Our Ultimate (Free!) List of Family History Writing Prompts

9 Tips for Getting Started on Writing Your Family History

Telling your ancestor’s story helps ensure your research gets passed on. Put it all together with these tips for writing your family history!

Online Course: Become a Family History Detective

In this 4-week course lead by Sunny Jane Morton, you’ll learn analysis skills to assess each record and build a better understanding of your family history. You'll find the steps you need to gather sufficient evidence, fill in missing information and discover additional techniques that will improve your research and increase your knowledge. 

Family History Writing Prompts

These genealogy writing prompts challenge you to imagine your family’s history in a whole new way. Pick a prompt that inspires you and get writing!

Best Family History Projects eBook

These simple family history projects will help you use your research in new and exciting ways, with practical tips and strategies for crafting ancestor-related home decor, printing decorative family trees, writing family stories, and more. You can also get the whole family excited about ancestry with this eBook’s family-friendly genealogy projects for kids and those not (yet) interested in research, plus tips for preserving family recipes and ideas for genealogy gifts.

Premium: How to Collect and Share Family Recipes, Plus Troubleshooting Tips

Use these tips to collect, preserve, and share your favorite family recipes for future generations.

Family Tree on YouTube: Becoming a Forensic Genetic Genealogist

Have you ever wondered what it would take to become a forensic genealogist? In this episode, Dr. Claire Glynn joins us to discuss a new program that trains participants how to apply genetic and traditional genealogy to forensic investigations.