Family History Writing Prompts

Have you been thinking about writing down your family history, but just can't seem to get inspired? No more excuses! Here are 30 family history writing prompts so you can use your genealogy research in new and creative ways! The answers you provide can be shared on a family history website, put into a book or kept with other genealogy records.

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Segments:
00:00 Introduction
00:55 Descendant writer
01:11 Newspaper reporter
01:36 Family "tree"
02:04 Family traditions
02:23 Alternative ending
02:48 Ancestors meeting
03:10 Ancestor holiday
03:33 Thank you note
04:00 Ancestor meals
04:47 Love note or poem
05:27 Six-word story (The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest (Can you compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels?): https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/)
06:42 Surname origins
07:39 Interesting story
07:50 Ancestor clothing
08:24 Naming traditions
08:57 A new experience
09:32 Write a letter
09:48 Big decision
10:02 Ask your family
10:19 Life lessons
10:45 Book genre
11:17 Favorite quote
11:43 Ancestor social media
12:04 Family heirloom story (Treasure Tales: How to Write a Family Heirloom Provenance: https://www.familytreemagazine.com/st...)
12:45 Immigrant diary
13:16 Different time periods
13:40 Outsider's perspective
14:17 Best friends
14:38 Right to vote
15:16 Hometown

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