Preserve Your Family's Story
A GenealogyJourneys® Production, Presented by Sara Cochran
Does This Sound Familiar?
You have boxes of unsorted, unlabeled photos. You own family heirlooms.
Research and family documents are piling up in your home. You can't find items quickly.
You have family stories you'd like to save for the future, or verify.
Join this Interactive Course to Learn:
- How to organize those photos and get them labeled. Then, turn them into beautiful albums and gifts for everyone to enjoy.
- How to make sure everyone in the family knows the story of Great-great-grandma’s candy dish.
- To sort the piles, keeping only the BEST items, and file them in a way you can find what you need easily.
- How to keep your family treasure from being thrown away.
- To use critical thinking skills to fact-check family stories.
This Course Includes:
3 One-Hour Video Classes
Access to the Students & Alumni Facebook Group
3 Reference Guides
3 Optional Homework Assignments
The Classes:
Class recordings are available for 3 months. Watch as often as you like. Class handouts are yours to download and reference forever. Homework assignments reinforce class concepts but are completely optional.
The Facebook group is your place to collaborate and socialize with other students and instructors.
Week 1: Grandma Said What? Gathering and Verifying Your Family’s Oral History
We will define what oral history is and talk about strategies to interview your family; then, go through the process of verifying a family story.
Week 2: From a Box in the Closet to a Treasured Family Heirloom.
If you’re overwhelmed by the collection of photos your family has accumulated, you’re not alone! After a brief history of photography, we look at organizing techniques, digitization basics and options/ideas on what to do with your photos so they can be enjoyed by generations to come, instead of collecting dust in the box.
Week 3: Disaster Proofing Your Research
Family historians spend years, sometimes decades, gathering and compiling records, photographs, and family heirlooms to preserve the past and guide the future. Let’s talk about ways to ensure that all this hard work isn’t lost in any number of potential disasters.
The Structure:
A new Video Class will be accessible each week for three weeks. This gives you plenty of time to focus on that topic start your homework! After that, you have access to all the materials for three months - re-watch on your own schedule. If you have questions about the content, you can email the instructors anytime, or collaborate in the Facebook group.
