I share with you my techniques for finding digitized local history books, using 3 randomly chosen pioneers found in the 1916, 1921, and 1926 censuses
Tag: storytelling
11 tips for blogging your own genealogy story
Ever wanted to blog a genealogy story of your own? Here are 11 tips to get you going.
My TV guest spot: talking about the power of a good family story on Lit Happens
I go on TV to talk about life as a genealogy blogger
The mysterious origins of that genealogy poem
Who wrote "The storytellers"?
Leading with the heart – the Olympian story of Jesse Owens
Inspired by the 2018 Olympics, a creative nonfiction story of Jesse Owens
The family picture scanning project: how I digitized 3000 images in my spare time
The journey to digitize 8K images and how it led to Past Presence
How I went from a blogger to a guest lecturer
Six months after Past Presence hit the web, I was invited to lecture at Professor Kwong's Asian American Studies class at Indiana University, Bloomington
Canada’s history, the CBC, and me
My interview on CBC with host Peter Mills.
The hairdresser spy: Andrée Virot
This is a story about Andrée Virot, a woman in the French Resistance. She was personally responsible for saving the lives of over 100 Allied airmen who were shot down over Europe. She was the tail end of several escape lines through Europe, and for 3 years, she operated under the nose of the Gestapo. I wanted… Continue reading The hairdresser spy: Andrée Virot