Writing Assignment #5: Dictate Your Tree

Create Text from Your Family Tree

Once you've added some basic info into the profiles of your ancestors on your family tree you'll have some simple storytelling you can do. 

Ancestry.com for example automatically generates a Life Story summary based on the dates, relations, and sources that are attached to a profile. To quickly create some starting point text in your manuscript about a character you can work from that summary. 

Either copy and past the text or read it out loud and dictate it to Google Voice Typing.  Later go back to that new manuscript text and embellish it. 

In this writing assignment, pick the ancestor that you have only the basics input to their profile (name, DOB, POB, DOD, POD, spouse, and children). Then create some text just summarizing that info.