The Anatomy of a Story | Between the Leaves with The Barefoot Genealogist | Ep 8 | Ancestry®
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- Ever wonder how the family history magic unfolds at Ancestry®? Join The Barefoot Genealogist, Crista Cowan, for a peek between the leaves of how we deliver for our Ancestry customers.
Today, Crista shares some tips for storytelling.
What was life like for your family? Use Ancestry to explore their past, and share their stories with the next generation.
Those 4 points are really good to know especially when we are sharing our stories with others. Personally, I like hearing the "small details", stories are more personal that way.
My most frustrating struggle is that none of my family has an interest in family history. This includes my kids, husband and sisters. The only one that has the slightest bit of interest is my father who is 88 and gets confused when I talk to him about the family and the new finds I have found.
Same here. I've been hoping to find a close DNA match on the same branch of the tree to work with. So far no luck.
I did find a match that our grandparents were siblings. We worked together alot when researching but since we found that connection we talk alot less frequently. His mom was adopted so he knew nothing about his grandparents. My grandmother and his grandfather were siblings. Since our figuring out we talk alot less.
Betwee. the leaves, love it👌great way to listen and learn, open doors, with outstanding access
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I recently wrote a story about how my parents met as told to me by my Mom. She had told me she met my dad at a boarding house, as they both found jobs in a bigger city away from home. I made the story short with pictures & a bit of info about Boarding houses history in the 1930's. Along with adding story files to ancestry profiles, I'm going to experiment with making a family story FB group and post stories and such, I believe this may be best way to reach the younger generation. As you suggested I'll make it short and general then find out if they wish to know more details.
My biggest challenge in sharing you addressed, I get so detailed that I through people into that gaze you spoke about. My biggest challenge in finding stories to share is some of my ancestors so far, seem to have fallen off the earth with not many records. But I’m very tenacious and love digging around. That Bailey side of ours is pretty thin at the top🥰
Learning the local history of the place where they lived so I can add it to their story
Brilliant ! much needed area of investigation and thank you Crista for taking us there !
One of my favorite stories is my 8 times great grandfather being Perigrine White, the 1st child born on the Mayflower, after it arrived in America.
Ancestry is a really really important. Same thing for everybody and their family trees cuz to come in and don't then don't get me wrong and it's really nice and really good stuff and I'm hoping one question and it's always helping
My challenge is typically how to explain how the person I'm telling the story to is related to the hero of the story. Sticking to the time frame of the tale and only adding short historic notes that enhance the time when the event(s) happened without overloading the person I'm talking to with too many details. Paring down the extra bits as it were.
One challenge is that there are so many discoveries that aren't always pleasant or acceptable ( slaveholders, husbands abandoning families, orphanages, multiple infant deaths, living conditions for immigrants, divorces , bankruptcies, disappearances..and generally : suffering ). There are stories which aren't 'happy' and relatives both surprised, ashamed and saddened. Other stories tie into historical events ( wars, emigrations, pioneering, homesteading ) which can be educational to learn your ancestors were first-hand players in major historical events. There are other unique stories of household habits, music listened or sung to, meals and recipes and ritual celebrations, or specific talents an ancestor had which stir interest. The list goes on !
One challenge I face is how to make stories of a broader interest to all genders and as the grandmother- not just “girlie “ stories.
The other problem is I think I may try to evoke a sympathetic audience. Poor little me…. Well I want to be more the “hero” as you say or what did I gain from the experience!
My biggest challenge is the information for family stories. The past generation didn’t share many stories, I don’t even know how my parents met, and they have all passed. I try to pass along anything interesting in my research but would love to find more details.
Thank you. Enjoyed!
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@@AncestryUS My husband and I are already members of Ancestry. Hubby gave me a membership for our anniversary a couple of years ago. And I'm also a member of Findagrave. I enjoy watching your videos to learn more about research as I've said previously, I don't know everything there is to know. 🤓
I have two facebook groups One for my fathers side and one for my mothers side. I share family updates and family stories. I always tell how that person is related to us. He lived in _such and such and he is grandma's grandpa. short bits are best never more than a paragraph
I'm going to experiment with making a family story FB group , best way to share with younger generation.
One of my family stories is about my great grandfather whom spent a good portion of his life in Nevada. These stories are very interesting but finding resources to support them has been difficult in part because his name is also the name of an individual who was mentioned a lot in newspapers because this person operated movie theaters or was in the entertainment business.
