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Are your relatives not interested in learning about your shared ancestors? Discover four reasons to write your family history anyway.

Writing

4 Powerful Reasons to Write Your Family History Even If No One Else Cares

Let's talk ridiculous deadlines, mistakes/lessons learned and why you need to try my never fail process for writing a family history book.

Writing

Lessons learned from writing a family history book in 10 days

Unlock your creativity (and your ancestors stories) and use family history writing prompts to help craft the first draft of your story.

Writing

Are Family History Writing Prompts The Easy Way To Tell Stories?

Struggling to write your ancestral stories? Kick self-doubt and low confidence to the kerb with these strategies to improve as a family history writer.

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5 Strategies You Need to Be A Confident Family History Writer

Struggling to craft your ancestral stories? Ditch the solo efforts, make it a group project and try writing your family history with others.

Writing

4 Benefits and Pitfalls of Writing Your Family History with Others

Set yourself up for success with your next—or first—family history book project by answering four pre-planning questions before you begin — The Creative Family Historian

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Top 4 decisions to make before starting your family history book project

Not sure what to look at or ask when purchasing a family history template? Check out Episode 35 of the Art of Family History to unlock the secrets to pre-purchase product description reviews to ensure you’re buying family history templates that you’ll love to use.

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5 Simple Questions to Ask Before Buying Family History Templates

Kick distractions to the kerb and unlock streamlined processes for the five key areas of your genealogy admin. #genealogy

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How to Solve the Mystery of Your Out-of-Control Genealogy Admin

Invest time in planning our your family history projects to set yourself up to achieve the desired result with ease and efficiency

Productivity

5 Powerful Steps To Plan Family History Projects That You Actually Complete

Struggling to format your Family History Summary because columns make you nervous? Try these tricks to add new content and reposition existing elements.

Design

3 Easy Ways to Add Long Stories to Your Family History Summary

Tame your family history in with these three ways to wrangle styles in Microsoft Word.

Design

How to Understand Styles in Microsoft Word to Format Your Family History

Research

Quickly Delete Pages in Your Genealogy Worksheets with These Online PDF Tools

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  • About Prudence

    Hi, I'm Prudence

    Graphic designer, Tim Tam connoisseur and family history enthusiast.

    From the moment that Dad first mentioned his grandparents had eloped, I’ve wanted to know more. More about my ancestors, local history, and our family stories, So, since 1990 I’ve been digging into dusty records and fading memories to turn timelines and trees into shareable family histories.

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