How to Bring Your Ancestors to Life in Writing - An Interview With Rhonda Lauritzen

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In this episode of the Family Tree Magazine Podcast, author Rhonda Lauritzen offers tips for writing your ancestors in an engaging, unique way.

Feature: Writing Your Family History

If you’ve been researching your family history for a while, you may be thinking about writing the story so that you can share it with others. Author Rhonda Lauritzen joins Lisa Louise Cooke to share tips and tricks for writing about your ancestors in a way that the reader will form an emotional connection with them, making the story a compelling read. Rhonda is a professional biographer at Evalogue.Life and a regular speaker at international conferences. She has written a dozen books and has been hired to help tell the stories of families, cities, and nonprofits.

Writing Compelling Characters in Your Family History

A good story often contains people whom others want to read about. Here is a guide to writing compelling characters in your family history.

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