A Gift That Money Can't Buy - Encourages everyone, to record and save his or her family's history and stories. Covers: Basic Family Data, Home Sources, Identifying Photographs, and recording those unique Family Stories.
Outline: An overview of a program that encourages people, especially senior citizens, to:
Record basic family information about both their family and their birth family.
Introduces Family Group Sheets & Ancestor Charts
Reviews various types of Home Sources that should be saved for the future genealogist
Examples include Family bible, Vital records, newspapers, and business records.
Discusses identifying photographs
Covers the basics of preserving documents and photographs
Encourages the recording or writing of a family history or at least the most interesting stories about a person
How to handle sensitive situations and difficult topics
Uses humorous examples and photos from family vacations
It is an overview of my book Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can't Buy / Record & Preserve Your Family's History.
Prior Presentations
This popular program has been presented numerous times since Jan 2009 to a wide variety of audiences including an after dinner program at the 2006 Wisconsin State Genealogical Society - Gene-A-Rama, DAR Groups, part of the DCGS Beginner Courses, corporate and group lunches, and about 25-30 programs at Illinois Libraries over four years sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council in their Road Scholar program.
The program can be modified based upon the experience level of the group. A 30 minute intro version is also available.