Structuring a Family History – class 1 of 4

Carol Baxter
Oct 27, 2022
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Welcome
2m 46s
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Speaker's Introduction
1m 04s
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Introduction
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Multi-generational Family Histories
6m 47s
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Pyramid-shaped Family History
4m 10s
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Broom-shaped Family History
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Hour-glass Family History
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The Introduction
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Biographical Structure
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Announcements / prizes
8m 24s
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Questions / answers
10m 08s

About this webinar

To write a family history, we must convert our ancestral information into paragraphs of prose. But how do we group the resulting paragraphs to produce a coherent structure? We start by asking ourselves what we wish to achieve. Are we writing a history that focuses on a surname line? Or one that covers all of our ancestors, or all of our descendants, or all of the ancestors and descendants of a particular person? And how do we craft an individual biography? Do we produce a family history that is a group of stand-alone biographies or one that has a narrative-style flow? These and other subjects are discussed in this simple guide to structuring a family history.

Classes 2-4 will be part of our October 2022 conference on Saturday, October 29. Visit https://familytreewebinars.com/conference/ for the details.

About the speaker

About the speaker

Carol Baxter is an experienced and informed historian and genealogist, an internationally-acclaimed, award-winning author, and a dynamic, inspirational presenter. Carol has been a genealogist for four decades having first become interested
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  1. MM
    Marg McIntyre
    2 years ago

    Was unable to watch this live, but Carol is fabulous! Very funny and has great advice about writing family histories. I’ll be watching all of her other webinars.

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  2. JV
    John Vitale
    2 years ago

    Scrivner does make writing easier

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  3. HS
    Helen Schenkelaars
    2 years ago

    Carol’s writing webinars are a must if you want people to actually read your family history. This was a great presentation on something that is quite a dry topic and not the easiest thing to teach. Looking forward to the rest!

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  4. BB
    Brian Boneham
    2 years ago

    Brilliant webinar with lots of great information and ideas to enable us to write a readable family history.

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  5. DN
    Denise Newton
    2 years ago

    very useful info, I like Carol’s presentations

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  6. DM
    Douglas Murphy
    2 years ago

    Now I see! The hard part is putting this into practice in my own work.

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  7. KA
    Kaye Arnold
    2 years ago

    Communicating how to write any kind of product is a challenge. Carol Baxter met that challenge with superior expertise, an organized presentation, and great examples. I would recommend her work to any genealogists who want to write a history others will want to read.

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  8. CM
    Carole McCulloch
    2 years ago

    Carol’s explanations of the types of family history enable me to categorise my own published book as a pyramid shaped multi-generational memoir-style bio. Now I am equipped with excellent strategies for structuring my next family history book.

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