Tag: family history

Writing Your Life: Spring 2013 Nine-Week Class

SpotlightFebruary 12, 2013366Views 0Likes 0Comments

Join the fun and sign up for our next nine-week Writing Your Life class, which begins on Thursday, March 14th and runs through Thursday, May 9th. Classes are held on eight consecutive Thursdays from 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. at the Marks Street Recreational Center in downtown Orlando. On the ninth week of class, we enjoy a…

Bringing Your Ancestors to Life

Love to WriteFebruary 12, 2013979Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the last month, I’ve had the great pleasure of spending time with genealogists in Flagler County, The Villages, and Sarasota. Many of them have been researching family history for thirty years or more; one woman dedicated much of the last sixty years to discovering branches of her family tree. That’s a lot of names,…

Photo memories

SpotlightFebruary 6, 2013469Views 0Likes 0Comments

Call to mind a photograph of you as a child that is familiar to you. It may be one that hung on the wall of your home throughout your growing up years or possibly, an image of your young self you’ve recently seen for the first time. How old are you in the photograph? What…

The Villages Genealogical Society

SpotlightJanuary 27, 2013693Views 0Likes 0Comments

Thank you so much for the warm welcome to The Villages Genealogical Society. I was quite impressed with your group and the quality of writing in the few exercises we read. I'm sure yours was wonderful, too. Here's a link to a copy of the poem I read, "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon and…

Raising the Dead – Writing about Your Ancestors!

SpotlightJanuary 25, 2013708Views 0Likes 0Comments

You've been looking at those boxes of information, the binders of data you've so painstakingly assembled over the years of researching your family history. You wonder if your children or grandchildren will treasure all the copies and photographs and documents as much as you do. Unfortunately, they probably won't. That's why it's so important to…

Writing the Waves Cruise

Cruise, SpotlightJuly 3, 20120Views 0Likes 0Comments

Join us for Writing the Waves as we write and travel aboard the beautiful Royal Caribbean ship, the Freedom of the Seas, on May 12 - 19, 2013. The first night on board (Sunday), spend a little time getting to know your fellow writing companions before jumping into the workshops the next…