Family History Narrative

They can be written in a variety of ways:

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• All-my-ancestors books beginning with the earliest identifiable ancestors

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• Ascending genealogies beginning with a modern person, and working backward in time

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• Biographies of individuals

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• Descending genealogies that follow all male descendants in a line

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• Hour-glass genealogies which track all ancestors and all descendants of an individual

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• Lineages that track a direct surname line

Where Will Your Story Take you?

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Family history narratives, also called family sketches, are a very meaningful way to communicate research. They are written as short stories about a single individual or a single family in the form of a biography including images, and can include as many generations as you wish.

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They can be published as:

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• blog posts

• books

• journal articles​

• privately shared biographies and family sketches

• family booklets

• family handouts

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Complete family history research consumes a great deal of time, so you may want to consider choosing one of the research packages for your project.