Telling Your Family’s Story: A Journey Through Memory, Images, and Voice (Zoom)
Fall (14 hours or more) | Registration opens 7/29/2025 12:00 AM EDT
This course invites you to explore and tell your family’s story—preserving the voices, experiences, and memories that shaped your family and who you are today. Each session will begin with an introduction to a central topic—such as recovering lost histories, conducting interviews, and finding your narrative voice—followed by discussion. You’ll also learn how to create a timeline, build a family tree, outline your project, and preserve and organize documents, photographs, audio recordings, and videos to enrich your narrative.
Each week, participants will share their work in progress and receive supportive feedback from the group. By the end of the course, you’ll be well on your way to creating and sharing a story that honors your family’s legacy and brings its history to life for future generations.
This course will combine lecture with class discussions.
- Required book
- "How to Write Your Personal or Family History?" by Katie Funk Wiebe ISBN: 978-1680991857
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.