{"id":20207,"date":"2024-06-22T06:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20207"},"modified":"2024-06-22T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T17:10:19","slug":"can-telling-kids-genealogy-stories-help-your-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/can-telling-kids-genealogy-stories-help-your-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Telling Kids Genealogy Stories Help Your Research?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can storytelling help your genealogy research?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a bedtime type story I tell each of the grandchildren&#8211;based loosely on an ancestor of theirs. When fleshing out details of the story for scene or plot or answering their questions, I realize there are things about life during the time period or the ancestors that I do not know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When telling these stories, fight the urge to recite a lineage. Tell a story. You are trying to engage and entertain not bore.  Save the boring stories you tell for other adults interested in genealogy &lt;grin&gt;. But telling stories can get you thinking about your own research&#8211;even if those stories are not for other adults and not for publication in a genealogy journal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figuring out the answers to my questions and to theirs enhances my research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And telling the younger generations stories about their ancestors&#8230;well that&#8217;s good too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can storytelling help your genealogy research? I have a bedtime type story I tell each of the grandchildren&#8211;based loosely on an ancestor of theirs. When fleshing out details of the story for scene or plot or answering their questions, I realize there are things about life during the time period or the ancestors that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}