Telling Your Family’s Story, Past and Present (Zoom)
Spring (14 hrs or more) | Registration opens 3/6/2025 12:00 AM EST
Craft a compelling narrative that brings your family’s story to life. This course will show you how to research your family’s past, interview relatives, and gather photos and videos to enrich your story. Each week, participants will share their work in progress and receive constructive feedback from the instructor and class. By the end of the course, hopefully you will have created a well-crafted and compelling book to preserve and share cherished memories of your family for generations to come.
This course will combine lecture with class discussion.
Required Book:
- Storytelling for Genealogists: Turning Family Lineage Into Family History - Doug Tattershall (ISBN-13: 978-0806321417)
Peter Adler
Peter W. Adler, a Dartmouth graduate, has recently retired from teaching law at the University of Massachusetts and Vermont Law School. He is eager to become a study leader at Osher and to write his own family history. While experienced as a teacher, writer, and editor, he is new to genealogy. Peter looks forward to guiding and collaborating with participants as we learn together how to research, write, and share our family stories.