Four Steps to Profile Your Ancestors
A 23-minute video showing you how you can write compelling stories that anyone will want to read
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This 22-minute video introduces my writing process. It stems from a speech I gave to the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa in February 2018.
Your Instructor
Tracey Arial helps Canadians connect to their communities through ancestor, business and creator profiles.
Her creative entrepreneurship began in 1993, when she moved to Montreal to become a writer. She’s since co-founded four companies and helped manage a charity and four additional social enterprises.
Her profiles appear in hundreds of media stories and 10 books including: I Volunteered, Canadian Vietnam Vets Remember, the Canadian Writers' Guide to Government Action, several Ulysses guides to cycling, hiking and cross-country-skiing and Beads in a Necklace: Stories from Genealogy Ensemble.
She also hosts the Unapologetically Canadian podcast.