Are you ready to transform your ancestral stories, photos and other historical records into a heritage keepsake that will have your family awestruck?
introducing
Bring Your Family History to Life is an 8-week course to teach you the core elements of family history book design. You’ll step into a designer’s shoes to learn the step-by-step process of creating unique heritage keepsakes from your genealogy discoveries and ancestral stories.
You have all your stories, photos and other content ready to use, but the pages are still frustratingly blank.
There is a LOT of advice on the internet on this topic, and most of it leaves you more confused.
You wish you had the budget to hire a designer to do it for you…
Now picture the future where you feel confident and excited, proudly showing designed-by-you heritage books to your friends and family.
Because you now have the skills to:
Unlock your inner design skills, even if you think you’re not creative.
Bring Your Family History to Life is an 8-week course that includes 6 weeks of training and 2 for doing.
We do the course together over 8 weeks with self-paced training and live Q&A sessions to help you implement the training and get any help you need with your project.
Training modules drop on weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8.
Weeks 5 and 7 are for doing the tasks. Use this time to implement the lessons, get feedback on or help with your project.
Module 1: Decide
In this module, you’ll review the production process and decide on the content structure, binding options and how you’ll produce the final book.
Module 2: Plan
In this module, you’ll plan the layout of your heritage keepsake by working through how to organise and arrange your content.
Module 3: Prepare
In this module, you’ll prepare for the project by choosing the type of keepsake to create, the structure to use and you’ll get your content ready to use.
Module 4: Design
In this module, you’ll design the look and feel of your heritage keepsake by learning how to find inspiration, choose fonts, colours and image treatments.
Module 5: Format
In this module, you’ll create the reusable template and use it to format the content to match the plan from Module 2.
Module 6: Finalise
In this module, you’ll finalise your product so that it’s ready to print and bind in the method chosen in Module 1.
Other Features
Training weeks – Weekly office hours via Zoom for Q&A sessions
Doing weeks – Thrice weekly office hours via Zoom for Q&A. You’ll also have the opportunity to submit your work-to-date for feedback or help.
Bring Your Family History To Life will give you the confidence to finally create heritage keepsakes for yourself, friends and family.
I want you to be satisfied with your purchase so I offer a 7-day no questions asked refund period. If the program is not for you, contact the support team within the first 7-days of the course (before Module 2 drops). You’ll receive a full refund minus processing fees incurred by your payment system of choice.
I want you to be absolutely THRILLED with your purchase, so please reach out to our support team if you have any issues and we’ll be happy to resolve them with you. Click here to email the support team.
Graphic designer. Family history enthusiast. Tim Tam connoisseur.
Using design to share stories is something I’ve been doing since I was a kid.
It started with telling Barbie’s story on little pieces of paper and evolved into creating a family newspaper when I was 11. When the genealogy bug bit, I immediately began a text-only heritage book to share all of my discoveries. My favourite part of learning new stories is sharing them.
I’ve been happily researching my family history since 1990 and working in graphic design-related jobs since the middle of that decade. Fast-forward to 2017, and I merged my two passions. I launched a blog and began selling family history templates online to help family-history enthusiasts like you share your ancestors’ stories too.
Design and family history together is my happy place.
Now it’s time to take my 25+ years of skill, know-how and experience to teach you how to create one-of-a-kind keepsakes that will have your family and friends amazed.
I can’t wait to see what you make.
You…
… don’t know how to organise the content so that it makes sense to the reader.
… aren’t sure what to create – a hardcover book, a family history binder, a set of trading cards or something else?
… wish you could hire a professional to do this for you, but it’s not in your budget.
… can’t find beautiful templates that include timelines or family tree layouts.
… aren’t sure which program to use or what the page size should be.
… don’t know where to print, the paper stock to choose, or which binding option to use for your project.
You…
… select the perfect format for your heritage keepsake projects every time, based on the content you have and the outcome you want.
… can create layout plans on how to organise and arrange your content for readability.
… know how to find designs that inspire you and use that inspiration to create something unique that suits your style and heritage.
… can develop reusable templates for your projects
… have formatted a family history book or other keepsake based on your design
… understand how to prepare and send your future projects to print
There will be limited spots available, so join the waitlist to make sure you hear first and don’t miss out.
Get ready for the VIP treatment! The Bring Your Family History to Life waitlist is the digital version of a red carpet.
You’ll receive email alerts for special bonus offers and notice as soon as the doors open, so you get in ahead of the crowd.
You’ve written your ancestral stories and have other genealogy discoveries ready to go.
You’re ready to create a coffee-table style family history book.
You want to design your own unique pages for family history binders.
You understand that design and formatting a family history project is a time investment.
Bring Your Family History to Life is a hands-on design course to help you organise your content so you have a heritage keepsake print-ready at the end of the eight weeks.
You haven’t written any stories or have other content ready to include.
Looking for help writing your stories? Consider Ancestral Stories.
You’re looking for help to organise and arrange your content only.
Join the wait list to find out more about, Lineage Layouts, coming early 2022.
You’re looking for a ready-to-use, pre-designed template.
Check out the variety of family history templates in our store.
During training weeks, a good rule of thumb would be 1-2 hours per week dedicated to watching the lessons and another 2-3 hours putting them into action.
Your time commitment during doing weeks will depend on the page count of your project. The larger the project, the more time you will need. Allow 3-4 hours for every 20-25 pages.
Yes, you’ll need to allow for the printing, production and shipping costs of your heritage keepsake.
Absolutely. The course has been developed for non-designers, and you’ll be taught the skills you need to find inspiration and create your heritage keepsake.
Have a different question? Send me an email to let me know how I can help.
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