Investigating our family trees – for biographers, memoirists, or people just interested in learning where they came from.

In this one-night introduction, historian/biographer Ken Ackerman shares the tricks of the trade for investigating our family roots, going back generations, using archives, interviews, internet sources, family records, and memories – and ideas to organize and share our heritage with children and grandchildren.

Live video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it).

In this workshop you’ll learn:

• How families work.
• How to use photos, interviews, records, documents, and official papers to trace our past.

Time requirements

• N/A

Materials

• All reading materials will be provided.

Who should take this workshop?

•  For biographers, memoirists, or people just interested in learning where they came from and how to share it with next generations.

If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.