I’ve heard it too many times over the years:
“Jenny, you really should help me get my ancestral history written!”
<Groan!> I wish I could! But I’ve got five kids to raise, an entire house to clean, a dissertation-writing husband to support, and a church assignment that takes up every last scrap of free time I might find.
Still, while I can’t help all of my friends, family, and neighbors one-on-one, I CAN post some guidelines, tips, instructions, and writing prompts to hopefully get you all started. Please follow for this blog, folks, and I will do my best here to help you take all the genealogical data you’ve compiled over the years and turn it into a story!


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Ewww, drop the ‘i’!
lol–I thought of that, but “ancestor.com” was taken, and believe it or not, when I tried turning “genealogy+memoir” into a word–”genoir”–I found out that some guy OWNS it. An author out there actually trademarked the word “genoir”, so I can’t use that, either. The domain ancestoir.com was free, though, so everyone’s stuck with my not-too-creative wordsmithery!
Ah I see, ah well, best of luck with the project though.