Not a TxSGS member? Join or renew by September 1 to receive Stirpes’ Storytelling issue!

Storytelling … it’s the reason many of us became interested in genealogy. Were those tales our grandparents shared really true? The detective in all of us itches to find the truth!

The September Stirpes focuses on storytelling, with great articles on a variety of storytelling aspects from techniques to examples.

• Donna Ingham evokes the soul of a storyteller in “Family History as Story” and shares how to include storytelling elements in your family history narrative.
• Additional tips are presented by Devon Lee in “Two Family Histories You Should Be Telling Today” and Lisa Reed in “Enriching Family Stories Through Diaries and Letters.”
• Duane Helweg describes his experiences with an old cabin in his family’s past with “This is my Greatest Journey Home…”
• “Hiding from the Kiowa” by Carol Taylor shows how she verified the basic facts in a treasured family tale.
• Jana Walker describes the research path she took to track down a particularly evasive ancestor in “The Elusive Andrew Lyday,” and Dreanna Belden shares her Smith research struggles and successes in “When Your Last Name is Smith…”

All of these excellent articles incorporate storytelling in creating a research narrative that’s interesting to read and intriguing to even those non-genealogists in our families.

• Debbie Parker Wayne brings us a very timely article, “Informed Consent for DNA,” that addresses issues raised by the recent spate of news articles on DNA.
• Looking forward to Christmas, Sandra Crowley shows how to turn family history photographs into a coloring book – a perfect gift for sharing family stories with grandchildren (and artistic adults) at Christmas!

Want to get your copy of the September issue of Stirpes? Join or renew your membership on or before September 1 at https://www.txsgs.org/membership/membership-payment/. You’ll receive this and three more fabulous issues of Stirpes, plus a discount to our conferences.

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