Practical Tools For Family History Writers
Don’t let the prospect of writing a family history or preserving family stories overwhelm you! Learn about free or low-costs practical apps and software that will help you accomplish your family history writing goals. This updated-for-2024 webinar shows a range of software, smartphone apps, and websites which help family historians with their writing projects.
Audience: All levels
- Tools for developing ideas for stories: idea banks, brainstorming techniques, mind
maps and mind mapping software - Using timelines to develop and refine stories
- Widely available free and lost cost text-recognition and voice to text tools and how
to use them when working with importing family documents into a narrative - Tools for organizing story ideas and research: Trello and Scrivener
- Tools for proofreading, editing, and improving your craft
- Productivity and goal setting tools, including Todoist, Scrivener, and NaNoWriM
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Laura Hedgecock
Laura Hedgecock’s passion is helping others tell stories of the past. She is a national speaker, traditionally published author (Memories of Me: A Complete Guide to Telling and Sharing the Stories of Your Life), freelance writer, and blogger at TreasureChestofMemories.com. She started out in psychology and still loves exploring the neuroscience behind memories and family. Laura serves as President of the GeneaBloggers Organization and Secretary of the Genealogical Speakers Guild. She’s also secretary of Detroit Working Writers, an organization of professional writers, where she is a longtime member of the DWW critique group.