My biggest struggle is my family, aunts and uncles, get upset when I ask questions. They say I’m just looking for gossip. Both parents are dead and I only got a few things from them. Pictures of my ancestors are, well have only seen a very few. Makes it so frustrating to get any kind of history when they refuse to tell you anything. The only thing I know about my dad‘s father is that he worked in a factory during the day, was an Irish tenor in minstrel shows and liked to box. I no nothing about mom’s dad except he died in a car accident when mom was 2 1/2. Sad and frustrating.
Great video
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I want to share a story about my great great grandmother with all the people who are descended from her. The trouble is this is quite a lot of folk and the story is quite long. Ancestry's messaging facility will only allow messages of a certain length and does allow attachments. Also, something like a bulletin board would be useful, where all the members of a nominated class of matches could see a message and reply to it, if they wanted. without my needing to send it to each one individually.
The challenge I find most daunting is that of figuring out how to root the family history research I have done strictly in the evidence available to me, yet nevertheless tell a story. E.g. I know precisely when and how one set of ancestors arrived in the U.S. from migration records. Why they chose to come has been difficult to document in the absence of correspondence or perhaps an obituary that tells us why. Stories always seem to involve asking the listener or reader to put themselves in the position of the main character(s) and speculate about why they made the decisions in the way they did.
you can say well people during this time period came here because they wanted new jobs and the United States grew during this time period. If you don't have specific answer give them a general answer of the United states that answers the question.
@@DavidWilliamsaz True, I can include phrases such as "we can speculate that he came to the United States, like many people at the time, in search of economic opportunities," but I suspect that sort of phrasing would become tedious after being used a few times.
My biggest challenges are time and which story to tell. Working out which story to tell is hard because there are so many stories to tell and then this overwhelms me finding the time to do this and so I end up not telling any stories.
My biggest problem is that in one of my previous lives, I was a novelist! Birthday cards are my nightmare job. Sooo… write short and then shut up is the mantra I TRY to live by.
I just got an email from family search that said I was related to President George Washington. After doing my research of my family over several years it has become evident to me that my family came from the Royalty both in England and in the United States. I have traced my mother's line back to Adam and Eve. I used both the Bible and a book written on the genealogy of my mother's surname that I found on Ancestry. I found out that I am related to several of the figures mentioned in the Bible. I am related to Noah and Abraham(Isaac) and Judah. I descend from Seth, Adam's son
Trying to find out how my parents met. They lived in different states.
My struggle is finding out the truth about stories I heard growing up 50 years ago told by my maternal grandmother and paternal great aunt. In my research, I have not been able to validate anything and it seems that they were all just that-stories.
Please record these stories and be open with your audience about being unable to validate them and the questions they raise in you. These are still stories they shared with you for one reason or another.
I don't know my grandchildren. My biggest fear is that that they will never find our tree and they will get to know who they are.
The way I found my biological father was nothing short of a miracle. I always wondered if I had used a pro genealogist would he have been able to find my dad since my DNA matches had low cM’s and there was small paper trail via my Great Grandparents.
Do you have any DNA sibling matches?
@@sr2291 No…
I have done a lot of family research but most of my family were farmers and not too terribly interesting. So finding a story to tell is difficult.
There are many good stories about farmers and their lives. Many lived a good way from town, so had to take a wagon, or horse, or boat, so this was an all day trip involving carrying a lunch, boarding horses or mules, and could really be an adventure if it rained or snowed. There were no cars, no bus, and no planes, so long distance travel was usually by train or boat.
Farm life is far from boring and so very different from the life the majority of today's children are living. Try telling them, they don't have to be monumental or full of suspense.
Everyone is dead and I know some stories but can only suppose the fill in the blank parts.
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It confuses me that nobody has yet commented that Crista makes a fundamental mistake in telling the story she tells. The first time Crista says "Canada", she must actually mean "Australia"; otherwise, the story doesn't make sense.
True, I believe she left out a crucial bit. But, I also know that immigrating to Australia was cheap and England wanted to find people willing to go there. Passage to Canada would have cost far more - even free for those willing to settle there. Perhaps she will explain, but regardless the message Crista was trying to get across about story telling and its importance can not be disputed. Don't let this make you miss the bigger points.
What do u do when everyone has a version of a story that is wrong? I was told my grandfather should have been a Cruz but my 2 x great grandfather raised him and gave him the surname Flores. After many years of research I found that in fact his mother was Cruz y Figueroa but is always listed only as Figueroa. I found her parents which is why I know this. The use of double surnames is helpful and misleading. My uncle calls me the family historian because I am the only one interested in our ancestors and their lives. He is the oldest member of the family so it's hard to make them believe another narative.
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Lack of records