Follow Friday – Family History Writing
In keeping with the February theme of writing your family history, here are several blogs posts worth reading to help inspire you to begin or continue writing.
Lynn Palermo’s Write Your Family History Using the Tools of Creative Nonfiction
Stories to Tell Writing a Book: Plan Your Writing Time
Julie Cahill Tarr’s Family History Writing Challenge Week 2
And this is a fun one – Julie Cahill Tarr’s Family History Through the Alphabet – Find A Grave
Have you read other interesting blog posts or articles about writing your family history? Has something recently inspired you to start writing yours? Please share with us in the comments.
© 2013, Lorel Kapke, Sort Your Story
Books Make Great Holiday Gifts
The Sort Your Story Companion Guides are now available for the MAC and PC! These books contain lessons on using Sort Your Story and learning about genealogical records using the Branching Out series of books.
With the aide of the Sort Your Story Companion Guide, for Windows or MAC, you’ll quickly be up and running, organizing all of your documents, putting the puzzle pieces of your family history together.
The Sort Your Story software is comprised of two main parts: the colorful Sort Your Story Category Folders, providing you with 36 folders for sorting and storing all of your records and documents; the Profiler, a database and mini–word processor in which you input all of your data which works seamlessly with the folders.
This companion guide will walk you step-by-step through the set-up and use of Sort Your Story, and will show you examples of how to use each of the categories.
By using Sort Your Story with the Sort Your Story Companion Guide, along with the genealogy textbook Branching Out: Genealogy Lessons for Adults, you will have a firm foundation of the basics of genealogical research and records.
Visit Amazon to purchase the Windows version and MAC version today. Then visit the Sort Your Story website to purchase and download the Sort Your Story software, if you haven’t already, and get started organizing your family memories.
© 2012 Lorel Kapke, 19201 Sonoma Hwy. #341, Sonoma, CA 95476-5413
Tuesday’s Tip – Holiday Videos and Cards Made Easy
Have your created your holiday cards, books and videos yet? Did you sort through your photo folders for that “perfect photo” of auntie, uncle, grandma, grandpa?
What, can’t find them through the many, many family photos stored within the “cloud”? No problem! Go to the Sort Your Story website and download your FREE Demo Sort Your Story software for both windows and mac! Next, download the Sort Your Story Companion Guide and get started!
In no time you will have created profiles for your ancestors and living relatives. You will have easily added stories, photos, and documents, and have everything organized. Then you will be ready to create your holiday cards and videos. Continue adding to the profiles and next year it will be even easier to create holiday keepsakes!
© 2012 Lorel Kapke, 19201 Sonoma Hwy. #341, Sonoma, CA 95476-5413
5 Reasons Kids Should Use Sort Your Story
There are many great things about the Sort Your Story software and many adults are using it to organize their genealogical research. Did you know it is an excellent program for kids? Here are 10 reasons why your child should be using Sort Your Story.
- Easy to use. Kids can create a profile on themselves or an ancestor in just a few clicks. This is a great first step using software as a child enters the world of genealogy.
- It is colorful. Sort Your Story is very visually appealing. Lots of colorful icons are available for all record types.
- It is printable. Once a profile is created and records and information have been added, you can print the information and share it.
- It will keep you organized. Sort Your Story has a folder for every record type you need. Images can be stored in these folders for easy retrieval.
- You can use it for school. Sort Your Story allows you to write notes to accompany each record you enter for an individual. You can transcribe records or write a story. All of this information can be copied from Sort Your Story and pasted into a Word document to write a report for school.
What do you think? Are you ready to share Sort Your Story with your child?
© 2012 Lorel Kapke, 19201 Sonoma Hwy. #341, Sonoma, CA 95476-5413
