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Where to Start Your Family History Search

June 14, 2009 — 0 Comments

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CLIMBING YOUR FAMILY TREE

June 12, 2009 — 0 Comments

Secrets, Trauma, and Ethics: Navigating Difficult Truths in Narrative Nonfiction

A chapter excerpt from The Story in the Records: Turning Genealogy Research into Compelling Stories by Karen Yvonne Hamilton Every family archive contains fault lines. As you push past names and dates into deeper documentary layers—court dockets, asylum registers, bastardy bonds, chancery suits, prison rolls, coroners’ inquests, and DNA match tables—you will inevitably unearth truths…

by Karen Yvonne Hamilton October 4, 2026October 4, 2026

One Memory, One Story

A Lifetales Media personal history service Every family has a story someone keeps meaning to write down. It might be the journey that brought a parent to a new home, the work a grandparent took pride in, a childhood place everyone remembers, or a turning point that changed a life. One Story, Beautifully Told helps…