I'm so glad. It really adds more to our potentially boring stories by placing them near historical anchors.

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks so much. I do try to make the learning more visual (because that's how I learn).

You're very welcome. I hope you'll watch our sister channel that devotes itself to more writing tips kzfaq.info.

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Good luck. So glad I could help inspire you. Keep me posted on your journey.

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you think so!

Thanks!

Rosanne, now that is an EXCELLENT point. Register could be a starting point but not the ending point. Well said.

You have enough information to write without creating a Perry Mason novel /television show. You can add historical context by using newspapers or nonfiction books. You can explain what things in the documents mean and give biographical sketches of the people involved. You might not be able to add dialogue but it'll be enough for your family.

You're so very welcome. Be sure to check out my new family history writing channel. kzfaq.info/love/QakaEPtI2RyMzL5-XoO36g There will be more frequent videos. Plus, it won't take me so long to see comments like these. DNA rules the comments section on this channel. So, that's why I made a new one.

Michelle, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I hope you'll improve upon your uncle's family history. He laid the foundation. You can add the details. What were the different circumstances of the different births?

Family History Fanatics my Grammy was born at home her mother was alone when she went into labor in 1928 my great grandfather was off at the mill they didn’t have a phone they were over a mile away from all the neighbors so she delivered my Graham home alone did everything on her own. My grandma told me that my great grandmother Joanna felt empowered to be doing it by herself she wasn’t scared and my aunt Bernice which was born 16 months later was born during the depression era and there really was no money to go to the hospital and her birth she was a breech baby and my grandmother once again gave birth at home she had a midwife with her this time which was one of my great aunts i’m grateful my uncle laid the foundations I’m hoping with all that my grandmother has told me through the years I can put a very interesting family history together I just discovered that my poppy was on a minesweeper ship in World War II we were only ever told he was in the Navy his exact specialty was mine sweeper we didn’t know that. I also two years ago did ancestry DNA and I found my father’s father my grandfather and in that process I didn’t realize I was finding me and my lineage so I myself have a great story to tell also it has been quite a journey but I’m still learning a lot about my biological grandfather and his family my family i’m just not the greatest of storytellers.

Thanks Heather. There is a time a place for the GPS style of writing. It all depends on the audience for your books. I'm a general audience writer and they want the sources as the end, if at all.

*he's there, now, I promise...sorry, Reinold! 🤦‍♀️

Yep. Context would be a wonderful addition to a family history. Thanks for your tips. What family history project have you written?

@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I haven't written anything yet. I'm still struggling with my first steps in genealogy. Even I have second thoughts about my great-grandpa. It's hard because I have a marriage record with his parents' names. But: I found birth records for all their childrend (one every two years since they married) and birth record of my GGF doesn't came up. So... I don't know. That's weird. I want to write someting about my GGGG Grandmother. She and four of her siblings, and a couple of in-laws all died in Palme (Italy) on an epidemy of cholera. It would be a sad but interesting story to tell. A lot of context of that cholera epidemy should be needed.

How is your genealogy education going? Have you written anything yet?

@@FamilyHistoryFanatics You know: work gets me a little apart from pleasure recently. I'm not complaining. I love my work and it has a lot to do with History, but not with genealogy (and definetely not my genealogy).

No, I don't advocate writing 'normal family history books.' Those books are not page turners and those who dislike family histories because they are boring and not bring the reader into context. Since we have online trees, there really isn't a need to keep publishing family registers any more. However, if you disagree, have fun writing what you wish.

sure it is, those things help someone understand what was going on in the world at the time your familly was living in. People want to know more than just names and dates