and it shows in her presentation.

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    Anita Payne
    16 hours ago

    Great webinar Thank you

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    Roger Humbke
    16 hours ago

    Lots of great suggestions for beginners like myself. Easy to understand. Rhonda is a great presentor and her short video of her grandfather proves it.

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    Claudette Duncan
    16 hours ago

    5++++ an excellent presentation with oodles of information. Top Rate. I’ve been interested in video [the exact things Rhonda covered} but thought it would be too difficult. Now, I am armed with the basic knowledge I can go forward … thanks so much for such a great, basic tutorial.

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    Christine Clark
    16 hours ago

    This webinar was jam packed with valuable info for the video novice and experienced videographer. Rhonda Lauritzen is an excellent teacher! I will try to attend every one of her upcoming videos.

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    Donna Chavarro
    16 hours ago

    Loved it! Best webinar for me as I am hoping to make a video story of a great-grandmother that I have never met. Great advice and resources to check out! Yay!

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    Windy Davis
    16 hours ago

    This gave me a lot to think about. I really needed these suggestions of tools to use.

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    Donna Stock
    16 hours ago

    I liked that she shared examples that were short and looked fairly easy. Her comment that we need an inciting incident and a transformation (even if it’s ours).

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