Ancestors are interesting after your family audience knows how they are connected. A visual graphic of your family tree will engage them immediately.
Asking questions that lead to a tellable story is the goal. Then retell the story and quote them.
We'll walk through interview methods and even show you a free way to get audio voices churned out as editable text for your manuscript.
Cory shows you the value of a free family tree from Ancestry.com. There's lots of great online genealogy websites to create family trees, do research, get matched to relatives with DNA and collaborate with family.
You'll see how to make a basic tree and put an image of it into your history book or video.
As you work on behalf of the audience of your book or film you'll perhaps need to get more information and stories from others who might know. Interviewing is a process that is both an art and a science.
On one hand you need to be organized with questions and topics and have your technology sorted. On the other you need to help the subject feel comfortable, safe, and encouraged to say anything they want!
This lesson is about interviewing.
Generating starting text for your chapters and characters is made easy using your basic family tree.