Getting Done Your Family History Projects!
FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP
Join family historian Cory Bretz for an interactive online workshop as he walks through a Q&A session about some of the ways you can efficiently make a dent in your legacy family history projects.
Get on with writing your memoirs, deal with that photo collection, and figure out how to make your genealogy labours accessible and interesting for your family.
The purpose of this fun workshop is to get you unstuck and moving forward on your legacy family history book, film, or tribute video.
Workshop Topics Include
The “Gather VS Deliver Dilemma”
Simple & Fast Old Photo Digitization
The Real Use of DNA
Genealogy Traps and Tricks
Family Trees as Graphics
Assembling Family History Videos
Book Self-Publishing and Design
Interviewing, Recording Audio & Sound, & Painless Transcription
Memoir Writing, Celebrations of Life, Tributes, & Storytelling Strategies
Digital Image Developing & Restoration
Online Storage
Social Media Sharing
How to get family members involved, host Genealogy Overview Sessions, Film Screening Party or your Book Reveal!
This workshop is not designed to make you an expert in any of these topics. Rather, it’s aimed at helping you learn just enough to get you unstuck and focus on how to get done delivering to your descendants a legacy family history keepsake that is inspiring, educational, and shareable. And maybe you'll have some fun along the way too!
We’ll be moving quite rapidly through the topics but diving deeply if you’ve got a specific question or challenge with your own family history project.
To participate online, all you need is your computer, phone, or tablet connected to the internet.
Bring your questions and challenges around your family history projects!
Admission Free.
2026: Sept 14 @ 4pm Pacific, October 12 @ 10am Pacific, November 16 @ 4pm, December 14 @ 10am
2027: January 18 @4pm, February 15 @ 10am
Get your ticket on Eventbrite and receive the webinar link. Once you've booked your ticket through Eventbrite you'll receive an email before the event with the Zoom link.
About Your Workshop Host
Family history has been a passion of family historian Cory Bretz since his grandparents and mother passed away. When his own daughter was born he realized he was "The One", the only one who was going to be able to give her a sense of her lineage and what kind of people her family members are. He was his family's "family historian".
While Cory has spent more hours on genealogy than he’d care to admit, he focuses on creating interesting, inspiring, and educational legacy films and books that can be made available right away, ready to be consumed by the very next grandchild or great grandchild born to the family. Those young children form their beliefs about the world and who they are very early so best they are nurtured on stories of real, capable, talented, loving ancestors who did amazing things.
Most often Cory is doing video interviews, designing family history storybooks, or producing life story family history films.
When he’s not doing that he can be found somewhere outdoors playing guitar and singing old ballads.
Family Historian Cory Bretz
The Perfect Online Workshop For Your Members!
Looking For A Family History Online Workshop for your group, club, society, or association?
Talk to personal historian Cory Bretz about bringing "Getting Done Your Family History Projects" to your crowd as a way to re-energize your members together as they feel the thrill of doing meaningful things for the next generation!
Cory's online workshops are educational, entertaining, and inspiring.
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